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• CDC warns new Covid-19 variants could accelerate spread

  18-01-2021 23:11 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Erica Hill reports on confusion around the amount of second doses of the coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer as the CDC warns the new Covid-19 variants could accelerate the spread of Covid-19 in the US.
  
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• US Capitol on security lockdown ahead of Biden inauguration – video

  18-01-2021 23:10 via theguardian.com
  
  The tightest security measures in recent memory are in place in Washington, two days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the US.25,000 National Guard soldiers from across the east coast are stationed in the city. The streets around the Capitol remain eerily empty as all but the most determined protesters have stayed away after the pro-Trump riot at the Capitol on 6 January. The FBI has vetted all troops who are guarding the event because of fears of an
  
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• Texas man who stormed Capitol allegedly threatened to shoot kids if they turned him in

  18-01-2021 23:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Court documents recounted the man telling his children that he would consider them "traitors" if they contacted authorities.
  
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• An inauguration reshaped by security threat

  18-01-2021 22:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Troops descend on US capital to ensure the new president can be sworn in amid threats of violence.
  
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• Cuomo wants New York to buy Covid vaccine directly from Pfizer

  18-01-2021 22:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  The federal guidelines made more people eligible for shots but short-changed state on supply, Gov. Cuomo charged
  
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• 'What is this toad so afraid of?' Putin called out by Navalny

  18-01-2021 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  Russia's leading Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny is calling on his supporters to hit the streets for nationwide protests in Russia after he was detained by local police moments after returning to the country.
  
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• 'What is this toad so afraid of?' Putin called out by critic

  18-01-2021 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  Russia's leading Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny is calling on his supporters to hit the streets for nationwide protests in Russia after he was detained by local police moments after returning to the country.
  
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• Census Bureau director to resign amid allegations of pressure to produce immigrant count

  18-01-2021 22:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  A watchdog agency said last week that the director had set a deadline that pressured statisticians to fast-track a report Trump wanted.
  
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• Greek president praises Sofia Bekatorou for reporting alleged sexual assault

  18-01-2021 22:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Olympic sailing gold medallist alleges assault occurred in 1998Katerina Sakellaropoulou praises athlete’s ‘brave revelation’Greece’s president, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, has praised the Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou for dissolving a potential “conspiracy of silence” by reporting a historic allegation of sexual assault by a sports official.Bekatorou, who won a gold medal at the Athens Games in 2004, told the Greek edition of Marie Claire last month t
  
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• What a simple statement about Uganda's election reveals about US democracy

  18-01-2021 22:14 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: The world has more riding on Biden than any US President in decades
  
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• For some, the US is now a case study in how democracy dies

  18-01-2021 22:14 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: The world has more riding on Biden than any US President in decades
  
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• Analysis: What a statement about Uganda's election reveals about US democracy

  18-01-2021 22:14 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: The world has more riding on Biden than any US President in decades
  • Analysis: Uganda sends a lesson to other authoritarians that controlling the internet works
  
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• Analysis: What a simple statement about Uganda's election reveals about US democracy

  18-01-2021 22:14 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: The world has more riding on Biden than any US President in decades
  • Analysis: Uganda sends a lesson to other authoritarians that controlling the internet works
  
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• Trumps' snub of Bidens is historic in its magnitude

  18-01-2021 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  • CNN Investigates: Trump allies stoked flames before Capitol riot
  • Analysis: The latest White House excuse for Trump's silence on Capitol attack is the worst yet
  • Shocking new video of riot released
  
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• No presidential White House greeting. No traditional ride to the inauguration ceremony. Trump is dissolving one of America's most enduring transfer-of-power rituals.

  18-01-2021 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  On the morning of January 20, Donald Trump and Melania Trump will depart the White House as President and first lady, but they will not invite their incoming counterparts, Joe and Jill Biden, inside before they do.
  
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• Melania Trump releases farewell message

  18-01-2021 22:05 via cnn.com
  
  Melania Trump released a farewell video as she prepares to leave the White House, but the Trumps declined to invite the Bidens to the White House as has been done with past presidents. CNN's Kate Bennett reports.
  
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• 'The lost years': Climate damage that occurred on Trump's watch will endure long after he is gone

  18-01-2021 21:34 via cnn.com
  
  For four years, President Donald Trump has careened from one crisis to the next, many of his own making.
  
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• Panel critical of pandemic delays by China, WHO

  18-01-2021 21:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  Healthy agency should have reacted sooner, identified outbreak as pandemic earlier, and China's public health response was lacking, panel says.
  
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• Keilar: Trump exiting through war zone of his own creation

  18-01-2021 21:08 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Brianna Keilar takes a look at what was happening during the beginning of Trump's presidency and what is happening now as he prepares to leave office.
  
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• The world has more riding on Biden than any US president in decades

  18-01-2021 20:45 via cnn.com
  
  On Wednesday, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the President of a nation at a pivotal moment, and the world will be watching because all democracies are in this moment together
  
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• Pelosi demands acting Pentagon chief halt order to NSA to install Trump loyalist

  18-01-2021 20:27 via cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is demanding acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller "immediately cease" his plans to install a Trump loyalist as the National Security Agency's general counsel, calling the move "highly suspect" and arguing it represents a "disturbing disregard" for the country's national security.
  
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• Trump baby blimp enters museum collection

  18-01-2021 19:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  The blimp will become part of the museum’s protest collection, which includes artifacts from the women’s suffrage movement and peace activists who opposed the war in Iraq.
  
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• Is anything being done to stop another pandemic emerging from China?

  18-01-2021 19:55 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A year since the words "novel coronavirus" crept into news headlines, and over 2 million lives have been claimed as a result of the disease – officially termed COVID-19. Moreover, it has permeated every pocket of the planet, morphed into dozens of different strains, shuttered the world economy, overwhelmed health care resources, and rendered millions with unknown long-term ramifications.
  
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• I feel like a martyr: Capitol rioter says she was following orders of Trump – video

  18-01-2021 19:36 via theguardian.com
  
  A Texas real estate agent who was part of the pro-Trump mob that attacked the US Capitol has said she was just following the orders of Donald Trump, even as she faced federal charges for her part in the insurrection.
  Jenna Ryan, who flew to Washington on a private jet, hosted a Facebook live stream showing herself entering the Capitol, promoting her business and saying: 'We’re going to fucking go in here. Life or death.'Ryan claimed on NBC News she had not been advocati
  
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• Scottish fishermen say 'Brexit carnage' threatens to kill their business

  18-01-2021 19:29 via cnn.com
  
  Scottish fisherman parked their trucks near UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's office at 10 Downing Street on Monday to protest post-Brexit red tape they say has made it almost impossible to sell British seafood to the European Union.
  
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• Norway reviewing deaths of frail and elderly patients vaccinated against Covid-19

  18-01-2021 19:15 via cnn.com
  
  Doctors in Norway are investigating the deaths of 23 elderly patients who had received the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, looking into the possibility that adverse reactions to the shot "may have contributed to a fatal outcome in some frail patients."
  
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• Man hid 3 months at Chicago airport due to Covid fears

  18-01-2021 19:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  Aditya Singh, 36, is charged with felony criminal trespass to a restricted area of an airport and misdemeanor theft after he was arrested Saturday.
  
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• The latest White House excuse for Trump's silence on Capitol attack is the worst yet

  18-01-2021 19:07 via cnn.com
  
  • Shocking new video of riot released
  • 'No intelligence indicating insider threat' to inauguration as FBI FBI vets National Guard
  
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• Bridgerton re-imagined on TikTok by US singer Abigail Barlow

  18-01-2021 18:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Abigail Barlow is using social media to work on a musical version of the Netflix period drama.
  
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• Peter King: Chiefs prove HenneThing is possible, beat Browns

  18-01-2021 18:38 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  Peter King on why the Chiefs' trust in Chad Henne is a huge reason why Kansas City is back in the AFC Championship.
  
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• Colombia's 'cocaine hippos' must be culled, scientists say -- but not everyone agrees

  18-01-2021 18:24 via cnn.com
  
  Colombia's best-known drug trafficker, Pablo Escobar, may have been killed in 1993 but his influence continues to be felt in the country, sometimes in unexpected ways.
  
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• Teen saves her family who lost their sense of smell from Covid-19 and didn't realize house was on fire

  18-01-2021 18:23 via cnn.com
  
  A Texas family who lost their sense of smell because they have coronavirus nearly died when a fire engulfed their house and they couldn't smell the smoke.
  
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• Trump's 11th-hour pardons in keeping with tradition, but the people he's pardoning are not

  18-01-2021 18:17 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's expected batch of 100 pardons and commutations on the penultimate day of his presidency won't be the highest of his recent predecessors. But his record of clemency could very well be the most controversial.
  
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• Trump's 11th-hour pardons could be the most controversial

  18-01-2021 18:17 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's expected batch of 100 pardons and commutations on the penultimate day of his presidency won't be the highest of his recent predecessors. But his record of clemency could very well be the most controversial.
  
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• The President's actions are in keeping with tradition, but the people he's pardoning are not

  18-01-2021 18:17 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's expected batch of 100 pardons and commutations on the penultimate day of his presidency won't be the highest of his recent predecessors. But his record of clemency could very well be the most controversial.
  
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• Kremlin foe Navalny remanded for 30 days by judge, spokeswoman says

  18-01-2021 18:09 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been remanded in custody for 30 days by a judge after a court hearing at a police precinct, according to his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh.
  
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• Watch this rocket launch from the wing of a jumbo jet

  18-01-2021 18:07 via cnn.com
  
  Virgin Orbit completed its first successful launch into orbit, sending its LauncherOne hurtling to space after deploying from the wing of a retrofitted Boeing 747.
  
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• Vaccine inequity puts world on brink of 'catastrophic moral failure', says WHO chief – video

  18-01-2021 17:59 via theguardian.com
  
  The head of the World Health Organization has warned that as coronavirus vaccines are rolled out, the world faces a 'catastrophic moral failure' as richer countries administer the vaccine on a vast scale, while poor countries are left behind. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted that millions of doses had been given in higher-income countries while one of the world's poorest countries had administered only 25 dosesWHO: just 25 Covid vaccine doses administered in low-income countries Conti
  
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• Gary Gensler, Biden's pick to head SEC, has reputation as tough regulator

  18-01-2021 17:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  Financial policy experts say unwinding the work of his predecessor, Jay Clayton, is likely to be at the top of Gensler’s to-do list.
  
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• Capitol lockdown lifted after brief security scare

  18-01-2021 17:54 via cnn.com
  
  A small fire at an apparent homeless encampment less than a mile away from the US Capitol Building on Monday prompted the building to enter lockdown, a reflection of the heightened state of alarm at the complex.
  
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• Coroner's Covid findings stoke calls for inquiry into pandemic policy

  18-01-2021 17:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysis: bereaved families concerned that lessons were not learned after first wave
  Exclusive: rare inquests raise care concernsSee all our coronavirus coverageThe failures and concerns highlighted by a senior coroner, Alison Mutch, following the deaths of two men, Anthony Slack and Leslie Harris, from Covid-19, have reinforced bereaved families’ calls for a government inquiry into the handling of the pandemic, and for more inquests.Very few inquests have been held into deaths of people f
  
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• Pompeo doubles down on defending Trump, positions himself as the president's successor

  18-01-2021 17:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  In the final days of the Trump administration, Pompeo issued a flurry of decisions and promoted his record as a loyal servant of the president.
  
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• Trump Tower on New York's Fifth Avenue to see security scaled down

  18-01-2021 17:35 via cnn.com
  
  Once a fortress, security in and around Trump Tower on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue will begin to loosen possibly as early as this week when the building's namesake departs the White House.
  
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• The WA cops rounding up Indigenous kids: a 'toxic and racist environment'

  18-01-2021 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The police stories: Two former Western Australian and NSW officers speak out about what they saw during their time in uniform
  Australia’s anguish: the Indigenous kids trapped behind bars‘Hell scared’: how a terrified homeless boy found himself locked up alone in the ‘hole’One of the worst moments of Jim Taylor’s eight-year career as a Western Australian police officer was the day he strip-searched a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy.Taylor, now 44, was working in Per
  
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• Analysis: White House excuse for Trump's silence on Capitol attack is the worst yet

  18-01-2021 17:28 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's egging on of rioters before the storming of the US Capitol -- and his silence as that mob overran the building -- was a deeply injurious moment for the country and a dark mark on his legacy. And it was all social media's fault...
  
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• Man 'lived undetected in Chicago airport for three months'

  18-01-2021 17:26 via cnn.com
  
  A Californian man who was "scared to go home because of Covid" lived undetected in Chicago's O'Hare Airport for three months, according to multiple reports.
  
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• Capitol put on alert after small fire

  18-01-2021 17:22 via cnn.com
  
  A small fire at an apparent homeless encampment less than a mile away from the US Capitol Building on Monday prompted the building to enter lockdown, a reflection of the heightened state of alarm at the complex.
  
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• Not acting against opponents of civil rights seeded the insurrection we face today

  18-01-2021 17:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  By not quickly stamping out the 'massive resistance' to the civil rights movement, America paved the way for it to re-emerge at the U.S. Capitol.
  
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• In Pictures: The view inside the Essex Covid-19 mass vaccination centre

  18-01-2021 17:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As the NHS rolls out the Covid-19 vaccine, BBC News photographed inside an Essex centre.
  
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• FBI vetting National Guard involved in securing US Capitol

  18-01-2021 17:16 via cnn.com
  
  • FBI investigates tip that woman stole Pelosi's laptop to potentially sell to Russia
  
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