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![The amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4), seen here in a 2016 U.S. Navy photo, shot down an Iranian drone over the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, President Trump said.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/gettyimages-514530898-7de72ad560392f8537cd124d183766833353ae32-e1563480093913-900x422.jpg)
U.S. Navy Ship Destroys Iranian Drone Over Strait Of Hormuz
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President Trump says the drone had closed to approximately 1,000 yards of the U.S. warship, “ignoring multiple calls to stand down.”
![Veterans stand in front of a 1944 image of their comrades wading onto the beaches of France during D-Day commemorations in Portsmouth, England. Leaders of 16 countries involved in World War II joined Queen Elizabeth II at the ceremony on Wednesday.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/gettyimages-1148110843-43d1d6d204994b88244b8995e4e6576d7fa14fcf-e1559746713493-900x422.jpg)
D-Day: Allies Commemorate Pivotal World War II Invasion, 75 Years Later
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“The fate of the world depended on their success,” Queen Elizabeth II said as she honored thousands of soldiers and sailors who took part in the invasion of Nazi-occupied France.
![The U.S. is lifting tariffs on Canada's steel imports, nearly a year after imposing the duties. Here, a worker is seen at Bri-Steel Manufacturing, which makes seamless steel pipes, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/rts1tvnb-a241116e9bef1abded2c2768c5f4ba0af31cddbc-e1558117593898-900x422.jpg)
U.S. To Lift Tariffs On Steel And Aluminum From Canada
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The Trump administration has reached a deal to lift tariffs on steel and other metal imports from Canada, in a move that could put the two nations a step closer to ratifying the USMCA trade pact.
![The new U.S. tariffs list includes staples such as rice, along with clocks, watches and other items that weren't previously under threat of new duties. Here, farmers plant rice seeds at a seedlings pool in China's Jiangsu Province.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/gettyimages-1149015460-f966c3c72e5b46105ccf9487f1d3d51a19d2321d-e1557845415238-900x422.jpg)
U.S. Prepares Tariffs On Another $300 Billion Of Imported Chinese Goods
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The U.S. Trade Representative published a list of Chinese goods that would be hit with new duties, from artists’ brushes to watches.
![Former 1st Lt. Michael Behenna, seen here in 2008, has received a presidential pardon over the killing of an Iraqi detainee.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ap_19127039514197-afbdbd6d215c2d0beb8adb2ca1903911a3115485-e1557239745691-900x422.jpg)
Trump Pardons Michael Behenna, Former Soldier Convicted Of Killing Iraqi Prisoner
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Behenna was convicted of unpremeditated murder in a combat zone. But his claim of self-defense and a request for clemency drew support from high-profile corners in Oklahoma.
![The first-ever image of a black hole was released Wednesday by a consortium of researchers, showing the "black hole at the center of galaxy M87, outlined by emission from hot gas swirling around it under the influence of strong gravity near its event horizon."](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/black-hole-a-consensus-32a870a982f0c4f503914c6006dfdd05366678f7-e1554907752109-900x422.jpg)
A Black Hole Is Photographed For First Time By Massive Telescope Project
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“For the first time we have seen what we thought was unseeable,” said Event Horizon Telescope Director Shep Doeleman, as the first image of a black hole was released.
![YouTube says it will ban comments on videos featuring young minors, including cases where the videos are deemed to be "at risk" of attracting pedophiles' attention.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/rtx6ntz2-fb09aaddb4694bc4d931df57f1ac8316bd678a4d-e1551473804725-900x422.jpg)
YouTube Bans Comments On Videos Deemed Vulnerable To Pedophiles Amid Ad Pullback
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YouTube says it has already disabled comments on “tens of millions of videos that could be subject to predatory behavior.”
![Protesters sing and pray outside the United Methodist Church's special session of the general conference in St. Louis on Tuesday. Delegates voted to maintain current rules against LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ap_19058035402677-11f1b39b9060c6910c8c83f47b4a801bf39e70eb-e1551306786282-900x422.jpg)
United Methodist Church Votes To Keep Bans On Same-Sex Weddings, LGBTQ Clergy
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Delegates rejected change despite a Virginia pastor’s warning: “You will be putting a virus into the American church that will make it very sick, and it will be sick quickly.”
![A supporter of President Trump attacked a cameraman at the president's rally at the El Paso County Coliseum in El Paso, Texas, according to the BBC.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/trump-el-paso-bbc-cameraman-45d83d7880e6c412b02c3d497a0792da3ee3f704-e1549985880705-900x422.jpg)
Trump Supporter Violently Shoves BBC Cameraman At El Paso Rally
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“The crowd had been whipped up into a frenzy” against the media, a BBC producer says of President Trump’s rally in El Paso, Texas.
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Supreme Court Revives Trump’s Ban On Transgender Military Personnel, For Now
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The court’s decision allows the Pentagon to bar transgender people from joining or remaining in the military while two lower-court rulings that had blocked the policy are appealed.
![U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a speech at the American University in Cairo on Thursday that was a scathing rebuke of the Obama administration's Mideast policies.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/pompeo-11aeeb53a1c043f587e2a6224b275f1d597cd849-e1547145834734-900x422.jpg)
In Cairo, Pompeo Slams Obama’s Mideast Policies, Says Era Of ‘American Shame Is Over’
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The top U.S. diplomat accused the Obama administration of making crucial errors that worsened a string of crises in the region, from the Arab Spring to ISIS.
![Qatar will officially exit OPEC on Jan. 1, the country's energy minister, Saad al-Kaabi, said at a news conference in Doha on Monday.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/rts28o3l-3f3467a3fb5e151a2167de66e3dd0042f4272003-e1543860132185-900x422.jpg)
Qatar Will Pull Out Of OPEC, As Rift With Saudi Arabia Deepens
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Qatar made the announcement early Monday — the same day it informed OPEC it is withdrawing from the group. The country says it wants to focus on producing natural gas.
![The cost of a pint of beer could rise sharply in the U.S. and other countries because of increased risks from heat and drought, according to a new study that looks at climate change's possible effects on barley crops.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rts1u2te-71fe69214f2094429ea5ca2485cd1fbd5ee8383f-e1539707425677-900x422.jpg)
Climate Change Could Make Beer Prices Double, Study Says
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The price of a six-pack in the U.S. could rise by $1 to $8 because of drought and heat. As one of the researchers says, it’s “another way climate change will suck.”
![Cleveland Browns wide receiver Jarvis Landry celebrates as the Browns seal their first win since December of 2016. On Thursday night, Landry had more than 100 yards receiving — and he threw a two-point conversion pass to quarterback Baker Mayfield.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ap_18264156262837-c4bd39dbdcfb4a4bcd3a0d6f5a502598b7c56dc9-e1537547116746-900x422.jpg)
Cleveland Browns Win A Game For First Time Since Obama Presidency
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“We WON!!!” the Cleveland Police Department tweeted of the comeback victory, before adding, “Wait….Oh God. The free beer thing…Ok Cleveland. Stay calm.”
![A satellite image shows Hurricane Florence bearing toward the coast of North Carolina. The storm is predicted to make landfall as a major hurricane late this week.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/florence-satellite-c6003a88effcfad5212645eb66db00b890e36caf-e1536675516197-900x422.jpg)
Hurricane Watch Issued For Carolinas Ahead Of Category 4 Florence
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If it makes landfall as predicted, Florence could become the northernmost Category 4 hurricane to hit the U.S. since records were first kept in 1851.
![The U.S. has added jobs in every month for nearly eight years. Here, a job seeker holds an employment flier during a hiring event at an Aldi Supermarket in Darien, Ill., in July.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/gettyimages-1001878412-a219643cd324f542dcc371c83dba02d50137d939-e1536333118308-900x422.jpg)
August Jobs Report: Economy Adds 201,000 Jobs; 3.9 Percent Unemployment
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Wage growth — and more specifically, the lack of vigorous pay raises — continued to be an issue, with average hourly earnings nudging slightly upward to 2.9 percent.
![Farmer Terry Davidson walks through his soy fields in Harvard, Ill. Soybean prices have fallen this summer — a process that started even before the U.S. and China hit each other with tariffs in early July.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/gettyimages-993512154-c4a1962756b2ac77c8e08eb37aedbb7a4a91a384-e1535474283697-900x422.jpg)
Agriculture Department Will Pay $4.7 Billion To Farmers Hit In Trade War
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Most of the money — more than $3.6 billion — will go to soybean farmers. Last year, China bought nearly a third of all soybeans grown in the U.S.
![U.N. honor guards carry a casket containing remains transferred by North Korea onto a plane at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on Wednesday. The remains will be analyzed in Hawaii to determine whether they are those of U.S. service members missing since the Korean War.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/rtx6dj8p-a0d52aaa03f17c84c63544c31fda5e8f4b84a81e-e1533150011223-900x422.jpg)
Possible U.S. Remains Turned Over By North Korea Head To Hawaii For Analysis
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Vice President Pence will be on hand when 55 boxes thought to contain remains of U.S. troops arrive at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii. They will be sent to a lab for possible identification.
![Boris Johnson told Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday that he was resigning his post as Britain's foreign secretary. He's seen here arriving at 10 Downing Street in London last week.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/rts1uyy5-9667862e37dbd381fe6639792d42cc77e90fd031-e1531153185783-900x422.jpg)
WOUB News • WORLD: Boris Johnson Resigns From U.K.’s Foreign Secretary Post
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Johnson’s exit became public hours after the departure of Brexit Secretary David Davis — who said he disagreed with Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan for leaving the EU.
![Steve Schuh, county executive of Anne Arundel County, Md., holds a copy of Friday's The Capital.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/rts1ueps-def2dd7e9bb8ad36681a63b4132a64aee8518f04-e1530291742863-900x422.jpg)
Capital Gazette Keeps Working, And Publishing, After 5 Die In Newsroom Shooting
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“Today we are speechless,” the opinion page of The Capital reads on Friday. But that didn’t stop the staff from printing a newspaper, one day after a horrible attack.
![A former top attorney at ICE in Washington state has pleaded guilty to stealing the personal information of immigrants who were at risk of deportation, and using the data to defraud banks. Here, protesters stand outside the ICE office in Seattle during a demonstration in May.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/rts1phkz-fcf1e747e42a72648edd922f9b028b60d99ea2bf-e1530196659161-900x422.jpg)
Former ICE Chief Counsel Facing Prison Time For Stealing Immigrants’ Identities
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The former ICE chief counsel — who oversaw immigration removal cases in four states — stole the identities of people who were “particularly vulnerable,” the government said.
![Zsa Zsa, an English bulldog, won the World's Ugliest Dog competition this weekend in Petaluma, Calif. She's seen here with her owner, Megan Brainard of Minnesota.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/gettyimages-982490164-36e007bfeb3372f17352d498a8cddacb60c0aa6a-e1529944007542-900x422.jpg)
Ooh Zsa Zsa: Rescued Bulldog Wins Ugliest Dog Contest
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Maybe it was the lolling tongue or the upward-thrusting chin or the drool. Whatever her secret, Zsa Zsa the English bulldog worked her magic and took home the title.
![Koko, the gorilla who became an ambassador to the human world through her ability to communicate, has died. She's seen here at age 4, telling psychologist Francine "Penny" Patterson (left) that she is hungry. In the center is June Monroe, an interpreter for the deaf at St. Luke's Church, who helped teach Koko.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/gettyimages-515114844-0d187a923d31a70c6b2626a07669a29b87d58989-e1529595633181-900x422.jpg)
Koko The Gorilla Dies; Redrew The Lines Of Animal-Human Communication
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Koko fascinated and elated millions of people with her facility for language and her ability to interact with humans. She also gave people a glimpse of her emotions.
![The West Virginia state capitol building](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/West-Virginia-Statehouse-e1518097711392-900x422.jpg)
W. Va. Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry Is Charged With 22 Counts, Including Fraud
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Loughry, 47, has been suspended without pay, the state Supreme Court says. In addition to being a judge, he wrote a book about political corruption in West Virginia.
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U.S. Births Dip To 30-Year Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further Below Replacement Level
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The results put the U.S. further away from a viable replacement rate — the standard for a generation being able to replicate its numbers.