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Biden faces green revolt by climate protesters angry over his action on Willow oil-drilling project

Demonstraters protest against the Biden administration's approval of the Willow oil-drilling project before a scheduled speech by Biden at the Department of the Interior in Washington, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Environmental activists are furious with President Biden for allowing the giant Willow oil-drilling project on federal lands in Alaska, even as his administration also battles green allies in the courts.

This undated photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a strain of Candida auris cultured in a petri dish at a CDC laboratory. In a CDC paper published by the Annals of Internal Medicine on Monday, March 20, 2023, U.S. cases of the dangerous fungus tripled over just three years, and more than half of states have now reported it. (Shawn Lockhart/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP, File)

CDC warns of potentially deadly drug-resistant fungus

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks to the American Bankers Association, Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Mystery unsolved: Yellen, admin still baffled by historic bank collapses

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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs Bowling Green Veterans Center in Bowling Green, Ky., on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022. (Grace Ramey/Daily News via AP) **FILE**

Rand Paul joins Trump in suggesting NYC DA is breaking the law as indictment looms

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A soldier walks past a line of M1 Abrams tanks, Nov. 29, 2016, at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colo. U.S. officials say the Pentagon is speeding up its delivery of Abrams tanks to Ukraine, opting to send a refurbished older model that can be ready faster. The aim is to get the 70-ton battle powerhouses to the war zone in eight to 10 months. (Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP, File)

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The mobile phone icon for the Coinbase app is shown in this photo, in New York, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase has lost half its value in the past week, including its biggest one-day drop ever on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, as the famously volatile crypto market weathers yet another slump. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

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Leigh Finke, center, the first transgender person elected to the state's legislature, is sworn in to the Minnesota House of Representatives during the first day of the 2023 legislative session, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr) **FILE**

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A U.S. Capitol Police officer closes a barricade around the U.S. Capitol on the the second year anniversary of the violent insurrection by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) ** FILE **

Capitol Police ramp up security ahead of possible Trump arrest

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The Twitter splash page is seen on a digital device on April 25, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

Antisemitic tweets surge after Musk’s takeover of platform: Study

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Students make their way across campus at the University of Notre Dame on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, in South Bend, Ind. (Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune via AP)

Judge Duncan to speak at Notre Dame after being shouted down at Stanford

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during opening statements during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Nov. 4, 2021, in Washington. Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert who became a household name, and the subject of partisan attacks, during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he will depart the federal government in December after more than 5 decades of service. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

D.C. man rebukes Fauci’s COVID-19 vaccine pitch on video: ‘You all attack people with fear’

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A coyote ambles among cactus and other plants within the proposed site of Avi Kwa Ame National Monument on March 1, 2022, near Searchlight, Nev. President Joe Biden is establishing national monuments in Nevada and Texas and creating a marine sanctuary southwest of Hawaii. Biden will announce the measures Tuesday at a White House summit on conservation action at the Interior Department. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, File)

Biden creates national monuments in Nevada, Texas

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Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., holds a ceremony to nullify the D.C. crime bill, at the Capitol in Washington, March 10, 2023. Republicans and Democrats have been dancing around each other about the need to raise the government's legal borrowing authority. President Joe Biden tried to edge closer on Thursday, March 9, by releasing his budget plan that cuts deficits by $2.9 trillion over 10 years, an offer that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif, quickly dismissed as woefully insufficient. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Speaker McCarthy readies GOP demands for debt ceiling battle with Biden

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis answers questions from the media in the Florida Cabinet following his State of the State address during a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives Tuesday, March 7, 2023, at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Phil Sears) **FILE**

DeSantis introduces bill that would bar use of federal digital currency in Florida

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This image provided by U.S. Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Service shows the website for HealthCare.gov. (U.S. Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Service via AP) ** FILE **

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A cross depicting the emblems of five U.S. military branches was removed from the lobby of the Austin, Texas, Veterans Affairs department clinic following a watchdog group’s complaint. (Military Religious Freedom Foundation photo, used with permission)

Texas VA clinic removes ‘Remember Our Veterans’ metal cross after watchdog complains

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A view of the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, March 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Supreme Court vacates ruling on parental notice for Missouri teen who sought an abortion

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A gay pride rainbow flag flies along with the U.S. flag in front of the Asbury United Methodist Church in Prairie Village, Kansas, on April 19, 2019. A group of theologically conservative United Methodists planned to launch a new worldwide denomination on May 1, 2022. This will begin the breakup of the third-largest religious body in the U.S. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Maryland, West Virginia Methodist congregations sue denomination over departure payments

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Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during opening statements during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Nov. 4, 2021, in Washington. Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert who became a household name, and the subject of partisan attacks, during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he will depart the federal government in December after more than 5 decades of service. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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Police tape cordons off a street in Waukesha, Wis., after an SUV plowed into a Christmas parade hitting multiple people Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps) **FILE**

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This undated photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a strain of Candida auris cultured in a petri dish at a CDC laboratory. In a CDC paper published by the Annals of Internal Medicine on Monday, March 20, 2023, U.S. cases of the dangerous fungus tripled over just three years, and more than half of states have now reported it. (Shawn Lockhart/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP, File)

CDC warns of potentially deadly drug-resistant fungus

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a Senate Banking Committee hearing, March 3, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sen. Warren is slamming Rep. Kevin McCarthy as a “liar and a traitor” over recordings that show the House Republican leader — despite his denials — placing responsibility on former President Donald Trump for the Jan. 6 insurrection and saying he should resign. McCarthy initially had denied a New York Times report last week that detailed his phone conversations with House Republican colleagues shortly after the riot that he thought Trump should resign. But in an audio first posted Thursday by The Times, McCarthy is heard making the comments he denied making. Asked Sunday, April 24, 2022 about her reaction, Warren calls that “outrageous." (Tom Williams, Pool via AP)

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The mobile phone icon for the Coinbase app is shown in this photo, in New York, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase has lost half its value in the past week, including its biggest one-day drop ever on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, as the famously volatile crypto market weathers yet another slump. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

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Copper Mountain Resort and Ski area is pictured on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, west of Breckenridge, Colo. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) **FILE**

Two Illinois high schoolers on spring break die in sledding accident in Colorado

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A soldier walks past a line of M1 Abrams tanks, Nov. 29, 2016, at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colo. U.S. officials say the Pentagon is speeding up its delivery of Abrams tanks to Ukraine, opting to send a refurbished older model that can be ready faster. The aim is to get the 70-ton battle powerhouses to the war zone in eight to 10 months. (Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP, File)

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People walk past uncollected garbage in Paris, March 20, 2023 as strikes continue with uncollected garbage piling higher by the day. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)

Garbage: In Paris streets, heaps of it become protest symbol

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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, arrives at a church in Bucha, a town outside Kyiv that became a symbol of Russian atrocities against civilians, in Ukraine, Tuesday, March 21, 2023.(Iori Sagisawa/Kyodo News via AP)

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The flag of Finland flies aboard the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it arrives into Nuuk, Greenland, after traversing the Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Saturday, July 29, 2017. After 24 days at sea and a journey spanning more than 10,000 kilometers (6,214 miles), the MSV Nordica has set a new record for the earliest transit of the fabled Northwest Passage. The once-forbidding route through the Arctic, linking the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, has been opening up sooner and for a longer period each summer due to climate change. (AP Photo/David Goldman) **FILE**

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Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder, left, and his wife Tanya Snyder, listen to head coach Ron Rivera during a news conference at the team's NFL football training facility in Ashburn, Va., Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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New York Knicks Hall-of-Famer Willis Reed responds to questions during an interview before an NBA basketball game between the Knicks and the Milwaukee Bucks, Friday, April 5, 2013, in New York. Willis Reed, who dramatically emerged from the locker room minutes before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to spark the New York Knicks to their first championship and create one of sports’ most enduring examples of playing through pain, died Tuesday, March 21, 2023. He was 80. Reed's death was announced by the National Basketball Retired Players Association, which confirmed it through his family. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File) **FILE**

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