Bill Chappell

Bill Chappell appears in the following:

McDonald's is leaving Russia, after more than 30 years

Monday, May 16, 2022

In 1990, the Big Mac's arrival in Moscow signaled a new era. Now McDonald's is tearing down the golden arches and writing off its investment in Russia.

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What we know so far about the Buffalo mass shooting

Sunday, May 15, 2022

10 people are dead after an 18-year-old white man allegedly carried out an attack at a supermarket in a majority Black district.

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What we know about the victims of the Buffalo shooting

Sunday, May 15, 2022

Grandmothers, charity volunteers, a former police officer, and a devoted sister. These are some of the stories of the people killed at a grocery store in Buffalo.

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Texas Supreme Court OKs state child abuse inquiries into the families of trans kids

Friday, May 13, 2022

The ruling overturns an injunction barring state officials from following Abbott's directive to view treatments such as hormones and puberty-blocking drugs as incidents of child abuse.

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Elon Musk says he's put the blockbuster Twitter deal on pause over fake accounts

Friday, May 13, 2022

The Tesla and SpaceX mogul said he needs to make sure the fake accounts "do indeed represent less than 5%" of Twitter's users, as the company has estimated.

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A nonspeaking valedictorian with autism gives her college's commencement speech

Thursday, May 12, 2022

A computer keyboard "unlocked my mind from its silent cage," Elizabeth Bonker told her fellow graduates. She urged them to serve others, citing Rollins College's most famous alum: Fred Rogers.

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This is the first image of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way

Thursday, May 12, 2022

"We finally have the first look at our Milky Way black hole, Sagittarius A*," an international team of astrophysicists and researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope team said.

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A man died of a heart attack while burying a woman he killed, S.C. sheriff says

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

An autopsy report filled in gaps for deputies who discovered a man's body lying in his backyard on Saturday — and then found his girlfriend's body nearby.

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Al Jazeera's Shireen Abu Akleh is killed while reporting on an Israeli raid

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Abu Akleh, a Palestinian American, had been covering a military raid on the Jenin refugee camp "when she was shot in the face by a single bullet, despite wearing a press vest," Al Jazeera said.

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Lincoln College closes after 157 years, blaming COVID-19 and cyberattack disruptions

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

It's a shocking turnaround for a small Illinois college that welcomes first-generation students and qualifies as a predominantly Black institution.

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Meet the new boss? At 19, Carlos Alcaraz beat Nadal, Djokovic and Zverev

Monday, May 09, 2022

In the past week, Alcaraz turned 19 — and then outplayed three of the world's top five players.

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Michigan's abortion ban is draconian and should be vacated, attorney general says

Monday, May 09, 2022

The push to overturn Michigan's 1931 law now has a new urgency, after a draft Supreme Court opinion leaked that would overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion rights.

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Texas governor says the state may contest a Supreme Court ruling on migrant education

Friday, May 06, 2022

Gov. Greg Abbott says the court's ruling in 1982 has imposed an unfair burden on Texas.

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A 'space jellyfish' soared over Florida, thanks to the SpaceX launch

Friday, May 06, 2022

People who got up early to watch the Falcon 9 rocket's pre-dawn launch were treated to an ethereal spectacle, when a cloud of illuminated gases moved across the sky.

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Governments have undercounted the COVID-19 death toll by millions, the WHO says

Thursday, May 05, 2022

Case in point: India, which reported 481,000 COVID-19 deaths in 2020 and 2021. The World Health Organization found 4.74 million deaths there either directly or indirectly attributable to the pandemic.

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Amber Heard accuses Johnny Depp of sexual assault

Thursday, May 05, 2022

Heard described a chaotic and violent night in 2015, during which she alleges Depp sexually assaulted her.

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Amber Heard accuses Johnny Depp of physical abuse on her first day of testimony

Wednesday, May 04, 2022

Heard described years of alleged abuse at the hands of the movie star.

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The EU just proposed a ban on oil from Russia, its main energy supplier

Wednesday, May 04, 2022

The European Union wants to sharpen its sanctions against Russia. But its leaders acknowledge Europe's economy could suffer.

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A former Philadelphia police officer is charged with murder in a 12-year-old's death

Monday, May 02, 2022

Former officer Edsaul Mendoza is charged with first-degree murder and other charges.

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You can now ask Google to take your personal data out of its search results

Monday, May 02, 2022

Anyone who doesn't want their phone number, email or street address to be found online can ask Google to omit the data from its search results.

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