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The overall relief bill would provide $1,400 payments to individuals, extend emergency unemployment benefits through August and increase tax credits for children and federal subsidies for health insurance.
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The inventor of the Meyers Manx dune buggy has died.
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Lady Gaga’s two French bulldogs, which were stolen by thieves who shot and wounded the dogwalker, were recovered unharmed Friday, Los Angeles police said.
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A federal judge in San Francisco has approved a $650 million settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging without the permission of its users.
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U.S. officials believe the Saudi crown prince approved an operation to “capture or kill” journalist Jamal Khashoggi, says a newly released document.
Updated: 12 hours ago
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The Food and Drug Administration is expected to quickly follow the recommendation and make J&J’s shot the third vaccine authorized for emergency use in the U.S.
Updated: 13 hours ago
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Prom is on for Rossford high school students this spring. Students are already on planning mode.
Updated: 18 hours ago
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Chicago-based McDonald’s will use the Beyond Meat partnership to roll out what it is calling the “McPlant” burger, as well as eventually plant-based pork, egg and chicken products.
Updated: 20 hours ago
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The recall covers certain Discoverer, Evolution, Courser, Deegan, Adventurer, Hercules, Back Country, Multi-Mile, Wild Country and Big O tires in several sizes.
Updated: 21 hours ago
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Tiger Woods has been moved to another Los Angeles hospital after undergoing surgery to his right leg after being badly injured in a car crash.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 11:12 PM EST
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President Joe Biden was expected to speak to Saudi King Salman as soon as Thursday for the first time since taking office more than a month ago.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 10:03 PM EST
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Hasbro clarified in a tweet that the Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head characters will still exist, names and all, but the branding on the box will say “Potato Head.”
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 10:03 PM EST
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A cat that went astray about 15 years ago has been reunited, older and maybe wiser, with its owner.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 8:46 PM EST
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The airstrikes were announced by Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, who said the action was authorized by President Joe Biden.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 7:15 PM EST
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The number of monarch butterflies that showed up at their winter resting grounds in central Mexico decreased by about 26% this year.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 6:48 PM EST
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The federal program, known as Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, made the self-employed and gig workers eligible for jobless aid for the first time.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 6:32 PM EST
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U.S. regulators are allowing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to be shipped and stored at less-frigid temperatures, which should ease distribution and administration of one of the two vaccines authorized for emergency use in the country.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 5:04 PM EST
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It’s reminiscent of the shocking 1,625% surge for GameStop in January, when bands of smaller-pocketed and novice investors helped trigger a supernova for the stock of the struggling video game retailer.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 4:59 PM EST
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Flu has virtually disappeared from the U.S., with reports coming in at far lower levels than anything seen in decades.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 4:51 PM EST
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On Thursday, Biden marked the administration of the 50 millionth dose of COVID-19 vaccine since his swearing-in.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 4:21 PM EST
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Twitter is branching out from advertising to find more ways to make money — both for itself and for its most prolific users, whether those are businesses, celebrities or regular people.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 4:06 PM EST
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Matt Schlapp, chairman of the Conservative Political Action Conference and a Trump ally, said discussion panels on election integrity would highlight “huge” evidence of illegal voting in Georgia, Nevada and elsewhere that ultimately swung the election for Democrat Joe Biden.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 3:51 PM EST
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This avalanche season has already been historically dangerous, with 32 confirmed fatalities, all but one in the West.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 2:12 PM EST
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Republican Gov. Greg Abbott wants to force power plants to winterize after nearly half of the state’s generation capacity was knocked offline by subfreezing temperatures.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 1:50 PM EST
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The high court could decide in the spring whether to take up the issue.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 1:26 PM EST
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The sweeping proposal from state Sen. Patrick Testin, of Stevens Point, comes after the Dallas Mavericks did not play “The Star-Spangled Banner” before home games earlier this season.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 12:56 PM EST
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The economy grew at a 4.1% pace in the final three months of 2020, slightly faster than first estimated, ending a year in which the overall economy, ravaged by a global pandemic, shrank more than in any year in the past seven decades.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 12:39 PM EST
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Philanthropist Calvin Tyler Jr., and his wife, Tina, pledged $20 million Monday to his alma mater Morgan State University, which the university said is the largest gift to any HBCU ever made by one of its former students.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 12:30 PM EST
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Cities across Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi are still grappling with outages that crippled health care facilities and forced families to wait in line for potable water.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 11:10 AM EST
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It comes after the Supreme Court denied Trump’s last ditch-effort to keep the records private.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 11:00 AM EST
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Police in Cheyenne, Wyoming, say the boyfriend of a woman whose 2-year-old son was found dead in an apartment complex dumpster has been arrested.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 10:57 AM EST
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The company said it cut the jobs because more shoppers are choosing to buy online instead of coming inside its stores.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 10:31 AM EST
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Sotheby’s auction house said the work, painted in 1887, has remained in the same family collection for more than 100 years — out of the public eye.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 10:08 AM EST
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Volunteers first managed to refloat the surviving whales on Monday evening’s high tide.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 7:16 AM EST
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The U.S. military on Wednesday began delivering shots at coronavirus vaccination centers in Texas and New York and announced that service members will start staffing four centers in Florida and one in Philadelphia next week.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 10:11 PM EST
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Australia's laws forcing Google and Facebook to pay for news are ready to take effect, though the laws' architect says it will take time for the digital giants to strike media deals.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 9:30 PM EST
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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has come under heavy criticism for a series of operational changes that slowed mail before the 2020 elections.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 7:05 PM EST
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Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman provided new details about the law enforcement response to the Capitol riot, including extra preparations that were made for the day.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 6:24 PM EST
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Lindsey Boylan, a former member of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration, offered new details about her claims against him.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 5:04 PM EST
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Palm Beach County defied Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday, refusing to lower its courthouse flags to half-staff in honor of the late conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 4:13 PM EST
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Trillions of dollars move through the payment system daily.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 4:00 PM EST
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The move provides the ailing department store chain financial breathing room as it grapples with the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 3:56 PM EST
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A German customs office described the find in the Hamburg port as the biggest quantity of cocaine ever seized in Europe and one of the biggest single seizures worldwide.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 3:08 PM EST
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President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the CIA told lawmakers Wednesday that he would keep politics out of the job and deliver “unvarnished” intelligence to politicians and policymakers.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 3:00 PM EST
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Maryland and California recently approved help for small businesses, the poor, the jobless and those needing child care.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 2:29 PM EST
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The complaint filed Wednesday in San Francisco is an offshoot of a $13.5 billion settlement that PG&E reached with the wildfire victims in late 2019 while the utility was mired in bankruptcy.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 1:39 PM EST
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The Mediterranean recluse spiders were found in late January in the Shapiro Undergraduate Library on the school’s Ann Arbor campus.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 1:07 PM EST
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Springsteen pleaded guilty to consuming alcohol in a closed area.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 12:11 PM EST
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The person said the Justice Department’s federal civil rights investigation has been focused on Chauvin and some of the witnesses, including other officers who worked with Chauvin.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 11:54 AM EST
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Lawrence Paul Anderson is accused of killing Andrea Lynn Blankenship, 41, and cutting out her heart.