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Washington NEWS — Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington said Sunday that TikTok represents “an immediate threat” from China...
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Reuters — The Argentina national team’s training facility has been renamed after talismanic captain Lionel Messi in recognition of his...
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Rome, Italy NEWS — Pope Francis has updated a 2019 church law governing clerical sexual abuse and extended it to...
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NEWS — While the fury of conflict echoes across the eastern Donbas region, a very different war is being waged...
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Washington NEWS — The chairmen of three House committees sent a letter Saturday to the Manhattan district attorney leading the...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden on Saturday notified Congress of his decision to authorize an airstrike in Syria this week...
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Washington NEWS — Idaho Republican Gov. Brad Little signed a bill this week that prohibits transgender students in the state...
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Rome NEWS — A record of more than 2,000 migrants arrived on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa in the past...
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NEWS — Former President Donald Trump is set to hold a campaign rally Saturday in Waco, Texas – returning to...
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NEWS — As former President Donald Trump heads to Texas on Saturday for his first major campaign rally, the handbrake...
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NEWS — When Kamala Harris steps off Air Force Two in Ghana on Sunday, she’ll become the first Black woman...
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Berlin NEWS — An extremist and until recently almost unheard-of network in Germany is back in the spotlight after police...
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Hong Kong NEWS — Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook gave a show of support for China as a market and...
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NEWS — The Justice Department announced charges Friday against a Russian national who allegedly entered the United States under a...
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NEWS — Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear on Friday vetoed a Republican-led bill that would prohibit transgender minors from receiving...
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NEWS — The FBI has arrested the alleged founder of a popular cybercriminal forum that touted data stolen in a...
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NEWS — Four sea otters in California have died from a rare strain of the Toxoplasma gondii parasite that scientists...
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NEWS — On the eve of a high-profile TikTok hearing this week, the company shared that it now has more...
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NEWS — A Tennessee commission is recommending that three former Memphis, Tennessee, police officers involved in the death of Tyre...
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NEWS — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced the removal of some drought restrictions, while keeping other measures to...
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NEWS — Here’s a look at the life of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Birth date: October 7, 1952 Birth place:...
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NEWS — Everyone benefits when there is less air pollution, but it pays off more for older communities with high...
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Kherson, Ukraine NEWS — A boom of artillery fire shook the ground as Olena opened the gate to the Kherson...
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NEWS — Prosecutors in Brazil have agreed to a deal with Rep. George Santos in a case in which he...
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NEWS — The US government is tracking a growing number of foreign-linked business transactions that pose potential data risks to...
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London NEWS — A nationwide strike in France to protest a rise in the retirement age drew more than a...
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NEWS — When EU lawmakers voted to ban the sale of new combustion engine cars in the bloc by 2035,...
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NEWS — A tanker crash sparked a massive fire on a Baltimore County interstate Friday morning, state police and local...
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London NEWS — Europe’s banking stocks tumbled Friday in a sign that investors are still nervous that the recent crises...
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NEWS — After TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified for more than five hours on Thursday before a Congressional committee, one...
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NEWS — King Charles’s state visit to France has been postponed in light of protests planned next week over the...
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NEWS — Nikki Lawson received the shock of her life at age 35. A couple of years ago, she noticed...
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NEWS — As the Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins, Habiba says she is “terrified” by the thought of fasting...
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NEWS — The new cold war is not playing out over a wall that divides a continent but in the...
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NEWS — Is TikTok’s time up? That’s the question coursing through the halls of Congress, Wall Street, and the public...
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NEWS — The mother of a toddler whose body was found in a Savannah landfill last year pleaded not guilty...
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New York NEWS — The Manhattan grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump is not concluding this week, with questions...
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NEWS — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau laid out a three-pronged vision of engagement, competition and confrontation with China in...
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Washington NEWS — Four families in Florida sued the state on Thursday over new rules prohibiting gender-affirming care for transgender...
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Washington NEWS — Four cisgender women from Connecticut are urging a federal appeals court to give them another shot at...
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NEWS — Tuberculosis cases reported in the United States appear to be returning to levels seen before the Covid-19 pandemic,...
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NEWS — The US and Canada have struck a deal on changes to a decades-old asylum agreement that would restrict...
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NEWS — North Carolina is set to become the 40th state to expand Medicaid to low-income adults after the GOP-led...
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New York NEWS — The governor of Utah signed a controversial bill on Thursday that will require minors to obtain...
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NEWS — Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill Thursday to ban certain gender-affirming care for minors, joining a...
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NEWS — Republican Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul gave Secretary of State Antony Blinken a deadline...
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NEWS — Russian forces are depleted in Bakhmut and a Ukrainian counter-offensive could soon be launched, one of Kyiv’s top...
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NEWS — Bacteria from meat could be responsible for more than half a million urinary tract infections in the United...
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Washington NEWS — US cybersecurity officials are unveiling a new program to warn critical American companies that their systems are...
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NEWS — The Manhattan district attorney’s office investigating former President Donald Trump’s role in an alleged hush money payment scheme...
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NEWS — Israeli opposition politicians on Thursday condemned a new law that would limit the ways a sitting prime minister...
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NEWS — The United States is facing a crisis of overdose deaths. In 2021, more than 106,000 Americans lost their...
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NEWS — Abdullah el-Faisal believed every word in a speech by Osama bin Laden was “like a gem,” and thought...
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NEWS — Antisemitic incidents in the US reached their highest level last year since the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a civil...
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London NEWS — Switzerland’s banking crisis has been halted, the country’s central bank said Thursday as it hiked interest rates...
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Ottawa, Canada NEWS — President Joe Biden will make a long-awaited trip to America’s northern neighbor Thursday evening, a 24-hour...
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London NEWS — The last-minute rescue of Credit Suisse may have prevented the current banking crisis from exploding, but it’s...
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Paris NEWS — France’s powerful unions are coming out in force for a nationwide strike Thursday in a rejection of...
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Hong Kong NEWS — Taiwan announced Thursday it will recall its ambassador to Honduras as ties between the two worsen,...
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A court in western India found opposition leader Rahul Gandhi guilty of defamation on Thursday for a speech he made...
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NEWS — Beijing, the sprawling Chinese capital and one of the world’s biggest cities, saw its population drop last year...
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Hong Kong NEWS — China’s Evergrande Group, whose collapse in 2021 sparked China’s worst property market crisis on record, has...
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Hong Kong NEWS — Most Asia Pacific shares pared early losses on Thursday, after the US Federal Reserve reaffirmed its...
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NEWS — An investigative journalist who detailed allegations of sexual abuse and harassment against the former Haitian Football Federation (FHF)...
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Hong Kong NEWS — Nearly three years after the Trump administration threatened to ban TikTok if its Chinese owner didn’t...
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NEWS — When a pharmaceutical plant in Shanghai that made contrast material for radiological scans shut down last year, half...
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NEWS — Allene Jue used to vote in a simple, rapid manner – scan the names on the ballot and...
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NEWS — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has stylized himself as a political brawler willing to take on all comers, from...
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NEWS — Tomeu Vadell, one of the so-called “CITGO 6” who was detained in Venezuela for nearly five years, is...
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Madison, Wisconsin NEWS — In one of the nation’s most important political battlegrounds, the future of election laws, abortion rights...
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NEWS — The Michigan Republican Party sparked criticism Wednesday after the organization used imagery from the Holocaust to argue against...
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NEWS — Canada saw record population growth in 2022, with immigration accounting for the vast majority of the 1.05 million...
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NEWS — The administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis this month quietly proposed extending Florida’s controversial prohibition on classroom instruction related...
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NEWS — A California lawmaker has introduced a bill in the state Senate that would explicitly ban caste discrimination –...
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Washington NEWS — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday signed a bill into law that bars transgender students from...
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Warsaw, Poland NEWS — Britain’s Prince William made a rare, unannounced trip to Poland on Wednesday, meeting British and Polish...
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Washington NEWS — Riding the so-called “parental rights” movement, more Republican-led states are changing the way they fund K-12 education,...
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NEWS — The United Nations and United States on Wednesday added to international outrage over a hardline bill passed by...
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London NEWS — A probe into whether UK soldiers stormed the houses of two innocent Afghan families and summarily executed...
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NEWS — Here’s a look at the life of Sir John Major, former prime minister of the United Kingdom. Birth...
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NEWS — The extraordinary legal peril surrounding Donald Trump is reaching a fever pitch at the same time the former...
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As a growing number of lawmakers raise national security concerns about TikTok’s ties to China, and some experts worry about...
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NEWS — Black and Hispanic adults in the US are less likely than White adults to get statins, medications that...
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NEWS — Health advocates are urging Ohio state environmental officials to test for lead contamination in a community near the...
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NEWS — The US government on Wednesday announced a plan to overhaul the country’s organ transplant system. The US Department...
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NEWS — Injuries have been reported after a ship sitting in a dry dock was dislodged from its holding and...
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Cibola, Arizona NEWS — Situated in the Sonoran Desert near the Arizona-California border is the tiny rural town of Cibola...
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London NEWS — UK consumer prices jumped by 10.4% in February compared with a year ago, as food inflation hit...
