Which country’s lawmakers approved a measure banning athletes from wearing headscarves in sports competitions?
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A French Senate majority claim a head-covering ban is a safety measure; Muslim advocates see it as religious bigotry ahead of the 2024 olympics in Paris
Britney Spears sent a cease-and-desist letter to a book author whose manuscript is critical of her. Who is the author?
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Britney might sue her younger sister Jamie Lynn over what may be “misleading or outrageous claims” about the pop singer.
The University of Michigan agreed to pay $490 million to more than 1,000 former students who were victims of what?
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The victims, mostly male, say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Robert Anderson during a period of time that stretched nearly 40 years..
President Biden told reporters that Russian President Vladimir Putin will likely “move in” and invade what former Soviet bloc country?
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During a press conference, Biden seemed to telegraph to Putin that he would meet little resistance if he sent his army into eastern Ukraine.
A town northwest of Los Angeles is implementing harsher fines and other get-tough measures against citizens who consume too much of what resource. What is it?
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Each household in Las Virgenes, California has a “water budget,” and residents can now be fined for exceeding it by 50 percent
For the first time, the Grammy Awards ceremony won’t be in Los Angeles. What city will host it this year?
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Planners settled on an April 3 broadcast from the MGM Grand on the Las Vegas strip, moving the event out of Hollywood because of Covid-19 omicron fears.
A homeowners association that manages apartments within a resort in Australia has created a stir by ruling that a homeowner there can’t do what on his outside balcony?
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The committee that manages Artique Resort, Surfers Paradise told a homeowner that he can’t smoke on his own balcony because tobacco is a “hazard.”
Cracker Barrel was ordered to pay more than $9 million to a customer given a glass of water containing what?
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A Cracker Barrel customer in 2014 was served a glass of water mixed with a Eco-San, a commercial-grade bleach. He ended up in the emergency room.
New York’s Attorney General said her office found evidence of what crime in a civil investigation of former president Donald Trump and his real estate company?
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Attorney General Letitia James said “significant evidence” of fraud establishes that the Trump Organization manipulated the value of its buildings to defraud banks.
Ford is recalling about 200,000 cars in the United States produced between 2014 and 2015, because a specific component could fail in hot climates. What is it?
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In the recalled vehicles, high temperatures and humidity can cause a rubber brake pedal part to disintegrate, forcing the brake lights to stay on all the time.
