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Americans watched as the first total solar eclipse to cross the U.S. in decades swept across the country.
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President Trump an address on the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan at 9 p.m. ET from Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia. Americans as the first total solar eclipse to cross the U.S. in decades swept across the country. Federal authorities Andrew Schneck, a 25-year-old Houston man, was charged with attempting a review of training after a collision between a Navy warship and a commercial vessel east of Singapore left 10 sailors missing. Spanish police Younes Abouyaaqoub, the man suspected of driving the car that plowed into a crowd in Barcelona last week.

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