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What today's Fed rate hike means for you
The Federal Reserve is stepping up its war on inflation. That means borrowing costs are going sharply higher for families and businesses.
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Babies will continue to die during sleep despite new regulations on sleep products, child advocates fear
Store shelves holding baby products designed to help parents ease babies into sleep may be barren this week, due to new US Consumer Product Safety Commission regulations that went into effect on June 23.
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Between Christmas and New Year's, doctors expect the US Omicron surge to grow
Covid-19 numbers keep soaring as Christmastime travelers scatter back across country and Americans prepare for another holiday weekend.
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Biden to announce new steps to close racial wealth gap while marking 100th anniversary of Tulsa Race Massacre
President Joe Biden will visit Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Tuesday to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre and announce new actions his administration will take to reduce the racial wealth gap as he commemorates one of the worst acts of racial violence in US history.
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Bill Barr was right about this
In the spring of 2020, when there was still time for President Donald Trump to shift the focus of his re-election campaign, his attorney general, William Barr, reportedly offered the candidate sound (if expletive-laden) advice on the power and predilections of moderate suburban voters.
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First Alzheimer’s drug to slow disease progression expected to get full FDA approval
The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to decide on Thursday whether to grant traditional approval to the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, the first medicine proven to slow the course of the memory-robbing disease.
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Megalosaurus, the first ever dinosaur discovery
Huge fossilized bones that emerged from slate quarries in England’s Oxfordshire beginning in the late 1600s were immediately puzzling.
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Top House Republicans call on Biden to increase military support for Ukraine
Two leading House Republicans have called on President Joe Biden to increase military support to Ukraine in its defense against Russia's invasion and reiterated support on both sides of the aisle for continuing to fund the Ukrainian war effort.
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Fact check: Trump makes new false claim to support old false claim that he won Georgia in 2020
Former President Donald Trump keeps telling the lie that he won Georgia in the 2020 election. This weekend, he delivered a new false claim in support of that old false claim. Trump’s deception about what happened in Georgia has not relented even as he prepares to turn himself in this week to face charges in Fulton County over his efforts to overturn his 2020 defeat to Joe Biden. On Saturday, he posted on social media that despite having won Georgia in 2016, doing a “fantastic job” as president and earning millions more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016 and more votes than a sitting president had ever received before, he had “shockingly, ‘LOST’ Georgia” – putting lost in quotation marks.
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Fact check: Trump makes new false claim to support old false claim that he won Georgia in 2020
Former President Donald Trump keeps telling the lie that he won Georgia in the 2020 election. This weekend, he delivered a new false claim in support of that old false claim.
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Mark Thompson named CNN chief executive and chairman at critical juncture in news network’s history
Mark Thompson, the former chief executive of The New York Times and director-general of the BBC, will be the next leader of CNN, the network announced Wednesday, taking the reins of the renowned global news organization at one of the most pivotal times in its 43-year history.
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FDA approves antibody to protect infants from RSV
This fall, parents and pediatricians will have a new option to protect babies from a lung-attacking virus that is the leading cause of hospitalization in infants under a year old in the United States every year.
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How to sleep in a heat wave, according to experts
Are you waking up in a puddle of sweat — if you can sleep at all? That’s the grim reality for millions of people around the globe suffering through severe, unbearable heat waves.
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Inflation cooled last month; some price hikes continue to cause pain
Price hikes eased off less than expected in January but still offered a hint of relief for Americans who have suffered through some of the steepest price hikes in four decades.
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Ozempic/Mounjaro/hundreds of other drugs more expensive in 2024
Some Americans may have to shell out more this year for Ozempic and Mounjaro, two wildly popular diabetes medications also used for weight loss.
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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Awards to Increase Access to Clean, Affordable Domestic Biofuels as Part of President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda
$19 Million in Funding from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act Will Provide More Cost-Effective Options for American Consumers
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that USDA is awarding $19 million in grants to U.S. business owners to increase the availability of domestic biofuels in 22 states and give Americans cleaner, more affordable fuel options at gas station pumps as part of President Biden’s Bidenomics agenda to lower costs and invest in America.
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Woman buys vintage dress at antique store - it had secret pocket with mysterious note
The Victorian dress in the Maine antique mall was unlike anything Sara Rivers Cofield had seen before.
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How Will 2024 Elections Affect Diaspora?
With 2024 being the biggest election year in history, the role of diaspora is more crucial than ever.
With 2024 being the biggest election year in history — as over 70 countries with over four billion people send citizens to the polls — the role of diaspora is more crucial than ever.
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‘I knew I could be killed’: This cash van guard is just one of South Africa’s crime wave victims
For South Africans, normality is a sliding scale. Record electricity blackouts and sustained water outages have crushed businesses, and caused havoc in hospitals and schools nationwide. It’s common to see car-sized potholes in the suburbs of Johannesburg as workmen weld burst pipes. Traffic light outages are a daily occurrence.
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'13 Reasons Why' Tied to Rise In Suicide Searches Online
When it comes to the hit Netflix series "13 Reasons Why," many viewers find themselves on either side of a controversial debate.
