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Democrats hope abortion issue will offset doubts about Biden in Michigan
LANSING, Mich. — LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two women campaigning for President Joe Biden after facing medical emergencies because of ...
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Twyla Tharp dance will open 700-seat amphitheater at New York’s Little Island park in June
NEW YORK — The 700-seat amphitheater at Little Island, a park in Manhattan built above the Hudson River on a ...
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Marijuana backers eye proposed federal regulatory change as an aid to legalizing pot in more states
As the U.S. government moves toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, there may be little immediate impact in ...
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Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 politicians, activists, athletes and others
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 19 people on Friday, including civil rights icons ...
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Harvey Weinstein to return to court Wednesday after his NY rape conviction was overturned
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein is due back in a New York courtroom Wednesday for his ...
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Chinese scientist who first published COVID sequence protests after being locked out of his lab
SHANGHAI — The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest ...
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The Taliban are working to woo tourists to Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Around 30 men are crammed into a Kabul classroom, part of the debut ...
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Nicole Kidman, who ‘makes movies better,’ gets AFI Life Achievement Award
LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Morgan Freeman spoke the words, but pretty much everyone who took the stage ...
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Pope visits Venice to speak to artists and inmates and finds a city taxing day-trippers like him
VENICE, Italy — Venice has always been a place of contrasts, of breathtaking beauty and devastating fragility, where history, religion, ...
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Biden officials indefinitely postpone ban on menthol cigarettes amid election-year pushback
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration is indefinitely delaying a long-awaited menthol cigarette ban, a decision that infuriated anti-smoking advocates ...