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Vote on TikTok bill expected to be first time House approves ban on a social media platform

The legislation, which could lead to the forced sale or nationwide ban of TikTok, is widely expected to pass the House but faces an uncertain path in the Senate.

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Whistleblower death compounds bad news for Boeing

A drumbeat of critiques and bad headlines have followed the storied American company for years.

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Plants are emerging earlier in the year. Look up your area to see how it’s changing.

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Cats aren’t jerks. They’re just misunderstood.

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If you’re still using these dated words, you’re not alone

Sometimes the thing that prompted a word’s creation has gone away, but people keep using the word nonetheless.

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Congress can’t easily force ByteDance to sell TikTok

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Haiti races to form new government as gang leader threatens ‘revolution’

Following Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s resignation, political leaders were given 24 hours to provide names for a transitional council to lead the country.

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Five takeaways from the Hur special counsel hearing

A more than four-hour grilling of former special counsel Robert K. Hur offered no exoneration for President Biden and no satisfaction for lawmakers.

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Style

Picasso tried to ruin his ex’s career. The Picasso Museum will show her art.

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Navalny’s former chief of staff attacked with hammer outside Lithuania home

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Uvalde police chief to resign after report defended officers’ shooting response

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Rep. Ken Buck says he will not serve out rest of term, narrowing GOP majority

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has selected running mate, will announce choice within 2 weeks

By Michael Scherer and Meryl Kornfield

Biden aims to repair places left broken by previous economic strategies

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Trump takes control of the RNC with mass layoffs, restructuring

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Biden seeks Teamsters endorsement in bid for labor vote

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Trump’s Georgia case hangs on key decision of a relatively new judge

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Trump seeks delay in N.Y. trial pending Supreme Court hearing on immunity

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Did Trump just defame E. Jean Carroll again?

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Carolyn Hax: Brother is a risk to ‘cut and run’ on his premature newborn twins

She wonders how best to support her brother, who is “panicking” after his wife gave birth to fragile premature twins.

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Farmers tampered with rain gauges to fraudulently collect insurance money

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Australian push for fuel emissions standards hits a speed bump

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‘Wildfire outbreak’ possible in Texas, Oklahoma panhandles on Wednesday

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Boaters and surfers called Dial-A-Buoy for 27 years. Now NOAA is hanging it up.

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Meteorologists say AccuWeather’s cloudy eclipse forecast is bogus

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Floodwaters inundate Maine, New Hampshire for fourth time since December

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Federal agent accuses DHS of failing to protect her from sexual misconduct

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U.S. courts require random judge assignments to avoid ‘judge shopping’

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Scott Peterson returns to court 20 years after conviction for wife’s murder

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A TikToker raised $400K for an unhoused man. Then things got messy.

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Grandmother wins $4M after cops using Find My iPhone mistakenly raid home

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Patchwork of aid efforts seek to feed Gaza by land, air and sea

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A Ramadan of ‘sadness’ as war-weary Gazans go hungry

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Gaza war may stoke ‘generational’ terrorism threat, top intel official says

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Biden has huge leverage on Israel. He hasn’t really used it yet.

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Your clothes no longer serve you. Now what?

Lyn Slater, the 70-year-old former fashion influencer and the author of “How to Be Old,” offers lessons on what to wear for your next act in life.

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‘Love Lies Bleeding’: Kristen Stewart in a radically ripped romance

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‘I’d rather die hot than live ugly’: Tanning mania returns

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Eric Carmen, Raspberries frontman who sang ‘Hungry Eyes,’ dies at 74

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After a second search, a Smithsonian museum names a new leader

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A new satire takes another whack at Silicon Valley — and the men who fund it

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At the Kennedy Center, a fiery Rotterdam Philharmonic closes its tour

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White House summons UnitedHealth CEO as payment paralysis enters 3rd week

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White House summons UnitedHealth CEO as payment paralysis enters 3rd week

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The Medicare fight Biden wants

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Science

Wildlife worker dons cunning disguise to care for rescued newborn fox

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‘Monumental’ experiment suggests how life on Earth may have started

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Deforestation, climate change may endanger North American lizards

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NFL free agency tracker: Ravens add Derrick Henry; Danielle Hunter to Texans

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Commanders free agency tracker: More pass-rush help, new backup QB

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Maryland heads to the Big Ten tournament knowing it needs a miracle

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Wizards’ two-game winning streak comes to an end in Memphis

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NCAA tournament bracketology: A deserving JMU team leaves no doubt

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Inflation ticked up in February as Fed weighs interest rate cuts

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As Hershey battles cocoa costs, chocolate lovers may help cool inflation

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How Big Pharma is fighting Biden’s program to lower seniors’ drug costs

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Less money, less house: How market forces are reshaping the American home

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Soaring mobile-home rents anger Arizona voters

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