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BIDEN, UKRAINE, RUSSIA, WAR
The State Department once refused to support a GOP-led measure which would have imposed immediate sanctions on the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline, writing in a January memo that President Biden's threat of sanctions on Russia was key to deterring Russian
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JACKSON, KETANJI, BROWN, COURT
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings: What happened Thursday
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The nomination hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson have ended. Jackson herself wasn't on the program for
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KOREA, NORTH, MISSILE, LONG
North Korea’s government media outlets remained mum on Thursday as of press time regarding reports from Seoul that the communist regime launched an intercontinental ballistic missile. The North Korean launch followed a report that South Korea’s President-Elect
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ATHLETES, MAYOR, PERFORMERS, NYC
(CNN) Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving's six-month prohibition from playing home games over his vaccination status appears to be coming to an end.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is expected to lift a Covid-19 vaccine mandate for performers and professional
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ARIZONA, 15, LEGISLATURE, ABORTION
The Arizona House voted Thursday to prohibit gender-reassignment surgery for minors and was scheduled to vote later on a bill banning transgender athletes from playing on girls sports teams.
Arizona appears poised to join a growing list of Republican-controlled
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POLL, GAS, BIDEN, PRICES
A majority of American voters say President Joe Biden has made the economy worse, blaming him for skyrocketing gas prices and soaring inflation, according to a new poll released Thursday.
Some 53 percent of registered voters polled said Biden has made the
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GAS, PRICES, PUTIN, CALIFORNIA
Shutting down Mr. Putin’s cash flow is an urgent moral and strategic imperative, but Europe is frozen in the headlights.
Some European experts claim that the war is not being financed by energy exports. This is entirely wrong. Mr. Putin’s regime is seeking
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CLAIMS, JOBLESS, LOWEST, 1969
FILE - Marriott human resources recruiter Mariela Cuevas, left, talks to Lisbet Oliveros, during a job fair at Hard Rock Stadium, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, in Miami Gardens, Fla. Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, as layoffs continue
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UKRAINIAN, 000, 100, REFUGEES
President Joe Biden on Thursday will announce that the U.S. will accept 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, according to a senior administration official.
“To meet this commitment, we are considering the full range of legal pathways to the United States and that includes
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ASYLUM, ADMINISTRATION, BIDEN, RULE
The Biden administration announced the final version of its long-awaited U.S. asylum overhaul Thursday, aiming to speed up processing at the border and alleviate backlogs throughout the country’s immigration courts.
Fixing asylum, a process that can drag out
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THOMAS, GINNI, TRUMP, CLARENCE
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is fine, according to Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who spoke briefly to TMZ on Wednesday.
The news outlet caught up with Justice Breyer outside Cafe Milano in Washington, where he gave a brief update on the condition of
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(CNN Business) Uber once waged a fierce battle against the taxi industry. Now it's teaming up with New York's iconic yellow cabs.
Uber UBER on Thursday announced a new partnership in New York City that will let its users hail the city's taxicabs through its
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COURT, TEXAS, SUPREME, INMATE
A Texas man facing execution can request to have his pastor pray aloud and be touching him as the state carries out a lethal injection, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The justices, in an 8-1 decision, said Texas was being too strict in limiting John Ramirez’s
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ENERGY, RUSSIA, NATIONS, GAS
Natural gas produced in the United States can end Europe’s dependence on Russian energy without impacting local demand, according to one industry leader.
"I believe it is the future," Jonah Energy President and CEO Tom Hart told Fox News.
It is estimated
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OZ, WALKER, DR, HERSCHEL
U.S. Senate candidates Dr. Mehmet Oz and Herschel Walker on Wednesday were told to resign from the President's Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition or their positions would be "terminated."
The two men, both named to the council by then-President Donald
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LOS, ANGELES, JEWELRY, WEARING
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As of March 19, robberies involving a firearm skyrocketed 44 percent in Los Angeles compared to the same period last year, the city’s police said Tuesday.
Following the general trend of rising crime across major
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GAS, FREE, CHICAGO, FLOCK
Chicago businessman Willie Wilson gridlocked the streets of Chicago with a kind gesture: giving away gas.
On Thursday, Wilson gave drivers another chance to fill their tanks at no cost to them for the second time this month, ABC 7 reported.
"I had no idea
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WILHITE, GIF, STEPHEN, INVENTOR
Stephen E. Wilhite, a computer programmer who was best known for inventing the GIF, the looping animations that became a universal language for conveying humor, sarcasm and angst on social media and in instant messages, died in Cincinnati on March 14. He was
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IRAN, DEAL, RUSSIA, NUCLEAR
Iran's foreign minister says his country is ready to reach a lasting agreement with world powers and is blaming the latest failure to revive Tehran's tattered nuclear deal on an allegedly “unrealistic vision" by the United States
BEIRUT -- Iran’s foreign minister
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MCCARTHY, HOUSE, CHENEY, FUNDRAISER
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is confident Republicans will win a House majority in November — and by a lot.
"We're going to win the majority, and it's not going to be a five-seat majority," McCarthy told Punchbowl News in an interview Thursday
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DEPOSITION, ALEX, HOOK, SANDY
Alex Jones missed his deposition in the Sandy Hook defamation lawsuit Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones skipped a deposition in a defamation case brought by families of the victims of the Sandy Hook killings. A judge ordered that he appear Thursday or face possible
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