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Pamela Hill-Veal says that while she and her family were flying first class on Feb. 10 from Chicago to Phoenix, an American Airlines flight attendant stopped her as she returned to her seat and accused her of slamming the restroom door.
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Workers at this Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., held a revote on unionizing in March 2022, but the result remains unresolved.
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University of Southern California quarterback Caleb Williams is expected to be the number one pick in Thursday's NFL draft. His stellar on-field performances can be traced to one play as a nine-year-old.
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The Conemaugh Generating Station in New Florence, Pa., is among the nation's coal-fired power plants that face tough new regulations to limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
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Coal and new gas power plants will have to meet climate pollution targets
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Palestinians inspect a vehicle with the logo of the World Central Kitchen wrecked by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza, on April 2, 2024. A memorial at the National Cathedral in Washington on April 25 will honor the seven WCK workers killed in the attack.
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University of Southern California protesters push and shove University Public Safety officers as tempers get heated during a pro-Palestinian occupation on the University of Southern California campus Wednesday, April 24, 2024 in Los Angeles.
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Chicago's iconic "rat hole" in the Roscoe Village neighborhood is seen on Jan. 19, 2024. The sidewalk landmark was removed Wednesday, April 24, 2024, after city officials determined the section bearing the imprint of an animal was damaged and needed to be replaced.
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Jim Hoft, owner of the Gateway Pundit, at the White House in 2019. The website has been hit with defamation lawsuits related to 2020 election fraud conspiracy theories it is accused of spreading.
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Manuel Vazquez, owner of Coya's artisan ice cream, poses for a photo as he carries a tray of ice pops in the kitchen of his shop in Fort Myers, Florida, U.S., February 26, 2024.
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Reggie Bush of the University of Southern California (shown here in New York on Dec. 10, 2005) has been reinstated as the 2005 Heisman Trophy winner on Wednesday, more than a decade after USC returned the award following an NCAA investigation that found he received what were impermissible benefits during his time with the Trojans.
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The Biden administration is establishing new standards for how much time each day a nursing home resident gets direct care from a nurse or an aide.
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Wildfire smoke from Canada caused dangerously unhealthy air quality in New York City and across much of the U.S. in 2023. While air quality has improved greatly in the U.S. in recent decades, wildfire smoke and other climate-influenced problems are endangering that progress.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday, April 23, 2024, that samples of pasteurized milk had tested positive for remnants of the bird flu virus that has infected dairy cows.
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Four Americans representing four different perspectives on the U.S. economy.
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In March 2021, mission controllers in Houston used the Canadarm2 robotic arm to release an external pallet packed with old nickel-hydrogen batteries from the International Space Station. Three years later, part of that assembly struck a house in Naples, Fla.
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U.S. Olympic Gymnasts Aly Raisman, Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney and NCAA and world champion gymnast Maggie Nichols testified on Capitol Hill in 2021 about the Inspector General's report on the FBI handling of the Larry Nassar investigation of sexual abuse of Olympic gymnasts.
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Students from MIT, Harvard University and others rally at a protest encampment at MIT's Kresge Lawn in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Monday.
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