WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to shield his White House files from being turned over to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 …
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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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12/23/21
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TEHRAN, Iran — For four days in early December, Iran’s top university ground to a halt. Web-conferencing software for COVID-constrained classes didn’t work. Faculty and students …
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Omid Khazani and Nabih Bulos / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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12/23/21
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KODIAK ISLAND, Alaska — Forces profound and alarming are reshaping the upper reaches of the North Pacific and Arctic oceans, breaking the food chain that supports billions of creatures and one …
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Susanne Rust / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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12/23/21
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Bible quote painted in the hall of one North Carolina law enforcement agency has ignited a very public spat between a Christian county sheriff and the national Freedom from …
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Mark Price / The Charlotte Observer (TNS)
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12/22/21
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DETROIT — When Jennifer Crumbley texted her son "Don't do it" on the day of the deadly Oxford High School shooting, she was reaching out to tell him not to kill himself, according to a new …
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Tresa Baldas and Christine MacDonald / Detroit Free Press / (TNS)
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12/22/21
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AUSTIN, Texas — In an interview with a teenager, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz expressed interest in another presidential run.
The Texas Republican told Brilyn Hollyand — a 15-year-old from …
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Nate Chute / Austin American-Statesman (TNS)
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12/22/21
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The GOP has a message for Sen. Joe Manchin: Join our team.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Wednesday took a shot at wooing Manchin into switching parties after his ugly blowup …
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Dave Goldiner / New York Daily News (TNS)
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12/22/21
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The omicron variant of COVID-19 may be less likely to land patients in the hospital than the delta strain, according to a trio of studies of preliminary data.
Researchers in Scotland suggest …
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Naomi Kresge / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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12/22/21
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LOS ANGELES — A highly influential COVID-19 forecast is projecting that the omicron surge may result in as many as 400,000 new coronavirus cases a day across the nation — significantly …
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Rong-Gong Lin II and Luke Money / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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12/22/21
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California Public Employees' Retirement System audit says three police chiefs and a police commander in a small community just outside of San Francisco defrauded the …
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Randy Diamond / The Sacramento Bee (TNS)
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12/22/21
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has lifted some restrictions on vaccinated travelers and reopened its land borders, but limited operations at U.S. consulates abroad continue to keep visa …
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Suzanne Monyak / CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
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12/22/21
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City and state officials across the U.S. have pledged to avoid the COVID-19 shutdowns that caused an economic upheaval in the first year of the pandemic. But a surge of cases and the spread of the …
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Stacie Sherman / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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12/22/21
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Russia welcomed U.S. willingness to start talks next month on its security proposals, a day after President Vladimir Putin threatened a military response if the Kremlin’s demands aren’t …
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Ilya Arkhipov and Andrey Biryukov / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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12/22/21
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Some of the people confined to their homes while awaiting trial on charges tied to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump have been freed to travel for the …
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Erik Larson / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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12/21/21
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has issued dozens of denials to Afghans seeking safety in the United States through a fast-track for legal entry called humanitarian parole.
The …
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Andrea Castillo / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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12/21/21
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Anthony Fauci is calling on Fox News to fire host Jesse Watters after the Philadelphia native told a crowd of conservatives to ambush Fauci in public and send the footage to his network.
"The …
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Rob Tornoe / The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
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12/21/21
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Mince pies. Latkes. Eggnog. Tamales. As extended families the world over plan holiday celebrations again, they’re encountering a harsh reality: Traditional foods, especially those sold for a …
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Bloomberg News (TNS)
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12/21/21
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The omicron variant accounted for 73% of all sequenced Covid-19 cases in the U.S., surging from around 3% last week, according to the latest federal estimates.
The highly mutated coronavirus …
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Timothy Annett / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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12/20/21
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The last 12 Christian missionaries kidnapped in Haiti and held in captivity for two months found their freedom by escaping, according to their charity group, Christian Aid Ministries, and several …
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Jacqueline Charles / Miami Herald (TNS)
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12/20/21
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Although the unvaccinated remain most at risk for COVID with two variants in the state, the vaccinated Florida population clearly isn’t in the clear.
About 30% …
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Cindy Krischer Goodman / South Florida Sun-Sentinel (TNS)
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12/19/21
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