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White House: File your taxes to get full child tax credit

By JOSH BOAK AP - The Biden administration is kicking off an outreach campaign to get millions of families to file their taxes — so they can receive the second half of payments from the…
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Ukraine crisis talks move to Moscow and Washington

By SYLVIE CORBET and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV MOSCOW (AP) — International efforts to defuse the standoff over Ukraine intensified Monday, with French President Emmanuel Macron holding talks in Moscow and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington…
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China’s pandemic Olympics begin, with lockdown and boycotts

By SARAH DiLORENZO BEIJING (AP) — The country where the coronavirus outbreak emerged two years ago launched a locked-down Winter Olympics on Friday, proudly projecting its might on the most global of stages even as some Western…
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Biden says US forces killed IS leader during raid in Syria

By GHAITH ALSAYED, LOLITA C. BALDOR, BASSEM MROUE and ZEKE MILLER ATMEH, Syria (AP) — An elite U.S. military force killed one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, the leader of the Islamic State group,…
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Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of winter

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — There will be six more weeks of winter, Punxsutawney Phil predicted as he emerged from his burrow on Wednesday to perform his Groundhog Day duties. Thousands of people gathered at Gobbler’s…
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Omicron amps up concerns about long COVID and its causes

By LAURA UNGAR and LINDSEY TANNER AP - More than a year after a bout with COVID-19, Rebekah Hogan still suffers from severe brain fog, pain and fatigue that leave her unable to do her…
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Russia, US to square off at UN Security Council over Ukraine

By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Russia are squaring off at the U.N. Security Council over Ukraine, with Washington calling Moscow’s actions a threat to international peace and security,…
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Human chain formed to help after Pittsburgh bridge collapse

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A two-lane bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh early Friday, prompting rescuers to rappel nearly 150 feet (46 meters) while others formed a human chain to help rescue multiple people from a dangling bus.…
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Justice Breyer confirms he is retiring from Supreme Court

By COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER and DARLENE SUPERVILLE WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is meeting Thursday with retiring liberal Justice Stephen Breyer at the White House, lauding his long Supreme Court service and formally…
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As Fed meets, investor angst over rate hikes spooks markets

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) — Wild volatility in the stock market this week has put heightened scrutiny on the Federal Reserve’s meeting Wednesday and whether the Fed will clarify just how fast it plans…
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