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Justin Trudeau Says He’s First World Leader To Personally Speak With President-Elect Biden
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["Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden discussed a wide array of challenges facing North America during a Monday phone call, which the prime minister’s office said made him the first world leader to sp...
Madonna Unveils Her ‘Very First’ Tattoo In Honor Of Her 6 Children
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["Ever the evolving style icon, Madonna is sporting some fresh ink. The Queen of Pop revealed her “very first” tattoo on social media late Monday. In a series of photos posted on Instagram, the singer is seen visitin...
Matthew McConaughey Recalls Electric Reaction He Had To Seeing His Wife For The First Time
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["Matthew McConaughey had a very McConaughey reaction to seeing his now wife, Camila Alves McConaughey, for the first time in a club some years ago. The actor recalled their intense first encounter and “great connecti...
Missouri’s First Black Congresswoman: GOP Colleagues Called Me ‘Breonna Taylor’
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["Democratic Rep.-elect Cori Bush made history last week by becoming Missouri’s first Black congresswoman. But on her first day of work, GOP colleagues mistakenly called her “Breonna” because she wore a face mask with...
Mondaire Jones And Ritchie Torres To Become First Black Gay Congress Members
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["Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Torres, both of New York, made history Tuesday night as the first two openly gay Black men to be elected to Congress. The Democratic representatives-elect will enter the House in January....
Nationals Invite Joe Biden To Throw First Pitch On Opening Day
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["The 2020 presidential election has been called and former vice president Joe Biden is set to move into the White House in January. It didn’t take long for the local baseball team to come a-calling. As Biden delivere...
Pompeo Becomes First Top U.S. Diplomat To Visit An Israeli Settlement
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["JERUSALEM (AP) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday became the first top U.S. diplomat to visit an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank as the State Department announced that products from the settle...
Pope To Elevate 13 New Cardinals Including First African American Cardinal
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["ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is preparing to formally elevate 13 new cardinals, including the first African-American to receive the rank, in a ceremony marked in every way by the coronavirus pandemic: Two of the cardina...
San Francisco DA Charges Officer With Homicide In Historic First
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["In an historic first, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin charged former police officer Chris Samayoa with homicide over the 2017 fatal shooting of Keita O’Neil, who was Black. It was the first time the ci...
Scotland Becomes First Nation To Provide Free Pads, Tampons In Public Bathrooms
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["The Scottish Parliament voted unanimously on Tuesday to require that menstrual products be provided to residents free of cost, making Scotland the first country in the world to do so. The legislation is aimed at en...
Texas Becomes First State To Top 1,000,000 COVID-19 Cases
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["Texas hit a grim new milestone this week as its number of COVID-19 cases surpassed 1 million. According to data from the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine Coronavirus Resource Center, Texas has reported 1,010,364...
The First Election Day Results Are Already In, Thanks To A Quirky Old Law
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["Two small rural communities in New Hampshire cast their ballots just after midnight on Tuesday ― and, thanks to a quirk in state election law, they’ve also tallied the vote and released the results. All five voters ...
Tuesday Is ‘V-Day’ In Britain; First Citizens Will Get COVID-19 Vaccine
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["LONDON (AP) — It’s been dubbed “V-Day” in Britain ― recalling the D-Day landings in France that marked the start of the final push in World War II to defeat Nazi Germany. A week after the U.K. became the first Weste...
U.S. Becomes First Nation To Surpass 10 Million Coronavirus Cases
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["Nov 8 (Reuters) - The United States became the first nation worldwide since the pandemic began to surpass 10 million coronavirus infections, according to a Reuters tally on Sunday, as the third wave of the COVID-19 ...
Virgin Hyperloop Completes First Human Ride On New High-Speed Transport System
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["SEATTLE (Reuters) ― Richard Branson’s Virgin Hyperloop has completed the world’s first passenger ride on a super high-speed levitating pod system, the company said on Sunday, a key safety test for technology it hope...
Watch David Chang Become First Celebrity To Win ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’
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["You could call it unpresidented. As host Jimmy Kimmel said on Sunday night, no celebrity in two decades of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” had ever won the $1 million prize for charity. That’s now changed, thanks to...