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A military investigation has concluded that two U.S. Navy SEALs drowned as they tried to climb aboard a ship carrying illicit Iranian-made weapons to Yemen because of glaring training failures and a lack of understanding about what to do after a fall into deep, turbulent waters. The review obtained by The Associated Press said the drownings in January could have been prevented. Both men sank quickly in the high seas off the coast of Somalia because of the heavy equipment they were carrying. They didn’t know or disregarded concerns that their flotation devices could not compensate for the additional weight. Both were lost at sea.

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Many Jews worldwide will mark Yom Kippur in fasting and prayer at their synagogues this weekend. But for the faithful in Florida, destructive Hurricane Milton has disrupted plans for observing the Day of Atonement. The holiest day of the year in the Jewish faith begins Friday evening and caps off the High Holy Days. Across the storm-threatened areas, rabbis and their congregants had prepped their homes and synagogues. Many — though not all — evacuated, heeding the voluntary and mandatory orders, and found safekeeping for their synagogues’ Torah scrolls and themselves. Milton hit Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday as a Category 3 cyclone.

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Immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children were among more than 200 demonstrators who gathered outside a federal courthouse in New Orleans where appellate judges heard arguments over a policy shielding them from deportation. At stake in the case that a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard Thursday is the future of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have long-established lives in the U.S. The policy is called the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Texas and eight other states are challenging the policy. It began under former President Barack Obama and is being defended by President Joe Biden's administration.

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Increasingly hot summers and methamphetamine are a deadly mix. The stimulant is playing an outsize role in heat-related deaths across the United States. An Associated Press analysis of data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that methamphetamine is showing up more often on the death certificates of people who die of heat-related causes. Methamphetamine is even more common than the deadly opioid fentanyl in heat-related deaths. A Mexican-manufactured version of meth has taken hold in recent years, especially in the U.S. border region. The stimulant increases body temperature and impairs a part of the brain that regulates body heat.

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Lawyers for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs say the jailed hip-hop mogul is seeking to go to trial on sex trafficking charges next spring. The lawyers and prosecutors advised a judge on Wednesday about their expectations for a Thursday hearing in Manhattan federal court. Combs has been locked up since his Sept. 16 arrest on charges alleging that he has physically and sexually abused women for years. His lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, says Combs is not guilty and is determined to clear his name at trial. Lawyers for Combs are trying to get him freed on bail. Two judges have already rejected the request.

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NEW YORK, N.Y., Oct. 9, 2024 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Since its release, iOS 18 has excited users around world with a range of new features and improvements like redesigned Photos app and Apple Intelligence. Millions of users have already upgraded to test out latest functionalities. Tenorshar…

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AUSTIN, TEXAS (AP) — Videos from the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that police originally failed to make public show officers scrambling to treat victims, parents running near the building and dozens of law enforcement agents standing outside Robb Elementary School.

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