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MUSK, TWITTER, ELON, SPEECH
(CNN Business) Elon Musk is set to take control of Twitter in a $44 billion deal that, at least judging by some of the reactions, feels like it could reshape the internet as we know it.
Twitter may seem rather ordinary on paper. The company's user base and
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BIDEN, HARRIS, PRESIDENT, POSITIVE
Vice President Kamala Harris has tested positive for COVID-19, the White House announced Tuesday.
Harris, who is fully vaccinated and twice boosted, has not been a close contact of the president or first lady, White House press secretary Kirsten Allen insisted.
“Today,
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UKRAINE, RUSSIA, WAR, AUSTIN
The British Defense Ministry says Russian forces have taken the Ukrainian city of Kreminna after days of street-to-street fighting
KYIV, Ukraine -- Russia’s top diplomat warned Ukraine against provoking World War III and said the threat of a nuclear conflict
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TRUMP, COURT, SUPREME, REMAIN
The "Remain in Mexico" policy will be before the Supreme Court on Tuesday at it hears arguments in the Biden administration's effort to end the Trump administration policy that turns away asylum-seekers at the border until their case can be heard.
President
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SHOOTING, RUST, BALDWIN, ALEC
Police release a trove of videos in the probe of the Alec Baldwin film-set shooting
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SANTA FE, N.M. — Law enforcement officials released a trove of video evidence Monday in the ongoing investigation
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POLICE, BABY, CALIFORNIA, KIDNAPPED
Violence against police officers is on the rise, with 101 officers shot already this year according to the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), as the nationwide crime surge continues to affect men and women in blue.
101 POLICE OFFICERS SHOT IN LINE OF DUTY,
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SLAVERY, HARVARD, 100M, REDRESS
BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University is vowing to spend $100 million to study and atone for its extensive ties with slavery, the school’s president announced Tuesday, with plans to identify and support the descendants of enslaved people who labored at the Ivy League
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BORDER, BIDEN, PLAN, DHS
SAN DIEGO, California — Sources within President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) say they are acting as a “full service travel agency” for illegal aliens arriving at the United States-Mexico border thanks to the president’s expansive Catch
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BIDEN, PARDONS, AGENT, SECRET
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has granted the first three pardons of his term, providing clemency to a Kennedy-era Secret Service agent convicted of federal bribery charges that he tried to sell a copy of an agency file and to two people who were convicted
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ANTISEMITIC, HIGH, 2021, HIT
Antisemitic incidents in the United States rose 34% last year to 2,717 reports of assault, harassment and vandalism, the Anti-Defamation League said Wednesday.
The number of attacks is at its highest level since ADL began tracking such incidents in 1979.
ADL
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POLL, PRIMARY, OHIO, SENATE
Image PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North American division, which includes Cheetos, saw volumes grow a modest 2 percent while pricing soared 12 percent in the quarter. Credit... Daniel Dorsa for The New York Times
Thanks to double-digit percent increases for the prices
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MCCARTHY, JAN, GOP, KEVIN
Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s obsequious relationship with Donald Trump was in its nascent stages as Trump prepared to assume the presidency in 2017. At a luncheon that January, Trump called McCarthy, the House Republican leader from Bakersfield, “My Kevin.” On inauguration
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PETERS, WISCONSIN, LILY, 10
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wisc. — A juvenile was arrested Tuesday evening in connection to the death of 10-year-old Illiana "Lily" Peters, authorities said.
"The suspect was not a stranger," Chippewa Falls Police Chief Matthew Kelm said during a news conference. "The
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CAWTHORN, MADISON, AIRPORT, CITED
Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., is seen in the U.S. Capitol as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., spoke at length on the House floor to delay the Build Back Better Act vote on Thursday, November 18, 2021.
Rep. Madison Cawthorn was cited on a misdemeanor
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JOHNNY, DEPP, HEARD, AMBER
The drama continues in Johnny Depp’s $50 million defamation suit against Amber Heard in Virginia. Heard has countersued for $100 million.
Depp is suing his former wife over an op-ed that she wrote in 2018 about domestic abuse that he claims defamed him and
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KIM, NUCLEAR, NORTH, PARADE
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to speed up his nation’s development of its nuclear arsenal, state media reported Tuesday, as concerns over the country’s nuclear capabilities grow.
“The nuclear forces of our Republic should be fully prepared to fulfill
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KEMP, PERDUE, POLL, GEORGIA
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp holds a substantial lead in the Republican gubernatorial primary race against former Sen. David Perdue, according to a poll released by the University of Georgia's School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday on the behalf of
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DEATH, FLORIDA, RIDE, TEEN
The parents of a 14-year-old boy who fell to his death from a 430-foot drop-tower ride in central Florida's tourist district sued its owner, manufacturer, and landlord on Monday, claiming they were negligent and failed to provide a safe amusement ride.
The
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POLICE, OFFICER, FATALLY, SHOT
When he announced Schurr’s name Monday, Winstrom, the police chief, said it was a “long-standing practice of withholding names of any employee under investigation” until it is complete, as well as police policy to “withhold the names of individuals who have
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OFFICIALS, DISEASE, CASES, LIVER
Doctors remain mystified by the source of an outbreak of a severe liver disease in children.
Now, U.K. health officials believe a spike in hepatitis cases among children may be linked to COVID-19 lockdowns. Doctors in the U.K. believe children are getting
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TITLE, 42, BIDEN, BORDER
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that Republicans were not budging from demands that any new coronavirus aid package includes language blocking President Biden from rescinding a pandemic emergency order that helped block illegal aliens from
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