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FILE – The mother of killed 17-year-old Nahel, center on truck, gestures during a march for Nahel, Thursday, June 29, 2023 in Nanterre, outside Paris. The killing of Nahel during a traffic check Tuesday, captured on video, shocked the country and stirred up long-simmering tensions between young people and police in housing projects and other disadvantaged neighborhoods around France. After more than 3,400 arrests and signs that the violence is now abating, France is once again facing a reckoning. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File) ASOB107 ASOB107

‘Liberty, equality, fraternity’ for all? New riots make France confront an old problem

Riots over a police killing emphasize the question: What is France doing wrong that prevents people from buying into its promise of equality and fraternity for all? VIEW

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Marni Larsen and her son, Damon Rasmussen of Holladay, Utah, wait their turn in line hoping to snag her son’s passport outside the Los Angeles Passport Agency at the Federal Building in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Larsen applied for her son’s passport two months earlier and spent weeks checking for updates online or through a frustrating call system. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) CADD105
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A player serves during a pickleball play at the Walter Reed Community Center in Arlington, Va., on June 11, 2023. The incessant pop-pop-pop of the fast-growing sport has brought on a nationwide scourge of unneighborly clashes, petitions, calls to the police and lawsuits, with no solution in sight. (Jason Andrew/The New York Times) XNYT0612
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Shattered nerves, sleepless nights: Pickleball noise is driving everyone nuts VIEW

Aminata Diallo in Paris, Oct. 10, 2022. An assault case that rattled one of France’s best soccer teams remains unresolved despite a series of arrests. Its main characters have paid a heavy price. (James Hill/The New York Times) XNYT0434 XNYT0434
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An undated photo provided by Norman Kuring, NASA/GSFC/Suomi NPP of Earth’s Arctic regions from space. Though you can’t feel it, Earth’s rotation is nowhere near as smooth as that of the globe on your desk. (Norman Kuring, NASA/GSFC/Suomi NPP via The New York Times) — NO SALES; EDITORIAL USE ONLY — XNYT0923
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Firefighters watch a prescribed burn at the fire line while fighting a fire in South Lake Tahoe, California on Sunday, June 24, 2007. (Autumn Cruz/Sacramento Bee/MCT) 1045721

The U.S. wildfire season has been eerily quiet. That could soon change.

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Climate activists rally in front of the White House at Lafayette Square to demand that President Biden declare a climate emergency and move the country rapidly away from fossil fuels, Tuesday, July 4, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Yuri Gripas) DCYG101 DCYG101

Suspicious powder found at the White House when Biden was gone was cocaine, AP sources say

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FILE – Visitors look at the 5,000 year-old remains of Skara Brae village in the Scottish Orkney Islands, July 19, 2005, which was revealed by a huge storm in 1850. Sick of being ignored by far-away politicians, officials on Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands are mulling a drastic solution. They want to rejoin Norway, the Scandinavian country that gave them away as a royal wedding dowry more than 550 years ago. Orkney Islands Council is due to debate options for “alternative models of governance” on Tuesday, July 4, 2023. ( AP Photo/Naomi Koppel, File) AMB103 AMB103

First Brexit, now Orxit? Politicians on Scotland’s Orkney Islands vote to explore more autonomy

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A mail carrier loads a truck for delivery at a United States post office in Torrance, Calif., Aug. 26, 2020. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times / TNS) 28185758W

USPS hiking prices, launching new service

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People in Bangladesh thanking Reddit users who contributed to Bangladesh Relief’s fundraiser on GoFundMe. MUST CREDIT: Bangladesh Relief

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