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As she processed winning an Olympic gold medal, American wrestler Amit Elor still felt like that little girl just starting out in the sport. Perhaps it’s because she’s not so far removed from that point. The 20-year-old Elor from Walnut Creek, California, defeated Kyrgyzstan’s Meerim Zhumanazarova 3-0 on Tuesday in the 68-kilogram final at the Paris
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Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet tall, earning them the nickname “hobbits.” Now a new study suggests ancestors of the hobbits were even slightly shorter. “We did not expect that we would find smaller individuals from such an old
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American Cole Hocker pulled the upset of the Olympics on Tuesday night, beating his personal-best time by almost 3 seconds to outrace favorites Jakob Ingebrigsten and Josh Kerr for the title at 1,500 meters. Hocker won the race in an Olympic record 3 minutes, 27.65 seconds, pulling from fifth to first over the final 300
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The Palestinian militant group Hamas said Tuesday it has chosen Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza and mastermind of the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, as its new leader. The choice of Sinwar, a secretive figure who leads Hamas’ hardliners and is close to Iran, was a defiant step. Sinwar is at the top of
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Rachel Eliza Griffiths on how new novel “Promise” celebrates Black sisterhood – CBS News Watch CBS News In an exclusive interview with “CBS Mornings,” Rachel Eliza Griffiths shares insights into her debut novel “Promise,” a powerful story of two Black sisters growing up in Maine during the Civil Rights Movement. View CBS News In Be
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Google loses antitrust case in landmark ruling – CBS News Watch CBS News A federal judge in Washington declared on Monday that Google has been operating as an illegal monopoly and violating antitrust laws. It’s a victory for the U.S. Department of Justice, which sued Google for illegally paying about $26 billion in 2021 to
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More than 8% of Americans did not have health insurance during the first months of 2024, according to new survey findings published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, breaking a streak of record-low uninsured rates following the COVID-19 pandemic. An estimated 27.1 million Americans of all ages were uninsured through March, according to
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in what he said was a “critical moment,” called on parties in the Middle East to work to ease tensions as fears of a larger regional war mount after the killings last week of a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon and Hamas’ top political leader in Iran. “We are engaged
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The U.N. says it has fired nine staff members from its agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, after an internal investigation found they may have been involved in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack against Israel. The U.N, secretary-general’s office announced the move in a brief statement to journalists Monday. It did not elaborate on
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Greenland has melted before, and as the climate warms, it will melt again — this time leading to what scientists warn could be 20 to 25 feet of sea-level rise. During one of the warm periods within the last 1.1 million years, the center, not just the edges, of Greenland’s massive ice sheet melted away,
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