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From ‘Jolene’ To Vaccine: Dolly Parton Gets COVID-19 Shot She Helped Fund

Country music icon Dolly Parton, 75, shared a video of herself getting vaccinated on Tuesday, in which she riffed off her hit song “Jolene” and urged those eligible to get their shots. (Image credit: Wade Payne/Wade Payne/Invision/AP)

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WATCH LIVE: National security officials testify on what went wrong in Capitol attack

Federal national security officials are set to testify in the second Senate hearing about what went wrong on Jan. 6.

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‘Exit Counselors’ Strain To Pull Americans Out Of A Web Of False Conspiracies

With disinformation spreading on an unprecedented scale, experts in cult deprogramming are turning their focus to those who have fallen down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories. (Image credit: Matt Williams for NPR)

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$100 million for mealworms

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numberhttps://twitter.com/cgates123s behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down and focus on a single topic, or theme. This week we’re talking agtech, a

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Google says it won’t adopt new tracking tech after phasing out cookies

While we’ve written about attempts to build alternatives to cookies that track users across websites, Google says it won’t be going down that route. The search giant had already announced that it will be phasing out support for third-party cookies

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Germany’s Largest Opposition Party Under Extremism Investigation

The country’s intelligence agency opened an investigation into the far-right Alternative for Germany as a potential threat to the constitutional order, an unprecedented move at the start of a decisive election year for the country.

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Yugabyte announces $48M Series C as cloud native database makes enterprise push

As demand for cloud native applications is growing, Yugabyte, makers of the cloud native, open source YugabyteDB database are seeing a corresponding rise in demand for their products, especially with large enterprise customers. Today, the company announced a $48 million

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US forces: Rockets hit airbase in Iraq housing US troops – The Associated Press

US forces: Rockets hit airbase in Iraq housing US troops  The Associated Press Rockets hit military base in Iraq  FOX59 News Iraq rocket fire targets base hosting US, coalition forces  Fox News WorldView: Rockets hit air base in Iraq hosting U.S. troops; 3

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Israel says it has identified ship that caused massive oil leak in Mediterranean

Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel tweets that Israel has ‘laid its hands’ on the vessel responsible for tar polluting country’s coastline, doesn’t name ship

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At Least 6 Protesters Killed In Latest Myanmar Unrest

A crackdown on anti-government protests in Myanmar showed no signs of letting up, a day after after Southeast Asian foreign ministers issued a tepid call to end to the violence. (Image credit: Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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