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Former Arsenal soccer player arrested for alleged $800,000 drug smuggling from Thailand

LONDON (AP) — A soccer player who once appeared for Arsenal in the Champions League has been charged in connection with trying to smuggle cannabis worth 600,000 pounds ($800,000) through a British airport.
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4 people could face the death penalty after drug arrests on Bali

DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities said Tuesday that they have arrested six people on drug charges on the tourist island of Bali since July. Four could face execution under the country's strict drug laws.
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Connie Chung launched a generation of Asian American girls named Connie. She had no idea

Connie Chung launched a generation of Asian American girls named Connie. She had no idea

NEW YORK (AP) — Some public figures are honored with namesake buildings or monuments. Veteran broadcaster Connie Chung has a strain of marijuana and hundreds of Asian American women as legacies.
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How Connie Chung launched a generation of Asian American girls named 'Connie' - and had no idea

How Connie Chung launched a generation of Asian American girls named 'Connie' - and had no idea

NEW YORK (AP) — Some public figures are honored with namesake buildings or monuments. Veteran broadcaster Connie Chung has a strain of marijuana and hundreds of Asian-American women as legacies.
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Nebraska will vote on pro-pot measures despite some invalid signatures

Nebraska will vote on pro-pot measures despite some invalid signatures

OMAHA, Neb.
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Nebraska ballot will include competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights, top court rules

Nebraska ballot will include competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights, top court rules

The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday that competing measures that would expand or limit abortion rights can appear on the November ballot.
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Police killing of an unarmed Nebraska man prompts officers to reconsider no-knock warrants

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police in Nebraska's largest city have stopped using some no-knock search warrants, at least for now, after an unarmed Black man was killed by an officer while executing a no-knock warrant last month.
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Florida sued for using taxpayer money on website promoting GOP spin on abortion initiative

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.
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US man sentenced to prison in Bermuda after pleading guilty to smuggling $1 million worth of drugs

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. man who pleaded guilty to smuggling more than $1 million worth of marijuana, cocaine and heroin into Bermuda has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
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Nebraska AG alleges thousands of invalid signatures on pot ballot petitions and 1 man faces charges

Nebraska’s Republican attorney general said Friday that supporters of two measures to legalize medical marijuana could have submitted at least “several thousand” invalid signatures to get them on the ballot, suggesting that the issue ultimately could
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