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BIDEN, UKRAINE, RUSSIA, YEAR
Kirsten Powers is a CNN senior political analyst and NYT bestselling author of " Saving Grace: Speak Your Truth, Stay Centered and Learn to Coexist with People Who Drive You Nuts ." The views expressed in this commentary are her own. Read more opinion on CNN.
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ABORTION, LIFE, SUPREME, COURT
Texas abortion providers and advocates were dealt another setback on Thursday when the Supreme Court rejected their request for a federal judge to accelerate the legal challenge to the Lone Star State’s six-week abortion ban.
Though no majority opinion was
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LOAF, MEAT, SINGER, 74
The music world is in mourning following the death of legendary rocker Meat Loaf at the age of 74.
In a career spanning six decades, Meat Loaf sold more than 100 million albums worldwide and enjoyed huge success around the world with tracks such as “Dead Ringer
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FEDERAL, BIDEN, MANDATE, VACCINE
U.S. federal agencies have been directed to raise the minimum wage for government employees to $15 an hour, according to a new guidance from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
The directive will impact almost 70,000 federal employees most of whom work
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PETITO, GABBY, FBI, BRIAN
Investigators said the case will be closed soon.
The FBI on Friday released new details in the investigation of Gabby Petito's death, saying that that Brian Laundrie wrote in a notebook that he killed her.
The FBI's Denver office had sent out a timeline of
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OMICRON, COVID, CDC, SHOTS
Speaking at the White House COVID-19 response team briefing Friday, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said three new reports released by the agency add evidence to the importance of being "up to date" with vaccinations
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BORDER, CANADA, FOUND, CHARGED
Four people, including a baby and a teenager, were found dead in frigid weather near the U.S.-Canada border and a Florida man is facing federal human smuggling charges as authorities in both countries describe a suspected failed border crossing attempt.
Royal
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Intel announced plans Friday to invest at least $20 billion in a semiconductor manufacturing “mega-site” as part of the company’s larger efforts to inshore chip fabrication.
The site, located outside of Columbus, Ohio, will be built to accommodate as many
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LOUIE, ANDERSON, 68, COMEDIAN
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Louie Anderson, whose more than four-decade career as a comedian and actor included his unlikely, Emmy-winning performance as mom to twin adult sons in the TV series “Baskets,” died Friday. He was 68.
Anderson died at a hospital in Las Vegas
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TEXAS, SYNAGOGUE, HOSTAGE, FBI
A Police vehicle sits outside of the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, January 16, 2022. (Andy Jacobsohn/AFP via Getty Images)
FBI officials said Friday that a British national taking a rabbi and three other people at a Texas synagogue
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ADELE, VEGAS, POSTPONES, LAS
Adele postpones Vegas show in tearful post, saying half of her team is out with COVID
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British singer Adele announced Thursday the postponement of her Las Vegas
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CALIFORNIA, BILL, CONSENT, VACCINATED
Ani Chaglasian spent much of last year trying to convince her parents that she should be vaccinated against COVID-19.
The 17-year-old said she laid out research showing it would safety protect her from being infected or passing the virus to others. She pleaded.
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BRIANNA, KUPFER, MURDER, POLICE
The homeless man who allegedly killed 24-year-old UCLA graduate student Brianna Kupfer was busted for biting a cop while being taken into custody outside San Francisco last year and should have been extradited out of California after the arrest, according to
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TRIAL, FLOYD, FEDERAL, GEORGE
Most of the 18 jurors selected Thursday in the federal trial against three Minneapolis cops charged in George Floyd’s death appeared to be white, as the judge told the potential panelists the case had “absolutely nothing” to do with race.
Former Officers Tou
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CUELLAR, REP, AZERBAIJAN, FBI
An adviser to Rep. Henry Cuellar, the conservative Texas Democrat whose home and campaign office was raided by the FBI this week, also leads a dark-money group that recently ran ads against Cuellar’s primary challenger, Jessica Cisneros, according to Federal
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NPR, SUPREME, COURT, MASK
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CNN anchor Brianna Keilar is hosting a temporary program pompously titled "Democracy In Peril." On Jan. 18, Keilar huffed: "We can't discuss the
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TRANSGENDER, LIA, THOMAS, SWIMMER
Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner criticized the National Collegiate Athletic Association's decision to allow transgender athletes to participate in women's sports Thursday.
Appearing on "America Reports," Jenner said she was "disappointed" in the decision.
"The
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TRUMP, DESANTIS, RON, NEWS
The media has insisted there is a feud between Trump and DeSantis, except there’s that pesky lack of evidence issue.
There appears to be a growing trend in the press of late – not to suggest it is a new trend – of journalists dismissing testimony from those
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YEAR, ASSOCIATE, GIULIANI, PRISON
A Florida man who helped Rudy Giuliani seek damaging information against Joe Biden in Ukraine was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and fined $10,000 Friday in an unrelated campaign finance case.
Igor Fruman was told to report to prison March 14. He
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GUN, STORE, COVID, CALIFORNIA
The coronavirus pandemic cannot be an excuse to shut down gun stores, a federal appeals court ruled this week, delivering a belated spanking to a California county that shuttered stores and firing ranges in the early days of the virus.
Los Angeles County and
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COVID, 19, STUDY, FINDS
Stuart Katz, a cardiologist at NYU Langone, got Covid-19 in December 2020, right before he was able to receive the Covid-19 vaccine as a health care professional. When we spoke for this article, more than a year since his infection, he told me excitedly that
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FAUCI, APPEARS, POLL, VIDEO
A look inside Dr. Anthony Fauci’s home office apparently showed images of himself that included a bobblehead and large portrait.
“The glimpse into the nation’s top infectious disease expert’s workspace started making the rounds on social media Wednesday after
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