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Former US defense secretary testifies in Holmes fraud trial

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - AP Technology Writer
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 5:23 PM, 2 Reads
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis testified Wednesday in the trial of fallen tech star Elizabeth Holmes, saying the entrepreneur misled him into believing she was on the verge of rolling out a blood-testing breakthrough that he hoped would help save lives of troops in battle.
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Melvin Van Peebles, godfather of Black cinema, dies at 89

By JAKE COYLE - AP Film Writer
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 4:44 PM, 3 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Melvin Van Peebles, the groundbreaking filmmaker, playwright and musician whose work ushered in the “blaxploitation” wave of the 1970s and influenced filmmakers long after, has died. He was 89.
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Afghan Taliban's new UN envoy urges quick recognition

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 5:07 AM, 1 Read
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban’s newly appointed envoy to the United Nations on Wednesday urged quick world recognition of Afghanistan’s new rulers even as the World Health Organization raised the alarm of an impending health care disaster in the war-wracked country.
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Ukraine's leader takes UN to task as 'retired superhero'

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 7:14 PM, 4 Reads
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Leaders who are “playing” at unity and stuffing pressing problems into an overflowing bag of woe. A world that's in the same boat, but first-class passengers get the lifeboats. A United Nations that resembles ”a retired superhero" that has lost sight of what it used to be.
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