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Spotify says it will add advisory to podcasts that discuss COVID

Spotify said Sunday that it will add an advisory to podcasts that discuss COVID-19. The announcement comes after artists Neil Young and Joni Mitchell decided to leave the streaming service due to COVID-19 misinformation on the platform. “Based on the feedback over the last several weeks, it’s become clear to …

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Semiconductor chip shortage is economic and national security problem, Commerce secretary says

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo issued a dire warning for Congress on semiconductor chips Tuesday, as the Commerce Department released results from its survey on the semiconductor supply chain that show chips are in short supply as demand booms. “We aren’t even close to being out of the woods as it …

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Campaign finance law challenged by Ted Cruz met with skepticism at Supreme Court

Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with a bid by Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas to dismantle a provision of federal campaign finance law that caps the amount of money a candidate can be repaid for personal loans made to their campaign. The restriction at issue in …

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Teen sentenced to 14 years to life in killing of Tessa Majors

The teenager who admitted to the stabbing death of a New York City college student was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years to life in prison. Rashaun Weaver had pleaded guilty in December to murder and robbery in the killing of Tessa Majors in 2019. Weaver, 16 now and 14 at …

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Biden to name three Federal Reserve officials

President Biden has told key senators he’s made his selections for the three spots on the Federal Reserve Board — Sarah Bloom Raskin as vice chair for supervision, the Fed’s top regulator of the banking system; and Lisa Cook and Philip Jefferson as Fed governors, according to a source familiar …

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Ammunition supplier “created a perfect storm” for Alec Baldwin’s deadly “Rust” shooting, lawsuit says

The armorer for the film “Rust” has sued the man who supplied the ammunition and guns for the movie, accusing him and his company of providing a combination of dummy and live rounds. Alec Baldwin fatally shot the film’s cinematographer as it was being made. Lawyers representing Hannah Gutierrez Reed …

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These athletes won (and lost) sports bettors the most money in 2021

Colts running back Jonathan Taylor, Buccaneers receiver Mike Evans and Rams wideout Cooper Kupp have not only been money on the football field this year, they’ve made lots of money for people who bet on them. Los Angeles Angels pitcher/slugger Shohei Ohtani not only regularly went deep on the diamond, …

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Joan Didion, revered author and essayist, dies at 87

New York — Joan Didion, the revered author and essayist whose precise social and personal commentary in such classics as “The White Album” and “The Year of Magical Thinking” made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of turbulent times, has died. She was 87. Didion’s publisher, Penguin Random House, announced the …

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43 years after a girl is killed in San Francisco, a suspect is arrested in Colorado

A man was arrested in Colorado on suspicion of killing a teenage girl in San Francisco more than four decades ago and detectives say he may be a suspect in other unsolved homicides. Mark Stanley Personette, 76, was arrested in suburban Denver on Thursday following a joint operation by San …

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Meta says nearly 50,000 journalists and activists were targeted by sophisticated spying operations on Facebook and Instagram

Meta said Thursday that it removed roughly 1,600 fake accounts from Facebook and Instagram that were being used by seven “surveillance-for-hire” companies to target and compromise the accounts and devices of journalists and human rights activists around the world. The seven surveillance providers implicated in the report are located in …

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