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• 'We made a mistake': New York governor denies covering up Covid-19 deaths

  15-02-2021 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says all the coronavirus deaths in the nursing homes and in the hospitals "were always fully, publicly and accurately reported" following allegations of a cover-up and calls for impeachment. CNN's Brynn Gingras reports.
  
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• Radio and video footage from the riot paint an even sharper picture of how the insurrectionists at times showed little fear of police

  15-02-2021 23:38 via cnn.com
  
  New police radio dispatches and security footage from the January 6 US Capitol riot paint an even sharper picture of how the insurrectionists at times showed little fear of the police as they launched a large and coordinated attack.
  
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• New recordings of Capitol riot show coordinated attack and officers' restraint

  15-02-2021 23:38 via cnn.com
  
  New police radio dispatches and security footage from the January 6 US Capitol riot paint an even sharper picture of how the insurrectionists at times showed little fear of the police as they launched a large and coordinated attack.
  
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• Inside President Biden's routine

  15-02-2021 23:36 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: Biden gets his first chance to fully exercise his power
  • Zakaria: Biden's foreign policy plans 'worrying'
  
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• As he settles into a job he has sought for decades, the daily routine of being President has come more naturally for him than for some predecessors

  15-02-2021 23:36 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: Biden gets his first chance to fully exercise his power
  • Zakaria: Biden's foreign policy plans 'worrying'
  
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• Video inside Capitol shows extreme levels of coordination

  15-02-2021 23:35 via cnn.com
  
  Newly released videos paint an alarming picture of just how much worse the Capitol attack could have been. CNN's Tom Foreman takes a closer look.
  
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• New video shows extreme levels of coordination

  15-02-2021 23:35 via cnn.com
  
  Newly released videos paint an alarming picture of just how much worse the Capitol attack could have been. CNN's Tom Foreman takes a closer look.
  
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• New riot video shows extreme levels of coordination

  15-02-2021 23:35 via cnn.com
  
  Newly released videos paint an alarming picture of just how much worse the Capitol attack could have been. CNN's Tom Foreman takes a closer look.
  
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• New Capitol riot video shows extreme levels of coordination

  15-02-2021 23:35 via cnn.com
  
  Newly released videos paint an alarming picture of just how much worse the Capitol attack could have been. CNN's Tom Foreman takes a closer look.
  
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• 'I'm focused on results': Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala becomes first female, African head of WTO – video

  15-02-2021 23:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said she was focused on delivering results after becoming the first woman and first African to be appointed director general of the World Trade Organization. 'I want to make sure that people remember my continent producing the first leader of the WTO that made a difference,' Okonjo-Iweala said.Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala confirmed as WTO chief'I'm a fighter': first female, African head of WTO ready for battle Continue reading...
  
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• Vladimir Putin considers conversation with Elon Musk on Clubhouse

  15-02-2021 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Paul R. La Monica discusses why Elon Musk invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to have a conversation on his new favorite social media app: Clubhouse.
  
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• Researchers say the coronavirus vaccine is as effective 'in the real world' as in trials

  15-02-2021 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine appears to reduce symptomatic coronavirus infections by more than 90% in the real world, Israeli researchers said Sunday.
  
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• Researchers say the coronavirus vaccine appears to reduce symptomatic infections at a rate similar to trials

  15-02-2021 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine appears to reduce symptomatic coronavirus infections by more than 90% in the real world, Israeli researchers said Sunday.
  
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• Pfizer vaccine sees 'real world' results

  15-02-2021 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  • Peru FM resigns in furor over secret vaccination of officials• The UK's surprising Covid-19 success story
  
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• Findings suggest the coronavirus vaccine remains remarkably effective outside a controlled trial setting

  15-02-2021 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine appears to reduce symptomatic coronavirus infections by more than 90% in the real world, Israeli researchers said Sunday.
  
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• Frozen wind turbines contribute to rolling power blackouts across Texas

  15-02-2021 22:39 via cnn.com
  
  Some of the warmest places in Texas, where rolling power outages are occurring across the chilly state, are inside cars and trucks parked in the driveway of a home without electricity.
  
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• Pelosi announces plans for '9/11-type commission' for riot

  15-02-2021 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced in a letter to House Democrats on Monday plans for the creation of a "9/11-type commission" to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
  
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• Pelosi announces '9/11-type commission' to investigate Capitol attack

  15-02-2021 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced in a letter to House Democrats on Monday plans for the creation of a "9/11-type commission" to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
  
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• Peru FM resigns in furor over secret vaccination of officials

  15-02-2021 22:23 via cnn.com
  
  Peru's foreign minister has stepped down amid a furor over government officials being vaccinated against the coronavirus, even before the country began rolling out doses to health care workers.
  
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• Pelosi announces plans for '9/11-type commission' to investigate Capitol attack

  15-02-2021 22:14 via cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced in a letter to House Democrats on Monday plans for the creation of a "9/11-type commission" to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
  
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• GOP senator reveals what made him vote to convict Trump

  15-02-2021 21:49 via cnn.com
  
  Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) explains his vote to convict former President Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial.
  
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• Inside President Biden's routine: Oval Office fires and early bedtimes

  15-02-2021 21:44 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: Biden gets his first chance to fully exercise his power
  • Jeff Flake: It's time for the Republican party to move on from Trump
  • Fareed Zakaria: Biden's foreign policy plans are 'worrying'
  
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• Hundreds of Florida manatees filmed basking alongside dolphins – video

  15-02-2021 21:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Almost 200 threatened Florida manatees have been filmed together basking in shallow waters off the state’s west coast. The remarkable drone footage also shows a pod of playful dolphins swimming through the group. The video of the manatees and dolphins at play, taken by See Through Canoe, is unusual in that it captures the species together in such high numbers. The Florida fish and wildlife conservation commission estimates that only about 7,500 manatees exist in th
  
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• Fauci: I worried about getting Covid-19 in Trump White House

  15-02-2021 20:52 via cnn.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci told Axios that he was concerned about personally contracting Covid-19 while working inside former President Donald Trump's White House.
  
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• Dr. Fauci: I worried about getting Covid-19 in the Trump White House

  15-02-2021 20:52 via cnn.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci told Axios that he was concerned about personally contracting Covid-19 while working inside former President Donald Trump's White House.
  
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• Keilar: Rand Paul may have clapped for hero officer, but he didn't do this

  15-02-2021 20:45 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Brianna Keilar reports that though Sen. Rand Paul did stand and clap for Officer Eugene Goodman during former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial, despite being criticized on social media for not doing so, he was the only senator during the trial not wearing a mask.
  
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• Antarctic sponges discovered under the ice shelf is perplexing scientists

  15-02-2021 20:39 via cnn.com
  
  The accidental discovery of strange life forms on a boulder beneath the ice shelves of the Antarctic has confounded scientists.
  
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• Scientists find unexpected animal life far beneath Antarctica’s floating ice shelves

  15-02-2021 20:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  Scientists discover types of sea-sponges living in the pitch-black seawater beneath half a mile beneath the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf
  
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• Parler comes back online one month after going dark

  15-02-2021 19:58 via cnn.com
  
  Parler, the social network favored by conservatives, came back online Monday with a redesigned website one month after it was suspended by Amazon Web Services and effectively driven offline.
  
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• CNN's John Avlon: There may be penalties for Trump's lawyers. Here's why

  15-02-2021 19:54 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's John Avlon looks at Donald Trump's second impeachment defense team and what could happen to them after they have been caught lying in defense of their client.
  
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• Avlon: There may be penalties for Trump's lawyers. Here's why

  15-02-2021 19:54 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's John Avlon looks at Donald Trump's second impeachment defense team and what could happen to them after they have been caught lying in defense of their client.
  
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• History-making new WTO leader vows equal access to vaccines

  15-02-2021 18:58 via cnn.com
  
  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is poised to be confirmed as leader of the World Trade Organization on Monday.
  
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• American designers are moving away from New York Fashion Week. Here's why

  15-02-2021 18:50 via cnn.com
  
  When the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) chairman Tom Ford announced earlier this year that the organization would no longer publish an official New York Fashion Week schedule but rather an "American Fashion Calendar," the news confirmed something bigger than an administrative update.
  
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• Guinea officials race to contain Ebola outbreak as death toll rises

  15-02-2021 18:43 via theguardian.com
  
  At least four people have died in the epidemic, causing heightened alarm across west AfricaHealth officials in Guinea are racing to contain a new outbreak of Ebola that has killed at least four people and raised concerns across west Africa, which previously suffered the worst from the virus.On Monday morning, a fourth victim died in Guinea and four others are being treated in an isolation centre, suffering vomiting, diarrhoea and bleeding. At least seven of the people who contracted the virus at
  
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• World's third largest economy bounces back

  15-02-2021 18:40 via cnn.com
  
  Japan's main stock index soared to its highest level in more than three decades on Monday as investors cheered signs of a rebound for the world's third largest economy.
  
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• See the new trailer for the 'Justice League' director's cut

  15-02-2021 18:24 via cnn.com
  
  'Zack Snyder's Justice League,' the much clamored for director's cut of the 2017 film, is premiering on HBO Max with additional footage and Jared Leto's Joker added in.
  
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• Opinion: What Biden should do now about Trump

  15-02-2021 18:20 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden should follow his own sage advice from the statement he released hours after the "not guilty" vote by 43 Republican senators in Donald Trump's impeachment trial led to his acquittal. Biden implored us to be vigilant in protecting our "fragile" democracy and noted that "each of us has a duty and responsibility as Americans, and especially as leaders, to defend the truth and to defeat the lies."
  
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• Gryffindor vs. Slytherin has become Trump vs. Biden. We need to stop politicizing our kids

  15-02-2021 18:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  As the country has become more polarized, parents have contributed to the political environment our children now find themselves in. That needs to stop.
  
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• Corporate America can't avoid one question. It's Tesla's fault

  15-02-2021 18:06 via cnn.com
  
  Tesla's $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin has helped legitimize the cryptocurrency as an investment, leading analysts and traders to ask which blue chip company will be the next to take the plunge, buying bitcoin for its corporate balance sheet.
  
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• New York Fashion Week is back for another season of shows -- but things have changed

  15-02-2021 18:02 via cnn.com
  
  When the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) chairman Tom Ford announced earlier this year that the organization would no longer publish an official New York Fashion Week schedule but rather an "American Fashion Calendar," the news confirmed something bigger than an administrative update.
  
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• Countries on high alert after Ebola outbreak in Guinea

  15-02-2021 17:41 via cnn.com
  
  Guinea declared an Ebola outbreak in one of its regions on Sunday, after the West African nation confirmed at least seven cases of the disease, including three deaths, the country's National Security and Health Agency (ANSS) said.
  
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• Johnson says end of lockdown must be 'cautious but irreversible' – video

  15-02-2021 17:22 via theguardian.com
  
  The prime minister said the government would provide target dates for sectors to reopen 'if we possibly can' when he reveals his plan for easing lockdown next week. Speaking to broadcasters in Kent, Johnson said: 'The dates that we will be setting out will be the dates by which we hope we can do something at the earliest'Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage Continue reading...
  
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• Coronavirus cases decline across U.S., but experts urge caution

  15-02-2021 17:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  In the last 14 days, according to data compiled by NBC News, coronavirus cases have declined to varying degrees in all 50 states.
  
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• Vaccinations ramp up after slow start in Alabama

  15-02-2021 17:12 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Miguel Marquez looks at how Alabama is stepping up vaccination efforts to slow the spread of Covid-19.
  
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• The Senate's sad spectacle is one more reason to change our current 'Presidents Day'

  15-02-2021 17:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Senate spectacle is the latest reason why we should return this holiday to a celebration of the father of our country, not his mostly middling successors.
  
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• 'Super Mario' saved the euro. Fixing Italy's economy may be a bigger challenge

  15-02-2021 17:05 via cnn.com
  
  Mario Draghi, Italy's new prime minister, is no stranger to high-stakes jobs.
  
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• NATO Secretary General suggests US troops in Afghanistan may not leave in May

  15-02-2021 16:59 via cnn.com
  
  NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg opened the door Monday to the alliance keeping forces in Afghanistan beyond the May deadline when the US had promised to remove its remaining 2,500 troops from the country.
  
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• NATO chief won't remove troops from Afghanistan 'before the time is right'

  15-02-2021 16:59 via cnn.com
  
  NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg opened the door Monday to the alliance keeping forces in Afghanistan beyond the May deadline when the US had promised to remove its remaining 2,500 troops from the country.
  
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• Cuddling penguins and snorkeling alligators: What animals do to stay warm during extreme cold

  15-02-2021 16:44 via cnn.com
  
  It's not just humans finding ways to stay warm during this week's historic temperature plunge — our animal friends are too.
  
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• Machine Gun Kelly says he wears girlfriend Megan Fox's blood around his neck

  15-02-2021 16:22 via cnn.com
  
  When it comes to intense romantic gestures, Machine Gun Kelly may have been looking to Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie for inspiration.
  
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