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  • WorldAssociated Press

    China publicizes for the first time what it claims is a 2016 agreement with Philippines

    For the first time, China has publicized what it claims is an unwritten 2016 agreement with the Philippines over access to South China Sea islands. The move threatens to further raise tensions in the disputed waterway, through which much of the world's trade passes and which China claims virtually in its entirety. A statement from the Chinese Embassy in Manila said the “temporary special arrangement” agreed to during a visit to Beijing by former president Rodrigo Duterte allowed small scale fi

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  • BusinessSnopes

    Fact Check: Theodore Roosevelt Supposedly Posed for Photo with Last Known Triceratops. Here Are the Facts

    The black-and-white photo appeared to show the former U.S. President standing over a lifeless dinosaur.

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  • BusinessPeople

    78-Year-Old Receptionist Was an Employee of the Year Before Getting Fired. Now Ex-Employer Is Paying Her $78K

    In February 2022, Shirley Noble was fired from her receptionist job at a retirement community in Georgia

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  • WorldReuters

    Russia blames Baltic countries for the severing of most ties

    "Because of the openly hostile line of Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn, all interstate, interdepartmental, regional and sectoral ties with Russia have been severed," Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman of the Russian foreign ministry told the RIA state news agency, referring to the capitals of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. She added that Moscow will continue to use diplomatic measures of influence on the Baltic countries.

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  • USFortune

    New Florida resident Jeff Bezos pumped $60 million into making lab-grown meat taste better. Ron DeSantis just banned it from the state

    An announcement about the legislation went viral for reasons completely unrelated to meat of any kind: “It’s the worst picture of me,” a reality star says.

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  • PoliticsAssociated Press

    Biden administration says 100,000 new migrants are expected to enroll in 'Obamacare' next year

    Roughly 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children are expected to enroll in the Affordable Care Act's health insurance next year under a directive the Biden administration released Friday. The move took longer than promised to finalize and fell short of Democratic President Joe Biden's initial proposal to allow those migrants to sign up for Medicaid, the health insurance program that provides nearly free coverage for the nation's poorest people. “I’m proud of the contribution

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