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UAE award 'regrets' that philosopher Habermas rejected prize

DUBAI – The board of trustees of a high-priced literary award from the United Arab Emirates expressed regret on Monday that prominent German philosopher Juergen Habermas had turned down the prize, reversing his earlier decision.

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US officials in Mideast to reassure jittery allies over Iran

ABU DHABI – Top Biden administration officials and U.S. senators crisscrossed the Middle East on Monday, seeking to assuage growing unease among Gulf Arab partners over America’s re-engagement with Iran and other policy shifts in the region.

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US begins reuniting some families separated at Mexico border

SAN DIEGO – The Biden administration said Monday that four families that were separated at the Mexico border during Donald Trump's presidency will be reunited in the United States this week in what Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calls “just the beginning” of a broader effort.

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PM Modi holds telephonic conversation with European Commission President, discusses Covid situation

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Syrian court accepts 3 candidates to run for president

BEIRUT – Syria’s Supreme Constitutional Court has accepted three applications out of 51 for candidacy for this month’s presidential elections in the war-torn country, state media reported Monday.

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Democrats seek narrow path to rein in cost of medicines

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden’s call for authorizing Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices has energized Democrats on a politically popular idea they've been pushing for nearly 20 years only to encounter frustration.

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Asian shares mostly lower; China, Japan closed for holidays

Shares were mostly lower in Asia in thin trading Monday, with many markets including those in Tokyo and Shanghai closed for holidays.

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Camden County College hosts drive-thru graduation celebration

CAMDEN, N.J. - Hundreds of Camden County College graduates packed into cars on Sunday morning and convoyed through the campus as part of a mobile drive-thru graduation celebration.Proud graduates hung out the windows and doors of vehicles decorated with balloons, streamers and signs as the motorcade snaked past cheerful crowds of staff and faculty. "As things have loosened up a little bit we wanted to give our students something where they can celebrate, be back on campus, kind of be together as best we can under these difficult circumstances," President Donald A.

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Uday Kotak suggests lockdown to 'reduce suffering' inflicted by covid

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Camden County Community College hosts drive-thru graduation celebration

CAMDEN, N.J. - Hundreds of Camden County Community College graduates packed into cars on Sunday morning and convoyed through the campus as part of a mobile drive-thru graduation celebration.Proud graduates hung out the windows and doors of vehicles decorated with balloons, streamers and signs as the motorcade snaked past cheerful crowds of staff and faculty. "As things have loosened up a little bit we wanted to give our students something where they can celebrate, be back on campus, kind of be together as best we can under these difficult circumstances," President Donald A.

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Phillies LHP Alvarado suspended 3 games for dustup with Mets

NEW YORK – Philadelphia Phillies reliever José Alvarado was suspended three games Sunday by Major League Baseball for inciting a bench-clearing dustup with the New York Mets.

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House runoff in Texas set between GOP's Wright, Ellzey

ARLINGTON, Texas – A runoff for a U.S. House seat in Texas is set between Republican Susan Wright, whose husband was the first member of Congress to die after being diagnosed with COVID-19, and Republican Jake Ellzey.

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Yellen: Biden's phased-in spending plan won't fuel inflation

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden’s massive proposed spending on infrastructure, families and education will not fuel inflation because the plans would be phased in gradually over 10 years, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday.

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Adviser suggests Biden still wears mask outside out of habit

WILMINGTON, Del. – One of President Joe Biden's top White House advisers suggested Sunday that he's still wearing a mask outdoors out of habit although the latest public health guidance says he doesn't need it.

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US expresses concern over El Salvador vote to remove judges

SAN SALVADOR – The United States said Sunday that it is concerned over a vote by El Salvador’s new congress to remove the magistrates of the constitutional chamber of the Supreme Court.

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Consumer appliances firms scale back production as covid dents demand

NEW DELHI : Large home appliances makers are temporarily slashing production factoring a dip in consumer demand as the country continues to deal with a surge in covid cases and subsequent lockdowns in states significantly impacting retail of non-essential goods.Companies such as Usha International, Panasonic, Havells etc have partially restricted capacity at their plants. Some have done so citing employee safety.Shashi Arora, president and chief executive of Lloyd, Havells India’s consumer durables business, said April is the peak season for air conditioners for which the company starts building inventory from December.

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U.S. President Biden’s speech to congress

Global News Washington Bureau Chief, Jackson Proskow, breaks down the key takeaways from President Biden’s address as he marks 100 days in office.

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Republican Susan Wright makes US House runoff in Texas

AUSTIN, Texas – Republican Susan Wright of Texas, the widow of the first member of Congress to die after contracting COVID-19, secured a place in a U.S. House runoff for her late husband’s seat Saturday night.

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NKorea warns US of 'very grave situation' over Biden speech

SEOUL – North Korea on Sunday warned the United States will face “a very grave situation” because President Joe Biden “made a big blunder” in his recent speech by calling the North a security threat and revealing his intent to maintain a hostile policy toward it.

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Bid to censure Romney for Trump impeachment votes fails

SALT LAKE CITY – Utah Republicans booed Sen. Mitt Romney but ultimately rejected a motion to censure him Saturday for his votes at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trials.

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Pentagon cancels border wall construction contracts paid for with military funds reallocated by Trump

A photo taken on March 30, 2021 shows a general view of an unfinished section of a border wall that former US president Donald Trump tried to build near the southern Texas border city of Roma.

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Former Netflix VP convicted of fraud and money laundering

LOS GATOS, CA - JULY 20: A sign is posted in front of the Netflix headquarters on July 20, 2011 in Los Gatos, California. Online movie rental company Netflix will report quarterly earnings on Thursday following a recent customer backlash over a 60 pe SAN JOSE, Calif. - A federal jury found a former Netflix executive guilty Friday of receiving lucrative stock options and more than a half-million dollars in bribes and kickbacks from tech companies to approve contracts with the streaming giant.Michael Kail, 49, is a former Netflix vice president who oversaw the company’s internet technology department."We are very disappointed in the jury’s verdict," defense attorney Julia Jayne said.

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Mourners hold protester funerals in Chad's tense capital

N'DJAMENA – N'Hundreds of chanting mourners carrying Chadian flags gathered Saturday to bury some victims who shot dead this week during demonstrations against the country's new military government, the first change in leadership in this central African nation in more than three decades.

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More perilous phase ahead for Biden after his 1st 100 days

WASHINGTON – Joe Biden's presidency is entering a new and more perilous phase where he is almost certain to face stiffer Republican opposition and also have difficulty keeping Democrats united as he pushes for $4 trillion in additional spending on programs that have echoes of the New Deal and the Great Society.

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Amazon India to waive various fees paid by sellers to help SMBs amid Covid

₹10,000 or below across Jan, Feb & Mar 2021, it said in a blog post on Saturday."We understand this situation is impacting small and medium businesses (SMBs) the most and we are taking a host of measures to help our sellers navigate the economic challenges caused by the pandemic," Amazon India Vice President Manish Tiwary said in a blog post.It is temporarily relaxing the claim windows for various types of reimbursements that the sellers file for 30 days, the e-commerce firm said.The company said it is also taking steps across the board to mitigate any negative impact on sellers' performance metrics due to defaults caused by the pandemic and the resulting restrictions, on the sellers' account health."We are also working to relax our

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Powell's high-stakes bet: More jobs but only mild inflation

WASHINGTON – With employers hiring, consumers spending and companies raising some prices, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is embarking on a high-stakes gamble.

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Major auto companies log subdued sales in April amid COVID-19

NEW DELHI : Major automobile manufacturers Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai Motor, Tata Motors and Kia on Saturday reported a decline in passenger vehicle sales in April compared to March this year as the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic hit dispatches.However, Mahindra & Mahindra along with Honda Cars India posted sequential growth in their passenger vehicle sales last month.Sales in April this year are not comparable with that of the corresponding month a year ago as companies had reported zero sales due to the nationwide lockdown imposed to curb the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) reported a 4 per cent decline in total sales to 1,59,691 units in April as compared to

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Florida casts itself as elections model, but clashes remain

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – In a state famed for election night fiascoes, Florida's handling of the November presidential vote was hailed as a sign it finally got things right. Even so, Florida Republicans have drafted new rules on voting by mail, drop boxes and ballot handling that are raising an outcry.

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Diplomats from 5 nations resuming Iran nuclear talks

VIENNA – High-ranking diplomats from China, Germany, France, Russia and Britain are set to resume talks Saturday focused on bringing the United States back into their landmark nuclear deal with Iran.

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California Democrats to hear from Newsom as recall heats up

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California Gov. Gavin Newsom will address the Democratic Party faithful Saturday as he mounts a campaign to keep his job.

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Formal start of final phase of Afghan pullout by US, NATO

KABUL – The final phase of ending America's “forever war” in Afghanistan after 20 years formally began Saturday, with the withdrawal of the last U.S. and NATO troops by the end of summer.

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Counting the costs of America's 20-year war in Afghanistan

DUBAI – America’s longest war, the two-decade-long conflict in Afghanistan that started in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, killed tens of thousands of people, dogged four U.S. presidents and ultimately proved unwinnable despite its staggering cost in blood and treasure.

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Philanthropist and art collector Eli Broad dies at age 87

LOS ANGELES - Businessman, philanthropist and art collector Eli Broad, who left an indelible imprint on Los Angeles' cultural scene, died Friday. He was 87.Broad died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center following a long illness, according to Suzi Emmerling, spokeswoman for the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.A New York native, Broad parlayed a loan from his in-laws into a homebuilding empire with partner Donald Kaufman that began in Detroit in the late 1950s but migrated to Los Angeles in 1963.

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Eli Broad, billionaire entrepreneur who reshaped LA, dies

LOS ANGELES – Eli Broad, the billionaire philanthropist, contemporary art collector and entrepreneur who co-founded homebuilding pioneer Kaufman and Broad Inc. and launched financial services giant SunAmerica Inc., died Friday in Los Angeles. He was 87.

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Venezuela gives US oilmen house arrest in gesture to Biden

MIAMI – Six American oil executives jailed in Venezuela more than three years ago on corruption charges were granted house arrest on Friday in a gesture of goodwill toward the Biden administration as it reviews its policy toward the politically turbulent South American country.

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Pentagon chief calls for 'new vision' for American defense

NAVAL STATION PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – In his first major speech as Pentagon chief, Lloyd Austin on Friday called for developing a “new vision” for American defense in the face of emerging cyber and space threats and the prospect of fighting bigger wars.

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‘Taco moon’: Taco Bell giving away free tacos on May 4

LOS ANGELES - The moon is the world’s largest and brightest object in the night sky, and now Taco Bell is using it as a marketing campaign — that the whole world can see.According to Taco Bell, the lunar phase of the moon will resemble a taco on May 4, and the fast-food chain will give fans a free crunchy taco all day on the app or online.RELATED: Chipotle giving away 250,000 free burritos to US health care workersThe company is affectionately calling the moon’s half-moon shape the "Taco Moon," and more than 20 markets around the globe, including the U.S., will be able to participate in the offer."Taco Bell has been an established brand in the U.S.

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Arizona elections chief criticizes policies used in recount

PHOENIX – In March, when it was clear that the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate planned to recount presidential votes in the state's most populous county, Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs sent a letter urging the Senate president to adopt strict guidelines to ensure the results could be trusted.

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Biden says it’s 'tough call' on whether to mandate COVID-19 vaccines in military

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is not ruling out having members of the U.S. military get vaccinated against COVID-19, but said requiring it would be "a tough call."Biden was asked if he would require military members to get inoculated once the virus shots are fully approved by the U.S.

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Meghan Markle Discusses Issues Like Racial Bias And Mental Health During Passionate Roundtable With Group Of Trailblazing Girls

The Duchess of Sussex is giving girls a platform to speak about the important issues facing their generation today.

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Gerber searching for 2021 ‘spokesbaby’ with new Chief Growing Officer title

announced details this week for its annual Gerber Photo Search program in its 11th year.

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All aboard! Biden visits Philadelphia to help Amtrak mark 50 years on the rails

PHILADELPHIA - President Joe Biden, once a regular Amtrak rider, helped the nation’s passenger rail system celebrate 50 years of service Friday.As a U.S. senator, Biden was a fixture on Amtrak trains between his home in Wilmington, Delaware, and Washington, D.C., when the Senate was in session.

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US to restrict travel from India starting May 4 over COVID-19 surge

WASHINGTON - The U.S. will restrict travel from India starting on May 4, the White House said Friday, citing a devastating rise in COVID-19 cases in the country and the emergence of potentially dangerous variants of the coronavirus.White House press secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden's administration made the determination on the advice of the U.S.

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White House completes North Korea policy review

The Biden administration said Friday it has completed a review of U.S. policy toward North Korea and suggested it has limited hopes of brokering a “grand bargain” to persuade the North to give up its nuclear weapons program.

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Ashli Babbitt's family planning to file $10 million lawsuit against Capitol Police, officer who shot her

WASHINGTON - The lawyer for the family of Ashli Babbitt is planning to sue the U.S. Capitol Police and the unidentified officer who fatally shot her during the Jan. 6 riot in which she was killed. Terry Roberts told Zenger News the Babbitt family will seek at least $10 million and will serve the Capitol Police within 10 days.

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Major Biden gets special training to prepare for arrival of White House cat

WASHINGTON - Dr. Jill Biden said a family cat will be coming to the White House "pretty soon," after the younger of the Bidens’ two German shepherds, Major, received special feline training."She's waiting in the wings," the first lady told NBC News in an interview broadcast Friday.Jill Biden said the family’s 3-year-old dog Major was being trained for the arrival of the cat.

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Blinken off to London, Kyiv as Ukraine questions resurface

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Antony Blinken is headed to Europe next week for critical talks on Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Afghanistan and frayed transatlantic ties that the Biden administration hopes to repair, the State Department said Friday.

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New TikTok CEO is Chinese parent company ByteDance CFO Chew

Video app TikTok said Friday that its new CEO is Shouzi Chew, the new CFO of its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.

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Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
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