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For the next five years, cities can exempt properties in high-risk fire areas, historic preservation zones and low-resource areas — an attempt to mitigate the bill’s effect on gentrification in low-income neighborhoods.

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Libyan authorities have arrested two people suspected of carrying out an attempted rocket attack on the United Nations mission in Libya in August, the attorney general's office said Friday.

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Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his House counterpart Hakeem Jeffries have dismissed the job cuts threat as an attempt at intimidation and said mass firings would not stand up in court.

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There are more failed attempts than successful ones.

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The 15-year-old boy also faces an accusation of attempting to defeat the ends of justice.

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