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Family members and local activists hold a rally for Tyre Nichols at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn., on Jan. 16, 2023.

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TYRE NICHOLS

Memphis police’s vaunted Scorpion unit under scrutiny after Tyre Nichols’ killing

Image: Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., leaves a House GOP conference meeting on Capitol Hill on Jan. 25, 2023.

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SANTOS SCANDAL

Selfies, karaoke and Chick-fil-A: Rep. George Santos is reveling in the spotlight despite investigations

Deer Park city employees clear debris after a powerful storm system swept through the area

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EXTREME WEATHER

Tornado Alley is creeping into new territory

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Corporations

Former Fox News employee sues network, alleging Roger Ailes sexually abused her

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Culture Matters

TikTok's 'scar girl' doesn't care if you think her scar is real or fake

U.S. news

Photo collage: Aerial shot of Diamond Ranch Academy in Utah, images of Taylor Goodridge, and her funeral above an image of the school.

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EXCLUSIVE

Boarding school ignored teen's sickness complaints before she died, ex-staff say

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U.S. news

Remains found in Oklahoma identified as missing 4-year-old girl

Chunli Zhao being arrested on Monday in the parking lot of the Sheriff’s Office Half Moon Bay as a suspect for the mass shooting earlier that day.

Guns in America

Five Chinese citizens were killed in Half Moon Bay shooting

Images: A bear was captured posing for selfies on a remote camera in November, according to rangers with Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks.

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Caught on camera

Colorado bear takes hundreds of 'selfies' on wildlife camera trap

U.S. news

North Carolina couple accused of performing 'exorcism' on child, 4, who died

U.S. news

Woman found in a canvas sack in 1971 ID’d through community-funded DNA testing

U.S. news

Elderly couple found dead in Death Valley National Park in apparent murder-suicide

Politics

Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office on Jan. 7, 2009.

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Politics News

National Archives asks former presidents and vice presidents to check for classified documents

Elon Musk departs court in San Francisco on Jan. 24, 2023.

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Congress

Elon Musk meets with House leaders on Capitol Hill

Sen. John Cornyn speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing

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Guns in America

Key Republican says new gun legislation is unlikely despite California shootings

President Joe Biden at the White House in on Jan. 20, 2023.

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White House

Biden bashes 'MAGA economic plan' in speech targeting House Republicans

Former Department Of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.

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Politics News

Elaine Chao issues rare rebuke of Trump over his racist attacks on her

Politics News

Arizona’s GOP legislators vote to shield themselves from public records laws

Supreme Court

Kavanaugh touts 'great relations' among justices on divided Supreme Court

OUT Politics and Policy

Less than 10% of 2022’s anti-LGBTQ state bills became law, report finds

World

U.S. Army Abrams tanks of the 2nd Brigade 69th Regiment 2nd Battalion at the Mockava railway station in Lithuania on Sept. 5, 2020.

Petras Malukas / AFP via Getty Images file

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Ukraine has been promised dozens of tanks to fight Russia. Now what?

Bones believed to be from British soldiers who fought in the battle of Waterloo.

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World

'I have Prussians in my attic': Surprise revelation leads to rare Battle of Waterloo discovery

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Lviv on Jan. 11, 2023.

Presidential Office of Ukraine / DPA / AP

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

As war with Russia rages, Ukraine's government confronts an old enemy: Corruption

ISIS Terror

U.S. military raid in northern Somalia kills a senior ISIS leader and 10 ISIS fighters

World

Afghan malnutrition rates at record high, U.N. food agency says

ISIS Terror

U.S. military raid in northern Somalia kills a senior ISIS leader and 10 ISIS fighters

World

Afghan malnutrition rates at record high, U.N. food agency says

Health news

A Clinic Administers Fourth Doses Of Covid-19 Vaccine Booster

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Coronavirus

FDA advisers raise doubts about moving to yearly Covid boosters

Marlaina Dreher, Brandon Dreher

David Goldman / AP file

Health news

Autism rates have tripled. Is it more common or are we just better at diagnosis?

FILE- An official of the Hygienic and Anti-epidemic Center in Phyongchon District disinfect the corridor of a building in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Feb. 5, 2021. The Korean Central News Agency said Thursday, May 12, 2022, tests from an unspecified number of people in the capital Pyongyang confirmed that they were infected with the omicron variant.

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Coronavirus

North Korea locks down capital city over ‘respiratory illness’

Coronavirus

Updated Covid boosters cut the infection risk from XBB.1.5 subvariant by nearly half, CDC finds

Politics News

FDA official overseeing food policy and response resigns in wake of baby formula shortage

Coronavirus

Updated Covid boosters cut the infection risk from XBB.1.5 subvariant by nearly half, CDC finds

Politics News

FDA official overseeing food policy and response resigns in wake of baby formula shortage

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Jessie Lemonier #58 of the Los Angeles Chargers looks on in the first quarter during the NFL preseason game against the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field on Aug. 28, 2021 in Seattle.

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U.S. news

Former NFL player Jessie Lemonier dies at 25

Told through the lens of Nikole Hannah-Jones’ personal story, historical events and the modern fights for voting rights, the first episode of The 1619 Project “Democracy” explores Black America’s centuries-long fight to democratize America and to hold the country to its founding ideals.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones makes a case for reparations with ‘The 1619 Project’ series

Jeremy Renner attends the "Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation!" premiere, in New York

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snowplow Accident

Jeremy Renner was trying to stop snowplow from hitting nephew when he was crushed, officials say

Internet

Hulu cuts ties with 'Rick and Morty' co-creator Justin Roiland after domestic violence charges

Culture Matters

Biden administration proposes to let people choose Hispanic or Latino as a race

Internet

Hulu cuts ties with 'Rick and Morty' co-creator Justin Roiland after domestic violence charges

Culture Matters

Biden administration proposes to let people choose Hispanic or Latino as a race

Science news

NASA's estimated trajectory of asteroid 2023 BU, in red, and the orbit of geosynchronous satellites, in green.

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Space

Asteroid coming exceedingly close to Earth but will miss

Deer Park city employees clear debris after a powerful storm system swept through the area

Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle via AP

Science News

Tornado Alley is creeping into new territory

The SpaceX Starship Full Wet Dress on Jan. 23, 2023 in Texas.

Space

SpaceX completes Starship test in prep for rocket’s first orbital launch attempt

Climate in Crisis

Scientists set Doomsday Clock closer to midnight than ever before

World

Scans reveal secrets of Egypt's mummified 'golden boy,' buried for 2,300 years

Climate in Crisis

Scientists set Doomsday Clock closer to midnight than ever before

World

Scans reveal secrets of Egypt's mummified 'golden boy,' buried for 2,300 years

Business, Tech & Media

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Security

TikTok tries to sell 'Project Texas' as it fights for survival in the U.S.

Roger Ailes

Jim Cooper / AP file

Corporations

Former Fox News employee sues network, alleging Roger Ailes sexually abused her

Elon Musk departs court in San Francisco on Jan. 24, 2023.

Marlena Sloss / Bloomberg via Getty Images file

Congress

Elon Musk meets with House leaders on Capitol Hill

Consumer

Fireball whisky-maker accused of false advertising on miniature drink bottles

Business News

Most Americans just aren't into their jobs, new Gallup data shows

Consumer

Fireball whisky-maker accused of false advertising on miniature drink bottles

Business News

Most Americans just aren't into their jobs, new Gallup data shows

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