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Vicente Fernández, the suave crooner who became known as El Rey, the king of Mexican ranchera music, performing traditional songs across Latin America and the United States with his operatic voice and sprawling mariachi group, died Dec. 12 at a hospital in Guadalajara, Mexico.

December 12, 2021

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Chris Wallace is leaving Fox News Channel, he announced on his program Sunday morning, a move that abruptly sunders the cable-news outlet’s connection with one of its most recognized and independent journalists. Wallace delivered the news himself, in the last minutes of his “Fox News Sunday,”

December 12, 2021

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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will meet Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan on Monday in the first official trip to the United Arab Emirates by an Israeli leader since the countries established diplomatic ties.

December 12, 2021

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Anne Rice, the Gothic novelist best known for her best-selling book “Interview With the Vampire,” died on Saturday. She was 80. Her son, Christopher Rice, wrote on social media that Ms. Rice died of “complications resulting from a stroke.”

December 12, 2021

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The number of people killed after a tornado destroyed part of an Amazon distribution center in Edwardsville, Illinois, on Friday night has risen to six, officials said Saturday. The National Weather Service confirmed an EF3 tornado touched down at the facility, causing the collapse of about 150 yards of the building, Edwardsville Fire Chief James Whiteford said

December 12, 2021

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NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” poked fun at unemployed brothers Andrew and Chris Cuomo as the show returned from a two-week hiatus with Billie Eilish doubling as host and musical guest. The show’s cold open spoofed a holiday message from Dr. Anthony Fauci, played by Kate Mckinnon.

December 12, 2021

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Angered by the U.S. Supreme Court decision to continue allowing private citizens to sue Texas abortion providers, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California on Saturday called for a similar law giving ordinary residents legal standing to file lawsuits against purveyors of restricted firearms. “SCOTUS is letting private citizens in Texas sue to stop abortion?!”

December 12, 2021

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A Washington DC woman was allegedly killed by an ex-con who began mercilessly stalking and beating her after serving two decades in prison for terrorizing the same woman before he was freed earlier this year because of a COVID-19 outbreak at the jail. Sylvia Matthews, 71, was found unconscious and with serious head injuries in her Southwest Washington home

December 12, 2021

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Long-running differences over how to deal with Iran’s nuclear program have erupted into new tensions between the Biden administration and Israel, with two senior Israeli officials leaving Washington this week concerned that the Americans’ commitment to restoring the 2015 nuclear deal

December 12, 2021

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When Spanish bishop Xavier Novell confessed to the Catholic Church hierarchy in Rome that he was “madly” in love with a divorced woman, officials told him he was possessed by Satan — and ordered him to undergo an immediate exorcism “to calm his troubled soul.”

December 12, 2021

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New York City’s SantaCon returned this year as hundreds took part in drunken debauchery after the booze-fueled festival was cancelled last year due to the pandemic.The event brought countless of maskless Santas, Grinches, reindeers and other holiday-themed characters to the Big Apple

December 12, 2021

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A retired U.S. Army colonel who circulated a proposal to challenge the 2020 election, including by declaring a national security emergency and seizing paper ballots, said that he visited the White House on multiple occasions after the election, spoke with President Donald Trump’s chief of staff “

December 12, 2021

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Alabama quarterback Bryce Young won the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night, becoming the first Crimson Tide signal-caller to capture the award and the second consecutive player to come from the SEC powerhouse.

December 12, 2021

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More than 70 people are feared dead after a catastrophic series of tornadoes ripped through Kentucky and other states late Friday and early Saturday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said.

December 11, 2021

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European leaders and scientists warned Friday that the omicron variant could become dominant in some countries startlingly soon, overtaking the delta variant, which has remained the most common version

December 11, 2021

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The police in Edwardsville, Ill., said there were at least two “confirmed fatalities” at an Amazon warehouse after a direct hit from a tornado caused a major portion of the building to collapse on Friday night,

December 11, 2021

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Manny Diaz was fired as Miami’s coach on Dec. 6, but it didn’t take long for him to find a new gig as Penn State announced Saturday that it has hired Diaz to be its new defensive coordinator. Diaz replaces Brent Pry, who left to become the new coach at Virginia Tech earlier this month.

December 11, 2021

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launched its third space tourism flight on Saturday morning. This flight holds six passengers, who include Good Morning America co-host Michael Strahan and Laura Shepard Churchley — the eldest daughter of Alan Shepard, who was the first American to fly to space.

December 11, 2021

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A Brooklyn court plans to arraign the son of a former Panamanian president on money-laundering charges on Saturday, the result of an extradition case that according to prosecutors featured a stealth getaway to the Bahamas, fake diplomatic credentials and a private jet idling on a tarmac in Guatemala.

December 11, 2021

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Reddit users are flooding the Kellogg Company’s job portal with fake applications after the company recently announced it will replace its striking union workers with new permanent employees. The spammers say they stand in solidarity with the strikers. In a Reddit post in the r/antiwork subreddit,

December 11, 2021

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Tornadoes have ripped through Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, causing mass destruction At least 70 people are thought to have been killed in Kentucky after tornadoes ripped across the South and Midwest of the US on Friday.

December 11, 2021

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Tim Cook has pushed Apple’s value within close range of $3 trillion, and a lot of that has to do with the former operations lead’s ability to manage a relationship with China , where many of its products are made and, increasingly, many of them are sold.

December 11, 2021

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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is scrutinizing a 38-page PowerPoint document filled with extreme plans to overturn the 2020 election that Mark Meadows, the last chief of staff to President Donald J. Trump,

December 11, 2021

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Mario Gonzalez, 26, died after Alameda police officers restrained him on his stomach for five minutes in a case that had echoes of the murder of George Floyd. Local residents called 911 on Gonzalez after he seemed dazed and intoxicated,

December 11, 2021

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Australian parliamentarians have demanded the prime minister, Scott Morrison, intervene in the case of Julian Assange, an Australian citizen, after the United States won a crucial appeal in its fight to extradite the WikiLeaks founder on espionage charges. “The prime minister must get Assange home,” the Australian Greens leader, Adam Bandt,

December 11, 2021

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Around 100 students from a New York middle school left class in the middle of the school day on Friday to protest what they say is ‘rampant sexual harassment from peers’. The young students, consisting mainly of teenage girls from Tompkins Square Middle School, headed to nearby Tompkins Square Park to air their grievances

December 11, 2021

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A Donald Trump campaign lawyer wrote two legal memos in the week before the Jan. 6 Capitol attack that claimed then-Vice President Mike Pence had the authority to refuse to count presidential electors from states that delivered Joe Biden the White House. The memos from then-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis,

December 11, 2021

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A self-professed member of the Proud Boys from Texas who traveled to Portland, Ore., to confront protesters there last year was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for shooting a man in the eye with a paintball gun,

December 11, 2021

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Within the span of a few hours, a Texas judge and the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to undercut Texas’ six-week abortion ban, ruling in separate opinions late Thursday and early Friday that aspects of the law were unconstitutional under state law and that federal challenges could go forward. But the victories for abortion rights supporters were largely hollow, and providers in Texas were not cheering on Friday.

December 11, 2021

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President Joe Biden joked about his declining poll numbers and claimed inflation would go down during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Friday night. Biden, appearing via satellite from the White House, became only the second sitting president to appear on a late-night show after his former boss, Barack Obama, visited Jay Leno

December 11, 2021

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At least 70 death and multiple injuries were confirmed following widespread reports of tornadoes and severe weather Friday night across parts of the U.S. Tornado warnings late Friday covered parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. Nearly 130,000 utility customers in those five states were without power.

December 11, 2021

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A fourth accuser took the stand at Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial Friday, testifying that when she was 16 years old, the British socialite touched her breasts during a massage at Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch. Annie Farmer said in federal court in New York that in the spring of 1996 she went on a weekend trip to the ranch

December 10, 2021

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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued six new subpoenas on Friday, digging deeper into the rallies that preceded the mob violence and organizers’ meetings with President Donald J. Trump. Those issued subpoenas Friday included Robert “Bobby” Peede Jr., a former director of the White House advance team and Max Miller,

December 10, 2021

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New drone footage of a prototype Tesla Cybertruck being tested on the company’s track in Fremont, California, was published Friday, prompting Elon Musk to address the vehicle’s hilariously oversized windshield wiper. The Cybertruck’s massive,

December 10, 2021

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Michael Nesmith, a singer and guitarist for the 1960s group The Monkees, died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 78. His family announced his passing in a statement, reading: ‘With infinite love, we announce that Michael Nesmith has passed away this morning in his home, surrounded by family

December 10, 2021

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Jill Biden defended Joe Biden’s mental health, calling questions about her husband’s capabilities ‘ridiculous’ and saying he works ‘almost 24 hours’ a day. Biden sat down with CBS’ Rita Braver at Camp David to talk about life in the White House – a rare TV interview from the private presidential retreat in the Maryland

December 10, 2021

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Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov were awarded the Nobel peace prize on Friday, at a ceremony that Ressa was almost blocked from attending because of travel restrictions related to legal cases filed against her in the Philippines.

December 10, 2021

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The World Chess Championship was already a week old when something stunning happened in Game 6: after nearly eight hours of play last Friday, someone actually won. It was the first time in five years that a championship classical game

December 10, 2021

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced Friday that masks will be required in all indoor public places unless the businesses or venues implement a vaccine requirement. Businesses will be forced to

December 10, 2021

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The Supreme Court on Friday allowed a challenge to a Texas abortion law that banned most abortions in the state after about six weeks to proceed, ruling that abortion providers in the state may sue some state officials

December 10, 2021

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A former special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to taking part in a wide-ranging conspiracy that used cash seized in undercover drug operations to buy jewelry, cars and a house in Colombia,

December 10, 2021

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The Biden administration opted for a controversial plan to pay for at-home Covid-19 testing through private insurance after officials concluded it would be too costly and inefficient to simply send the tests to all Americans for free.

December 10, 2021

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The pharmaceutical industry relies on drug-pricing practices that are “unsustainable, unjustified and unfair,” according to findings from a nearly three-year investigation by the House Oversight Committee. The findings, released Friday,

December 10, 2021

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U.S. inflation hit a 39-year high of 6.8% last month, the Labor Department said Friday. Consumer demand and supply shortages continue to pressure prices. The November prices trend came before the emergence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19,

December 10, 2021

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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his wife, Jerry Murdoch, have purchased a Montana cattle ranch spanning about 340,000 acres from Matador Cattle Co., a subsidiary of Koch Industries. The price was roughly $200 million

December 10, 2021

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Republicans are dropping millions of dollars to hit Senate Democrats on inflation just as the chamber takes up President Joe Biden’s sweeping social spending bill. One Nation, a GOP group, is launching roughly $4.3 million in new ads

December 10, 2021

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Julian Assange, the 50-year-old founder of Wikileaks, is a step closer to being extradited from Britain to the United States after the U.S. government won an appeal in London’s High Court. Judge Timothy Holroyde said Friday

December 10, 2021

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A U.S. diplomat Mark Lenzi who says he suffers from a mysterious illness known as “Havana Syndrome” has sued the State Department and Secretary of State Antony Blinken for disability discrimination, alleging that he was poorly treated

December 10, 2021

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Last week President Joe Biden unveiled his administration’s latest plan to combat Covid-19 at the National Institutes of Health. But the person who oversees the NIH and the entire agency that is tasked with fighting the pandemic was not in attendance

December 10, 2021

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A US district judge has ruled that Taylor Swift will face jury trial over accusations that the singer ripped off the chorus to her single “Shake It Off” from two songwriters. In 2018, Sean Hall and Nathan Butler alleged that the chorus to “Shake If Off”

December 10, 2021

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New York’s famed Metropolitan Museum of Art is going to remove the name of arguably its most controversial donor groups – the billionaire Sackler family – from its galleries.

December 10, 2021

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Al Unser, one of only four drivers to win the Indianapolis 500 a record four times, died Thursday following a long illness. He was 82. Indianapolis Motor Speedway said early Friday that Unser died at his home

December 10, 2021

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A Delta flight from Washington DC to Los Angeles was diverted on Thursday evening after a passenger attacked a flight attendant, and then turned on an air marshal. Flight DL342 took off from Reagan National Airport

December 10, 2021

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Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and a host of other liberal stars are lashed for supporting Jussie Smollett in wake of 2019 ‘racist and homophobic attack’ mocked over old tweets backing Jussie Smollett in the wake of his conviction.

December 10, 2021

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