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Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt won the state's U.S. Senate GOP primary Tuesday. He will face Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in one of November's closely watched races.

Politics & Government

Trump ally Adam Laxalt wins Nevada's Republican U.S. Senate primary

8:52am June 15, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

Laxalt will take on incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in November in a high-stakes race as Democrats try to hold on to their slim majority in the upper chamber.

Jim Marchant speaks at a Republican election night watch party on Nov. 3, 2020, in Las Vegas.

Politics & Government

Election denier Marchant is the Republican nominee for Nevada secretary of state

8:44am June 15, 2022

by Benjamin Swasey

Jim Marchant becomes the latest election-denying GOP candidate to take a step closer to running elections in their state — a trend that has alarmed experts on democracy.

An invigilator distributes papers to students taking the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education exams on April 22, in Hong Kong.

World News

Was Hong Kong a colony? Not according to new textbooks, a newspaper says

8:28am June 15, 2022

by John Ruwitch

New textbooks contend the territory was never a British colony. The reason: China never recognized the treaties that ceded it to Britain.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard attending the trial in Fairfax, Va.

Arts

Amber Heard says social media was a factor for her defamation trial jury

7:48am June 15, 2022

Appearing on NBC's Today show, the actress said she stands by the testimony she gave in the trial against former husband Johnny Depp.

An Air Canada jet at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Toronto.

Canada will no longer require vaccines for domestic travelers and government workers

6:46am June 15, 2022

by Ayana Archie

Canada has had about 2.4 million cases of COVID-19 since December 2020. About 85% of the population has gotten at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while about 82% has gotten two doses.

Vernetta Henson sits outside Union Baptist Church in Africatown. The church was started by Clotilda survivors in 1869. To her left is the bust of Cudjoe Lewis, one of the community's founder.

National

Exploring the Clotilda, the last known slave ship in the U.S., brings hope

5:11am June 15, 2022

The discovery of the ship on an Alabama river bottom has fostered a renewed hope for descendants of the Clotilda's captives, and the community they founded called Africatown.

President Biden railed against oil company profits at an event at the Port of Los Angeles, saying, "Exxon made more money than God last year."

Politics & Government

Biden is under pressure on gas prices. So he's putting pressure on oil companies

5:00am June 15, 2022

by Franco Ordoñez

President Biden says he wants the biggest refiners to do more to increase gasoline supply and lower prices. He says he's ready to use emergency powers to boost capacity — but he didn't give details.

A kindergarten student releases a turtle back into the wild at the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, N.J., this month.

National

This kindergarten class has raised and set free 18 orphaned turtles

5:00am June 15, 2022

A kindergarten class in Stone Harbor, N.J., recently said bon voyage to a group of 18 orphaned turtles as part of a program to save thousands of the reptiles.

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Members and supporters of the LGBTQ community march during the Pride in the Park event in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, on Saturday. Law enforcement said members of a far-right group were arrested for planning to riot near the march.

National

A far-right plan to riot near an Idaho LGBTQ event heightens safety concerns at Pride

5:00am June 15, 2022

by Becky Sullivan

With Pride events scheduled throughout the month of June, organizers in multiple cities say the arrests in Coeur d'Alene have put safety back at the top of their agendas.

A soldier carries a child from a group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, England, by Border Force, following a small boat incident in the Channel, Tuesday June 14, 2022.

World News

U.K. vows more Rwanda deportation flights after legal setback

5:00am June 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

A Tuesday flight was canceled after the European Court of Human Rights, which said the British plan had a chance of causing "irreversible harm."