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The Congressional Womens Softball Game set a fundraising record Wednesday night, as female lawmakers and members of the press squared off one week after the shooting at a practice for the Congressional Baseball Game.The
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AUSTIN, Texas AP 鈥?If Texas was a battleground, the results sure were lopsided.A historic turnout of 11 million voters, an avalanche of spending and a pandemic that has killed more than 18,000 people did virtually nothing to change power in America biggest red state, dealing another demoralizing blow to Texas Democrats who set massive expectations of victories that would shake the country.But by Wednesday, they were finding solace in local races for sheriff and appeals courts.This is not anything we saw coming, Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa sai
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KABUL, Afghanistan 鈥?A series of explosions hit the Afghan capital on Saturday morning, killing at least four people including two police officers, officials said.The deaths were caused by a sticky bomb attached to a police vehicle detonated in western Kabul, police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz said. The explosion wounded two civilians.Two other police officers were wounded when a bomb attached to their car exploded earlier Saturday in southern Kabul, Faramarz said.Maooma Jafari, deputy spokeswoman for the health ministry, said that four corpses and four wounded people were taken to hospital following the two explosions.A third sticky bomb detonated in eastern
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