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A police spokesman said that investigators are trying to determine whether the shotgun had been rigged to fire when the door opened.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has asked the state’s attorney general and chief appeals court judge to jointly appoint an independent lawyer to investigate claims that he sexually harassed at least two women who worked for him.
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Looking beyond the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill, President Joe Biden and lawmakers are laying the groundwork for another top legislative priority — a long-sought boost to the nation’s roads, bridges and other infrastructure that could run into Republican resistance to a hefty price tag.
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With the floodgates set to open on another round of unemployment aid, states are being hammered with a new wave of fraud as they scramble to update security systems and block scammers who already have siphoned billions of dollars from pandemic-related jobless programs.
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Less than six weeks after leaving office, former President Donald Trump will deliver the closing speech at a conservative conference Sunday as he reasserts himself on the national stage and makes clear he intends to remain a dominant force within the Republican Party.
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The show, postponed two months from its usual early-January perch, will have little of what makes the Globes one of the frothiest and glitziest events of the year.
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Police have filed a case and are looking for over a dozen people involved in organizing the cockfight.
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The plastic surgeon was dressed in surgical scrubs with a patient undergoing the procedure just out of view; the beeps of medical machinery could be heard in the background.
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The U.S. is getting a third vaccine to prevent COVID-19, as the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday cleared a Johnson & Johnson shot that works with just one dose instead of two.
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The Justice Department said Saturday it will appeal a judge’s ruling that found the federal government’s eviction moratorium was unconstitutional.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2021 at 3:26 PM EST
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Torlano said he had been dreaming about skiing the dome since his family moved to Yosemite when he was 5 years old.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2021 at 2:54 PM EST
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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.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2021 at 12:57 PM EST
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Just eight members of the veteran’s immediately family attended Saturday’s private service, but soldiers carried his coffin to a crematorium and form a ceremonial guard.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2021 at 12:19 PM EST
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The FBI has obtained video that shows the person spraying Brian Sicknick and other law enforcement officers during the Jan. 6 riot, the people said.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2021 at 12:00 PM EST
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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.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2021 at 10:22 AM EST
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U.S. testing hit a peak on Jan. 15. Since then, the average number of daily tests has fallen more than 28%.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2021 at 1:14 AM EST
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The inventor of the Meyers Manx dune buggy has died.
Updated: Feb. 26, 2021 at 11:33 PM EST
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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.
Updated: Feb. 26, 2021 at 6:19 PM EST
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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: Feb. 26, 2021 at 5:50 PM EST
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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: Feb. 26, 2021 at 11:11 AM EST
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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: Feb. 26, 2021 at 9:30 AM EST
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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: Feb. 26, 2021 at 9:24 AM EST
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The Kentucky House has passed a measure aimed at adding language to the state constitution to ensure it doesn’t offer protections for abortion rights.
Updated: Feb. 26, 2021 at 8:08 AM EST
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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 12:10 PM EST
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The site was ruled a potential threat.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 11:48 AM EST
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Authorities say a federal judge has sentenced a Kentucky man to 36 years in prison on charges that included the sex trafficking of three victims.
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.