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BIDEN, HUNTER, WHISTLEBLOWER, IRS
House opens impeachment probe of Biden after GOP leaders head off push to vote now
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The House of Representatives approved a resolution referring articles of impeachment against President
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ABORTION, DOBBS, YEAR, RULING
House Democrats attacked the Supreme Court justices who overturned federal abortion protections as "corrupt" and "extremist" in a press conference marking one year since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health ruling was handed down.
"First of all, why we're here
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ABORTION, BAN, PENCE, 15
WASHINGTON ― On the eve of the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning reproductive rights, former Vice President Mike Pence challenged his fellow 2024 GOP presidential candidates to back a federal ban on abortion nationwide, arguing that it would
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TRUMP, IMPEACHMENTS, DONALD, GOP
The crowd at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Policy conference went wild after North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a gubernatorial candidate in his state, emphatically endorsed former President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.
This
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JAMES, CAMERON, DIRECTOR, TITANIC
“Titanic” director James Cameron has slammed the days-long search operation for the doomed Titan sub as a “nightmarish charade” — insisting he knew that the vessel had imploded just hours after it lost contact with the surface.
Cameron, a submersible pioneer
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SCHOOL, FIRE, HIGH, EXPLODING
Smoke rises over Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, June 23, 2023. Cashes between warring factions resumed in Sudan's capital and a neighboring city after a three-day cease-fire expired(AP Photo)
Smoke rises over Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, June 23, 2023. Cashes between
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3M Co. has reached a $10.3 billion settlement with a host of U.S. public water systems to resolve water pollution claims tied to "forever chemicals," the chemical company announced Thursday.
The company said the settlement would provide the funds over a 13-year
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ABORTION, ARIZONA, GOV, RELATED
NY law protects doctors who send abortion pills
A law to protect doctors in New York who send abortion pills to patients in states where the procedure is outlawed was signed Friday by Gov. Kathy Hochul, who said the measure would provide access to women living
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COVID, REPORT, LAB, ORIGINS
On Friday evening, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) finally released a report on the origins of COVID-19,”Potential Links Between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Origin of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” to Congress.
The statement
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STARBUCKS, STRIKE, STORES, PRIDE
U.S. Starbucks workers join in a weeklong strike over stores not allowing Pride décor
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More than 3,000 Starbucks employees in over 150 locations nationwide are expected
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ACCESS, BIDEN, ORDER, EXPANDING
President Joe Biden signs an executive order in support of Joining Forces, the initiative to support military and veteran families, caregivers, and survivors on June 9, 2023 at Fort Liberty, North Carolina.
President Joe Biden on Friday will sign a wide-ranging
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TITAN, OCEANGATE, SAFETY, SHOW
OceanGate Expeditions is the owner and operator behind the Titan submersible, which had five people on board when it experienced what the Coast Guard called a “catastrophic implosion” amid its journey to the Titanic shipwreck.
The privately-owned US company
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HEAT, TEXAS, WAVE, POWER
The brutal, record-smashing heat wave that's scorching northern Mexico and the south-central U.S., especially Texas, has a connection to human-caused climate change, experts said this week.
How brutal has the heat been? All-time record high temperatures were
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MUSK, ELON, ZUCKERBERG, MARK
The boys are fighting.
By “boys,” of course, we mean tech billionaires Elon Musk, who owns Tesla, SpaceX, and most recently Twitter, as well as Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Meta (formerly Facebook), which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp.
They are 51 and
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ALITO, THOMAS, DESANTIS, CLARENCE
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia on this day in history, June 23, 1948.
His entire family grappled with extreme poverty. His parents divorced when he was a toddler; Thomas' father left the family when Clarence Thomas was
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VICTOR, WEMBANYAMA, NBA, PERFECT
This year's NBA draft was different — and it wasn't just Victor Wembanyama NPR's Juana Summers talks with Rafael Barlowe, the director of scouting for the NBA Big Board newsletter and host of their podcast, about the NBA draft and how it has changed over the
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INDIA, MODI, CHAPTER, CONGRESS
U.S. President Joe Biden India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi toast during a state dinner at the White House in Washington, DC on Thursday, June 22, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images
U.S.-India relations entered a new chapter as Prime Minister Narendra
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TRUMP, TRIAL, COUNSEL, SPECIAL
Special counsel Jack Smith has asked the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's classified documents case to delay the start of his criminal trial until December.
The request came in a series of new motions filed late Friday by the special counsel.
U.S.
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TRUMP, CHRISTIE, BOOED, CONSERVATIVE
Former Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was booed at a conference in Washington, D.C., after criticizing the leadership of former President Donald Trump.
"I'm running because he's let us down," Christie said to a crowd at the Faith & Freedom Coalition
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TERRIFIED, AUNT, TITAN, TRIP
The 19-year-old passenger who died aboard the imploded submersible was “terrified” about taking the ill-fated trip to the Titanic – but decided to go along to please his dad, who was “absolutely obsessed” with the famed shipwreck, his aunt said.
Pakistani
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BORDER, SOUTHERN, UNVEIL, DESANTIS
Our southwest border is in crisis, and the Biden Administration’s answer isn’t to start enforcing the law, it is to swap out personnel – specifically, by accepting the retirement of the Border Patrol chief, so he could be replaced with a new chief. But changing
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