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More than just a name change: Military, community embrace Fort Liberty, move beyond Fort Bragg

An honor guard displays the colors of Fort Bragg as a part of the ceremony to rename Fort Bragg, Friday, June 2, 2023 in Fort Liberty, N.C. The U.S. Army changed Fort Bragg to Fort Liberty as part of a broader initiative to remove Confederate names from bases. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker)

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

It was a daunting task and one that proved emotional for the men and women who served at the historic Army installation.

Hagerstown man accused of selling venomous snake on Craigslist

This photo taken Feb. 4, 2015, shows a West African Green Mamba at the Dallas Zoo in Dallas, Texas. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Nathan Hunsinger) ** FILE **

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A Hagerstown, Maryland, man’s alleged sale of a West African bush viper on Craigslist could have him paying money to his one customer: the state’s Department of Natural Resources.

This photo taken Feb. 4, 2015, shows a West African Green Mamba at the Dallas Zoo in Dallas, Texas. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Nathan Hunsinger) ** FILE **

Hagerstown man accused of selling venomous snake on Craigslist

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

In this Monday, May 15, 2017, photo, employees watch an electronic board to monitor possible ransomware cyberattacks at the Korea Internet and Security Agency in Seoul, South Korea. (Yun Dong-jin/Yonhap via AP) **FILE**

North Korea targets U.S. intel figures on a secret cyber hit list

By Ryan Lovelace and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif. along with other Republican members of the House, speaks at a news conference after the House passed the debt ceiling bill at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. The bill now goes to the Senate. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

McCarthy credited for debt-ceiling win after leading House members through difficult bipartisan vote

By Stephen Dinan and Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Scenes from the Metro's Blue/Orange Line in Washington, Thursday evening, November 30, 2006. The Washington Metrorail subway system operates 86 stations within a 106-mile network in the national capital region, the second-largest rail transit system in the country. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Metrorail will close four Orange Line stations in northern Virginia to replace 40-year-old rail

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., speaks to supporters of Kentucky republican gubernatorial candidate Kelly Craft, during a campaign stop in Elizabethtown, Ky., Wednesday, April 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Comer to review subpoenaed FBI doc related to alleged Biden bribery scheme

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

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Scenes from the Metro's Blue/Orange Line in Washington, Thursday evening, November 30, 2006. The Washington Metrorail subway system operates 86 stations within a 106-mile network in the national capital region, the second-largest rail transit system in the country. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Metrorail will close four Orange Line stations in northern Virginia to replace 40-year-old rail

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., speaks to supporters of Kentucky republican gubernatorial candidate Kelly Craft, during a campaign stop in Elizabethtown, Ky., Wednesday, April 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Comer to review subpoenaed FBI doc related to alleged Biden bribery scheme

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

First Lady Jill Biden waves as she arrives at Cairo International Airport in Cairo, Friday, June 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, Pool)

From Jordan, Jill Biden arrives in Cairo as part of Mideast tour aiming to empower women, youth

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Sage Chelf poses for a photo at her home in Orlando, Fla., May 27, 2023. Recent Florida legislation has caused Chelf, a trans woman, to lose access to her hormone replacement therapy. She's hoping to move to Illinois in the coming weeks to stay with her girlfriend and regain access to care. (AP Photo/Laura Bargfeld)

Some trans people turn to crowdfunding to leave Florida after anti-LGBTQ+ laws

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The YouTube app is displayed on an iPad on March 20, 2018, in Baltimore. YouTube will stop removing content that falsely claims the 2020 election or other past U.S. presidential elections were marred by “widespread fraud, errors or glitches," the platform announced Friday, June 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

YouTube to stop removing content claiming U.S. election ‘fraud, errors or glitches’

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Women work in a restaurant kitchen in Chicago, Thursday, March 23, 2023. On Friday, the U.S. government issues the May jobs report. The labor market has added jobs at a steady clip in the past year, despite efforts by the Federal Reserve to cool the economy and bring down inflation. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

U.S. employers added a strong 339,000 jobs in May as labor market stays durable

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Adrian Jawort, of Billings, Mont., speaks at the Rainbow Rally on the steps of the Montana State Capitol on March 15, 2021, in Helena, Mont. Jawort, who changed her first name to Adria, had planned to talk about LGBTQ and two spirit history at the Butte-Silver Bow Public Library on Friday, June 2, 2023, but the event was canceled due to a new law that bans drag reading events at public libraries. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record, File)

Montana library cancels Native American transgender speaker after state ban on drag readings

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First Lady Jill Biden waves as she arrives at Cairo International Airport in Cairo, Friday, June 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, Pool)

From Jordan, Jill Biden arrives in Cairo as part of Mideast tour aiming to empower women, youth

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Former President Donald Trump visits with campaign volunteers at the Grimes Community Complex Park, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Republicans schedule 1st presidential debate for Aug. 23, next for the following night if necessary

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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a House Select Subcommittee hearing, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Federal Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, weighing whether House Republicans can question a former prosecutor about the Manhattan criminal case against former President Donald Trump, posed dozens of questions, in New York, Wednesday, April 19, 2023, to lawyers on both sides, asking them to parse thorny issues of sovereignty, separation of powers and Congressional oversight arising from Trump's historic indictment. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Jordan wants to know depth of FBI’s role in special counsel’s probe of Trump

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden says "I got sandbagged" in talking about falling earlier in the day at the U.S. Air Force Academy, as he walks from Marine One upon arrival on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden: Strong jobs numbers show economic plan is working

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., speaks to supporters of Kentucky republican gubernatorial candidate Kelly Craft, during a campaign stop in Elizabethtown, Ky., Wednesday, April 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

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A statue of St. Anthony holding the infant Jesus is reflected in a wall in St. Aloysius Catholic Church, Friday, May 26, 2023, in Detroit. In the year since the Supreme Court struck down the nationwide right to abortion, America's religious leaders and denominations have responded in strikingly diverse ways. The divisions are epitomized in the country's largest denomination – the Catholic Church. National polls repeatedly show that a majority of U.S. Catholics believe abortion should be legal in all or most case, yet the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops supports sweeping bans on the procedure. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

America’s religious leaders sharply divided over abortion, a year after Roe v Wade’s reversal

People attend a rally as part of a Transgender Day of Visibility, Friday, March 31, 2023, by the Capitol in Washington. Schools and colleges across the U.S. would be forbidden from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes under a proposal released Thursday, April 6, from the Biden administration, but teams could create some limits in certain cases, for example, to ensure fairness. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

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From Jan. 22, 2020, through Feb. 4, 2020, students from the Army’s John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, N.C., took part in the latest “Robin Sage” exercise, the final test of their Special Forces Qualification Course training. (AP Photo/Chris Seward) ** FILE **

‘To me, it’s still going to be Fort Bragg’: Name change for iconic Army base touches a nerve

Flags of South Korea and the United States flutter outside of the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History in Seoul, South Korea, on April 25, 2023. The South Korean and U.S. militaries were set to begin massive live-fire drills near the border with North Korea on Thursday, May 25, 2023, despite the North’s warning that it won’t tolerate what it calls such a hostile invasion rehearsal on its doorstep. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

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A Long March rocket carrying a crew of Chinese astronauts in a Shenzhou-16 spaceship lifts off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) **FILE**

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Security personnel manned the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit this week by a team from the World Health Organization. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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A hiker sits on a ledge above Pueblo Bonito, the largest archeological site at the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, in northwestern New Mexico, on Aug. 28, 2021. The Biden administration is implementing a 20-year withdrawal banning oil and gas development outside the boundaries of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico. The action taken by Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland in the nation’s No. 2 oil-producing state was announced Friday June 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File)

Biden orders 20-year ban on oil, gas drilling to protect New Mexico tribal sites

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Former President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his legal team in a Manhattan court, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in New York. Trump's lawyers are demanding that the judge in his New York City criminal case step aside, echoing the former president's complaints that he's "a Trump hating-judge" with a family full of "Trump haters." Trump's lawyers said June 2, that Judge Juan Manuel Merchan has shown anti-Trump bias in previous cases related to the businessman-turned-politician. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)

Trump’s lawyers demand judge exit criminal case, claiming political bias

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In this Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019 photo, a female black bear sleeps with its tongue out high up in a Ponderosa pine tree near Clark Fork School in the Rattlesnake neighborhood of Missoula, Mont. (Tommy Martino/The Missoulian via AP, File)

Police in Missouri town remind residents that wrestling a local black bear is illegal

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New Hampshire man charged with threatening to kill U.S. senator

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In this Monday, May 15, 2017, photo, employees watch an electronic board to monitor possible ransomware cyberattacks at the Korea Internet and Security Agency in Seoul, South Korea. (Yun Dong-jin/Yonhap via AP) **FILE**

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William Burns, center, enters a car after arriving at Capital International Airport in Beijing, May 1, 2012. A U.S. official says CIA Director William Burns went to Beijing in May to meet with Chinese counterparts. It's the highest level visit by a Biden administration official since a suspected Chinese spy balloon was shot down by American forces. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)

CIA Director Burns met Chinese leaders in Beijing as Washington tries to thaw tensions

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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivers a speech at the navy headquarters of the Southern Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in Zhanjiang in southern China's Guangdong province on Tuesday, April 11, 2023. Xi on Tuesday inspected the navy of the Southern Theater Command of the PLA. (Li Gang/Xinhua via AP) **FILE**

Xi tells Communist Party security organs to prepare for ‘worst-case’ scenarios

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Flags of South Korea and the United States flutter outside of the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History in Seoul, South Korea, on April 25, 2023. The South Korean and U.S. militaries were set to begin massive live-fire drills near the border with North Korea on Thursday, May 25, 2023, despite the North’s warning that it won’t tolerate what it calls such a hostile invasion rehearsal on its doorstep. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

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Javier Castellano, atop Mage, third from left, is seen behind with others behind the pack as they make the first turn while competing in the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 6, 2023, in Louisville, Ky. Churchill Downs will limit horses to four starts during a rolling eight-week period and impose ineligibility standards for continued poor performance in the wake of the recent deaths of 12 horses at the home of the Kentucky Derby. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) **FILE**

Churchill Downs suspends racing to examine protocols following 12 horse deaths

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Miami Heat's Gabe Vincent reacts while talking to reporters after Game 1 of the basketball team's NBA Finals against the Denver Nuggets, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Denver. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)

For Heat, the familiar challenge of navigating a rocky road awaits

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Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler (22) shoots while defended by Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr., left, and center Nikola Jokic, right, during the second half of Game 1 of basketball's NBA Finals, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Denver. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, Pool)

Jokic gets triple-double, Nuggets roll past Heat 104-93 in Game 1 of NBA Finals

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Washington Capitals' new head coach Spencer Carbery smiles during news conference for the NHL hockey team, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Poise as Leafs assistant crucial to Carbery landing Capitals coaching job

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Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., speaks during a immigration rally asking Congress to support the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), citizenship for workers and to pass President Joe Biden's legislative agenda on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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Sage Chelf poses for a photo at her home in Orlando, Fla., May 27, 2023. Recent Florida legislation has caused Chelf, a trans woman, to lose access to her hormone replacement therapy. She's hoping to move to Illinois in the coming weeks to stay with her girlfriend and regain access to care. (AP Photo/Laura Bargfeld)

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This booking photo provided by the Platte County Sheriff's Office shows Lorna Roxanne Green on March 23, 2023 in Wheatland, Wyo. The college student who authorities say admitted setting fire to a building being turned into Wyoming's only full-service abortion clinic is set to appear in federal court Friday, June 2, to enter a plea to an arson charge. (Platte County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

College student accused of setting fire to Wyoming’s only abortion clinic to enter plea

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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a House Select Subcommittee hearing, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Federal Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, weighing whether House Republicans can question a former prosecutor about the Manhattan criminal case against former President Donald Trump, posed dozens of questions, in New York, Wednesday, April 19, 2023, to lawyers on both sides, asking them to parse thorny issues of sovereignty, separation of powers and Congressional oversight arising from Trump's historic indictment. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Jordan wants to know depth of FBI’s role in special counsel’s probe of Trump

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Former President Donald Trump visits with campaign volunteers at the Grimes Community Complex Park, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Trump says he did ‘everything right’ with classified docs

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In this file photo taken from a video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, on Dec. 9, 2020, a rocket launches from missile system as part of a ground-based intercontinental ballistic missile test launched from the Plesetsk facility in northwestern Russia. The United States and Russia have stopped sharing biannual nuclear weapons data under the faltering New START arms control treaty. U.S. officials say they had offered to continue to provide such information to Russia even after President Vladimir Putin suspended Russia's participation in the treaty, but that Moscow had declined to share its own data. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP) **FILE**

U.S. halts Russian arms inspections, data exchange on missile launches

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President Joe Biden says "I got sandbagged" in talking about falling earlier in the day at the U.S. Air Force Academy, as he walks from Marine One upon arrival on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg arrives at Oslo City Hall during NATO's informal meeting of foreign ministers in Oslo Thursday, June 1, 2023. (Hanna Johre/NTB Scanpix via AP)

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The Border Patrol station July 11, 2014, in Harlingen, Texas. U.S. immigration officials say an 8-year-old girl who died last week in Border Patrol custody was seen at least three separate times by medical personnel on the day of her death. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Sunday, May 21, 2023, the girl had complained of vomiting and a stomachache before later suffering what appeared to be a seizure. On May 17, the girl and her mother went to the Harlingen Border Patrol Station’s medical unit at least three times, CBP said. (David Pike/Valley Morning Star via AP)

DHS says nurse refused family’s requests for medical treatment; 8-year-old migrant died

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Rubio requests Justice Department probe TikTok CEO for misleading Congress

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President Joe Biden falls on stage during the 2023 United States Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony at Falcon Stadium, Thursday, June 1, 2023, at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden falls at Air Force Academy commencement ceremony

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Lina Khan, nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, speaks during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 21, 2021. The Supreme Court’s latest climate change ruling could dampen efforts by federal agencies to rein in the tech industry, which went largely unregulated for decades as the government tried to catch up to changes wrought by the internet. Under Chair Khan, the FTC also has widened the door to more actively writing new regulations in what critics say is a broader interpretation of the agency’s legal authority. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner via AP, Pool, File)

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Victoria Valentino, center, appears with a protester near the Montgomery County Courthouse on Sept. 24, 2018, in Norristown, Pa. A former Playboy model who alleges Bill Cosby drugged and raped her and another woman at his home in 1969 sued the entertainer Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Los Angeles under a new California law that suspends the statute of limitations on sex abuse claims. In her lawsuit, Victoria Valentino, 80, says she was an actress and singer 54 years ago when she met Cosby. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File)

Former Playboy model accuses Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 1969

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U.S. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, left, confers with U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca for the Southern District of Mississippi, prior to addressing community leaders in Lexington, Miss., during a stop on the division's civil rights tour, Thursday, June 1, 2023. At each of the four stops in Mississippi, Clarke plans to engage with community leaders and reaffirm the department's commitment to protecting the civil rights of all Americans, and listen to their concerns. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Federal government orders desegregation in 32 Mississippi school districts

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Student debt relief advocates gather outside the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, as the court hears arguments over President Joe Biden's student debt relief plan. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Senate passes bill to repeal Biden’s student loan forgiveness program

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From Jan. 22, 2020, through Feb. 4, 2020, students from the Army’s John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, N.C., took part in the latest “Robin Sage” exercise, the final test of their Special Forces Qualification Course training. (AP Photo/Chris Seward) ** FILE **

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Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on June 24, 2020, in Washington. Craig was assaulted in her Washington apartment building on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, her chief of staff said, but added that there was no evidence that the attack was politically motivated. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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Former San Diego Padres Steve Garvey waves to fans before a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals Saturday, June 29, 2019, in San Diego. Garvey, who played in Los Angeles and San Diego, is considering entering California's 2024 U.S. Senate race as a Republican. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull,File)

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In this Jan. 23, 2020, file photo, a Nintendo sign is seen at the company's official store in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Nintendo Co.’s profit for the fiscal year ended in March jumped 86% on healthy sales of the Switch handheld machine as people staying at home over the pandemic turned to video games. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

South Carolina man accused of sticking up Kwik Stop with toy gun from 1985 Nintendo video game

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The Pride Flag flies at the Wisconsin State Capitol, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Governor raises gay pride flag over Wisconsin Capitol

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