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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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Washington NEWS — Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California announced Sunday that he won’t enter the competitive Democratic primary to...
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NEWS — For US troops, the training is nothing new: Applying tourniquets, clearing someone’s airway, recognizing signs of traumatic brain...
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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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NEWS — President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration is withdrawing his name from nomination, a person...
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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 — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday that he has been released from an inpatient physical therapy...
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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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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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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 — The Justice Department said Friday that neither it nor the Biden White House would assert certain privileges in...
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Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, a pioneer in the semiconductor industry whose “Moore’s Law” predicted a steady rise in computing power...
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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 — Over the past year, Texas woman Jen Loh has been in touch with several Proud Boys now on...
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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 — Stephanie Young, a veteran Democratic aide, has been tapped to be Vice President Kamala Harris’ new senior adviser...
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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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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 — Investigators say the violent movements that killed a woman aboard a private jet this month were multiple times...
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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 — Renee Martay of South Carolina has severe and permanent corneal scarring resulting in vision loss. She says it’s...
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New York NEWS — Twitter’s free blue “verified” checkmarks for notable users may finally be coming to an end. Ever...
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Washington NEWS — Mortgage rates have taken would-be buyers on a ride this year — and it’s only March. Generally,...
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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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Washington NEWS — The House is expected to vote Friday on a bill that aims to increase so-called parental rights...
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NEWS — Donald Trump’s primary defense attorney is expected to testify Friday to a federal grand jury, answering questions in...
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NEWS — As he gears up for a likely reelection campaign, President Joe Biden on Tuesday will kick off a...
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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 Senate Ethics Committee reprimanded Sen. Lindsey Graham Thursday for soliciting campaign contributions five times during a media...
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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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NEWS — Former President Donald Trump’s defense attorney repeatedly speculated as a legal pundit that Trump’s alleged affair with Stormy...
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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 — The political and legal scrutiny of some Big Tech and social media platforms is running high at the...
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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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Washington NEWS — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday the State Department is facing an “unprecedented demand” for...
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NEWS — Many of the first responders who helped fight the fire that erupted after the train derailment in East...
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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 — A 24-year-old Pennsylvania woman who barged into then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the January 6, 2021, US...
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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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NEWS — The rate of children diagnosed with autism in the United States has been growing steadily since 2000, but...
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Washington NEWS — The judge handling the civil lawsuit of E. Jean Carroll against Donald Trump says jurors’ personal information...
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NEWS — People who are vaccinated or who take Paxlovid during a Covid-19 infection have a lower risk of developing...
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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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New York NEWS — Starbucks’ new CEO Laxman Narasimhan teased his plan for the company in a letter to employees....
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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 — The House of Representatives is expected to vote Thursday to try to override President Joe Biden’s veto of...
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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 — 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 — Donald Trump’s legal limbo appeared to get more precarious on Wednesday. The country gets closer every day to...
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NEWS — Isabel, a 20-year-old undergraduate student, is no stranger to hard work. She graduated high school a year early...
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NEWS — The White House will disband its coronavirus response team after the Covid-19 public health emergency ends in May,...
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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 — After close to a century, Vanderbilt University’s neurosurgery residency program will have its first Black woman resident. Tamia...
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NEWS — An upbeat Kevin McCarthy left the White House seven weeks ago with a rosy view about the prospects...
