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<v 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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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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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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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<v Telemundo Reporter>[SPEAKING SPANISH]

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[END TELEMUNDO ARCHIVAL CLIP]

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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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The game is set to be a fitting conclusion
to a wildly successful NFL season.

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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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as someone who got people off their feet
and dancing.

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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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