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Top-ranked tennis player Jannik Sinner accepted a three-month ban in a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency and said Saturday the agreement ends a case that was “hanging over me” since his two positive doping tests nearly a year ago. WADA, which was seeking to ban the three-time Grand Slam champion from the sport for at least
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Federal prosecutors in New York have filed a motion to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, bringing to a close a days-long battle that has upended the Justice Department over the decision to abandon the case. The motion to dismiss the five-count indictment was filed on the court’s public docket on
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Saturday Sessions: Aloe Blacc performs “Breakthrough” – CBS News Watch CBS News California native Aloe Blacc first rose to fame in Europe in the early 2000s, before hitting it big in the U.S. Things really took off for him in 2013, when his song “Wake Me Up” became a worldwide hit. On Feb. 28, the
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Saturday Sessions: Aloe Blacc performs “Don’t Go Alone” – CBS News
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Random House We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,” by New Yorker articles editor Susan Morrison (to be published February 18 by Random House), is a biography of late-night comedy producer Lorne Michaels, who has guided “Saturday Night Live” for most of
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed a third U.S. bird flu hospitalization, Wyoming’s health department said Friday after a woman was admitted to a healthcare facility in neighboring Colorado. The patient was experiencing “flu-like symptoms” and had “health conditions that can make people more vulnerable to illness,” Wyoming’s health department said. She
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Probational federal employees who lost their jobs on Thursday as part of the Trump administration’s mass firing of government workers expressed shock and anger at the terminations, which they contend will hurt the government’s ability to provide services. President Trump is moving quickly to shrink the U.S. federal government — the nation’s largest employer — saying he
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The U.S. Army will no longer allow transgender people to enlist, and will stop providing gender-affirming care for service members, it announced on social media Friday. “The #USArmy will no longer allow transgender individuals to join the military and will stop performing or facilitating procedures associated with gender transition for service members. Stay tuned for
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FDA’s approval of non-opioid pain pill could be game-changer – CBS News Watch CBS News The Federal Drug Administration last month approved Journavx, a new kind of non-addictive pain medication. Doctors say Journavx is an important alternative because the power of opioids helped fuel an overdose epidemic and a surge in fentanyl use. Stephanie Stahl
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Louisiana requests extradition of New York doctor who prescribed abortion pills online – CBS News Watch CBS News A state judge in Texas ordered a New York doctor to pay a $100,000 fine for sending abortion medication to a woman in Texas, where most abortions are banned. The same doctor faces criminal charges in Louisiana.
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