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• Miami Mayor Francis Suarez files for 2024 presidential bid

  14-06-2023 23:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  GOP Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who bills himself as a "unifier," is poised to launch a long-shot bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
  
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• Trump narrowing list of potential attorneys to join his legal team: Sources

  14-06-2023 23:51 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Former President Trump is narrowing down his list of potential attorneys as he and his team work to expand his legal team following his arraignment Tuesday, sources say.
  
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• Bucs' Todd Bowles praises Shaquil Barrett's mental strength amid return just months after daughter's death

  14-06-2023 23:51 via foxnews.com
  
  Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles praised Shaquil Barrett’s mental fortitude Tuesday after the veteran linebacker returned to practice with the team this week, less than two months after his 2-year-old daughter died in a drowning accident.  Barrett, who’s season last year was cut short by a torn Achilles in Week 8, attended the Bucs’ mandatory minicamp this week. According to USA Today, Barrett still showed up despite not practicing just yet. For Bowles, it speak
  
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• 4 charged with stealing and selling human body parts from Harvard Medical School morgue

  14-06-2023 23:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  Members of a macabre theft ring swiped human remains from the Harvard Medical School morgue in Boston and sold the body parts to a nationwide network of buyers, officials said Wednesday.
  
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• Before dying of pregnancy complications, Olympic sprinter Tori Bowie talked about how excited she was to become a mom

  14-06-2023 23:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  Track and field star Tori Bowie told her friend how much she looked forward to becoming a mom two weeks before she died from pregnancy complications.
  
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• California Border Patrol chief slams 'sanctuary' law after illegal immigrant allegedly takes life during DUI

  14-06-2023 23:42 via foxnews.com
  
  The U.S. Border Patrol chief in charge of overseeing the agency's El Centro, California, sector slammed a state law that limits cooperation with federal immigration authorities after he said a drunken driver in the country illegally killed someone in a crash.  Gregory Bovino didn't specify the nature of the deadly crash, but tweeted that the suspect was previously convicted of striking his spouse. He added that because of California's "inaction, thanks to SB54, has claimed another life." TE
  
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• Tennis star Nick Kyrgios reveals he checked into mental health ward after 2019 Wimbledon loss

  14-06-2023 23:38 via foxnews.com
  
  Disclaimer: This article includes mention of suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available 24 hours a day at 988. In an upcoming documentary, Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios talks about checking into a psychiatric hospital following his crushing defeat at Wimbledon several years ago, Australian media reported. Kyrgios lost to 22-time Grand Slam winner Rafael Nadal in the second round of the tournament in London. In th
  
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• Salma Hayek feared ‘Black Mirror’ role would get her in ‘trouble’

  14-06-2023 23:37 via foxnews.com
  
  Salma Hayek admitted she was reluctant about being a part of the "Black Mirror" cast.  In Season 6 of the dystopian, sci-fi drama series, Hayek said she was afraid the "disgusting" and "grotesque" scenes she acted in would be largely criticized by viewers.  "There are so many moments that shocked me in the script. There is one huge one that I had to come to terms with, and made me ask myself, ‘Do I really want to do this? Am I going to get in trouble?’" Hayek said during a
  
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• Russian nuclear weapons 'in hands of Belarus dictator', warns opposition leader

  14-06-2023 23:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Belarus's opposition leader says the West is silent over the transfer of weapons to Alexander Lukashenko.
  
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• Miami Mayor Francis Suarez files to run for president

  14-06-2023 23:26 via foxnews.com
  
  Miami Mayor Francis Suarez officially filed paperwork on Wednesday declaring his campaign for president in 2024 as a Republican, according to a Federal Election Commission filing. The filing comes after a newly re-branded super PAC that supports Suarez launched a digital ad blitz earlier Wednesday in the first four states that hold contests in the 2024 GOP presidential nominating calendar.  Suarez teased a run on "Fox News Sunday," saying he's going to make a "major announcement" in the com
  
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• Bud Light, top US seller since 2001, loses sales crown to Modelo

  14-06-2023 23:26 via abcnews.go.com
  
  After more than two decades as America’s best-selling beer, Bud Light has slipped into second place
  
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• Demi Lovato reveals why using they/them pronouns was ‘absolutely exhausting’

  14-06-2023 23:19 via foxnews.com
  
  Demi Lovato is still working on understanding her identity. Lovato, who recently announced she was adding back in "she/her" pronouns in addition to "they/them" pronouns, explained why she made the change in a recent interview with GQ Hype Spain. "I constantly had to educate people and explain why I identified with those pronouns. It was absolutely exhausting," Lovato told the outlet. "And that is one of the reasons that has led me to also feel comfortable with the feminine pronoun. I just got ti
  
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• Arkansas football recruit Dion Stutts, 18, dies in apparent ATV crash: ‘We are heartbroken’

  14-06-2023 23:19 via foxnews.com
  
  Dion Stutts, a rising senior on the Memphis University School’s (MUS) football team and an Arkansas Razorbacks commit, died in an apparent ATV crash Tuesday, according to reports. He was 18. MUS athletics released a brief statement on social media Tuesday to confirm Stutts’ death.  "Our hearts go out to the family and friends of rising senior Dion Stutts." BMX STAR PAT CASEY, 29, KILLED IN MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT AT MOTOCROSS PARK IN CALIFORNIA According to ESPN, the Panola County S
  
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• US Marine among 2 men charged with firebombing California Planned Parenthood

  14-06-2023 23:18 via foxnews.com
  
  An active-duty Marine and another man were arrested Wednesday morning for allegedly using a Molotov cocktail to firebomb a Planned Parenthood in Southern California, federal authorities said. Tibet Ergul, 21, and Chance Brannon, 23, an active-duty Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton, were named in a criminal complaint.  The complaint alleges that Ergul and Brannon used an explosive to damage a Planned Parenthood clinic in Costa Mesa, about 45 miles south of Los Angeles, on March 13, 2022.&nb
  
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• Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh: The man at the centre of India's wrestling row

  14-06-2023 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Who is Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the outgoing chief of Indian wrestling, who has athletes up in arms?
  
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• Nadler: Toddlers should've masked up during COVID; parents who didn't mask kids committed ‘child abuse'

  14-06-2023 23:03 via foxnews.com
  
  Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., claimed Wednesday that 2-year-olds should have been "required" to wear masks throughout the coronavirus pandemic and insisted parents who opposed the notion were engaging in a form of "child abuse." Arguing in favor of vaccines, Nadler said from the House floor that "we have to vaccinate people to prevent diseases and pandemics" and that "people should [be] required to be vaccinated" in the event of a pandemic. "It protects against transmission of the disease to the ne
  
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• Nationals’ Trevor Williams continues to rip Dodgers over anti-Catholic group invitation: 'Blatant mockery'

  14-06-2023 23:02 via foxnews.com
  
  The Los Angeles Dodgers reinviting the anti-Catholic protest group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, has received backlash galore from players inside the organization as well as outside.  One of those not in the Dodgers’ clubhouse was Washington Nationals starter Trevor Williams, whose tweet went viral where he prepared a statement condemning the invitation to not just allow the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence back for the team’s annual Pride Night on June 16, but to honor t
  
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• Marine veteran Daniel Penny indicted for subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely: sources

  14-06-2023 23:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Marine veteran Daniel Penny was indicted Wednesday for the New York City subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely, sources told Fox News. Penny was indicted on one count each of criminally negligent homicide and second-degree manslaughter for the homeless man’s May 21 death, sources said. Neely, who suffered from mental illness and had a long history of violent attacks on subway riders, stormed onto the train at the Second Avenue station in Manhattan at about 2:30 p.m., screaming and th
  
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• CNN's coverage of Trump indictment after Chris Licht firing shows echoes of more partisan Jeff Zucker era

  14-06-2023 23:00 via foxnews.com
  
  CNN's approach to covering the historic federal indictment Tuesday of former President Trump appeared to show the network leaning back into the earlier Jeff Zucker era not long after the firing of CEO Chris Licht. Licht said he wanted to dial back the more partisan approach that defined his predecessor Zucker, but he faced internal dissension throughout his tenure, which came to a head when he offered former President Trump a chance to appear in a CNN town hall last month. Licht was fired last w
  
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• Gunman in ski mask opens fire in domestic dispute, leaving 2 dead in Florida

  14-06-2023 22:59 via foxnews.com
  
  A man wearing a ski mask opened fire at a southwest Florida home during a domestic disturbance Wednesday, leaving two people dead and the suspect and another person wounded, authorities said. Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said at a news conference that deputies responded around 7 a.m. to the disturbance at a home in Lehigh Acres, just east of Fort Myers. Yohani de Lazaro, 45, had arrived at the house wearing a ski mask and started a fight with a woman inside before opening fire, Marceno sai
  
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• Fox News Digital tops CNN, New York Times in key categories to dominate news organizations in May

  14-06-2023 22:59 via foxnews.com
  
  Fox News Digital continued to dominate online news organizations in May, finishing No. 1 in both multiplatform minutes and multiplatform views, along with other key measurables, during the busy news month.  Fox News Digital first reported two of the month’s biggest stories with the findings of Special Counsel John Durham’s probe and Target’s decision to scale back Pride merchandise dominating much of the news cycle.  Fox News Digital continued to provide exclusive fol
  
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• Car launches into air over tow truck, leaving driver with severe injuries in Georgia

  14-06-2023 22:58 via foxnews.com
  
  A woman whose car was captured on video vaulting into the air over a tow truck and crashing onto a Georgia highway says she's recovering after spending two weeks in a hospital and undergoing several surgeries. "I don’t really remember much, but I know that I thought I was going to die," Tanaijsha Bruton told WALB-TV in an interview Tuesday. "It hurts really, really bad. I felt everything." A Lowndes County sheriff's deputy was responding to an earlier wreck May 24 when his body camera reco
  
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• Did Biden call UK PM Sunak 'prejudiced'? White House pressed on comments on state puberty blocker bans

  14-06-2023 22:57 via foxnews.com
  
  White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was pressed Wednesday for a response to the United Kingdom's decision to ban puberty blockers for minors despite President Biden's claim that American lawmakers pushing such bans were "hysterical" and "prejudiced." Biden made the comments on June 8 during a joint press conference at the White House with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the first person of color elected British prime minister, and declared his administration was "not relenting" when
  
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• Taiwan sees MeToo wave of allegations after Netflix show

  14-06-2023 22:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The island has seen a wave of sexual harassment allegations against high-profile men.
  
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• 'Red Alert': China posts bizarre video of marching female Chinese soldiers to sounds of classic video game

  14-06-2023 22:55 via foxnews.com
  
  The Chinese government has posted a bizarre video of female Chinese soldiers marching in various settings to its official account for its embassy in France -- and featuring music that was made for a famous 1996 military strategy video game. The video, captioned "Les femmes de l'armée chinoise" (The women of the Chinese army) was posted on Sunday, and features a number of clips of female soldiers marching in different contexts. However, the music featured over the top of the clips is
  
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• Community kitchen struggles as inflation pushes more families into poverty in Buenos Aires

  14-06-2023 22:52 via foxnews.com
  
  Anahí Robledo feeds 50 families each day at the community kitchen she runs in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, struggling with the chronic inflation that has thrown four in every ten people in the country into poverty. Argentina is battling an economic crisis which could see inflation hit around 150% by the end of the year, one of the highest rates in the world. Robledo said the soup kitchen she works at can't keep up: it went from feeding 10 or 15 families to around
  
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• Italy implements decree allowing regional speed limit reductions to combat air pollution

  14-06-2023 22:51 via foxnews.com
  
  Italy will allow its regions to lower speed limits on highways and motorways passing through or near urban areas struggling with high air pollution, according to a government decree that took effect on Wednesday. A new law that is part of the decree says speed limits may be reduced temporarily or permanently "in case there is a need to limit emissions from vehicular traffic in relation to levels of pollutants in the air". MIGRANT FISHING VESSEL CAPSIZES OFF COAST OF GREECE KILLING AT LEAST 78, D
  
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• US lawmakers introduce new bill to protect TikTok user information

  14-06-2023 22:49 via foxnews.com
  
  A bipartisan group of six senators and two members of the House of Representatives on Wednesday introduced legislation to protect Americans’ data from being used by U.S. adversaries. The bill is the latest in a series of proposals aimed at addressing concerns about the data of Americans using foreign-owned social media apps like TikTok. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, a Democrat, said the bill "would turn off the tap of data to unfriendly nations, stop TikTok from sending Amer
  
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• Connecticut motorist hospitalized after commuter train hits pickup truck

  14-06-2023 22:47 via foxnews.com
  
  A commuter train collided with a pickup truck in Connecticut on Wednesday, injuring the driver and heavily damaging the vehicle, authorities said. The crash happened just before 11:30 a.m. at a Metro-North Railroad street crossing in Norwalk that has warning lights and gates, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The pickup driver's name and condition had not been released Wednesday afternoon. The MTA said the person was alive at the scene and taken to Norwalk Hospital. A hospi
  
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• Michigan college student's family pleads for answers on mysterious death after party

  14-06-2023 22:45 via foxnews.com
  
  A young Michigan woman's family is desperate for answers after she was left for dead on the side of the road after a party. Mia Kanu, 23, died days after she was found "lying in the roadway in front of Coach House Apartments" in Southfield, a suburb of Detroit, "in the early morning hours" of June 3 with critical injuries, police told Fox News Digital. "Something happened, and somebody knows something, and we just want those answers," Kanu's mother, Bianca Vanmeter, told FOX 2. "She would never
  
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• Federal authorities investigating prop plane crash near Madison, Wisconsin

  14-06-2023 22:45 via foxnews.com
  
  Authorities are investigating after a small plane crashed Wednesday in southern Wisconsin, the National Transportation Safety Board said. ARIZONA PLANE CRASH IN SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS KILLS 2 PEOPLE: NTSB The NTSB said in a tweet that it is investigating the crash of a Mooney M20R aircraft near Watertown, a city in Dodge and Jefferson counties about 48 miles northwest of Milwaukee. Television helicopter footage from the scene showed apparent aircraft debris spread across a field and in an adjace
  
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• Ex-Starbucks manager awarded $25.6 million in suit over firing after 2018 arrests of 2 Black men

  14-06-2023 22:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  Jurors in federal court have awarded $25.6 million to a former Starbucks regional manager who alleged that she and other white employees were unfairly punished after the high-profile arrests of two Black men at a Philadelphia location in 2018.
  
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• Top Hong Kong protest song removed from major music platforms

  14-06-2023 22:44 via foxnews.com
  
  A popular Hong Kong protest song was no longer available Wednesday on several major music streaming sites and social media platforms, after the government sought an injunction to ban the tune. "Glory to Hong Kong" rose to popularity during the 2019 pro-democracy protests, and became an unofficial protest anthem. In 2020, the government outlawed the protest slogan "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times" over secessionist and subversive connotations, and the song was widely considered to be
  
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• 30 million on alert as tornadoes rip through South

  14-06-2023 22:44 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Thirty million Americans across the South are on alert Wednesday for severe weather, including strong tornadoes and wind gusts up to 90 mph.
  
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• Southern Baptists vote to expel two churches led by female pastors

  14-06-2023 22:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Southern Baptist Convention announced Wednesday it has voted overwhelmingly to finalize the expulsion of two churches from the nation's largest Protestant denomination for having female pastors.
  
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• CA Senate passes bill to redefine same-sex couples unable to get pregnant as 'infertile'

  14-06-2023 22:38 via foxnews.com
  
  Democratic lawmakers are attempting to force insurance companies to pay for pregnancy treatments for homosexual couples in California by redefining "infertility" to include couples who cannot reproduce because they have a partner of the same sex. The California Senate passed a bill in May that for insurance purposes would redefine "infertility" as "a person’s inability to reproduce either as an individual or with their partner without medical intervention." SB-729 would repeal and add to s
  
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• Officer accused of shooting 11-year-old 'absolutely sorry,' lawyer says

  14-06-2023 22:26 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The attorney for Greg Capers, the Mississippi police officer suspended for shooting and injuring 11-year-old Aderrien Murry, says theincident was unintentional.
  
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• Fox News says graphic calling Biden a 'wannabe dictator' has been 'addressed'

  14-06-2023 22:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  Fox News drew scrutiny Tuesday night for an on-air graphic that appeared to call President Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator.”
  
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• Johns Hopkins pulls 'lesbian' definition after uproar over use of 'non-men' instead of 'women'

  14-06-2023 21:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  Johns Hopkins University removed an online glossary of LGBTQ terms this week after its definition of the word "lesbian" used the term "non-men" to refer to women and some nonbinary people and fueled an online uproar.
  
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• Trump's long game with Latino voters is apparent after his historic arraignment

  14-06-2023 21:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  Trump used his arraignment as an opportunity to campaign with Miami Latinos, a group he's cultivated steadily since he became president.
  
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• Federal Reserve pauses interest rates after 15 months of hikes

  14-06-2023 21:53 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The decision arrives a day after fresh inflation data exceeded expectations.
  
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• Democratic senators seek antitrust review of the PGA Tour's merger with LIV Golf

  14-06-2023 21:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden raised antitrust concerns to the Justice Department about the PGA Tour's planned merger with Saudi-backed LIV Golf.
  
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• Modelo tops Bud Light as the top-selling beer in the U.S. in May

  14-06-2023 21:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  Bud Light lost its top spot in the U.S. beer market last month, as the brand’s sales sag following a conservative uproar over its partnership with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
  
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• Federal Reserve pauses interest rate hikes this month

  14-06-2023 20:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it was keeping its key interest rate at about 5% — the first time it has kept the rate steady in more than a year.
  
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• 28-year-old woman accused of posing as teen at Louisiana high school

  14-06-2023 20:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  A 28-year-old woman was arrested, along with her mother, after she posed as a 17-year-old student at a Louisiana high school by using a false identification, authorities said.
  
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• European Parliament ready to pass landmark AI legislation

  14-06-2023 20:21 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The landmark legislation aims to promote "human-centric and trustworthy AI."
  
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• Attorney General Garland emphasizes special counsel's 'independence' in Trump probe

  14-06-2023 19:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Attorney General Merrick Garland declined to answer questions about Donald Trump's indictment, emphasizing special counsel Jack Smith's "independence."
  
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• D.C. chiropractor who 'scuffled' with officers on Jan. 6 is sentenced to prison

  14-06-2023 19:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  David Walls-Kaufman, a Washington, D.C., chiropractor who admitted that he “scuffled” with officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack was sentenced to 60 days.
  
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• End in sight for Poland's bus route 666 to Hel

  14-06-2023 19:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The number of a popular service to the coast is being changed after complaints were made.
  
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• Social Security recipients are on track to receive the smallest COLA increase since the pandemic began

  14-06-2023 19:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  The metric that the Social Security Administration uses to calculate the next COLA increase may leave beneficiaries with the smallest increase in years
  
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