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California first to cover health care for all immigrants
California on Thursday became the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants living in the country illegally, a move that will provide coverage for an additional 764,000 people at an eventual cost of about $2.7 billion a year.
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Jordan Peterson suspended from Twitter, says it might as well be a ban: 'I won’t apologize'
'If I can’t be let back on because I won’t apologize, I could care less,' Peterson said, after his suspension over a tweet about Elliot Page
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Police used a reverse keyword Google search to find an accused killer. He says that's illegal.
Privacy advocates are watching the case closely, concerned that police could use reverse keyword searches to investigate people who seek information about abortions.
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Jackson sworn in, becomes 1st Black woman on Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in to the Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court.
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Logan Paul swaps boxing for WWE as he's snapped signing official contract
Youtuber Logan Paul has signed with the WWE after appearing to swap boxing for proffesional wrestling just months after he competed at Wrestlemania for the company
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George Washington University Rejects Students’ Petition To Fire Clarence Thomas
The George Washington University will not dismiss Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from his adjunct teaching position despite a call from GW students that the Supreme Court justice be dismissed because of his concurring opinion in last week’s Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Biden says he'd support eliminating filibuster to codify Roe and right to privacy
The president blasted the Supreme Court's decision as "outrageous" and "destabilizing."
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Hilarie Burton shares powerful story of having abortion after pregnancy loss
Hilarie Burton opened up about her own abortion experience following the reversal of Roe v. Wade, becoming the latest Hollywood star to condemn the Supreme Court's ruling. The One Tree Hill star recounted the "painful" experience after she suffered a miscarriage, sharing in an Instagram post Tuesday that the decision allowed her to carry the future pregnancy of her daughter George Virginia, 4, whom she shares with husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The two are also parents to son Augustus, 12.
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Supreme Court says EPA does not have authority to set climate standards for power plants
The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to set standards on climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions for existing power plants. In its 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court said that Congress, not the EPA has that power.
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After DJ Layoffs, a Radio Station Has Been Playing Rage Against the Machine Over and Over and Over
Vancouver’s KISS-FM has “Killing in the Name” on repeat after radio hosts were laid off on Tuesday
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Amazon is limiting purchases of Plan B 'morning-after' pills to 3 units a week amid a spike in demand after the overturn of Roe v Wade
Amazon says it's temporarily capping purchases of emergency contraceptives to 3 units per week, joining other retailers that have seen a demand spike.
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FTC sues Walmart for allegedly allowing money transfer services for fraud
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday it sued Walmart, alleging the company had allowed scam artists to use its money transfer services for fraud that cost consumers “hundreds of millions of dollars.”
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FCC Commissioner urges Google and Apple to ban TikTok
"TikTok is not just another video app. That's the sheep’s clothing." That's what Brendan Carr wrote in his tweet along with a copy of the letter he sent Apple and Google, asking the companies to remove TikTok from their app stores. The agency's senior Republican commissioner references a recent BuzzFeed News report that examined leaked audio from 80 internal TikTok meetings. Based on those leaked audio recordings, China-based employees of TikTok parent company ByteDance had repeatedly accessed private information on users in the US.
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R. Kelly sentenced to 30 years in sex trafficking case
Disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for using his fame to sexually abuse young fans, including some who were just children, in a systematic scheme that went on for decades.
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Margaret Keane, Sad-Eyed Waifs Artist, Dead at 94
Artist Margaret Keane, famous for her “Big Eyes” paintings, died at the age of 94 due to heart failure, according to the New York Times. Born Peggy Doris Hawkins, Keane grew up unable to hear properly, causing her to focus on people’s eyes. In college, she worked with oil and acrylic paints, experimented with kitsch-style art, and painted big eyes in her schoolbooks.
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Ghislaine Maxwell sentencing: Jeffrey Epstein's former partner sentenced to 20 years in prison over sexual abuse of young girls
Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years in prison with five years of supervised release following her conviction on five counts of sex trafficking.
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Abandoning God: Christianity plummets as ‘non-religious’ surges in census
Australia has become strikingly more godless over the past decade, with the latest census data showing the proportion of self-identified Christians dropping below 50 per cent for the first time and a soaring number of people describing themselves as “non-religious”.
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West Texas farmers and ranchers fear the worst as drought, heat near 2011 records
Lloyd Arthur can run his hand through the soil at his cotton farm and know what kind of year he’s going to have. His dry, cracked field is making him think this could be a repeat of one of the state’s worst years. “We can’t outfox what Mother Nature sends us,” said Arthur, whose farm is about 30 miles outside of Lubbock. “2022 has been one for the record books.
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A Heat Wave Derailed a Train Outside San Francisco
The tracks of the BART train hit 140 degrees Fahrenheit, causing them to curve, according to the agency.
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Streaming bill C-11 heads to the Canadian Senate for approval
Bill C11, the so-called online streaming bill, passed its third reading in the House of Commons, and is now headed to the Senate for approval.
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