Among them, two short, but mighty athletes stand out — Lailah Danzy and Noah Davison. Currently towering under five feet, show a unique and keen level of focus, discipline, and natural talent in the sport of gymnastics at an early age.
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A Tuesday, July 30, 2019 photo shows Alabama K-9 Jake, who died after coming into contact with a narcotic during a prison contraband search, was honored Tuesday with a 21-gun salute and commendation from Gov. Kay Ivey at the Staton Kennel Complex in Elmore. Pictured in the portrait is Jakes handler Sgt. Quinton Jones.
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John Miller looks on outside the SCI Mahanoy State Correctional Institution in Frackville, Pa. Wednesday, July 31, 2019. Miller spent more than two decades behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit, is a free man. The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office agreed with Miller’s defense team that his prosecution was flawed and his conviction shouldn’t stand.
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Footage on Russian television showed planes dumping water on fires that were belching smoke amid vast stretches of trees. Firemen on the ground sprayed thin water streams on small fire remnants.
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JOE BIDEN/CNN: “Go easy on me, guys. You know I’m the best shot you’ve got.”
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A boy rides his bicycle on Monday, July 29. 2019 after volunteering to paint a mural outside the New Song Community Church in the Sandtown section of Baltimore. In the latest rhetorical shot at lawmakers of color, President Donald Trump over the weekend vilified Rep. Elijah Cummings majority-black Baltimore district as a “disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess” where “no human being would want to live.”
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Chantell Grant and Andrea Stoudemire were part of Mothers Against Senseless Killings. Police say they were shot late Friday while on a corner in the South Side neighborhood of Englewood where members of the group often stood watch.