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LAS VEGAS AP 鈥?President聽Joe Biden聽went to Las Vegas to showcase $8.2 billion in funding for 10 major passenger rail projects across the country, including to spur work on high-speed, electric train routes that could one day link Nevada and California, as well as Los Angeles and San Francisco.Watch Biden remarks in the player above.The
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LONDON AP 鈥?Two weeks after organizers scrubbed Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna amid a foiled terror plot, the singer issued her first statement on the cancellations. Having our Vienna shows cance
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