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BIDEN, WHITE, HOUSE, STREAM
FILE PHOTO: A road sign directs traffic towards the Nord Stream 2 gas line landfall facility entrance in Lubmin, Germany, September 10, 2020. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo FILE PHOTO: A road sign directs traffic towards the Nord Stream 2 gas line landfall
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PELOSI, COMMITTEE, JAN, GOP
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday rejected two of Republican leaders’ picks for a newly created committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, suggesting they’ve made false statements and taken concerning actions that make
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OLYMPICS, TOKYO, GAMES, JAPAN
The Olympic Games as we know them today were first held in 1896, two years after the International Olympic Committee was founded.
The first Games were held in Athens. There were held from April 6 to April 15 and featured nine sports, 43 events and 14 nations.
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INFRASTRUCTURE, SENATE, REPUBLICANS, VOTE
(CNN) Senate Republicans are expected to block a vote Wednesday to start debate on a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, as they push for more time to strike a deal with Democrats and write the legislation.
But lawmakers said their negotiations will
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FAUCI, PAUL, RAND, REFERRAL
Sen. Rand Paul plans to contact the Department of Justice about potentially criminally investigating Dr. Anthony S. Fauci for allegedly lying to lawmakers, the Kentucky Republican said late Tuesday.
“I’ll be sending a letter to the Department of Justice asking
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OLYMPICS, TOKYO, GAMES, FLAG
Host Japan got off to a winning start when the Tokyo Olympics got underway after a one-year delay, beating Australia 8-1 in softball behind 39-year-old pitcher Yukiko Ueno, who won the 2008 gold medal game against the United States
FUKUSHIMA, Japan -- Host
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COVID, 19, CASES, SURGE
Time For Caution Amid COVID-19 Surge And Breakthrough Cases It's an unsettling moment in the pandemic as cases rise, Delta sweeps and more reports are made of breakthrough cases. Here are the latest recommendations to keep people and communities safe.
Health
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LIFE, EXPECTANCY, 2020, DROP
Measuring life expectancy is not intended to precisely predict actual life spans; rather, it’s a measure of a population’s health, revealing either society-wide distress or advancement. The sheer magnitude of the drop in 2020 has left researchers reeling as
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COVID, VACCINE, DELTA, VARIANT
A new study found that one dose of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine was ineffective against the new delta variant of the disease but suggested that some of the 13 million people inoculated with the one dose of it could be protected with a second dose.
"The
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ARKANSAS, JUDGE, BAN, FEDERAL
A participant lies on a giant Transgender Pride Flag during the Equality March, organized by the LGBT community in Kiev, Ukraine June 23, 2019. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
A federal judge temporarily blocked an Arkansas law that would ban gender-transition surgery
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Record floods in China’s central Henan province have killed at least 25 people as of Wednesday and forced a the evacuation of an additional 200,000 people in the provincial capital, Zhengzhou, local government officials said.
Zhengzhou recorded its highest
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WEINSTEIN, HARVEY, LOS, ANGELES
Once a major power in Hollywood along with his brother Bob and their movie companies Miramax and The Weinstein Co., Harvey Weinstein would be marked as the archvillain of the #MeToo movement starting late in 2017, when women’s accounts were published in the
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BOOTLEG, FIRE, OREGON, MONSTER
Oregon's massive Bootleg Fire, now at 616 square miles in size, was only 32% contained as of Wednesday morning.
In all, 78 large wildfires are burning across 13 states, most of them in the western U.S.
Dry conditions, drought and record-breaking heat waves
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2032, BRISBANE, HOST, OLYMPICS
(CNN) Brisbane has been officially announced as host of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2032.
The Australian city and surrounding South-East Queensland region were approved as the Games hosts at an International Olympic Committee session in Tokyo on Wednesday.
It
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CALIFORNIA, LARRY, ELDER, BALLOT
Radio show host Larry Elder must have had Democrats worried as they tried to get him disqualified from the recall election against Gavin Newsom in California. Now, after a recent court ruling, they’re probably terrified.
As reported by SFGate, Elder was the
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TEXAS, BORDER, COVID, TEST
Migrant rescues along the U.S.-Mexico Border by patrol agents reached a staggering 9,500 through the end of June. Officials report this nine-month total is 81 percent more than seen during Fiscal Year 2020.
Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Austin Skero tweeted
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TEXAS, STATE, DEMOCRAT, FORENSIC
One of dozens of the Texas Democratic lawmakers who left the Lone Star State last week in order to prevent the passage of a controversial election bill likened Gov. Greg Abbott’s threat to have them arrested upon their return to the pursuit of escaped slaves
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TRUMP, MEDIA, BIDEN, SPOKESWOMAN
Taking a page out of the playbook of politically biased voter "suppression polls," the media has now gone to suppressing and silencing conservative voices to prop up Democrats, former President Donald Trump warned in an exclusive podcast interview Tuesday.
The
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COVID, LATE, PATIENTS, BEG
An Alabama physician glumly says she is making "a lot of progress" in encouraging people to vaccinate – as she struggles to keep them alive.
Dr. Brytney Cobia, a hospitalist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, wrote in a recent Facebook post she is
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OPIOID, 26, SETTLEMENT, BILLION
New York (CNN Business) A group of states' Attorneys General announced a proposed $26 billion opioid crisis settlement Wednesday that, if approved, will resolve claims against the "big three" drug distributors — McKesson, Cardinal Health and Amerisource Bergen
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