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COVID, VACCINE, 19, BOOSTER
FILE PHOTO: The 'Covid Certificate' application of Switzerland for "COVID-19 certificates" for people who have been vaccinated, tested negative or recovered from an infection, is seen in this illustration picture taken June 18, 2021. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/Illustration
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REPORT, COVID, HARRIS, CHINA
Live Covid-19 Live Updates: Biden Gets Initial Report on Virus Origins The report, by U.S. spy agencies, didn’t come to a firm conclusion. China says it will hold unvaccinated people “accountable” for outbreaks.
U.S. intelligence agencies delivered a report
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SUPREME, COURT, REMAIN, POLICY
The Supreme Court’s ruling this week reviving a Trump-era border policy sent shockwaves through the immigration debate, signaling that the justices will be a major hurdle for President Biden as he tries to impose his more relaxed approach to immigration enforcement.
Stephen
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COVID, NEW, DEATHS, CUOMO
While the Food and Drug Administration on Monday issued full approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, America's delta-driven surge of COVID-19 has entered a deadlier phase.
Cases are rising in 42 states, the lowest such number in six weeks. But deaths are
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VOTING, HOUSE, RIGHTS, BILL
The Democrat-led House voted Tuesday to advance H.R. 4 — otherwise known as the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act — to a contentious battle in the Senate. If passed, the legislation would, among other things, allow the Justice Department to “review
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DELTA, UNVACCINATED, EMPLOYEES, 200
Delta Air Lines Is Going To Start Charging Unvaccinated Employees $200 Per Month
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Delta Air Lines will charge employees on the company health plan $200 a month if they fail to get vaccinated against
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CALIFORNIA, RECALL, NEWSOM, GOV
WOODLAND HILLS, California — The Jewish Republican Alliance formally endorsed conservative radio host Larry Elder for governor on Tuesday evening in the ongoing Sep. 14 recall election against Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).
Elder addressed a crowd of several hundred
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ONLYFANS, BAN, EXPLICIT, CONTENT
(CNN) OnlyFans said Wednesday that it will suspend its upcoming policy change to restrict sexually explicit material, citing "assurances" it received that would allow it to be "a home for all creators."
"We have secured assurances necessary to support our
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TALIBAN, FEMALE, AFGHAN, JOURNALIST
CBS News has blamed “climate change” for abetting the Taliban in their rise to power in Afghanistan, insisting that global warming has forced farmers into debt and into the arms of the Taliban.
In a risible report that has been compared to spoofs in the Babylon
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BABY, NIRVANA, NEVERMIND, SUES
The man who appeared as a baby on the album cover of Nirvana's iconic 1991 album "Nevermind" is suing the band and estate of the late lead singer Kurt Cobain for child pornography.
In the lawsuit, which seeks $150,000 in damages from 17 named defendants, Spencer
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TAHOE, LAKE, FIRE, CREWS
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — A California fire that gutted hundreds of homes advanced toward Lake Tahoe on Wednesday as thousands of firefighters tried to box in the flames and tourists who hoped to boat or swim were enveloped in a thick yellow haze of the
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PLOT, MICHIGAN, KIDNAP, YEARS
A judge in Michigan will hand down the first sentence to a man who admits he plotted to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Prosecutors preparing for the first prison sentence in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are
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BORDER, TEXAS, GOV, ABBOTT
Matthew McConaughey repurposed one of his most famous catchphrases to be about the coronavirus in a message to Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
The actor, who has previously publicly toyed with the idea of running for Abbott’s job, took to Twitter on Tuesday to
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WILLIAMS, SERENA, OPEN, HAMSTRING
Serena Williams Is The Latest Tennis Star To Withdraw From The U.S. Open
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Serena Williams added herself to the list of big-name withdrawals from the U.S. Open on Wednesday, pulling
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TRUMP, HOUSE, JAN, COMMITTEE
Police release tear gas into a crowd of pro-Trump protesters during clashes at a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, January 6, 2021.
WASHINGTON
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MEXICO, AFGHAN, JOURNALISTS, TIMES
FILE PHOTO: Members of an Afghan all-female robotics team work on an open-source and low-cost ventilator, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Herat Province, Afghanistan April 15, 2020. REUTERS/Jalil Ahmad/File Photo FILE PHOTO: Members
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DEATH, SENTENCE, CHURCH, SHOOTER
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld Dylann Roof’s conviction and death sentence for the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation, saying the legal record cannot even capture the “full horror” of what
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JAPAN, COVID, VACCINATIONS, EMERGENCY
FILE PHOTO: A hospital worker receives the first dose of AstraZeneca's vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan February 28, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail FILE PHOTO: A hospital worker receives the first dose
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TRIP, PELOSI, AFGHANISTAN, DEADLY
Pelosi: Reps' trip to Afghanistan 'not a good idea'
Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., and Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., are facing condemnation and questions for their surprise visit to Afghanistan this week, a trip House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called "not a good idea."
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IRAN, BIDEN, ISRAEL, NEW
For the first time in more than a decade, an Israeli prime minister not named Netanyahu is arriving in Washington to visit the president of the United States at the White House.
Naftali Bennett, the right-wing leader of Israel’s highly fragmented coalition
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WHITE, HOUSE, BIDEN, AFGHANISTAN
The White House cut off the audio feed for President Joe Biden after he was posed a question Wednesday on stranded Americans in Afghanistan.
As he wrapped up a meeting on cybersecurity in the State Dining Room, Biden dismissed the press as they continued to
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