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Linda Straus, widow of Stephen Straus, who was killed Monday in a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Ill., arrives for a funeral service with family members at the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation on Friday in Evanston, Ill. Straus was buried earlier in a private family service.

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Mourners remembered a woman who worked tirelessly at her synagogue and a gentle man who loved art in the first formal services to be held for the seven people killed during a July Fourth parade.

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The billionaire Tesla CEO has changed his mind about buying Twitter, but it's not so easy to walk away from the legal agreement he signed with the social network.

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Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, we want to hear from parents about you are talking to your kids about abortion. Where do you start? What do you say?

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Japan, with famously strict laws, has among the world's lowest rates of gun ownership and gun violence. In 2018 there were just nine firearm deaths reported in Japan, compared with 39,740 in the U.S.

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A construction crew in Alaska found the dog named Lulu in salmonberry bushes after first confusing her for a bear. The pet, which had lost more than 20 pounds, is being nursed back to health at home.

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The large telecom provider suffered an outage Friday, creating disruptions to internet and other services throughout Canada. It said it was working to finish restoring services as soon as possible.

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The decision lays out ground rules for absentee voting a month ahead of Wisconsin's statewide primary elections.

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Juan Diego Muñoz

Tocada en tres instrumentos de cuerda, esta música fue la banda sonora del país desde principios del siglo XX hasta la década de 1940.

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