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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 — Americans have heard the story before: A lurid tale of a presidential candidate accused of arranging hush-money payments...
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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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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 — 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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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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NEWS — A tanker crash sparked a massive fire on a Baltimore County interstate Friday morning, state police and local...
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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 — Nikki Lawson received the shock of her life at age 35. A couple of years ago, she noticed...
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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 — 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 — 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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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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Hong Kong NEWS — Taiwan announced Thursday it will recall its ambassador to Honduras as ties between the two worsen,...
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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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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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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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Cibola, Arizona NEWS — Situated in the Sonoran Desert near the Arizona-California border is the tiny rural town of Cibola...
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NEWS — All eyes are trained on the Federal Reserve as it prepares to announce another potential interest rate hike...
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Hong Kong NEWS — Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have made a sweeping affirmation of their...
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NEWS — A student drag show aimed at raising money for the LGBTQ community was canceled Monday by West Texas...
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NEWS — As two autocrats traded tributes over a feast of quail, venison, Siberian white salmon and pomegranate sorbet, China...
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NEWS — A former Florida lawmaker pleaded guilty Tuesday to wire fraud, money laundering and making false statements in connection...
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Hong Kong NEWS — Asia Pacific shares opened higher on Wednesday, tracking US gains, as investors awaited the US Federal...
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Fort Sill, Oklahoma NEWS — The Ukrainian soldiers waved and honked their horns as they drove along a dirt road...
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NEWS — The City of Philadelphia has announced a $9.25 million settlement with hundreds of people who sued the city...
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Hong Kong NEWS — Dozens of American companies are in Vietnam this week in hopes of pushing further into the...
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NEWS — A union representing 30,000 Los Angeles school custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers and other support staff has started...
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NEWS — The US is flying surveillance drones farther south above the Black Sea after a Russian jet collided with...
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New York NEWS — Americans are one step closer to being able to buy chicken grown from animal cells, also...
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NEWS — The two candidates battling for a seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court clashed Tuesday over the state’s 1849 abortion...
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NEWS — Ecuador’s public prosecutor has opened a terrorism investigation after at least five journalists received envelopes containing explosive devices....
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NEWS — Idaho lawmakers approved a bill Monday that would allow execution by firing squad, according to the legislature’s website....
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Fort Sill, Oklahoma NEWS — US Patriot missile defense systems and Abram tanks are set to be deployed to Ukraine...
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NEWS — Missouri’s Republican attorney general is seeking to implement an emergency regulation to restrict gender-affirming care for minors. “Because...
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NEWS — As TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew prepares for his first congressional grilling on Thursday, much of the focus...
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NEWS — TikTok now has 150 million monthly active users in the United States, CEO Shou Chew confirmed on Tuesday,...
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NEWS — California is bracing for yet another powerful, atmospheric river storm this week, continuing the onslaught of major weather...
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NEWS — California state emergency officials are positioning crews across several counties to brace for more damaging floods as another...
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NEWS — Doctors across the United States who treat people with advanced prostate cancer can’t find supplies of a medicine...
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NEWS — Saudi Arabia released US-Saudi dual national Saad Ibrahim Almadi from prison, more than a year after he was...
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NEWS — President Joe Biden on Tuesday will officially designate a new national monument in Southern Nevada at a conservation...
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NEWS — Donald Trump’s Republican allies in the House are doing what the former president taught them to do –...
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NEWS — Amid all the other uncertainties surrounding the possible indictment of Donald Trump, the flurry of events has made...
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NEWS — As the Supreme Court deliberates behind closed doors over a case that many believe could be one of...
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NEWS — Clinical cases of Candida auris, an emerging fungus considered an urgent threat, nearly doubled in 2021, according to...
