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The American city calling for migrants to move in · Apple News Today

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  [MUSIC FADES IN]
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  Yasmeen Khan, Narrating: Good morning. It's Friday, February 9th. I'm Yasmeen Khan in for Shumita Basu.
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  This is "Apple News Today."
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  Coming up, the American city that's marketing itself
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  to migrant workers.
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  We'll look at America's obsession with football,
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  and the powerful family story behind a surprise hit song.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  But first, let's take a quick look at some major stories in the news.
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  A special counsel investigating President Biden's handling
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  of classified documents is not recommending criminal charges,
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  though the investigation's report says Biden did willfully keep
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  and share some classified information.
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  It also questioned Biden's memory.
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  The White House pushed back on that last point,
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  which is the judgment of a lawyer, not a doctor.
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  Biden said his memory is fine,
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  and he forcefully took issue with the report's claim
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  that he couldn't remember the date his son Beau died.
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  [START WCVB CHANNEL 5 BOSTON ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  President Biden: How in the hell dare he raise that?
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  Frankly, when I was asked the question,
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  I thought to myself, it wasn't any of their damn business.
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  Let me tell you something.
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  Some of you have commented, I wear, since the day he died, every single day,
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  the rosary he got from Our Lady of…
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  Every Memorial Day, we hold a service remembering him,
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  attended by friends and family and the people who loved him.
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  I don't need anyone.
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  I don't need anyone…
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  to remind me when he passed away.
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  [END WCVB CHANNEL 5 BOSTON ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: Former President Trump's campaign has tried to play up questions
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  about Biden's mental state.
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  In the same press conference,
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  Biden mixed up the heads of state of Egypt and Mexico.
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  In Nevada, Trump is the winner of the state's caucus, as expected.
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  Nikki Haley did not compete,
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  so Trump was the only major candidate and will get all the state's delegates.
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  In related news,
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  the U.S. Supreme Court appears likely to keep Trump on the ballot in Colorado.
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  The high court heard arguments yesterday in a key case.
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  An earlier Colorado court decision removed Trump from the primary ballot
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  because he was ruled an insurrectionist.
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  Many court watchers said the justices seemed ready to rule in Trump's favor.
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  That includes legal analyst Steve Vladeck on CNN.
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  [START CNN ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Steve Vladeck: Sometimes you walk out of oral argument not knowing what the court's going to do.
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  Maybe the justices are asking hard questions to both sides.
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  Sometimes you walk out knowing how this is going.
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  And this really feels like seven, eight, maybe even all nine justices
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  for a very narrow holding that Colorado by itself can't disqualify a candidate
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  for the presidency.
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  [END CNN ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin says
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  he thinks a prisoner exchange could lead to the release
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  of jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.
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  Putin gave no timeline for the swap, though.
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  He spoke in a rare interview with Western media,
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  a conversation with right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson.
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  Much of the interview was taken up by Putin's familiar talking points
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  about Ukraine and the West.
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  And with no end in sight to the war,
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  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has replaced his top general.
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  This comes as Ukraine says it needs a new strategy and more foreign aid.
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  In the U.S. Senate, a bill to send tens of billions in aid
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  to Ukraine, and also Israel, cleared a key hurdle yesterday.
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  It got enough votes to avoid dying in a filibuster.
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  As we mentioned yesterday,
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  this bill strips out the immigration measures
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  that many Republicans originally argued for,
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  then eventually turned against.
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  [PENSIVE MUSIC]
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  Many congressional Republicans are focused on tougher borders and deportations.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  And many big city Democratic mayors are telling migrants
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  to stop coming to their cities.
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  But at least one American town is sending a message to migrants:
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  We want you working here.
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  "The Wall Street Journal" went to Topeka, Kansas for this story.
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  Like a lot of smaller U.S. cities, Topeka has stagnating population growth
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  and has struggled to fill thousands of open jobs.
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  So for a few years now, the city, along with local businesses,
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  has been funding a campaign to attract workers called Choose Topeka.
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  And last year,
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  the project turned its focus to the southern border
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  and attracting migrant families new to the U.S.
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  Topeka offers financial incentives,
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  like support with relocation and housing costs,
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  and the program has some requirements beyond work authorization.
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  People must buy or rent a home within one year of moving or being hired.
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  The city printed moving and welcome guides in Spanish to attract attention,
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  and the message really took off last fall when a story ran on Telemundo.
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  [START TELEMUNDO ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Telemundo Reporter: [SPEAKING SPANISH]
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  [END TELEMUNDO ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: Nearly 10,000 resumes have come in since that aired, according to the city.
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  The mayor, Democrat Michael Padilla, told the "Journal" it just made sense
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  to focus their efforts on immigrants.
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  The city already has a growing Hispanic population,
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  and the business community has largely welcomed the initiative.
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  Local business development director Israel Sanchez
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  told the local NBC station the program is working.
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  [START NBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Israel Sanchez: Seeing all the people who want to move here,
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  people who are driving or flying from different states
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  just to check out Topeka, see what we have to offer.
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  I think it speaks to the nature of the city.
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  The city that is growing, that is expanding that as a potential.
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  [END NBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: In other cities, like New York, Chicago, and Denver,
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  the number of incoming migrants has raised concerns about resources.
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  Padilla told the "Journal" Topeka could not handle even a fraction
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  of what those places are seeing.
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  But he says he's happy that Topeka can help people
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  who are eligible and willing to work.
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  [UPBEAT MUSIC]
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  This Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers
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  will face off in Super Bowl 58.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  The game is set to be a fitting conclusion to a wildly successful NFL season.
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  Pablo Torre: What this is going to be is a, is a heavyweight title fight
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  between the two best teams in the sport.
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  Khan, Narrating: That's Pablo Torre.
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  He's a frequent contributor to ESPN and the latest guest
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  on our interview show, Apple News In Conversation.
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  Torre spoke with guest host David Greene,
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  who's filling in for Shumita while she's on maternity leave.
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  Torre: The NFL is getting exactly what it wanted, which is to say
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  the biggest name characters all converging,
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  the most obvious storylines getting to be chewed on.
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  It's just a story of Goliath to me.
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  Khan, Narrating: Some of those big-name characters include Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes
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  and 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy.
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  And then, of course, there's Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelsey
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  and pop icon Taylor Swift.
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  Torre: It's like we're watching an extremely on-the-nose romantic comedy
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  where the meet-cute is the most popular pop cultural figure
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  meets the most popular sport and they fall in love.
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  And so everybody now,
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  you get dared not to watch or at least pay attention to it.
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  Khan, Narrating: Polling suggests the NFL could be on the verge
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  of record-setting viewership for the Super Bowl.
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  Audience numbers have been up all season,
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  with NFL games accounting for 93 of the top 100 U.S. broadcasts last year.
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  Only two other events made the top 50,
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  the State of the Union and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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  The rest were NFL games.
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  Torre talks about how the league has somehow expanded its juggernaut status
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  despite recent controversies around player health and racial inequities.
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  Plus, he dives even further back into NFL history to the first Super Bowl,
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  which was nothing like what we'll be watching on Sunday.
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  [START APPLE NEWS IN CONVERSATION CLIP]
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  Torre: The third quarter, right, so the kickoff then, they had to redo it.
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  because the cameras missed it, because it got botched.
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  So literally the game started and they were like, hold on,
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  we gotta do this over.
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  It's just like, this is, it's Bad News Bears stuff.
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  [END APPLE NEWS IN CONVERSATION CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: If you want to hear the full episode,
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  check out "Apple News In Conversation" in the Podcasts app.
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  And if you're listening in the Apple News app,
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  stick around at the end of this episode,
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  Torre and Greene's conversation will be queued up to play for you next.
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  [UPBEAT MUSIC]
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  In recent weeks, people worldwide have rallied around a new song
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  that sounds like it boogied its way right out of the next Barbie movie.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  It's by a musician from Washington, D.C. named Kat Janis.
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  ["DANCE YOU OUTTA MY HEAD" BY CAT JANIS]
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  It's called Dance You Outta My Head, and fans have been sending this track
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  up the charts since it came out last month.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  It's at the top 10 on iTunes
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  and has been used in more than 800,000 TikToks and counting.
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  Besides being catchy, the song has a moving backstory.
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  Janice has an aggressive form of cancer. She's in hospice.
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  When her health got worse, she realized this could be her last song,
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  and she wanted to make sure that her son, Lauren, who's seven,
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  could have the money it makes.
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  She raced to release the single
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  just in time for her 31st birthday in January.
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  And she told "The Washington Post"
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  she was shocked when it started to take off on the iTunes charts.
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  She apparently screamed so loud that one of her friends ran into the room
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  thinking something was terribly wrong. Just the opposite, though.
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  She told "The Post" she feels good about getting to experience this moment
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  with her son, especially because he was the one who inspired the song.
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  The two would goof off in the car, and sing.
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  ["DANCE YOU OUTTA MY HEAD" BY CAT JANIS]
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  Janice's family says that's how the singer wants to be remembered,
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  as someone who got people off their feet and dancing.
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  [MUSIC FADES IN]
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  You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app.
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  And if you're already listening in the News app right now, as I mentioned,
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  "Apple News In Conversation" on the Super Bowl is playing for you next.
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  Enjoy listening to that, have a great weekend,
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  and we'll be back with the news on Monday.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]