NEW DELHI -- Seven decades after cheetahs died out in India, they're back. Eight big cats from Namibia made the long trek Saturday in a chartered cargo flight to the northern Indian city of Gwalior, part of an ambitious and hotly contested plan to reintroduce cheetahs to the South Asian country. Then they were moved to their new home: a sprawling national park in the heart of India where scientists hope the world's fastest land animal will roam again. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the cats into their enclosure Saturday morning.

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TEHARN, Iran -- Iranian police fired tear gas on Saturday to disperse a protest rally in the country's west following the funeral ceremony for a young woman who died while in police custody in Tehran earlier this week, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. The police have said that 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was detained on Tuesday after Iran's so-called "morality police" found fault with her headscarf, or hijab, had died of a heart attack. The police have also released closed circuit footage from the police station, which they say shows the moment Amini collapsed.

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TEXARKANA, Texas -- Texas High's junior varsity tennis team defeated Whitehouse, 27-4, on Thursday night."So proud of the team effort," Texas High coach Toby Watson said. "Thought we brought great intensity."RESULTSBoys Doubles1. Ricky Luna/Diego Bustamante won 8-42. Griffin White/Caden Jackson won 8-23. Kunan Anjum/Lucas Traylor won 8-64. Chase Neal/Noah Sikorski won 8-0Girls Doubles1. Hayden Henry/Lillie Orgeron won 8-42. Brooklyn Ballard/Kenya Torres won 8-33. Morgan Leible/Abby Sewell won 9-74.

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HALLSVILLE @ TEXAS HIGH#TEAMS: Hallsville (3-1) at Texas High (1-1)KICKOFF: 7 p.m., Tiger Stadium in Grim Park.LAST YEAR: The Tigers rallied to beat Hallsville, 37-24.LAST WEEK: The Bobcats fell to Kilgore, 40-2, and the Tigers topped Tyler Legacy, 27-3, for their third straight win.GAME FACTS: The Tigers moved up to No. 4 in the 5A, Division II state poll this week. It's Homecoming for Texas High, which is also honoring its 2003 state championship team. The Bobcats' 3-game win streak was snapped last week against Kilgore, and Hallsville is scoring 36.

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Texarkana Regional Airport is Arkansas' Airport of the Year. The award, seen in this photograph, was presented Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, by the Arkansas Airport Operators Association. (Submitted photo) TEXARKANA, Ark. -- Texarkana Regional Airport is flying high. Officials announced Thursday that the airport has received the 2022 Arkansas Airport of the Year award. Texarkana Regional bested 74 other commercial and general aviation airports to land in the winner's circle. "Receiving this award is a great honor, but the true recognition goes to the hard work of our staff and the local community that supports the airport," Executive Director Paul Mehrlich said.

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By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet When your finances start to spiral and it becomes increasingly difficult to keep up with credit card payments or build toward financial goals, switching your payment method temporarily to cash or debit could help. Spending with credit cards can stimulate the brain's reward center and drive you to make more purchases, according to a recent study by MIT Sloan School of Management. The 2021 study had a small sample size of 28 participants, but other research also finds that people are likely to spend more with credit cards.

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WATERBURY, Conn. -- Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones took the stand Thursday at his defamation trial in Connecticut as he tries to limit the damages he must pay for promoting the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.More than a dozen family members of some of the 20 children and six educators killed in the shooting also showed up to observe his testimony in Waterbury Superior Court, which is about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Newtown, where the shooting occurred.Plaintiffs attorney Christopher Mattei showed a video from Jones' Infowars web show in which he called the mass shooting "phony as a three-dollar bill" and called the parents of the victims "crisis actors.

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MOSCOW — The Kremlin said Friday that it's open to talking about a possible prisoner exchange involving American basketball star Brittney Griner but strongly warned Washington against publicizing the issue.Griner, a two-time U.S. Olympic champion and an eight-time all-star with the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury, has been detained in Russia since Feb. 17 after police at a Moscow airport said they found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage.A judge convicted the 31-year-old athlete Thursday of drug possession and smuggling, and sentenced her to nine years in prison.

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Corey Kluber limited the Yankees to a pair of singles over seven shutout innings and the Tampa Bay Rays withstood Aaron Judge's 52nd home run, beating New York 2-1 Saturday night to cut their deficit in the AL East to four games. The first-place Yankees, who have seen their 15 1/2-game advantage slip away, have lost six of seven. Tampa Bay blanked them on five hits in the series opener Friday night, a 9-0 loss that New York manager Aaron Boone called "embarrassing." This was the second of six games between the teams in a 10-day stretch.

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By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Less than 24 hours after the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade, Chief Justice John Roberts ordered an investigation into the "egregious breach. " Since then? Silence. The Supreme Court won't say whether it's still investigating. The court also won't say whether the leaker has been identified or whether anyone has been disciplined. Or whether an outside law firm or the FBI has been called in. Or whether the court will ever offer an accounting of what transpired.

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A Missouri state trooper installs the base of car seat in this undated photo. The Texas Department of Transportation and Bowie County Sheriff's Office are holding a free car seat inspection Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, to help parents ensure their child's seat is safe and properly installed. The inspection will be from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Central Mall in Texarkana, Texas. (Stock image) TEXARKANA, Texas -- Texas Department of Transportation is partnering with Bowie County Sheriff's Office to hold a free car seat inspection for local parents.

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LONDON -- All eight of Queen Elizabeth II's grandchildren stood in silent vigil beside her coffin Saturday, capping another huge day in which thousands came to pay their respects. Mourners huddled in a line that snaked across London, enduring the city's coldest night in months and waits that stretched up to 16 hours. Authorities warned that more chilly weather was expected Saturday night. "Tonight's forecast is cold. Warm clothing is recommended," the ministry in charge of the line tweeted. As U.

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TEXARKANA -- Week 2 of prep football home games saw Arkansas High, Liberty-Eylau and Texas High each post big wins on their home turf on Friday night. Arkansas High rolled to an impressive 47-0 shutout win over Pine Bluff Dollarway on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at Razorback Field in Texarkana, Ark. (Photo courtesy of Kevin Sutton/TXKSports) Arkansas High rolled to an impressive 47-0 shutout win over Pine Bluff Dollarway on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at Razorback Field in Texarkana, Ark.

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TEXARKANA, Ark. -- The Little Rock Patriots came into the 2022 season as the pre-season favorite in Conference 5A-South, as well as the top-ranked team Class 5A team Arkansas. They proved to be as advertised, as they cruised past Arkansas High, 40-7, Friday night at Razorbacks Stadium. Parkview goes to 5-2 overall and stays unbeaten in conference at 4-0 while Arkansas High slips to 2-5, 1-3. The Patriots scored on the game's first play as they returned the opening kickoff 85 yards for a touchdown to take an early 7-0 lead.

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Cotton farmer Brian Adamek figures he'll lose about $750 an acre on his 2,000-acre South Texas farm this year because of a summerlong drought that has plagued Texas.Record-high temperatures reaching over 100 degrees for 40 days this summer scorched the livelihoods of many Texas farmers and might affect next year's crops, too. In the High Plains area around Lubbock and Amarillo, the most productive of the state's nine cotton-growing regions, experts at Texas Tech University are predicting a $2.1 billion hit to this year's harvest.

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Associated Press Eds: UPDATES: with two U.S.-backed fighters were killed in clashes with IS inside the camp; adds photos. With AP Photos. BEIRUT (AP) -- U.S.-backed Syrian fighters said Saturday they have concluded a 24-day sweep at a sprawling camp in northeast Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children linked to the Islamic State group. Dozens of extremists were detained and weapons were confiscated in the operation at al-Hol camp, which began on Aug. 25, the U.S.-backed forces said.

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By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet Millennials are in peak nesting mode. We want the outdoor space many apartments lack, or the room to grow that a starter house doesn't offer. There's just a not-so-small problem. (Gestures broadly at everything.) The median existing home sales price of U.S. homes was $389,500 in August, according to the National Association of Realtors. That's a 7.7% increase from August 2021. The average interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages topped 6% as of Sept. 15 this year, according to Freddie Mac.

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By SAM KEMMIS of NerdWallet Prices for travel remain stubbornly high. The cost of airfare in February was 27% higher than the same month a year earlier, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data . And rental car prices -- having shot up during the pandemic -- remain high today, as they're 37% pricier in February than they were in the same month in 2019. Yet costlier travel is not deterring younger Americans who are eager to hit the road (and the skies) this year. A whopping 87% of 18-to-29-year-olds and 90% of 30-to-44-year-olds intend to travel this summer, according to a March survey by The Vacationer.

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HAVANA -- Mediation talks to restructure more than $9 billion in debt held by Puerto Rico's power company failed, officials announced Saturday, raising concerns about the future of the bankrupt government agency. A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico's finances said the impasse with bondholders means it would resume litigation against them in an attempt to restructure the debt, warning that any cost associated with debt repayment would be passed along to consumers. Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said the mediation did not achieve the desired outcome: "My administration cannot accept a deal that unduly strains the wallets of our hard-working families, or the resources businesses need to fuel our economy and create and maintain jobs on the island.

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UNITED NATIONS -- After two years of virtual and hybrid summits, the world's leaders will reconvene on the river's edge in New York this coming week at the U.N. General Assembly, an exercise in multilateralism born from the hope for lasting peace that followed World War II. The opening of the 77th session comes as the planet is beset with crises on nearly every front. Russia's war in Ukraine, inflation and economic instability, terrorism and ideological extremism, environmental degradation and devastating floods, droughts and fires and the ongoing pandemic are just a few of the rampant perils.

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BEIJING -- As world leaders gather in New York at the annual U.N. General Assembly, rising superpower China is also focusing on another United Nations body that is meeting across the Atlantic Ocean in Geneva. Chinese diplomats are speaking out and lobbying others at an ongoing session of the Human Rights Council to thwart a possible call for further scrutiny of what it calls its anti-extremism campaign in Xinjiang, following a U.N. report on abuses against Uyghurs and other largely Muslim ethnic groups in the western China border region.

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LONDON -- President Joe Biden arrived in London to pay his respects to Queen Elizabeth II at a time of transition in U.S.-U.K. relations, as both a new monarch and a new prime minister are settling in. The hawkish approach of Prime Minister Liz Truss to Russia and China puts her on the same page as Biden. But the rise of Truss, 47, who once called the relationship "special but not exclusive," could mark a decidedly new chapter in the trans-Atlantic partnership on trade and more. Of high concern for Biden officials in the early going of Truss's premiership is her backing of legislation that would shred parts of the post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland.

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TEXARKANA, Texas -- Fourth-ranked Texas High took its first lead midway through the third quarter but never relinquished it against Marshall Friday. The Tigers celebrated their football team's Senior Night with a hard-fought 42-35 win over the Mavericks in a key District 8-5A, Division II football game at Tiger Stadium in Grim Park. Texas High (6-1, 3-0) compiled 519 yards of total offense with sophomore quarterback David Potter connecting on 13-of-21 passes for 276 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions.

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TEXARKANA, Texas -- In the the last 29 years, Kirk Cameron has come along way from playing a kid in the television comedy "Growing Pains," to now helping make sure that the unborn has a chance to live. "My wife, Chelsea and I have have six children. Four of the them, Jack, Isabella, Anna and Luke, are adopted," Cameron, now a Evangelical Christian, said during Sunday's American Campfire Revival at First Baptist Church, Texarkana. "All four of them would have not been be here had their mothers not chosen life for them.

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