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• Nursing Homes Make Big Push to Change Minds of Workers Who Refused Vaccine

  17-01-2021 23:18
  The pandemic has taken a deadly toll on A.G. Rhodes Cobb, a nursing home on the outskirts of Atlanta. Twelve residents have died after contracting Covid-19. Forty-four staff members have fallen ill, NBC News reports. But despite their up-close look at the virus's impact, most workers at the facility have been reluctant to get...
  
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• Google's $53 billion impact in Australia

  17-01-2021 23:18
  Today, I’m pleased to launch Google’s 2020 Economic Impact Report - a look at our role in Australia which shows we’re providing businesses and our users with a combined $53 billion in benefits every year. Key findings: 1.3 million businesses receive $39 billion in benefits through increased revenues, millions of connections with customers and greater efficiencies, saving time and money Consumers receive $14 billion in benefits via productivity, convenience and access to informa
  
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• Dr. Dre Back Home After Reported Brain Aneurysm Treatment

  17-01-2021 23:18
  
  Dr. Dre was back at home Saturday after being treated at a Los Angeles hospital for a reported brain aneurysm. Peter Paterno, an attorney for the music mogul, said Dre was home but offered no other details in an email exchange Saturday. The rapper and producer...
  
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• Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit reaches space on second try

  17-01-2021 23:15
  LOS ANGELES — Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit reached space on Sunday, eight months after the first demonstration flight of its air-launched rocket system failed, the company said. A 70-foot-long LauncherOne rocket was released from beneath the wing of a Boeing 747 carrier aircraft off the coast of Southern California, ignited moments later and soared toward space. The two-stage rocket carried a cluster of very small satellites known as CubeSats developed and built as part of...
  
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• While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Jan 18

  17-01-2021 23:14
  Russian police detain Kremlin critic Navalny on arrival in Moscow Police detained prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on arrival at a Moscow airport on Sunday after he flew home to Russia from Germany for the first time since he was poisoned last summer. The move, which could see Navalny jailed for 3.5 years for allegedly flouting the terms of a suspended prison sentence, is likely to spark a wave of Western criticism of President Vladimir Putin. In a case that drew wide international attent
  
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• When Triceratops, like elephants, play host to 'hitchhikers'

  17-01-2021 23:14
  In a lush, bygone landscape, a hungry Triceratops munches on low-lying ferns and cone-bearing cycad plants to power its 10-tonne frame. The animal swallows huge mouthfuls of roughage, seeds and all, before ambling off in search of new feeding grounds. Days later and kilometres away, the Triceratops empties its bowels, sowing the seeds of the plants it ate, complete with fertiliser, in more far-flung soil than could be reached without it. The dispersal of plant seeds within the bodies of animals,
  
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• What to expect at Biden's inauguration amid pandemic and heightened security

  17-01-2021 23:14
  WASHINGTON - The inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris on Wednesday (Jan 20) will look very different from the nation's past ceremonies, as the pandemic and heightened security threats mean that crowds will be drastically smaller and celebrations curtailed. Mr Biden will take the presidential oath of office and be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States around noon US time. In the past, hundreds of thousands of Americans, many of whom had
  
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• US faces strains in vaccine supply amid growing demand

  17-01-2021 23:14
  NEW YORK • Scattered shortages of Covid-19 vaccines in the United States persisted under pressure from growing demand, as previously inoculated Americans returned for their required second shots and millions of newly eligible people scrambled to get their first. The supply gaps, coming as the US vaccination effort enters its second month, prompted some...
  
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• Small numbers of protesters gather at fortified US capitols

  17-01-2021 23:14
  Small groups of right-wing protesters — some of them carrying rifles — gathered outside heavily fortified statehouses around the country Sunday as National Guard troops and police kept watch to prevent a repeat of the violence that erupted at the U.S. Capitol. There were no immediate reports of any clashes. Security was stepped up in recent days after the FBI warned of the potential for armed protests in Washington and at all 50 state capitol buildings ahead of President-elect Joe Bi
  
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• How Triceratops, like elephants, gave plant seeds a leg-up

  17-01-2021 23:14
  In a lush, bygone landscape, a hungry Triceratops munches on low-lying ferns and cone-bearing cycad plants to power its 10-tonne frame. The animal swallows huge mouthfuls of roughage, seeds and all, before ambling off in search of new feeding grounds. Days later and kilometres away, the Triceratops empties its bowels, sowing the seeds of the plants it ate, complete with fertiliser, in more far-flung soil than could be reached without it. The dispersal of plant seeds within the bodies of animals,
  
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• History-making woman kicker invited to Biden inauguration

  17-01-2021 23:14
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sarah Fuller, the first woman to score in a Power Five conference football game, says she's been invited to attend President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesday. “It’s an honor to be invited to participate in one of America’s greatest traditions,” Fuller posted Sunday on social...
  
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• Biden to be sworn in at scaled-down inauguration

  17-01-2021 23:14
  The inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris this Wednesday will look very different from the nation's past ceremonies, as the pandemic and heightened security threats mean that crowds will be drastically smaller and celebrations curtailed. Mr Biden will take the presidential oath of office and be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States at around noon US time. In the past, hundreds of thousands of Americans, many of whom had travelled to the ca
  
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• Biden plans blitz of executive actions to reverse Trump's contentious policies

  17-01-2021 23:14
  WASHINGTON • President-elect Joe Biden plans an early blitz of executive actions to reverse some of President Donald Trump's most contentious policies and address the coronavirus pandemic, according to an outline of Mr Biden's first 10 days in office. The plan, spelt out in a memo on Saturday by Mr Biden's chief of staff Ron Klain to incoming White House advisers, will address what Mr Klain called "four overlapping and...
  
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• Armed truck driver with over 500 ammo rounds held at Capitol checkpoint

  17-01-2021 23:14
  WASHINGTON • A Virginia man was arrested when he tried to enter a restricted area near the United States Capitol with unauthorised credentials, a loaded handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, according to police. Mr Wesley Allen Beeler of Front Royal, Virginia, was stopped by US Capitol police at...
  
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• Alzheimer's drug shows promise in small trial

  17-01-2021 23:14
  NEW YORK - In a small clinical trial, an experimental Alzheimer's drug slowed the rate at which patients lost the ability to think and care for themselves, drug maker Eli Lilly has announced. The findings have not been published in any form and have not been widely reviewed by other researchers. If accurate, it is the first time a...
  
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• Alzheimer's drug shows promise in small clinical trial

  17-01-2021 23:14
  NEW YORK • In a small clinical trial, an experimental Alzheimer's drug slowed the rate at which patients lost the...
  
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• A question hidden in the platypus genome: Are we the weird ones?

  17-01-2021 23:14
  When British zoologist George Shaw first encountered a platypus specimen in 1799, he was so befuddled that he checked for stitches, thinking someone might be trying to trick him with a Frankencreature. It is hard to blame him: What other animal has a rubbery bill, ankle spikes full of venom, luxurious fur that glows under black light and a tendency to lay eggs? Centuries later, we are still trying to tease the platypus apart, now with subtler tools. What we find may lead us to ask: Is the platyp
  
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• U.K. doesn’t rule out quarantine hotels, GPS to fight virus

  17-01-2021 23:13
  The U.K. government will “consider all possibilities” to enforce COVID-19 rules for travelers, and won’t rule out setting up quarantine hotels and using GPS trackers to fight the spread of ......
  
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• Conservative Joe Ricketts, Cubs family patriarch who closed DNAinfo after union vote, to launch Omaha-based ...

  17-01-2021 23:13
  The patriarch of the family that owns the Chicago Cubs is getting back in the newsgathering business. The Omaha World-Herald reported on Sunday that billionaire businessman and philanthropist Joe Ricketts ......
  
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• U.S. team capsizes in America's Cup challenger series

  17-01-2021 23:12
  A frantic effort involving firemen, police, coastguard and American Magic's rival teams began to save the yacht Patriot and to keep the U.S. team in the regatta. ......
  
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• U.S. California coronavirus cases close to 3 mln

  17-01-2021 23:12
  SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- U.S. California counties reported 32,904 new cases of COVID-19 and 418 new deaths Saturday for a total of 2,951,682 cases and 33,391 deaths in the state, according to...
  
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• Thick High-Grade Drill Results at the Antler Copper Deposit (New World Cobalt Limited)

  17-01-2021 23:12
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• Joe Biden outlines ‘Day One’ agenda of executive actions

  17-01-2021 23:12
  WASHINGTON — In his first hours as president, Joe Biden plans to take executive action to roll back some of the most controversial decisions of his predecessor and to address the raging......
  
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• COVID-19 death toll surpasses 4,000 in Israel

  17-01-2021 23:12
  JERUSALEM, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- The number of COVID-19 death cases in Israel has reached 4,005, the state's...
  
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• US braces for violence ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration

  17-01-2021 23:09
  The US capital is a ghost down except for the tens of thousands of police and National Guard personnel who have descended on Washington DC ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony this week. ......
  
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• Live: Lead prosecutor says Trump impeachment trial coming 'soon', as Biden prepares executive order blitz

  17-01-2021 23:09
  The lead Democratic prosecutor in the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump says proceedings are set to begin 'soon'. Follow live. ......
  
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• U.S. team sure of continuing in America's Cup after capsize

  17-01-2021 23:07
  AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — United States challenger American Magic is assessing the extent of damage to its race yacht Patriot, which capsized and came close to sinking during racing Sunday in the America’s Cup challengers series. Skipper Terry Hutchinson said American Magic is confident of making repairs and being able to continue in the Prada Cup series, which resumes on Friday. Patriot, which lost its first three races in the challengers series, was leading Italian challenger Lu
  
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• Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit reaches space on 2nd try

  17-01-2021 23:07
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit reached space on Sunday, eight months after the first...
  
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• Netanyahu rival hires anti-Trump Lincoln Project founders

  17-01-2021 23:07
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's top rival to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is getting some American help ahead of March 23 elections. Gideon Saar, a onetime Netanyahu protege, has hired four of the...
  
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• Iran calls on UN watchdog to avoid publicizing 'unnecessary' nuclear program information

  17-01-2021 23:07
  Iran called on the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog to avoid publicizing “unnecessary” nuclear program information on Sunday after the agency’s report last week said the country was taking steps to produce uranium metal. Iranian state TV reported the message to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), citing a statement from Iran’s nuclear department that said publishing that information could...
  
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• Incoming national security adviser calls for immediate release of Kremlin critic Navalny

  17-01-2021 23:07
  President-elect Joe BidenJoe BidenMissouri woman seen with Pelosi sign charged in connection with Capitol riots Facebook temporarily bans ads for weapons accessories following Capitol riots Sasse, in fiery op-ed, says QAnon is destroying GOP MORE's national security adviser, Jake SullivanJake SullivanFor Joe Biden, an experienced foreign policy team Biden's trade policy needs effective commercial diplomacy Biden formally...
  
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• Hollingshed's 32 points helps CU upset No. 1 Stanford, 77-72

  17-01-2021 23:07
  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Frida Formann hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:36 left in overtime to lead...
  
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• Brothers jailed for attacking subway stationmaster in Greece

  17-01-2021 23:07
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two brothers, aged 17 and 15, who attacked an Athens subway stationmaster because he told them to wear masks on a subway train, will appear before a magistrate Tuesday for depositions. The two were jailed Saturday, charged with premeditated aggravated assault, a felony, as well as...
  
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• US military says its troop removal from Somalia is complete

  17-01-2021 23:06
  Some experts have warned that the withdrawal of an estimated 700 US military personnel comes at the worst possible time for Somalia, as the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group improves its bomb-making skills and continues to attack military and civilian targets even in the capital, Mogadishu. PUBLISHED ON JAN 17, 2021 09:36 PM IST The US military says its troop...
  
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• Covid-19: Brazil regulator to decide on emergency use of Sinovac, AstraZeneca vaccines

  17-01-2021 23:06
  Adding to urgency for vaccinations, a second wave of the outbreak in Brazil is snowballing as the country confronts a new, potentially more contagious variant of the coronavirus. UPDATED ON JAN 17, 2021 09:37 PM IST Brazilian health regulator Anvisa on Sunday opened an extraordinary meeting of its board of directors to decide whether to approve emergency use of...
  
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• Cargo ship sinks in the Black Sea; 3 dead, 6 rescued

  17-01-2021 23:06
  Emergency workers saved at least six crew members and reached the bodies of two others, PUBLISHED ON JAN 17, 2021 09:00 PM IST A cargo ship sank off Turkey's...
  
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• "Are you detaining me?" Navalny flies home, and straight into trouble

  17-01-2021 23:06
  
  Read full article Polina Ivanova17 January 2021, 9:42 pm·3-min read 1 / 3 "Are you detaining me?" Navalny flies home, and straight into trouble Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny arrives in Moscow By Polina Ivanova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Pobeda flight DP936 was a few minutes into its descent towards Moscow's Vnukovo airport, where thousands of supporters of poisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny were waiting to meet him on his return to Russia, when the flight captain said he could not
  
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• 83 people killed in Sudan's Darfur clashes

  17-01-2021 23:06
  Read full article ANI17 January 2021, 9:45 pm·2-min read Representative Image Darfur [Sudan], January 18 (ANI): At least 83 people have been killed in the tribal clashes in Sudan's Darfur, said the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors (CCSD) on Saturday, just after two weeks since a long-running peacekeeping mission ended operations. "The death toll from the bloody events taking place in the city of al-Geneina ... has increased since Saturday morning ... [to] 84," Al Jazeera...
  
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• Ray scores 23 to lift Hofstra over Delaware 68-67

  17-01-2021 23:03
  NEWARK, Del. (AP) — Jalen Ray had 23 points as Hofstra held on to beat Delaware 68-67 on Sunday. Ebby Asomoah's basket came after the buzzer for the Blue Hens, who scored the last five points....
  
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• No. 11 Houston uses big first half to cruise past UCF 75-58

  17-01-2021 23:03
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Quentin Grimes scored 18 points, Justin Gorham added 15 points and nine rebounds and No. 11 Houston used a dominant first half to cruise to a 75-58 win over UCF on Sunday. Grimes scored in double figures for his 11th straight game after opening the season with eight points against Lamar. Houston (11-1, 6-1 American Athletic Conference) won its fourth...
  
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• Illinois collects $62M in cannabis revenue for neighborhoods

  17-01-2021 23:03
  CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois has collected $62 million from legalized marijuana sales that's earmarked for helping minority businesses and neighborhood development, but the money hasn't been spent yet,...
  
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• Eytle-Rock scores 14 to carry UMBC past Hartford 57-49

  17-01-2021 23:03
  BALTIMORE (AP) — R.J. Eytle-Rock registered 14 points and six rebounds as Maryland-Baltimore County got past Hartford 57-49 on Sunday. Keondre Kennedy had 10 points for...
  
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• Burton leads No. 22 Northwestern women past Penn State

  17-01-2021 23:03
  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (AP) — Veronica Burton scored 19 points and had five steals as the 22nd-ranked Northwestern Wildcats defeated Penn State 67-50 on Sunday, picking up a third-straight win. Burton was among three Wildcats to score in double figures as Linsey Pulliam added 17 and Sydney Wood 13. Pulliam also pulled down eight...
  
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• Biden's long political evolution leads to his biggest test

  17-01-2021 23:03
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has navigated a half-century in American politics by relentlessly positioning himself at the core of the Democratic Party. Wherever that power center shifted, there Biden has been, whether as the young senator who opposed court-order busing in school integration cases or the soon-to-be 46th president pitching an agenda on par with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. The common thread through
  
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• Saudi Arabia: 3 injured in Al Houthi attack on Jazan

  17-01-2021 23:00
  Abu Dhabi: Three civilians — a man and two children — were injured when a military projectile launched by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis hit a village in Saudi Arabia’s...
  
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• Louisiana Parents Sue First Responders in Death of ‘Severely Autistic' Son

  17-01-2021 23:00
  Sheriff's deputies in a New Orleans suburb sat on a shackled, obese, severely autistic 16-year-old boy for nine minutes and put a chokehold on him for part of that time until he died, according to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday against the sheriff and seven deputies in the death last year. The sheriff's office described the lawsuit as “rife with false claims and malicious accusations.” Its statement did not mention specific “false claims” but said the youth had mental c
  
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• In Inaugural Address, Biden Will Appeal to National Unity

  17-01-2021 23:00
  President-elect Joe Biden will deliver an appeal to national unity when he is sworn in Wednesday and plans immediate moves to combat the coronavirus pandemic and undo some of President Donald Trump’s most controversial policies, his incoming chief of staff said Sunday. Biden intends a series of executive actions in his first hours after his inauguration, an opening salvo in what is shaping up as a 10-day blitz of steps to reorient the country without waiting for Congress, aide Ron Klain sa
  
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• Dog and Goat Serving as Mayor Raise Money for Playground in Vermont

  17-01-2021 23:00
  A goat and a dog who were each elected mayor have helped raise money to renovate a Vermont community playground. The oddball idea of pet mayor elections to raise money to rehabilitate the playground and to help get...
  
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• Democrats Build Impeachment Case, Alleging ‘Dangerous Crime'

  17-01-2021 23:00
  The lead prosecutor for President Donald Trump's historic second impeachment began building his case for conviction at trial, asserting on Sunday that Trump's incitement of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol was “the most dangerous crime" ever committed by a president against the United States. A Senate trial could begin as soon as this week, just as Democrat Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., did not say when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wil
  
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• "Can Be Done": US Scientist On Biden's 100 Million Doses In 100 Days Goal

  17-01-2021 22:59
  Joe Biden's goal of seeing 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccine injected within his first 100 days in office is "absolutely" achievable, top US scientist Anthony Fauci said Sunday, days before he... ......
  
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