Walters, whose death was reported by ABC on Dec. 30, spent the following decades overcoming her mangled r’s and became one of television’s premier interrogators of the newsworthy.
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More European nations tighten COVID rules for China flights
EU health officials promise to continue talks on seeking a common approach.
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Bill Gates made 2022’s biggest charitable donation
The philanthropist gave $5 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to back the grantmaker’s work in global health, development, policy and advocacy, and U.S. education.
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Queen guitarist Brian May: Knighthood comes with ‘a little bit more clout’
He was among hundreds of artists, community leaders and athletes who were recognized on the first such list to be signed off by King Charles III.
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Key takeaways from Trump’s long-sought tax returns
The release of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns show he maintained a bank account in China through 2017, his first year in the White House.
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Woman sues Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, alleging child sex assault in 1970s
While the lawsuit doesn’t name Tyler, Misley identified him by name in the statement, issued through the law firm Jeff Anderson & Associates.
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Vatican says Pope Emeritus Benedict in stable condition, participated in Mass
On Wednesday, Pope Francis revealed that his 95-year-old predecessor was “very ill” and he went to see him in his home in the Vatican Gardens.
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Biden pardons 6 convicted of murder, drug, alcohol crimes
President Joe Biden has pardoned six people who’ve served out sentences after convictions on a murder charge and drug- and alcohol-related crimes.
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Suspect in stabbing deaths of 4 Idaho students arrested in Pennsylvania
Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, is a PhD student at Washington State University, just across the state line from the University of Idaho.
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EPA finalizes water rule that repeals Trump-era changes
The regulations protect hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, repealing a Trump-era rule that federal courts had thrown out and that environmentalists said left waterways vulnerable to pollution.