White House sets new guidelines for Cabinet notifications after Austin's secret hospitalization

The White House is laying out a new set of guidelines to ensure it will be informed any time a Cabinet head can’t carry out their job

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Exotic animals including South American ostrich and giant African snail seized from suburban NY home

Authorities have seized about a hundred animals from a Long Island home packed with exotic species — including a giant African snail, degus, a sulcata tortoise and a South American ostrich

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NJ Transit scraps plan for gas-fired backup power plant, heartening environmental justice advocates

New Jersey’s public transit agency is scrapping plans for a backup power plant that would have been fueled by natural gas, heartening environmental justice advocates who targeted it and several other proposed power plants in largely minority areas

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Bill decriminalizing drug test strips in opioid-devastated West Virginia heads to governor

A bill that would decriminalize all the strips used to test deadly drugs now goes to West Virginia's governor

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RNC plans to soon consider declaring Trump the 'presumptive 2024 nominee'

The Republican National Committee is expected to consider a resolution next week to declare Donald Trump the party’s “presumptive 2024 nominee,” even though only two states have voted and the former president has nowhere near the requisite number of de...

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Apple will open iPhone to alternative app stores, lower fees in Europe to comply with regulations

Apple has unveiled a sweeping plan to tear down some of the competitive barriers that it has built around its lucrative iPhone franchise

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North Carolina authorizes online sports betting to begin on eve of men's ACC basketball tournament

Legal online sports betting in North Carolina is poised to begin in March on the eve of the region’s beloved Atlantic Coast Conference men’s basketball tournament

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'Gone Mom' prosecutors show shirt, bra, zip ties they say link defendant to woman's disappearance

Prosecutors attempting to link a Connecticut woman to the disappearance of her boyfriend’s estranged wife say items from Hartford trash receptacles show the connection between defendant Michelle Troconis and the victim

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Trial delayed for man who says he fatally shot ex-Saints star Will Smith in self-defense

The manslaughter retrial for the man who fatally shot New Orleans Saints star Will Smith almost eight years ago has been delayed after an alternate juror dropped out

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Authorities identify woman, 3 adult daughters shot to death in suburban Chicago home

Authorities have identified a woman and her three adult daughters who were found slain inside their suburban Chicago home in what police are calling a domestic-related shooting

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Blinken begins Africa tour in Cape Verde, touting the U.S. as a key security and economic partner

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a tour of four African countries, meeting with the leaders of Cape Verde and Ivory Coast and touting America as the continent’s key economic and security ally at times of regional and international crises

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Ron DeSantis ends presidential bid on eve of N.H. primary after his highly anticipated campaign failed to gain traction

Ron DeSantis ends presidential bid on eve of N.H. primary after his highly anticipated campaign failed to gain traction

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23 lost skiers and snowboarders rescued in frigid temperatures in Killington, Vermont

Police say 23 skiers and snowboarders had to be rescued in frigid temperatures on Saturday after becoming lost in the back country in Killington, Vermont

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