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Mourners in California honor 3 Marines killed in Afghanistan
By Associated Press, 6 Reads
Sat, 09/18/2021 - 05:08 PM
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Mourners in California said prayers and their final goodbyes Saturday to three Marines killed in last month’s bombing in Afghanistan.

Family and friends of Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui packed a church in Riverside to celebrate the life of the 20-year-old Marine from Norco.
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Trailblazing tourist trip to orbit ends with splashdown
By MARCIA DUNN - AP Aerospace Writer, 8 Reads
Sat, 09/18/2021 - 04:46 PM
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four space tourists safely ended their trailblazing trip to orbit Saturday with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast.

Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the ocean just before sunset, not far from where their chartered flight began three days earlier.
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US Border Patrol hires civilians to free up agents for field
By CEDAR ATTANASIO and ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press, 10 Reads
Sat, 09/18/2021 - 03:07 PM
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Dozens, even hundreds, of asylum-seeking migrants often wait hours to surrender to U.S.
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New redistricting commissions splinter along partisan lines
By DAVID A. LIEB - Associated Press, 11 Reads
Sat, 09/18/2021 - 09:43 AM
When voters in some states created new commissions to handle the politically thorny process of redistricting, the hope was that the bipartisan panelists could work together to draw new voting districts free of partisan gerrymandering.

Instead, cooperation has proved elusive.
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