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Over 4 Million Americans Roll Up Sleeves For Omicron-Targeted COVID Boosters Health experts said it is too early to predict whether demand would match up with the 171 million doses of the new boosters the U.S. ordered for the fall. | U.S. NEWS |
American Airlines Flyer Charged, Banned For Life After Punching Flight Attendant On Video He was subdued by passengers and crew when he fled to the back of the aircraft after the confrontation, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles. | U.S. NEWS |
23 Of The Funniest Tweets About Cats And Dogs This Week (Sept. 17-23) "Until you have a dog you don't understand what could be eaten." | COMEDY |
The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week (Sept. 17-23) "Accidentally put grown-up toothpaste on my toddler’s toothbrush and he screamed like I was cleaning his teeth with a Carolina Reaper dipped in Tabasco sauce." | PARENTING |
Woman Who Called Cops On Black Bird-Watcher Loses Lawsuit Against Ex-Employer Amy Cooper accused investment firm Franklin Templeton of unfairly firing her and branding her a racist after video of the Central Park encounter went viral. | U.S. NEWS |
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Reporter Gets Adorable Surprise From Her Boyfriend While Live On TV "Who's that behind you?" an anchor for New York’s PIX11 asked journalist Michelle Ross as she finished up an interview. | U.S. NEWS |
Puerto Ricans Desperate For Water After Hurricane Fiona’s Rampage More than half a million people remained without water service three days after the storm lashed the U.S. territory. | WORLD NEWS |
How A New Documentary Captures The Complexity Of Being A Child Of Immigrants In "Mija," director Isabel Castro combined music documentaries with the style of "Euphoria" and "Clueless" to tell a more nuanced immigration story. | CULTURE & ARTS |
Biden At UN To Call Russian War An Affront To Body's Charter White House officials say the crux of the president's visit to the U.N. this year will be a full-throated condemnation of Russia and its brutal war. | WORLD NEWS |
World Cup Captains Want To Wear Rainbow Armbands In Qatar FIFA has come under pressure from several European soccer federations who want to support a human rights campaign against discrimination at the World Cup. | WORLD NEWS |
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Fiona Threatens To Become Category 4 Storm Headed To Bermuda Hurricane Fiona lashed the Turks and Caicos Islands and was forecast to squeeze past Bermuda later this week. | WORLD NEWS |
Twitch Bans Gambling Sites After Streamer Scams Folks Out Of $200,000 One man's claims that he scammed people on the platform caused several popular streamers to consider a Twitch boycott. | TECH |
Virginia Thomas Agrees To Interview With Jan. 6 Panel Conservative activist Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has agreed to participate in a voluntary interview with the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. | U.S. NEWS |
Russian Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov Who Broke Record With 437-Day Stay In Space Dies At 80 Polyakov's record-breaking trip to outer space saw him orbit Earth 7,075 times and travel nearly 187 million miles. | WORLD NEWS |
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4 Russian-Controlled Ukrainian Regions Schedule Votes This Week To Join Russia The concerted and quickening Kremlin-backed efforts to swallow up four regions could set the stage for Moscow to escalate the war. | WORLD NEWS |
Fiona Barrels Toward Turks And Caicos Islands As Category 3 Hurricane The Turks and Caicos Islands government imposed a curfew as the intensifying storm kept dropping copious rain over the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. | WORLD NEWS |
Golden Globes Returning To NBC In January After Year Off-Air For the past 18 months, Hollywood has effectively boycotted the Globes after reports that the HFPA’s 87 members of non-American journalists included no Black members. | ENTERTAINMENT |
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Hurricane Fiona Bears Down On Dominican Republic After Pounding Puerto Rico The storm knocked out the power grid and unleashed floods and landslides in Puerto Rico, where the governor said the damage was “catastrophic.” | WORLD NEWS |
One Dead After Plane Crashes At Reno Air Race The single-engine plane was participating in the National Championship Air Races on Sunday when it crashed into a field, killing the pilot, officials said. | U.S. NEWS |
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Family Of American Held In Afghanistan Says He Was Freed By Taliban In Prisoner Swap Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran and civilian contractor, was kidnapped in Afghanistan in January 2020. | U.S. NEWS |
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James Cameron Says He 'Clashed' With Studio Before 'Avatar' Release The "Avatar" director said aspects of his 2009 movie are "still competitive with everything that’s out there these days." | ENTERTAINMENT |
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Watchdog Report Finds Some Census Takers Who Fudged 2020 Data Didn’t Get Fired Despite entering false information, their work wasn't redone fully and in some cases the census takers received bonuses, the Office of Inspector General reported. | U.S. NEWS |
First Public Global Database Of Fossil Fuels Launches On Monday, the world’s first public database of fossil fuel production, reserves and emissions launches. | ENVIRONMENT |
Man Charged With Exposing Himself To Mourners Waiting To View Queen Elizabeth The 19-year-old reportedly fled into the Thames in a failed bid to escape police. | WORLD NEWS |
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Puerto Rico Braces For Landslides And Severe Flooding As Tropical Storm Fiona Approaches Puerto Rico was under a hurricane watch Saturday as the storm barreled towards the U.S. territory. | ENVIRONMENT |
WHO Raises Alarm On Disease In Flood-hit Areas Of Pakistan The World Health Organization is raising the alarm about a “second disaster” in the wake of the deadly floods in Pakistan this summer, as doctors and medical workers on the ground race to battle outbreaks of waterborne and other diseases. | WORLD NEWS |
Privatization Isn’t The Answer To Jackson’s Water Crisis Studies have repeatedly shown that ending public administration of water supplies doesn’t work — but that’s now on the table in Mississippi. | ENVIRONMENT |
German Customs Officials Follow Trail Of Slime And Find Bags Of Giant Snails “Never in the history of the Duesseldorf customs office has a trail of slime led us to smuggled goods,” spokesman Michael Walk told the media. | WEIRD NEWS |
Amazon Greenlights 'Blade Runner 2099' Limited Series Produced By Ridley Scott The director of the original 1982 film joins a writer of the 2017 sequel for the newest installment in the sci-fi franchise. | ENTERTAINMENT |
Bill To Help Afghans Who Escaped Taliban Faces Long Odds In The Senate Republican outrage over the shoddy U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan hasn’t spurred support for resettling refugees. | POLITICS |
Alabama Sidesteps Compensation For Survivor Of '63 KKK Blast Sarah Collins Rudolph lost an eye and has pieces of glass inside her body from a Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed her sister and three other Black girls inside an Alabama church 59 years ago. | U.S. NEWS |
Racism Seen As Root Of Water Crisis In Mississippi Capital A boil-water advisory has been lifted for Mississippi's capital, and the state will stop handing out free bottled water on Saturday. | U.S. NEWS |
'The Phantom Of The Opera' To Close On Broadway Next Year “The Phantom of the Opera” — Broadway’s longest-running show — is scheduled to close in February 2023, a victim of post-pandemic softening in theater attendance in New York. | ENTERTAINMENT |
Mark Meadows Complies With Justice Dept. Subpoena: Report The former White House chief of staff has turned over records as part of a federal investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol. | POLITICS |
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Chick-Fil-A Worker Saves Woman With Baby From Being Carjacked Mykel Gordon rushed to the woman's aid and held down her assailant until police arrived. Remarkably, this wasn't the first time Gordon may have saved a life. | U.S. NEWS |
Viola Davis Feared A Heart Attack During 'The Woman King' Training The Oscar winner said she worked out for five hours a day for her role in the new action movie. | ENTERTAINMENT |
Kim Kardashian's Next Boyfriend Could Be A Biochemist The reality star told James Corden she's branching out because "clearly it's not working, whatever I’m doing." | ENTERTAINMENT |
Podcasters Offer $100K Reward For Information On 2Pac’s Killers The Las Vegas podcasters are hoping to find out who shot the rap icon 26 years ago. | ENTERTAINMENT |
Cardi B Donates $100,000 To Her Old Middle School In The Bronx The Grammy-winning rapper surprised star-struck children at the Alexander Macomb School in Morris Heights to make the announcement. | ENTERTAINMENT |
Bill Richardson Visits Moscow As Brittney Griner, Paul Whelan Remain Jailed Richardson, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a frequent emissary in hostage negotiations, held meetings with Russian leaders. | WORLD NEWS |
Emmy Awards Viewership Dips To A Record-Low As Its Audience Continues To Drop The television awards ceremony lost roughly 1.5 million viewers compared to its 2021 program. | ENTERTAINMENT |
Possible Nationwide Rail Strike Is Already Impacting Travelers, Businesses White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said a rail shutdown is "not acceptable" and would harm families as well as businesses. | U.S. NEWS |
Democrats Nominate Seth Magaziner In Key Rhode Island House Race The state's general treasurer is slated to face former Cranston Mayor Allan Fung (R) in the general election. | POLITICS |
TikTok Search Results Riddled With Misinformation: Report A U.S. firm that monitors false online claims reports that searches for information about prominent news topics on TikTok are likely to turn up results riddled with misinformation. | TECH |
U.S. Inflation Falls For 2nd Straight Month On Lower Gas Costs On a monthly basis, prices rose 0.1%, after a flat reading in July. | U.S. NEWS |
Jean-Luc Godard, Pioneering French Filmmaker, Dies The director was best known for the groundbreaking movie "Breathless." | ENTERTAINMENT |
Thousands Of Minnesota Nurses Launch 3-day Strike Over Pay They're pressing for salary increases they say will help improve patient care by resolving understaffing stresses that have worsened in the pandemic. | U.S. NEWS |
Joe Biden Urges National Unity In Speech On Renewed ‘Cancer Moonshot’ "Cancer does not discriminate red and blue," the president said Monday. "Beating cancer is something we can do together." | POLITICS |
Sen. Tim Scott Downplays Electability Concerns Over Struggling Senate GOP Candidates "Who we have on the field is who we’re gonna play,” Scott told "Fox News Sunday." | POLITICS |
Boston Marathon To Make Race More Inclusive For Nonbinary Runners The race's organizers say nonbinary athletes won't have to register with the men's or women's divisions and provided qualifying times to guide their training. | SPORTS |
Anthony Varvaro, MLB Pitcher Turned Transit Cop, Dies In Crash On Way To 9/11 Ceremony Varvaro pitched mostly with the Atlanta Braves and started his law enforcement career in 2016. | SPORTS |
Electability Is On The Ballot In Key Rhode Island House Primary Democrats in the state’s more moderate House district are deciding who will take on a popular Republican former mayor. | POLITICS |
In A Nod To JFK, Joe Biden Pushing 'Moonshot' To Fight Cancer Biden plans to draw attention to a new federally backed study that seeks to validate using blood tests to screen against multiple cancers. | POLITICS |
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Carlos Alcaraz Wins U.S. Open For 1st Slam Title, Top Ranking Carlos Alcaraz defeated Casper Ruud in the U.S. Open final to earn his first Grand Slam at age 19 and become the youngest man to move up to No. 1 in the rankings. | SPORTS |
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Last Reactor At Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Stopped The plant, one of the 10 biggest atomic power stations in the world, has been occupied by Russian forces since early in the war, which marked its 200th day on Sunday. | WORLD NEWS |
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Russia Says It's Pulling Back Forces From Ukraine's Kharkiv Region Russia’s Defense Ministry announced that troops will be pulled back in two area where a Ukrainian counter offensive has made significant advances. | WORLD NEWS |
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Ukraine Claws Back Some Territory; Nuclear Plant In Peril Ukrainian forces are claiming new success in their counteroffensive against Russian forces in the east. | WORLD NEWS |
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News Category Dataset
Overview
The News Category Dataset contains articles from 42 categories, around 210k news headlines from 2012 to 2022 obtained from HuffPost, and useful metadata to enable various NLP tasks.
Dataset Details
The data originally came from Rishabh Misra.
@article{misra2022news,
title={News Category Dataset},
author={Misra, Rishabh},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.11429},
year={2022}
}
- Dataset Name: News Category Dataset
- Total Size: 209,527 demonstrations
- For each record in the dataset, we have the following attributes available:
- category: category in which the article was published.
- headline: the headline of the news article.
- authors: list of authors who contributed to the article.
- link: link to the original news article.
- short description: Abstract of the news article.
- date: publication date of the article.
Contents
The dataset consists of a data frame with the following columns:
- text
- labels [string]
{
"label": U.S.NEWS,
"text": "Over 4 Million Americans Roll Up Sleeves For Omicron-Targeted COVID Boosters Health experts said it is too early to predict whether demand would match up with the 171 million doses of the new boosters the U.S. ordered for the fall.",
"label": COMEDY,
"text": "23 Of The Funniest Tweets About Cats And Dogs This Week (Sept. 17-23) "Until you have a dog you don't understand what could be eaten.",
}
How to use
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("AiresPucrs/News-Category-Dataset", split="train")
License
The News Category Dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons(CC) License CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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