A seat on a spaceship ride with billionaire Jeff Bezos went for $28 million during a live auction on Saturday, concluding the month-long bidding process for the sightseeing trip on the Blue Origin’s maiden voyage next month.

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Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot again defended her policy of only accepting interview requests from “black and brown journalists” on Friday, calling a discrimination lawsuit filed against her by the Daily Caller News Foundation “frivolous.”

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Chicago Mayor Blasts Daily Caller’s ‘Frivolous’ Lawsuit over Her Interview Policy

 Danish footballer Christian Eriksen has collapsed midway through his side's opening Euro 2020 match. 

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UPDATE: Christian Eriksen in stable condition after collapsing during Denmark's Euro 2020 match against Finland

As middle school teacher Brittany Paschall assembled a lesson plan on the history of the Negro Baseball Leagues, she wondered how she might have to go about it differently next year under a new Tennessee state law that prohibits teaching certain concepts of race and racism.

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Teachers wary of new laws limiting instruction on race

MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow's mayor on Saturday ordered a week off for some workplaces and imposed restrictions on many businesses to fight coronavirus infections that have more than doubled in the past week.

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Moscow orders new restrictions as COVID-19 infections soar

Sen. James Lankford, Oklahoma Republican, grilled Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra over the decision to use “birthing person” instead of “mother” in the Biden administration’s $6 trillion budget.



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GOP senator grills Biden HHS secretary on ‘birthing people,’ suggests using ‘Mom’ instead

Former President Donald Trump said Saturday that states should fight back against what he called the Biden Justice Department’s efforts to whitewash “massive voter fraud” in the 2020 presidential election.

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Trump urges states to resist DOJ’s effort to ‘suppress accountability’ in the 2020 election

President Biden agreed Saturday with other leaders at the Group of Seven wealthiest democracies to end government support of coal generation for power by the end of this year, saying the accelerated action is needed to address climate change.

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Biden, G-7 leaders agree to end public support of coal industry

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — It's official: Most of California's coronavirus rules governing public gatherings will disappear on Tuesday after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Friday afternoon that heralds the end of the pandemic's hold on much of public…

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