President Biden will speak Tuesday about the COVID fight, government help for communities and the danger of remaining unvaccinated.
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Troops find religious exemption for vaccines unattainable
The total lack of approvals is creating new tensions within the military, and chaplains are caught in the middle.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren tests positive for COVID-19
News of the Massachusetts Democrat’s diagnosis comes as the nation is bracing for a surge fueled by the omicron variant.
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‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ nets third best opening of all time with $253 million
Its five-day global total hits $587.2 million against a $200 million production budget.
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Paul Rudd joins ‘SNL’ Five-Timers Club, without an audience
Viewers at home saw new sketches taped earlier in the week, as well as highlights from years past.
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Lauded modern British architect Richard Rogers dies at 88
He promoted a vision of densely populated cities developed around technology and mass transit.
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Author Eve Babitz, who captured and embodied LA culture, dies at 78
Her books wove back and forth between fiction and nonfiction, but all of it was rooted in her own experiences.
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Sports Digest: Washington wins WNBA draft lottery
The Mystics are expected to pick NaLyssa Smith of Baylor with the top pick.
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NHL roundup: League halts cross-border travel in hopes of saving season
Detroit becomes the sixth team shut down and Canadian-based teams will not play U.S.-based teams from Monday through Thursday.
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bell hooks, trailblazing Black feminist and social critic, dies at 69
Trailblazing Black feminist bell hooks, whose graceful, probing and wide-ranging books sought to empower people of all races, classes and genders, anticipating and helping shape ongoing debates about justice and discrimination in the United States, died Wednesday at her home in Berea, Kentucky. She was 69. The cause was end-stage renal failure, said her sister […]