Friday, March 29, 2024

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Italy Takes Action Against TikTok Following Girl’s Death

MILAN (AP) — Italy’s data protection authority said Friday it was imposing an immediate block on TikTok’s access to data for any user whose age has not been verified. The author...

Dominion Sues Giuliani For $1.3 Billion Over Election Fraud Claim

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit on Monday against Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who led the former president's efforts to sprea...

Growing Number Of GOP Senators Oppose Impeachment Trial

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A growing number of Republican senators say they oppose holding an impeachment trial, a sign of the dimming chances that former President Donald Trump will be con...

Biden To Drop Trump’s Military Transgender Ban

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to issue an executive order to reverse a Pentagon policy that largely bars transgender individuals from joining the military, dumping a...

Source: Sarah Sanders Running For Arkansas Governor

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP/VINnews) — Sarah Sanders, Donald Trump’s former chief spokeswoman and one of his closest aides, is running for Arkansas governor, a source told The Associated...

California Lawyer Under Fire After Calling For Genocide Of Jews On Social Media

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CALIFORNIA (JNS) — A California lawyer has come under fire from Jewish groups for making genocidal claims against Jews on social media. In past Twitter posts, the lawyer, Farhad...

Biden To Reinstate COVID Travel Rules, Add South Africa

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday will formally reinstate COVID-19 travel restrictions on non-U.S. travelers from Brazil, Ireland, the United Kingdom and 26 other Eur...

US Police Weigh Officer Discipline After Rally, Capitol Riot

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SEATTLE (AP) — For two Virginia police officers who posed for a photo during the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection, the reckoning has been swift and public: They were identified, ch...

Britain’s Boris Johnson Presses Biden For New Trade Deal

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WASHINGTON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made clear to President Joe Biden on Saturday that he's eager to forge a new U.S.-U.K. trade deal. The push for a new deal...

States Eye Allowing Concealed Carry Of Guns Without A Permit

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican lawmakers in several more states want to loosen gun restrictions by allowing people to carry concealed firearms without having to get a permit, con...

Ex-CIA Engineer Tells Judge He’s Incarcerated Like An Animal

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NEW YORK (AP) — A former CIA software engineer charged with leaking government secrets to WikiLeaks says it's cruel and unusual punishment that he's awaiting trial in solitary conf...

Kremlin: US Comments On Protests Support Law-Breaking

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MOSCOW (AP) — The spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin says the U.S. Embassy’s statements about the nationwide protests, in which more than 3,500 people reportedly were a...

Why Biden’s Immigration Plan May Be Risky For Democrats

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is confronting the political risk that comes with grand ambition. As one of his first acts, Biden offered a sweeping immigration overhaul l...

Watch: Person Injured After Police Car Drives Through Crowd At Race

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TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — At least one person was injured after a police car plowed through a crowd of pedestrians Saturday night who were watching a downtown street race, the Tacoma Ne...

Amazon Fighting Against Mail Ballots For Workers Union, Claiming They ‘Raise Risk Of Fraud’

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — During the months leading up to the November elections, former president Donald Trump claimed numerous times that mail-in ballots could increase the risk of fr...

Biden Switches Tune Straight After Election: ‘Nothing We Can Do To Change Trajectory Of Pandemic’

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — Joe Biden insisted repeatedly during his campaign that he had a definitive plan on how to combat COVID-19 as opposed to President Trump's policies on the pande...

Bernie Sanders Had His Most Viral Week Ever

WASHINGTON (JTA) - Bernie Sanders was everywhere on James Corden’s late-night show set on Thursday. Life-sized cardboard cutouts of the Jewish senator in his now famous inaugura...

Tom Brokaw Says He’s Retiring From NBC News After 55 Years

NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, once television news' most popular broadcaster as he told viewers about the biggest events of that late 20th Century, said Frid...

At 78 And The Oldest President, Biden Sees A World Changed

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WASHINGTON (AP) — When Joe Biden took the oath of office as the 46th president, he became not only the oldest newly inaugurated U.S. chief executive in history but also the oldest ...

From Presidents To Faded Stars, All Welcomed By Larry King

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NEW YORK (AP) — Larry King was easy to poke fun at, particularly late in his career at CNN: the pinched look, guffaws and coke-bottle glasses, the suspenders and old-time microphon...