U.S. scientists who publicly attributed the COVID-19 pandemic to natural origins rather than human engineering were far less confident in private, transcripts and notes from previous meetings show. Matt discusses that two-lane bridge that 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. The collapse came hours before President Joe Biden was to visit the city to press for his $1 trillion infrastructure bill, which includes bridge maintenance.

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Doctors have discovered an “antibody signature” that can help identify patients most at risk of developing long Covid, a condition where debilitating symptoms of the disease can persist for many months. On Sept. 4, 2017, according to his confession letter, Joel Greenberg called his friend Rep. Matt Gaetz with some bad news. A teenager both men had paid to have sex with was underage, Greenberg claimed. The Fresno County Department of Public Health reminds the public when getting COVID tested to use creditable testing sites as there has been an increase in scam pop-ups being used for identity theft.

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In an effort to get back billions in unemployment fraud, California's Employment Development Department (EDD) is asking 1.4 million people to submit proof in order to keep the money they already got. However, many people have not responded. Voters in key demographic groups do not believe they are better off with President Joe Biden in office and some believe their situation has worsened since last year, according to a new poll. AMichigan parent has sparked anger after using a racial slur twice during a school board meeting on Monday. Russia on Wednesday dismissed the latest warning from President Joe Biden, who said the previous day that the U.S. could seek to sanction President Vladimir Putin personally if he sends forces across the border to invade Ukraine. Putin's spokesman said any such sanctions would be "destructive," but not "painful" because, according to the Kremlin press secretary, Russia's senior leaders don't hold overseas bank accounts or assets.

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California workers would get up to two weeks of paid time off if they get sick from the coronavirus while businesses would get up to $6 billion in tax cuts and other assistance under a proposal endorsed Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state's top legislative leaders. Dominion Voting Systems said this week in a court filing that there was no "realistic possibility" that it would settle its $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and the pro-Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday that the Department of Justice is investigating fake electors supporting former President Trump during the 2020 presidential election. 

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Justice Stephen Breyer will step down from the Supreme Court at the end of the current term, according to people familiar with his thinking.Breyer is one of the three remaining liberal justices, and his decision to retire after more than 27 years on the court allows President Joe Biden to appoint a successor who could serve for decades and, in the short term, maintain the current 6-3 split between conservative and liberal justices.

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A SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after spending almost seven years hurtling through space, experts say. Mayor Jerry Dyer discusses his new 'Homeless Assistance Response Team' to help shelter the unhoused.

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Walgreens is preparing to begin distributing free N95 masks this week, but when exactly can customers expect to be able to get one and how will they know which stores have them? President Biden lashed out at Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy for attempting to press him on inflation. 

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A newly proposed bill aims to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of required vaccinations children must have to attend school. The bill, if signed into law, would overrule Gov. Gavin Newsom's statewide mandate. With more than 100,000 Russian troops poised at the Ukrainian border, the Department of Homeland Security is warning that Russia could conduct a cyberattack against the United States if it feels threatened by further actions the U.S. takes in response to a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. Crisis talks aimed at averting a military confrontation between Russia and Ukraine appear to be faltering, as Western allies prepare for a possible conflict between the neighbors that could be “painful, violent and bloody.”

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Pfizer and BioNTech have begun a clinical trial for their Omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine candidate, they announced in a news release on Tuesday. The Food and Drug Administration is limiting the authorization of certain monoclonal antibody treatments that don't effectively work against the Omicron variant. A new subvariant of omicron that differs from the original variant in some mutations, including on the spike protein, has been detected in Washington state. 

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The United States is discussing the deployment of American military forces to Eastern Europe with its NATO allies, a senior administration official said Monday, as President Joe Biden weighs options for responding to Russian threats against Ukraine. The United Arab Emirates intercepted two ballistic missiles fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels over the skies of Abu Dhabi early Monday, authorities said, the second attack in a week that targeted the Emirati capital.

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