Bill Chappell

Bill Chappell appears in the following:

Texas GOP's new platform says Biden didn't really win. It also calls for secession

Monday, June 20, 2022

"We reject the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election," the Republican Party of Texas says, referring to President Biden as the "acting" leader.

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Gas prices fall below $5 per gallon in the first weekly drop since April

Monday, June 20, 2022

The drop doesn't signal a rapid descent to the low prices of 2021, but drivers could see modest decreases continue in the coming weeks, analysts say.

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COVID cases are upending cycling, and the Tour de France starts in 2 weeks

Friday, June 17, 2022

"It's just crazy," Welsh cyclist Geraint Thomas said at the Tour de Suisse on Friday, after around 30 riders were forced to abandon the race.

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Will Julian Assange be extradited to the U.S.? Where his case stands now

Friday, June 17, 2022

The WikiLeaks founder will face 18 federal counts — whenever he's brought to a U.S. courthouse in Virginia. For now, he has at least one more avenue of appeal.

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Days of intense heat have killed thousands of cattle in Kansas

Thursday, June 16, 2022

Temperatures topped 104 degrees in the state's top cattle county. In widely seen video footage, rows of carcasses are shown lined up along the edge of a field.

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DOJ charges Buffalo gunman with hate crimes, and says he apologized to a white victim

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

The federal complaint gives a new account of Payton Gendron's movements in the store. It also alleges that he said "Sorry" to at least one of his white victims.

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The WHO wants to give monkeypox a new name

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Scientists recently criticized the current name as "discriminatory and stigmatizing." They also say it's inaccurate to name versions of the virus after parts of Africa.

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Police in the Dallas area kill a gunman who entered a summer camp for kids

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Authorities credit the fast response by camp staff and police with preventing injuries to anyone else.

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Ohio Gov. DeWine signs a bill arming teachers after 24 hours of training

Monday, June 13, 2022

Experts say such an approach isn't a good idea. The strategy's opponents also include teachers groups and the Fraternal Order of Police of Ohio.

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In Texas, Moms Demand Action got more than 20,000 new supporters after Uvalde

Monday, June 13, 2022

"My own historically Republican mother told me she looked up her senators and called them for the first time in her life," Liz Hanks, who leads the Texas chapter of Moms Demand Action, told NPR.

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GEICO may have to pay $5.2 million to a woman who got an STD in an insured car

Friday, June 10, 2022

The woman says a man infected her with HPV when they had unprotected sex in his 2014 Hyundai Genesis. She's now trying to enforce a large arbitration award.

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The Saudi-backed LIV Golf tees off, and the PGA Tour quickly suspends 17 players

Thursday, June 09, 2022

As a splashy new series begins, the PGA Tour says 17 golfers playing in it "are suspended or otherwise no longer eligible to participate in PGA TOUR tournament play."

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A car drove into a crowd in Berlin, killing 1 person, police say

Wednesday, June 08, 2022

Emergency responders have kept the man who was driving the vehicle at the scene, according to the Berlin police department.

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Moderna says its new vaccine booster shows 'superior' response to Omicron

Wednesday, June 08, 2022

The "bivalent" vaccine — meaning it targets two different antigens — is Moderna's leading candidate for an effective booster this fall. If the data pan out, it could lead to a yearly booster.

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A mother is arrested after police say her 2-year-old shot her husband

Tuesday, June 07, 2022

Investigators had initially suspected a death by suicide in the east Orlando, Fla., case. Then a five-year-old said his brother had shot his dad.

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Figure skaters' minimum age for top competitions will rise to 17 after scandal

Tuesday, June 07, 2022

The move comes months after Russia's Kamila Valieva, then 15, was caught in a storm of controversy at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

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In 10 states, a gallon of gas now costs more than $5

Monday, June 06, 2022

Consumers are paying more around the country. No state's average is below $4.28, according to AAA. But in California, drivers are paying $2 more than that amount.

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Boris Johnson faces a no-confidence vote. His exit may be a matter of when, not if

Monday, June 06, 2022

Johnson was booed during the queen's Platinum Jubilee — the latest sign of intense public anger over his flouting of his own government's COVID-19 rules.

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100 days after Ukraine was plunged into war, over 2 million Ukrainians have returned

Friday, June 03, 2022

"In recent weeks more people have been returning to Ukraine than leaving the country," according to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency.

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Here are the biggest shifts in the official account of the Uvalde school shooting

Friday, June 03, 2022

"There's been a lot of things that have been said — some are correct, some are incorrect," Gov. Greg Abbott said the day after the shooting. But soon afterward, he would correct his own statements.

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