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    Global death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 2 million

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    • Most Americans don't want Trump back in 2024: Poll

      Most Americans don't want Trump back in 2024: Poll

      The survey found that 89 percent of Americans opposed the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, with 70 percent saying the president bears at least some responsibility for it.

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      • COVID-19 global death toll breaks record

        COVID-19 global death toll breaks record

      • Trump's call for calm disregarded by extremists

        Trump's call for calm disregarded by extremists

      • FBI tracking 'extensive' chatter about armed protests

        FBI tracking 'extensive' chatter about armed protests

      • Feds execute Virginia gang killer with COVID-19

        Feds execute Virginia gang killer with COVID-19

      • Lawmakers introduce bill to honor brave Capitol officer

        Lawmakers introduce bill to honor brave Capitol officer

    • Trump White House begins packing up
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      Trump White House begins packing up

      One day after President Trump was impeached for the second time and with less than a week to go before President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, the Trump White House began cleaning out its desks on Thursday. While 20,000 National Guard troops have descended upon Washington in order to protect the capital from pro-Trump protests expected in the coming days, White House staffers were spotted removing a bust of President Abraham Lincoln from the West Wing. Staffers did not immediately clarify if the bust belongs to the White House permanent collection, or where it was headed.

      • White House officials leave with framed pic of Trump and Xi, bust of Abe Lincoln, and stuffed bird as West Wing packs up
        White House officials leave with framed pic of Trump and Xi, bust of Abe Lincoln, and stuffed bird as West Wing packs up
        The Independent
      • US House impeaches President Trump for second time
        US House impeaches President Trump for second time
        WCVB - Boston
    • World
      Associated Press

      12 Pakistani police fired for not protecting Hindu temple

      Pakistani authorities sacked a local police chief and 11 other policemen for failing to protect a Hindu temple that was set on fire and demolished last month by a mob led by hundreds of supporters of a radical Islamist party, police said Friday. The punishments come amid government assurances to the Hindu community that the temple in Karak, a town in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, would be rebuilt. The attack took place after members of the Hindu community received permission from local authorities to renovate the temple.

    • Uganda elections 2021: Bobi Wine takes on Yoweri Museveni
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      BBC

      Uganda elections 2021: Bobi Wine takes on Yoweri Museveni

      Earlier, the police said they intended to deploy officers on rooftops of Kampala during the election period, saying that opposition activists commanded protests from high-rise building in November, when more than 50 people were killed after Bobi Wine was arrested. Dressed in military fatigues, Mr Museveni gave a stark warning during a televised speech on Tuesday evening: "If you try to disturb peace, you will have yourself to blame. The security forces, following the law, are ready to deal with any troublemaker."

      • Uganda's Museveni takes commanding election lead as rival alleges fraud
        Uganda's Museveni takes commanding election lead as rival alleges fraud
        Reuters
      • Uganda elections 2021: Museveni takes lead as Bobi Wine cries foul
        Uganda elections 2021: Museveni takes lead as Bobi Wine cries foul
        BBC
    • Amid cacophony since Capitol siege, key officer stays silent
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      Associated Press

      Amid cacophony since Capitol siege, key officer stays silent

      Yet amid all the noise, a Capitol Police officer hailed as a hero for confronting the insurrectionists and leading them away from Senate chambers has remained silent. Officer Eugene Goodman isn't saying whether he thinks he saved the Senate, as many of the millions who've viewed the video believe. In fact, Goodman isn't saying anything at all publicly โ€” not to reporters, not on social media.

      • Lone officer who faced Capitol mob to stay silent
        Lone officer who faced Capitol mob to stay silent
        Associated Press Videos
      • Capitol Police Officer Who Led Mob Away from Senate Chambers Is an Army Iraq War Vet
        Capitol Police Officer Who Led Mob Away from Senate Chambers Is an Army Iraq War Vet
        Military.com
    • More Inside Artist Jorge Pardo's Transformed Bushwick Carriage House
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      Architectural Digest

      More Inside Artist Jorge Pardo's Transformed Bushwick Carriage House

      When it came to the lighting in his home, Pardo drew inspiration from the insides of fruits, nuts, and seeds, as well as sea creatures and machine parts. Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest

    • Trump's team is reportedly trying to assemble a crowd for a 'major send-off' hours before Biden's inauguration
      Politics
      The Week

      Trump's team is reportedly trying to assemble a crowd for a 'major send-off' hours before Biden's inauguration

      President Trump is planning to exit the White House on the morning of Jan. 20, a few hours before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in a short distance away, CNN reports. "Eager for a final taste of the pomp of being president, Trump has asked for a major send-off," and "as one of their final acts, Trump's team is working to organize a crowd to see him off on the morning of Biden's inauguration, when he plans to depart Washington while still president" for a flight to Palm Beach, Florida, where his term will officially end at noon. There are 20,000 National Guard troops currently deployed or en route to Washington, D.C., ahead of Biden's inauguration, because the last crowd Trump drew to the White House morphed into an insurrectionist mob that stormed the Capitol.

      • Joe Biden inauguration: How to watch with friends and family on Yahoo
        Joe Biden inauguration: How to watch with friends and family on Yahoo
        Yahoo News
      • The Inauguration of Joseph R. Biden
        The Inauguration of Joseph R. Biden
        Yahoo Finance Video
    • At least 6 pro-Trump rioters charged in the Capitol insurrection have already been released from custody
      U.S.
      INSIDER

      At least 6 pro-Trump rioters charged in the Capitol insurrection have already been released from custody

      Josiah Colt is charged in federal court with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. He is one of at least five pro-Trump rioters charged with federal crimes who have already been allowed to go home pending trial. Dozens of people who were at or around the violent siege of the Capitol building last week have been charged - some of them also indicted - with crimes in DC or federal courts, and that list is growing by the hour.

      • Olympian Klete Keller charged with 3 crimes in U.S. District Court for involvement in Capitol riots
        Olympian Klete Keller charged with 3 crimes in U.S. District Court for involvement in Capitol riots
        Yahoo Sports
      • A pro-Trump rioter who said he got 'caught up in the moment' while dangling from a Senate chamber balcony during the Capitol siege has been taken into custody
        A pro-Trump rioter who said he got 'caught up in the moment' while dangling from a Senate chamber balcony during the Capitol siege has been taken into custody
        INSIDER
    • World
      Christian Science Monitor

      Talk or fight? In Afghanistan, signs Taliban now prefer victory.

      But an unprecedented surge in targeted assassinations in Kabul and other urban centers โ€“ which have left dozens of journalists, civil society activists, and officials dead, in almost daily killings since autumn โ€“ combined with sluggish peace talks and an accelerating U.S. troop withdrawal, is deflating her hope of a peaceful future. The killings are one more signal to analysts, too, that any initial Taliban strategy to negotiate peace with the Western-backed government โ€“ whose freedoms and existence the Taliban reject as un-Islamic โ€“ has been replaced by renewed determination to achieve military victory and seize full control of the country after American troops withdraw this spring.

    • Spain rejects virus confinement as most of Europe stays home
      World
      Associated Press

      Spain rejects virus confinement as most of Europe stays home

      While most of Europe kicked off 2021 with earlier curfews or stay-at-home orders, authorities in Spain insist the new coronavirus variant causing havoc elsewhere is not to blame for a sharp resurgence of cases and that the country can avoid a full lockdown even as its hospitals fill up. The government has been tirelessly fending off drastic home confinement like the one that paralyzed the economy for nearly three months in the spring of 2020, the last time Spain could claim victory over the stubborn rising curve of cases. Infection rates ebbed in October but never completely flattened the surge from summer.

    • Lindsey Graham urges Biden to get Democrats to end impeachment
      Politics
      The Independent

      Lindsey Graham urges Biden to get Democrats to end impeachment

      One of President Trump's closest confidants is asking President-elect Joe Biden to pressure Congressional Democrats to end the impeachment proceedings. In a string of tweets, Senator Lindsey Graham called on Mr Biden to "to rise to the occasion and instruct his party to call off post-presidential impeachment proceedings". Mr Biden has so far been doing his best to avoid giving his opinion publicly regarding impeachment, only indicating that he wants the Senate to deal with cabinet confirmations and new legislation at the same time as an impeachment trial.

      • Impeached again, Trump urges calm ahead of Biden's inauguration
        Impeached again, Trump urges calm ahead of Biden's inauguration
        Yahoo News
      • House impeaches Trump for the second time
        House impeaches Trump for the second time
        Reuters Videos
    • U.S. weekly jobless claims jump on COVID-19, renewed supplementary payments
      Business
      Reuters

      U.S. weekly jobless claims jump on COVID-19, renewed supplementary payments

      The number of Americans filing first-time applications for unemployment benefits surged last week, confirming a weakening in labor market conditions as a worsening COVID-19 pandemic disrupts operations at restaurants and other businesses. The larger-than-expected increase in weekly unemployment claims reported by the Labor Department on Thursday was seen by some economists as driven by the recent renewal of supplemental jobless benefits, but nonetheless raised the risk of further job losses in January after nonfarm payrolls slumped in December for the first time in eight months. A stalling labor market recovery could put pressure on the incoming Biden administration for a bigger relief package.

      • Jobless claims: Another 965,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims last week
        Jobless claims: Another 965,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims last week
        Yahoo Finance
      • These states are suffering the worst sustained unemployment
        These states are suffering the worst sustained unemployment
        Yahoo Finance
    • Fate of Biden agenda rests with Schumer in 50-50 Senate
      Politics
      Associated Press

      Fate of Biden agenda rests with Schumer in 50-50 Senate

      Chuck Schumer is used to drinking from a firehose. But the incoming Senate majority leader has never taken on such a torrent of challenges, with the opening days of both the Biden administration and Democratic control of the Senate coming at the very moment an impeachment trial gets underway. A 38-year veteran of Congress who first came to the Senate during President Bill Clinton's impeachment, Schumer is a 70-year-old bundle of energy with one overriding mandate: Help Joe Biden become a successful president.

      • Trump impeachment sets up politically perilous Senate trial, possibly threatening Joe Biden's agenda
        Trump impeachment sets up politically perilous Senate trial, possibly threatening Joe Biden's agenda
        USA TODAY
      • Democrats call on Schumer for speedy Trump impeachment trial
        Democrats call on Schumer for speedy Trump impeachment trial
        Axios
    • RIP: Mars digger bites the dust after 2 years on red planet
      Science
      Associated Press

      RIP: Mars digger bites the dust after 2 years on red planet

      NASA declared the Mars digger dead Thursday after failing to burrow deep into the red planet to take its temperature. "We've given it everything we've got, but Mars and our heroic mole remain incompatible,โ€ said the German Space Agency's Tilman Spohn, the lead scientist for the experiment. Astronauts one day may need to dig into Mars, according to NASA, in search of frozen water for drinking or making fuel, or signs of past microscopic life.

    • Boris Johnson considers post-Brexit changes to rules on 48-hour working week
      World
      The Telegraph

      Boris Johnson considers post-Brexit changes to rules on 48-hour working week

      Boris Johnson is considering a post-Brexit overhaul of labour laws to free businesses from regulations originally imposed by the EU. The 48-hour working week is one of the regulations being targeted by the Government, it was reported on Thursdayย night, in a move that is likely to meet with resistance from trade unions. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), has asked business leaders for their views on the ideas, which are understood to be at an early stage.

      • UK workersโ€™ rights at risk in plans to tear up EU labour market rules
        UK workersโ€™ rights at risk in plans to tear up EU labour market rules
        Yahoo Finance UK
      • Britain denies wanting to reduce workers' rights post-Brexit
        Britain denies wanting to reduce workers' rights post-Brexit
        Reuters
    • A Florida teacher was filmed falsely telling students 'Antifa' was behind the Capitol riots
      U.S.
      INSIDER

      A Florida teacher was filmed falsely telling students 'Antifa' was behind the Capitol riots

      A Florida teacher was filmed falsely telling students "Antifa" was responsible for the January 6 Capitol riots. The substitute teacher is "no longer with" Edward W. Bok Academy South or Lake Wales Charter Schools (LWCS), the HR director at LWCS confirmed to Insider. There's no evidence "Antifa" was responsible for violence during the Capitol riots; about 100 pro-Trump supporters have been charged so far.

      • Florida teacher fired after telling students antifa breached Capitol
        Florida teacher fired after telling students antifa breached Capitol
        TheGrio
      • Was the Capitol riot planned?
        Was the Capitol riot planned?
        ABC News Videos
    • Science
      Reuters Videos

      Stranded animals rescued after record snow in Spain

      Spanish emergency services led rescue operations for stranded animals left with no food amid extreme weather conditions and a historic snowfall across the country. Storm Filomena brought the heaviest snowfall in decades across central Spain, wreaking havoc as temperatures hit record lows. TV footage showed a helicopter delivering bales of hay for stranded cattle in the outskirts of the Madrid region and civil guard members rescuing a horse in a snowed valley in Vega de Soรฑin, in the northern region of Asturias.

    • Man convicted in 3 killings to be last executed under Trump
      U.S.
      Associated Press

      Man convicted in 3 killings to be last executed under Trump

      The last federal inmate facing execution before President Donald Trump leaves office was sentenced to death for the killings of three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge, a crime that led to a life sentence for the man who fired the fatal shots. Dustin Higgs, 48, who is scheduled to be executed on Friday at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, says nobody alleges he pulled the trigger. His lawyers have argued it is โ€œarbitrary and inequitableโ€ to execute Higgs while Willis Haynes, the man who fatally shot the women in 1996, was spared a death sentence.

      • U.S. appeals court rules two murderers with COVID-19 can be executed in Trump's final week
        U.S. appeals court rules two murderers with COVID-19 can be executed in Trump's final week
        Reuters
      • Virginia gang killer executed by U.S. despite Covid infection
        Virginia gang killer executed by U.S. despite Covid infection
        NBC News
    • China builds new quarantine center as virus cases rise
      World
      Associated Press

      China builds new quarantine center as virus cases rise

      A city in northern China is building a 3,000-unit quarantine facility to deal with an anticipated overflow of patients as COVID-19 cases rise ahead of the annual Lunar New Year travel rush. State media on Friday showed crews leveling earth, pouring concrete and assembling prefabricated rooms in farmland in an outlying part of Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital of Hebei province, which has seen the bulk of the new cases. That recalled scenes from last year, when China rapidly built field hospitals and turned gymnasiums into isolation centers to cope with a then-spiraling outbreak in Wuhan, where the virus was first detected in late 2019.

    • Land of wine and honey? Israeli settlers export to UAE, to Palestinian chagrin
      World
      Reuters

      Land of wine and honey? Israeli settlers export to UAE, to Palestinian chagrin

      Wine produced in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank and labelled "from the land of Israel" will soon be available for sale in the United Arab Emirates, settler business leaders said. Palestinians have condemned the export deal, saying settlements are illegal under international law, a view shared by many countries but disputed by Israel. After forging official relations with the UAE last year under a U.S.-brokered deal that enraged Palestinians, bottles from Tura Winery in the Rehelim settlement are now in stock in the UAE, an alcohol retailer there said, although they did not appear to be on shelves yet.

    • A member of Congress says she chose to risk running into Capitol rioters over sheltering with maskless colleagues during the insurrection
      Politics
      Business Insider

      A member of Congress says she chose to risk running into Capitol rioters over sheltering with maskless colleagues during the insurrection

      Rep. Stacey Plaskett, who serves as a House delegate representing the Virgin Islands, told Buzzfeed News that she opted to shelter in her office instead of with colleagues during the Capitol insurrection last week. In the days since the insurrection, Democratic Reps. Pramila Jayapal, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Brad Schneider, and Adriano Espaillat have tested positive for COVID-19.

      • 5th member of Congress contracts COVID in post-riot surge
        5th member of Congress contracts COVID in post-riot surge
        Yahoo News
      • 4 members of Congress have tested positive for COVID-19 in the wake of the Capitol insurrection
        4 members of Congress have tested positive for COVID-19 in the wake of the Capitol insurrection
        Business Insider
    • Jessie Schuster Transforms a Spacious SoHo Loft Inside an Old Factory Building
      Lifestyle
      Architectural Digest

      Jessie Schuster Transforms a Spacious SoHo Loft Inside an Old Factory Building

      The Manhattan-based interior designer preserved the element of gritty New York through a โ€œraw but elevatedโ€ renovation Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest

    • Covid-19: Brazil hospitals 'run out of oxygen' for virus patients
      World
      BBC

      Covid-19: Brazil hospitals 'run out of oxygen' for virus patients

      Hospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff. The city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections. Health professionals, quoted by local media, warned "many people" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.

      • Brazil's Amazonas state running out of oxygen as COVID-19 surges
        Brazil's Amazonas state running out of oxygen as COVID-19 surges
        Reuters
      • Brazil hospitals 'run out of oxygen' for virus patients in Manaus as hundreds wait for beds
        Brazil hospitals 'run out of oxygen' for virus patients in Manaus as hundreds wait for beds
        The Telegraph
    • German lockdown loopholes criticized as deaths hit new high
      World
      Associated Press

      German lockdown loopholes criticized as deaths hit new high

      Germany has too many loopholes in its coronavirus lockdown rules, the head of the country's disease control agency said as figures published Thursday showed the highest number of daily deaths since the start of the pandemic. The Robert Koch Institute said 1,244 deaths from COVID-19 were confirmed in one day up to Thursday, taking the total number to 43,881. There were also 25,164 newly confirmed cases, putting Germany's total known infections close to 2 million.

      • Sweden reports record daily number of COVID-19 deaths, but infection rate may have peaked
        Sweden reports record daily number of COVID-19 deaths, but infection rate may have peaked
        Reuters
      • New COVID-19 lockdown to come into force in Portugal from Friday
        New COVID-19 lockdown to come into force in Portugal from Friday
        Reuters
    • Analysis: Investors resigned to Trump's China ban, with Biden seen changing little
      Business
      Reuters

      Analysis: Investors resigned to Trump's China ban, with Biden seen changing little

      Financial executives are settling in for the long haul over the Trump administration's investment ban on Chinese securities, expecting the rules to be lasting but hoping to have more clarity after President-elect Joe Biden takes office. Trump's executive order requires U.S. investors to completely divest from the securities of 44 companies deemed to be linked to the Chinese military. Confusion over the order, which has been amended and interpreted via different guidance from separate agencies, has roiled Asian markets, led financial institutions to purge potentially affected companies from funds and asset managers to sell positions at depressed prices.

      • Trump bolsters ban on U.S. investments in China
        Trump bolsters ban on U.S. investments in China
        Reuters
      • Trump Administration Issues New Order Clarifying Investment Ban Against Chinese Companies
        Trump Administration Issues New Order Clarifying Investment Ban Against Chinese Companies
        Benzinga
    • Politics
      Associated Press

      Arizona Republicans figure prominently in election turmoil

      Several Arizona lawmakers figure prominently in the controversy over the Republican effort to overturn President Donald Trump's election loss and the ensuing chaos after a mob stormed the Capitol. From raising objections to the state's election results to attending or potentially helping to organize the violent rally, Arizonans are playing an outsized role in the recriminations that have marked the final weeks of Trump's presidency. Arizona was a hotbed for GOP election denialism long before Trump supporters broke into the Capitol and halted the formal certification of Biden's victory.

    How can the vaccine rollout be sped up?
    • โ€œGovernors are being WAY too precious about who gets this vaccine.โ€

    • โ€œThe federal government needs to give states strict parameters for when their vaccine allocation must be administered.โ€

    • โ€œWhile public health leaders know what must be done, their critical work could be supported by a national COVID-19 Vaccine Corps.โ€

    • โ€œThe US vaccine campaign is not a disaster. Rather, I think it is predictably mediocre.โ€

    • โ€œThe best option may be to rely more on private industry.โ€

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