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Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(OAKLAND, Calif.) — Oakland teachers ended their seven-day strike on Friday, walking away with an 11 percent raise for educators living in one the most expensive areas in the U.S. The Oakland Education Association and the Oakland Unified School District [OUSD] announced that the agreement would also limited class sizes and put a …

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Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert announced that two police officers would not face charges related to the shooting death of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man who was killed by police investigating car burglaries. The highly-controversial shooting sparked protests in New York and California and prompted big league …

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WABC(NEW YORK) — Authorities raided a residential suburban home in leafy Westchester County, New York Friday morning and walked out with enough fentanyl to kill nearly 2 million people, an official with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said. Five kilograms of the poisonously potent synthetic opioid were seized along with 6 kilograms of heroin, …

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ABC News(TUSCON) — A Tucson man was convicted of raping seven women over a 12-year period after police received a grant to test rape kits and changed a “mindset” over which kits get tested. “The old view was if you have a situation where the victim reported it was without consent but the defendant or …

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ABC News/NASA(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — SpaceX, using a Falcon 9 rocket, successfully launched a space capsule bound for the International Space Station. After taking off around 2:50 a.m. EST on Saturday, the capsule is expected to reach the ISS on Sunday, about 27 hours after liftoff, according to the Associated Press. It will be docked …

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Facebook/Brookdale Midwestern(NEW YORK) — World War II veteran Joe Cuba had one request for his 100th birthday: to receive 100 birthday cards. To his surprise, he received not 100, but thousands of letters, photographs and gifts from people all around the world. It all started Feb. 21 when the Brookdale Midwestern Retirement Community, where Cuba …

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ablokhin/iStock(SEATTLE) — Amazon, which bought Whole Foods in 2017 for about $13.7 billion, is planning to open a separate grocery chain, beginning in Los Angeles, according to The Wall Street Journal. Sources familiar with the project told The Journal the first new store could open at the end of 2019 and that talks are underway …

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Courtesy Attorney Jennifer Hansen(ST. LOUIS) — Two former daycare workers were arrested and charged this week after they were caught on video injuring children — one of whom needed stitches after she was thrown headfirst into furniture. Ariana Silver and Wilma Brown were charged with abuse of a child after video showed each of them …

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Orange County District Attorney’s Office/Fullerton Police Department(FULLERTON, Calif.) — Newly released police body-camera footage from Fullerton, California, has captured the three minutes of sheer terror a panicked mental-health therapist experienced as she was being attacked with a knife by a former patient. On Thursday, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced that the officers who’d …

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KGrif/iStock(HOUSTON) — The cockpit voice recorder from the Amazon Prime cargo jet that crashed into the marsh of Trinity Bay in Anahuac, Texas, last weekend has been recovered and was being taken to Washington, D.C., for analysis, investigators announced on Friday. An official from the National Transportation Safety Board told ABC News the recorder, expected …

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