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Iranian president, foreign minister killed in helicopter crash

People pray for President Ebrahim Raisi in a ceremony at Vali-e-Asr square in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 19, 2024. A helicopter carrying President Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other officials apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran on Sunday, sparking a massive rescue operation in a fog-shrouded forest as the public was urged to pray. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line protege of the country’s supreme leader who helped oversee the mass executions of thousands in 1988 and later led the country as it enriched uranium near weapons-grade levels and launched a major drone-and-missile attack on Israel, has died.

‘That courtroom is depressing:’ Trump’s trial plays out on tattered stage of American justice

Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, May 16, 2024. Testimony in the hush money trial of Donald Trump is set to conclude in the coming days, putting the landmark case on track for jury deliberations that will determine whether it ends in a mistrial, an acquittal, or the first-ever felony conviction of a former American president. (Steven Hirsch/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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NEW YORK | Former President Donald Trump has rallied supporters in the upper Midwest, attended his son’s high school graduation and feted foreign leaders since his historic criminal trial began in mid-April.

Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, May 16, 2024. Testimony in the hush money trial of Donald Trump is set to conclude in the coming days, putting the landmark case on track for jury deliberations that will determine whether it ends in a mistrial, an acquittal, or the first-ever felony conviction of a former American president. (Steven Hirsch/Pool Photo via AP, File)

‘That courtroom is depressing:’ Trump’s trial plays out on tattered stage of American justice

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Michael Cohen departs his apartment building on his way to Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, May 16, 2024, in New York. The prosecutors’ star witness in the hush money case against former President Donald Trump is returning to the witness stand as defense lawyers try to chip away at Cohen’s crucial testimony implicating the former president.(AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

William Scharf, Trump attorney, says Michael Cohen ‘completely collapsed’ on witness stand

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A view of the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology is seen after a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. International scientists have examined previously unavailable genetic data from samples collected at a market in China close to where the first human cases of COVID-19 were detected and said they have found suggestions the pandemic originated from animals, not a lab. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

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Pope Francis speaks with CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell on April 24, in an interview to be broadcast first on the network’s “60 Minutes” program Sunday evening. (CBS News/Andrew Verdugo, used with permission.)

Pope Francis tells CBS’ ‘60 Minutes’ that U.S. conservative Catholics have ‘suicidal attitude’

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High school students run at sunset as they practice for the track and field season Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, in Shawnee, Kan. The killing of a 22-year-old nursing student has once again put the spotlight on dangers faced by female athletes who practice sports alone. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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Pope Francis speaks with CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell on April 24, in an interview to be broadcast first on the network’s “60 Minutes” program Sunday evening. (CBS News/Andrew Verdugo, used with permission.)

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High school students run at sunset as they practice for the track and field season Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, in Shawnee, Kan. The killing of a 22-year-old nursing student has once again put the spotlight on dangers faced by female athletes who practice sports alone. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Transgender athlete Aayden Gallagher booed after winning girls’ state track title in Oregon

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., says she'll call a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Rep. Greene, a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, is forcing her colleagues to choose sides after Democratic leaders announced they'd provide the votes to save the Republican speaker's job. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks to supporters during a campaign stop, Monday, May 13, 2024, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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The Most Rev. Christopher J. Coyne, archbishop of Hartford, walks in a procession during a Pentecost Vigil at Blessed Michael McGivney Parish in St. Mary's Church, Saturday, May 18, 2024, in New Haven, Conn. The Eucharistic Procession from St. Mary's Church is one of four pilgrimage routes crossing the country and converging at the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis on July 16. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

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A protester is taken into custody at S. 34th St. near University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia on Friday, May 17, 2024. Authorities say a half-dozen University of Pennsylvania students were among 19 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested during an attempt to occupy a building on campus. University police say seven remained in custody Saturday awaiting felony charges from Friday's incident, including one person who allegedly assaulted an officer. (Steven M. Falk/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

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Sean "Diddy" Combs arrives at the LA Premiere of "The Four: Battle For Stardom" at the CBS Radford Studio Center on May 30, 2018, in Los Angeles. Newly released video Friday, May 17, 2024, appears to show Combs beating his former singing protege and girlfriend Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel in 2016. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

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Cailey Fleming, left, and John Krasinski pose with the character "Blue" at the premiere of Paramount Pictures' "IF" at the SVA Theatre on Monday, May 13, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

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A U.S. MQ-9 drone is on display during an air show at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. A Russian fighter jet flew within a few meters of a U.S. drone over Syria and fired flares at it, striking the American aircraft and damaging it, the U.S. military said Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

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A fighter jet flies past the remnants of a large balloon after it was shot down above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina near Myrtle Beach on Feb. 4, 2023. (Chad Fish via AP, File)

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In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, a Chinese Coast Guard ship, left, uses its water cannons on a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) vessel as it approaches Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea on Saturday Dec. 9, 2023. The Philippines and its treaty ally, the United States, separately condemned a high-seas assault Saturday by the Chinese coast guard and suspected militia ships that repeatedly blasted water cannons to block three Philippine fisheries vessels from a disputed shoal in the South China Sea. (Philippine Coast Guard via AP)

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Special Forces candidates assigned to the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School patrol through a wooded area during the final phase of field training known as Robin Sage in central North Carolina, July 9, 2019. U.S. special operations commanders are having to do more with less and they're learning from the war in Ukraine, That means juggling how to add more high-tech experts to their teams while still cutting their overall forces by about 5,000 troops over the next five years. (Ken Kassens/U.S. Army via AP) **FILE**

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Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., prepares to appear for a television interview at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

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President Joe Biden speaks to graduating students at the Morehouse College commencement Sunday, May 19, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, offers an amendment as the House Oversight and Accountability Committee holds an organizational meeting for the 118th Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Crockett recalled the palpable excitement among the Black community for Obama's reelection. With President Joe Biden, there's “a number of people who are concerned and scared” largely because of his age, while others are “indifferent and waiting," despite what she described as Biden's overall strong record of achievement. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, May 16, 2024. Testimony in the hush money trial of Donald Trump is set to conclude in the coming days, putting the landmark case on track for jury deliberations that will determine whether it ends in a mistrial, an acquittal, or the first-ever felony conviction of a former American president. (Steven Hirsch/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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People pray for President Ebrahim Raisi in a ceremony at Vali-e-Asr square in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 19, 2024. A helicopter carrying President Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other officials apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran on Sunday, sparking a massive rescue operation in a fog-shrouded forest as the public was urged to pray. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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