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BIDEN, OIL, GAS, PRICES
President Joe Biden is set to deliver remarks on Thursday from the White House on his administration’s plan to lower gas prices.
Biden is set to speak at 1:30 P.M. Eastern.
According to a White House press release, the Biden administration will release over
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SMITH, ROCK, CHRIS, OSCARS
(CNN) After Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock on stage Sunday at the Academy Awards ceremony, Los Angeles police officers were prepared to arrest Smith, according to an interview with the award show's producer, but the comedian was adamant he did not want
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BIDEN, HUNTER, LAPTOP, MEDIA
Fox News host Jesse Watters shared details of the Biden family's business dealings and alleged ties to China on Thursday's "Jesse Watters Primetime."
JESSE WATTERS: The Biden family business in China began seriously in 2013, when Vice President Biden boarded
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GENDER, TRANSGENDER, BIDEN, DAY
The Biden administration says U.S. airport security procedures will become more gender-neutral
WASHINGTON -- U.S. airport security procedures will become more gender-neutral, with changes to scanners used for screening and the use of an “X” for travelers going
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FLORIDA, DISNEY, RIGHTS, PARENTAL
Gay rights advocates sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday to block a new law that forbids classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.
The law has catapulted Florida and DeSantis, a potential 2024
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BORDER, BIDEN, 42, TITLE
Biden administration aims to lift pandemic border restriction known as Title 42 NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Theresa Cardinal Brown of the Bipartisan Policy Center about plans to lift a public health order that kept migrants out of the U.S. to prevent the spread
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BRUCE, WILLIS, APHASIA, DIAGNOSIS
Bruce Willis, who is stepping away from acting amid cognitive difficulties caused by aphasia, alarmed movie staffers two years when he misfired a gun loaded with a blank – and last year perplexingly asked what he was doing on a film set, according to a report.
The
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JACKSON, KETANJI, BROWN, GRAHAM
WASHINGTON — Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said on Thursday that he planned to vote against the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, calling her an “activist judge” who ignored the law to achieve the outcomes
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SOUTH, SEVERE, STORMS, ARKANSAS
A possible tornado smashed into Springdale, Arkansas, early Wednesday morning.
More than 50 million Americans are at risk of experiencing severe weather Wednesday.
Flash flooding will also be a concern Wednesday and Wednesday night.
A wind-fueled Tennessee
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INSULIN, HOUSE, BILL, PASSES
The House moved Thursday to revive one of the more popular provisions of last year’s failed social safety net package, passing a narrow healthcare bill that would dramatically lower out-of-pocket costs for insulin users.
The bill passed by a vote of 232 to
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WORLD, CUP, LOSS, COSTA
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — The United States men are returning to the World Cup after the trauma of missing the 2018 tournament, clinching a berth for this year’s championship in Qatar on Wednesday despite a 2-0 loss to Costa Rica on the final night of qualifying.
Juan
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PUTIN, TRUMP, UKRAINE, WHITE
WASHINGTON — Newly declassified U.S. intelligence indicates that Russian President Vladimir Putin feels he was misled by military leaders who did not tell him key details about the botched invasion of Ukraine because they feared angering him, top Biden administration
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SCHOOL, STUDENT, SOUTH, CAROLINA
Corrections & clarifications: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported the age of the shooting suspect.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — A minor is in custody after fatally shooting another student at Tanglewood Middle School on Thursday, authorities said.
The
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JAN, TRUMP, KUSHNER, COMMITTEE
As the attack at the U.S. Capitol unfolded last January, President Donald Trump placed at least one call using a White House phone that should have been recorded in the day’s call log but was not, The Guardian reported Thursday.
The call was to Sen. Mike Lee
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AMAZON, UNION, ALABAMA, VOTE
People arrive for work at the Amazon distribution center in Staten Island, New York, on Oct. 25, 2021. AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File
Faced with a wave of worker activism in its warehouses last year, Amazon paid anti-union consultants roughly $4.3 million in
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NAVY, PLANE, CRASHES, DEAD
One crew member is dead and two were rescued after a Navy aircraft crashed off the Virginia coast Wednesday, according to the U.S. Navy.
The E-2D Hawkeye, which was assigned to an East Coast Airborne Command and Control Squadron, crashed at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday
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THOMAS, CLARENCE, PELOSI, JUSTICE
WASHINGTON — In the wake of revelations about incendiary text messages from Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, to the Trump White House, mostly in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 attack, Democrats in Congress urged Chief Justice John G.
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KYIV, RUSSIAN, UKRAINE, TROOPS
BRUSSELS — Despite Russian statements that it would radically reduce its military activity around Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, to concentrate on the war in eastern Ukraine, Western governments see little evidence of that, Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary-general,
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ABORTION, FETUSES, ANTI, HOME
Washington, D.C., police found five fetuses in the home of an anti-abortion activist on Wednesday.
The activist, Lauren Handy, sat outside her home as officers brought out coolers containing the fetuses, WUSA9 first reported. Handy declined to tell a reporter
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COVID, STUDY, 19, VACCINATIONS
The Washington Post was mocked for referencing pregnant women as "pregnant people" in article published Thursday.
The article is titled, "Pregnant people at much higher risk of breakthrough COVID, study shows" and reports on a new study that looked at whether
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NEW, YORK, JUDGE, CONGRESSIONAL
The headline of this article isn’t clickbait. I’m legitimately shocked right now at what has just transpired in New York regarding its redistricting process, and I think you will be too.
Per a mid-afternoon announcement on Thursday, New York Supreme Court
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