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Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner elected to Baseball Hall of FameJan 21, 2025 6:50 pm - NEW YORK — Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected Tuesday along with CC ...
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Trump pardons upend massive Jan. 6 prosecution by freeing rioters and dismissing casesJan 21, 2025 4:44 pm - WASHINGTON — Rioters locked up for their roles in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack were released while judges began dismissing dozens of pending cases Tuesday after President Do...
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What’s next for EVs under President Trump?Jan 21, 2025 3:49 pm - President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to eliminate what he labels “the electric vehicle mandate” imposed under former President Joe Biden.
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Trump’s executive order gives TikTok a reprieve. What happens next?Jan 21, 2025 3:37 pm - President Donald Trump has directed his Justice Department to pause enforcement of the TikTok ban until early April, but a host of questions remain — including whether Trump has the authority to issue such an order and if TikTok’s China-based parent would be amenable to selling the popular social media platform.
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‘Wicked’ star Cynthia Erivo named Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the YearJan 21, 2025 1:41 pm - Cynthia Erivo, who is starring in the hit musical “Wicked,” on Tuesday was named as the 2025 Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
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At least 76 people killed in a hotel fire at a ski resort in northwestern TurkeyJan 21, 2025 1:28 pm - A fire raged through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey early Tuesday during a school holiday, killing at least 76 people — at least two of them when they jumped from the building to escape the flames, officials said.
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States sue to stop Trump’s order blocking birthright citizenshipJan 21, 2025 12:59 pm - Attorneys general from 18 states sued Tuesday to block President Donald Trump's move to end a decades-old immigration policy known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that U.S.-born children are citizens regardless of their parents’ status.
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Garth Hudson, master instrumentalist and last surviving member of The Band, dies at 87Jan 21, 2025 12:01 pm - Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician who drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to rock standards, has died at age 87.
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Book Review: A tour de force of a novel about a celebrated actor in the throes of a midlife crisisJan 21, 2025 11:28 am - Have you ever woken up on Thanksgiving morning to a house full of company and just wanted to flee? In Mischa Berlinski’s extravagantly brilliant and darkly funny new novel, “Mona Acts Out,” the eponymous heroine does just that.
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Trump White House celebrates release of two Americans freed in a swap with Taliban brokered by BidenJan 21, 2025 11:17 am - A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism charges, officials said Tuesday.