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#FBI #ElectionIntegrity #2020Election
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The FBI seizure of Georgia 2020 election ballots relies on debunked claims
ATLANTA -- An FBI investigation of the 2020 election in Georgia's Fulton County was initiated by a lawyer working for the Trump administration who also aided President Trump's efforts to try to overturn that election years ago, according to an affidavit unsealed Tuesday.
#Immigration #HomelandSecurity #Congress
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Top 5 takeaways from the House immigration oversight hearing
Left to right, Rodney Scott, commissioner of U. S. Customs and Border Protection, Joseph Edlow, director of U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Todd Lyons, acting director of U.
#Pakistan #Afghanistan #BorderClosure
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Pakistan-Afghanistan border closures paralyze trade along a key route
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- For more than three months, Afghan truck driver Anwar Zadran has been parked in Pakistan with a truck full of cement he was supposed to transport from a factory in Nowshera district to Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.
#OzoneLayer #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalScience
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The ozone layer is still healing...thanks to science : Short Wave
ANNOUNCER: You're listening to Short Wave. From NPR.
EMILY KWONG: Hey, Short Wavers Emily Kwong here with a love letter to the layer of the Earth's atmosphere that acts like a sunscreen.
#ParkinsonsDisease #BrainHealth #Neuroscience
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This complex brain network may explain many of Parkinson's stranger symptoms
The SCAN network, which links movement and thinking, appears to be a key brain area affected in Parkinson's disease.
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Parkinson's disease does more than cause tremor and trouble walking.
#Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #Justice
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Ghislaine Maxwell appeals for clemency from Trump as she declines to answer questions
WASHINGTON -- Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, declined to answer questions from House lawmakers in a deposition Monday, but indicated that if President Donald Trump ended her prison sentence, she was willing to testify that neither he nor former President Bill Clinton had done anything wrong in their connections with Epstein.
#TradeRelations #Infrastructure #CanadaUSRelations
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Trump is threatening to block a new bridge between Detroit and Canada from opening
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to block the opening of a new Canadian-built bridge across the Detroit River, demanding that Canada turn over at least half of the ownership of the bridge and agree to other unspecified demands in his latest salvo over cross-border trade issues.
#LindseyVonn #Skiing #Olympics
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Lindsey Vonn says she suffered 'complex tibia fracture' in her Olympic downhill crash
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- The 41-year-old Team USA star Lindsey Vonn suffered a "complex tibia fracture" when she crashed in the Olympic downhill race on Sunday, the skier said on Instagram in her first public statement since the race.
#ElectionIntegrity #Trump #Midterms
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'If You Can Keep It': Election Integrity And The Upcoming Midterms : 1A
U. S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters and members of the media at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Al Drago/Getty Images hide caption
We're just a few weeks out from the very first state primary elections of the year.
#antibiotics #medicine #science
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A new way to fight antibiotic resistance : Short Wave
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In 1928, a chance contaminant in Scottish physician Alexander Fleming's lab experiment led to a discovery that would change the field of medicine forever: penicillin.
#News #CurrentEvents #SocialJustice
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The latest on the search for Nancy Guthrie. And, takeaways from Super Bowl 60
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#BadBunny #SuperBowl #PuertoRico
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Puerto Rico stops for 13 minutes to applaud history and bask in Bad Bunny's glow
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The Super Bowl lasted all of 13 minutes for many Puerto Ricans in San Juan and beyond.
People turned their backs to TV screens as food, music and chatter filled the first half of the game until a hush fell across the island.
#HongKong #PressFreedom #Democracy
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China critic and former media tycoon Jimmy Lai is sentenced to 20 years in a Hong Kong security case
HONG KONG -- Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city's dissent.
#MeaslesOutbreak #PublicHealth #VaccinationAwareness
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March for Life attendees may have been exposed to measles, DC Health warns
Thousands of people attend the annual March for Life rally on Jan. 23 in Washington, D. C. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption
Health officials are warning that confirmed cases of measles may have spread at this year's National March for Life rally and concert in Washington, D.
#TransgenderRights #GenderAffirmingCare #LGBTQ+
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Trump administration lauds plastic surgeons' statement on trans surgery for minors
Transgender rights supporters rallied at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Washington, DC, after the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors in June 2025.
#Wastewater #EnvironmentalImpact #PotomacRiver
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What we know about the massive sewage leak in the Potomac River
A massive pipe leak has surged 243 million gallons of wastewater into the Potomac river. Cliff Owen/AP hide caption
It could now take months to repair a broken sewer pipe that pumped millions of gallons of wastewater into the Potomac River about 8 miles from the White House.
#Immigration #ICE #HumanRights
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Immigrant whose skull was broken in 8 places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
MINNEAPOLIS -- Alberto Casta帽eda Mondrag贸n says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.
#Minneapolis #ICE #CivilRights
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The biggest threat to Trump? Ordinary people. : It's Been a Minute
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Adam, many of us across the country are seeing what's happening in Minneapolis through cellphone footage and clips filmed by, you know, everyday Americans walking around in the street.
#BlackHistoryMonth #Racism #Trump
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Trump posts racist meme of the Obamas - then deletes it
In the first week of Black History Month, President Trump posted a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on social media - a video clip showing the Obamas' faces on apes.
#Trump #CivilService #Politics
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It's about to get easier for Trump to fire federal workers
President Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One on Jan. 13. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
In October 2020, President Trump unveiled a plan to grant himself the power to fire vast numbers of civil servants for any reason should they get in the way of his agenda.
#Pakistan #Terrorism #Violence
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Suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque on Islamabad's outskirts kills at least 31
ISLAMABAD -- A suicide bomber targeted a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad during Friday prayers, killing 31 people and wounding at least 169 others, officials said, a rare bombing in Pakistan's capital as its Western-allied government struggles to rein in a surge in militant attacks across the country.
#Immigration #ICEraids #HumanRights
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Court records: Chicago immigration raid was about squatters, not Venezuelan gangs
Newly revealed arrest records show that a high-profile immigration raid on a South Shore Chicago apartment building last year that became a symbol of President Trump's harsh immigration tactics actually targeted squatters, not Venezuelan gang members.
#Iran #USRelations #NuclearNegotiations
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Iran and US set for talks in Oman over nuclear program after Tehran shaken by nationwide protests
FILE - This combo shows Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, pictured in Tehran, Iran, on Feb. 25, 2025 and Steve Witkoff, right, White House special envoy, pictured in Washington, on March 19, 2025.
