However, the social media giant has options and doesn’t have to accept the Tesla CEO’s offer.
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Medical associations ask DOJ to investigate threats to children’s hospitals
Their demands come amid a spate of threats against doctors and institutions that provide medical care for transgender kids, sometimes including hormones or surgery for older teens.
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Loretta Lynn, coal miner’s daughter and country queen, dies
The Country Music Hall of Famer wrote fearlessly about sex and love, cheating husbands, divorce and birth control and sometimes got in trouble with radio programmers for material from which even rock performers once shied away.
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Russia smuggling Ukrainian grain to help pay for Putin’s war
An investigation by The Associated Press and the PBS series “Frontline” has documented a sophisticated Russian-run smuggling operation that has used falsified manifests and seaborne subterfuge to steal Ukrainian grain worth at least $530 million.
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Senate passes stopgap bill to avert shutdown, aid Ukraine
The bill finances the federal government through Dec. 16 and buys lawmakers more time to agree on legislation setting spending levels for the 2023 fiscal year.
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Republican states sue Biden administration over student loan plan
It’s at least the second legal challenge this week to the sweeping debt-relief proposal laid out by President Biden in late August.
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U.S. economy shrank at 0.6% annual rate from April through June
It marked the second consecutive quarter of economic contraction, one informal rule of thumb for a recession.
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Virginia ‘Ginni’ Thomas told Jan. 6 committee she stands by false election claims, chairman says
Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson said the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas stood by the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen.
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U.S. announces $1.1 billion more in military aid for Ukraine
The U.S. will provide an additional $1.1 billion in aid to Ukraine, with funding for about 18 more advanced rocket systems and other weapons to counter drones that Russia has been using against Ukrainian troops.
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U.S. consumers gaining confidence as gas prices keep falling
The back-to-back monthly increases follow three straight monthly declines as American households were hammered by rising prices, particularly at the gas pump.