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MADDEN, JOHN, COACH, NFL
The NFL world lost a legend when former Oakland Raiders Super Bowl-winning coach John Madden died at the age of 85 years old on Tuesday, the league announced.
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Madden, who was also a longtime broadcaster,
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REID, HARRY, FORMER, 82
Harry Mason Reid, the former five-term U.S. senator from Nevada who led Senate Democrats for a decade spanning the Bush and Obama presidencies, died Tuesday, his wife, Landra Reid, confirmed in a statement. He was 82.
"I am heartbroken to announce the passing
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COVID, CASES, 19, OMICRON
BERLIN (AP) — The World Health Organization says the number of COVID-19 cases recorded worldwide increased by 11% last week compared with the previous week, with the biggest increase in the Americas. The gain followed a gradual increase since October.
The
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BIDEN, JOE, COVID, 2021
President Biden promised to reform immigration policy. How has that been going? President Biden had an ambitious agenda to overhaul the nation's border policies. But as the end of the year approaches, many of those proposals have been blocked, reversed or simply
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KONG, HONG, DEMOCRACY, PRO
Hong Kong (CNN) Hong Kong's national security police have arrested six individuals associated with outspoken pro-democracy media outlet Stand News -- including pop star Denise Ho -- and raided its office, raising further concerns about diminishing press freedoms
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COVID, CDC, ISOLATION, PERIOD
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky made a stunning comment on “Good Morning America” today.
LATEST: The newly updated CDC guidelines don't require testing at the end of isolation because PCR tests can stay positive for up to 12 weeks, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle
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PUTIN, BIDEN, SPEAK, THURSDAY
President Biden and Vladimir Putin will speak by phone Thursday at the Russian leader’s request in hopes of finding a diplomatic off-ramp to the volatility surrounding Russia’s military buildup at its border with Ukraine.
The call, confirmed by the White House
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DENVER, SHOOTING, VICTIMS, AREA
The former tattoo parlor owner who killed five people in a Denver-area shooting spree reportedly published a three-book, violence-laden sci-fi series — whose main character in one of them bursts into an ink joint and opens fire.
Lyndon McLeod, 47, who was
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POLICE, OFFICER, TEEN, CAROLINA
A North Carolina teen is fighting for his life after his police officer father shot him in the head in an apparent accident on Monday afternoon.
The Onslow County Sheriff’s Office said the shooting happened in their home. The father is an officer for the nearby
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Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday warned against large New Year’s Eve parties as COVID-19 cases surge in the U.S.
"If your plans are to go to a 40-to-50-person New Year’s Eve party with all the bells and whistles and everybody hugging and kissing and wishing
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Departing New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) isn’t leaving the public eye anytime soon. He might be stepping down after two divisive terms in office but he has no intention of abandoning personal political ambitions, he revealed in an interview published Wednesday.
Speaking
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OMICRON, CDC, ESTIMATE, INFECTION
“A sensation of greater chaos has been created compared to the severity that the clinical picture requires,” he told the Spanish news media.
Portugal had one of the most successful vaccination campaigns in the world, reaching nearly every person eligible and
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All uniformed members of the New York Police Department who were scheduled to be off for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day must now report to work, CBS New York reported on Wednesday.
A departmental order canceling all scheduled days off for the two days of
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ALEXA, AMAZON, YEAR, 10
“OMFG My 10 year old just asked Alexa on our Echo for a challenge and this is what she said,” Kristin Livdahl wrote on Twitter along with a screenshot of the “challenge” her AI voice assistant had suggested to her daughter.
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TESTS, COVID, FDA, RAPID
The Biden administration won’t sign a contract to purchase 500 million at-home COVID-19 rapid tests until next week, White House COVID-19 Response Director Jeff Zients told reporters Wednesday.
"The Department of Defense and HHS are executing on an accelerated
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CAPSULE, TIME, LEE, ROBERT
RICHMOND, Va. — Researchers at Virginia's Department of Historic Resources began their careful examination Tuesday of about 60 artifacts in a time capsule that was placed inside the pedestal of the former Robert E. Lee Confederate memorial.
The capsule opened
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RIGHTS, HUMAN, GROUP, COURT
MOSCOW — A Moscow court ordered the closure of one of the country’s most prominent human rights groups on Wednesday, a day after its parent organization was also shut down in verdicts that, for many Russians, served as a painful coda to a year marked by the
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TEXAS, TRIPLE, SUSPECT, TEEN
(CNN) A 33-year-old man police say was involved in a convenience store shooting that left three teenagers dead and one injured in Garland, Texas, has turned himself in to authorities.
The man allegedly drove a Dodge Ram to the store "with the shooter," and
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MILLION, TOP, JACKPOT, CALIFORNIA
(CNN) The final Powerball drawing of 2021 is Wednesday, with the jackpot up to an estimated $441 million.
The cash value of the big win is $317.5 million, according to the game operator
It's been almost three months since someone hit the Powerball jackpot.
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TRUMP, ALASKA, GOV, MURKOWSKI
Former President Donald Trump announced Tuesday his support for the reelection bid by Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy, but his endorsement hinges on whether the governor backs one of Trump's most vocal Republican critics in the Senate.
"Mike Dunleavy
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PROUD, BOYS, JUDGE, DISMISS
A federal judge has refused to throw out an indictment charging four alleged leaders of the far-right Proud Boys with conspiring to attack the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory
A federal judge refused to
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HOLMES, ELIZABETH, JURY, DAY
The jury weighing fraud charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will resume their lengthy deliberations amid some intrigue raised by a closed-door meeting among her attorneys, federal prosecutors and the judge presiding the case
SAN JOSE, Calif.
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