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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Made A Llively Appearance On Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz made a lively appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, joining the late-night host for a candid and wide-ranging interview.

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FEMA official responds to Trump's false claims about Hurricane Helene response

FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell has officially responded to former President Donald Trump’s false claims regarding the federal response to **Hurricane Helene** in North Carolina.

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Amazon Prime Big Deal Days Return

Amazon’s **Prime Big Deal Days** is back for a 48-hour shopping extravaganza from **October 8-9, 2024**, offering exclusive discounts to Prime members.

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Supreme Court declines to hear First Amendment challenges in gun display and Confederate statue protest cases

The Supreme Court declined to hear several First Amendment appeals on Monday, ditching a case that dealt with a requirement that gun dealers in Maryland display suicide prevention literature and another case regarding anti-Confederate war monument protesters who were arrested for blocking a street.

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Supreme Court won’t let Biden administration force Texas hospitals to provide emergency abortion care

The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a court order blocking the Biden administration from enforcing in Texas its policy of requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortion care or risk losing federal funding.

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Supreme Court boots Elon Musk’s fight with Jack Smith over Trump’s Twitter records

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Elon Musk’s X Corp. claiming special counsel Jack Smith violated the First Amendment when he obtained a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s messages on Twitter and then barred the company from disclosing it.

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Supreme Court rejects R. Kelly’s appeal of federal sex crimes conviction

The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear an appeal from R. Kelly, who is currently serving a prison sentence for federal sex crime convictions.

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The Menendez brothers get their say in a new Netflix documentary.

Lyle and Erik Menendez weren’t happy with a recent Netflix project about their lives, but another title from the streamer is giving them an opportunity to have their say. In “The Menendez Brothers,” a new documentary, the two men speak in extended interviews about what happened in the 1989 murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, inside the family’s Beverly Hills mansion.

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Former HPD Officer Gerald Goines Sentenced to 60 Years in Prison for Murder

Houston grapples with the impact of a rogue officer and the fight for justice

In a historic verdict that has left the city of Houston reeling, former Houston Police Department (HPD) narcotics officer Gerald Goines has been sentenced to 60 years in prison. His conviction follows his role in the notorious 2019 no-knock raid that resulted in the deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas—an operation that has since become a tragic symbol of police misconduct.

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FDA antidepressant warnings of suicide risk among kids may have the opposite effect, study finds

The US Food and Drug Administration has warned that antidepressants may be linked with suicidal thoughts and behaviors among youth since 2003, leading to a black box warning for minors in 2005 and an expansion to young adults in 2007.

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What this high school senior wants adults to know about classroom phone bans

When my friends and I walked into homeroom on the first day of school this year, my teacher told all of us to put our phones in a black plastic box on an old desk by the classroom door.

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Baby Boomers are living longer than previous generations but have worse health, study finds

Baby Boomers may be expected to live longer than their predecessors, but a recent study has found that they are more likely to suffer from worse health than previous generations.

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Certain arm positions commonly used for blood pressure checks may lead to inaccurate results. Here’s the right way to do it

A new study found that having your arm in the wrong position during blood pressure checks — either at home or the doctor’s office — can result in readings “markedly higher” than when your arm is in the recommended position: appropriately supported on a table with the middle of the cuff positioned at heart level.

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TikTok sued by 14 states over alleged harm to children’s mental health

A bipartisan group of 14 attorneys general from across the country filed lawsuits on Tuesday against TikTok, alleging that the platform has “addicted” young people and harmed their mental health.

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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to two American biologists for work on the discovery of microRNA

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on the discovery of microRNA, a molecule that governs how cells in the body function.

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Cissy Houston, Grammy-winning singer and mother of Whitney Houston, dead at 91

Cissy Houston, Grammy-winning singer and mother of Whitney Houston, has died, according to Gwendolyn Quinn, a representative for The Estate of Whitney E. Houston. She was 91.

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Sally Field shares harrowing story about abortion in Mexico as a teenager: ‘We can’t go back’

Oscar-winning actor Sally Field has opened up about a “life-altering” abortion she had as a teenager, aiming to highlight the issue of reproductive rights.

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Mexican mayor killed less than a week after taking office

The mayor of a crime-ridden city in Mexico has been killed less than a week after taking office, the latest in a string of violent attacks targeting politicians in the country.

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5 takeaways from Kamala Harris’ one-on-one interview with ‘60 Minutes’

Vice President Kamala Harris faced tough questions about how she’d pay for her economic plans, whether Democrats were too slow to enact border security measures, how she’d confront Russia over its war in Ukraine and more in a wide-ranging “60 Minutes” interview that aired Monday.

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Republicans are challenging all aspects of mail-in voting in battleground states

After mail-in and absentee voting reached new levels in the 2020 election during the Covid-19 pandemic, a wave of lawsuits over the popular vote-casting methods this year is laying the groundwork for potential challenges to the outcome of the November presidential election.