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    • U.S. implicates Saudi crown prince in journalist's killing

      U.S. implicates Saudi crown prince in journalist's killing

      Mohammed bin Salman likely approved an operation to kill or capture Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, according to a newly declassified report.

      Comes day after Biden courtesy call »
      • Biden's $1.9 trillion relief package passes in House

        Biden's $1.9 trillion relief package passes in House

      • Backlash to claim WWII sex slaves were 'prostitutes'

        Backlash to claim WWII sex slaves were 'prostitutes'

      • Calls for masking at jammed CPAC met with jeers

        Calls for masking at jammed CPAC met with jeers

      • Why so many COVID-19 survivors many have PTSD

        Why so many COVID-19 survivors many have PTSD

      • CPAC: Gaetz on panel with Jan. 6 caravans organizer

        CPAC: Gaetz on panel with Jan. 6 caravans organizer

    • At CPAC, Cruz and Hawley remain defiant about Capitol riot
      Politics
      Yahoo News

      At CPAC, Cruz and Hawley remain defiant about Capitol riot

      Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri took to the stage today at the Conservative Political Action Conference and gave what amounted to their most extensive public remarks since Jan. 6, when both were seen by critics as having helped incite a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election. Cruz spoke on Friday morning, while Hawley addressed the audience in a less enviable afternoon spot. As they have in appearances on Fox News and other outlets in recent weeks, they cast themselves as victims of Democratic “cancel culture” — an ill-defined concept that encompasses social and corporate disapproval — while taking no responsibility for inciting the white supremacists and other supporters of former President Donald Trump who stormed the Capitol in hopes of keeping Joe Biden from assuming the Oval Office.

      • Stephen Colbert Compares Cruz And Hawley To Hannibal Lecter, And Comedy Is Delicious
        Stephen Colbert Compares Cruz And Hawley To Hannibal Lecter, And Comedy Is Delicious
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      • Here's How Republicans Downplayed the Capitol Riot at CPAC
        Here's How Republicans Downplayed the Capitol Riot at CPAC
        Time
    • Biden, facing backlash over reopening shelter for migrant children, is left with few options
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      Yahoo News

      Biden, facing backlash over reopening shelter for migrant children, is left with few options

      When the Biden administration began transporting migrant children to a Trump-era emergency influx shelter in Texas this week, it faced fierce criticism from some on the left, particularly Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who tweeted: “This is not okay, never has been okay, never will be okay — no matter the administration or party.” “From our perspective, influx facilities are certainly not ideal, but it is so much better than a child sitting in a camp in Matamoros or a child being cramped in a Border Patrol facility,” said Jennifer Podkul, vice president of policy and advocacy at Kids in Need of Defense, a pro bono legal service provider for migrant and refugee children.

    • IS bride loses bid to return to UK to fight for citizenship
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      Associated Press

      IS bride loses bid to return to UK to fight for citizenship

      A woman who ran away from London as a teenager to join the Islamic State group lost her bid Friday to return to the U.K. to fight for the restoration of her citizenship, which was revoked on national security grounds. Shamima Begum was one of three east London schoolgirls who traveled to Syria in 2015. She resurfaced at a refugee camp in Syria and told reporters she wanted to come home, but was denied the chance after former Home Secretary Sajid Javid revoked her citizenship.

      • UK top court says IS schoolgirl can't return
        UK top court says IS schoolgirl can't return
        Reuters Videos
      • Runaway schoolgirl who joined IS cannot return to Britain, top court says
        Runaway schoolgirl who joined IS cannot return to Britain, top court says
        Reuters
    • China expected to unveil hike in military budget as tensions rise
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      Reuters

      China expected to unveil hike in military budget as tensions rise

      China is expected to reveal a robust increase in defence spending at the March 5 annual opening of parliament, as its economy rebounds from the COVID-19 pandemic and military tensions rise, Chinese and Western security experts said. With the coronavirus hammering its economy, China last year announced a 6.6 per cent boost in defence spending to $178 billion, the lowest rate of increase in three decades. The new administration of President Joe Biden has moved quickly to remind Beijing that the United States intends to compete with China's growing influence and military strength in the Asia-Pacific.

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      Mobster Peter Gotti from notorious Gambino crime family dies in prison

      Mobster Peter Gotti, the brother of notorious Gambino crime boss John Gotti, has died while serving a federal prison sentence, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press Thursday.

    • Durham remains special counsel overseeing Trump-Russia probe
      Politics
      Associated Press

      Durham remains special counsel overseeing Trump-Russia probe

      U.S. Attorney John Durham said Friday that he will resign from his position as the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut but is remaining as a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department's investigation into the origins of the Russia probe that shadowed Donald Trump's presidency. Durham will resign from his post as U.S. attorney for Connecticut on Monday. But Durham, who was appointed in October by then-Attorney General William Barr as a special counsel to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, will remain in that capacity.

    • France needs a lockdown as COVID-19 cases rise: hospital official
      World
      Reuters

      France needs a lockdown as COVID-19 cases rise: hospital official

      France should impose a national lockdown given the increase in COVID-19 cases and the longer it waits, the higher the death toll will be, the head of the emergencies unit at a hospital in Paris said on Friday. The government said on Thursday that a new lockdown was not on the agenda and it would see next week if local weekend lockdowns would be needed in 20 areas considered very worrying, including Paris and the surrounding region. "I do not understand what we are waiting for," Philippe Juvin from the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in the capital told BFM TV, adding that the situation at hospitals in the Paris area was very tense.

      • Paris has plan to 'reopen everything' in March, deputy mayor announces
        Paris has plan to 'reopen everything' in March, deputy mayor announces
        Yahoo News UK
      • France could impose more regional lockdowns in worst COVID-hit areas
        France could impose more regional lockdowns in worst COVID-hit areas
        Reuters
    • The GOP hasn’t represented a majority of voters in the Senate in 25 years
      Politics
      The Independent

      The GOP hasn’t represented a majority of voters in the Senate in 25 years

      The GOP hasn't represented a majority of Americans in the Senate in 25 years but has wielded enormous power, confirming judicial nominees that will change the nature of the federal bench for decades to come and blocking progressive priorities despite representing fewer people than the Democrats since 1996. The Republican Party was in charge of the chamber between 1995 and 2007, with a brief interlude in 2001-2002 as Vermont Republican Jim Jeffords became an Independent and started caucusing with the Democrats. The Republicans also controlled the Senate from 2015 until 2021.

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      Associated Press

      Explosion strikes Israeli-owned ship in Mideast amid tension

      An explosion struck an Israeli-owned cargo ship sailing out of the Middle East on Friday, an unexplained blast renewing concerns about ship security in the region amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran. The crew and vessel were safe, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which is run by the British navy. The explosion in the Gulf of Oman forced the vessel to head to the nearest port.

    • Myanmar police launch most extensive crackdown; one woman shot and wounded
      World
      Reuters

      Myanmar police launch most extensive crackdown; one woman shot and wounded

      The violence came after Myanmar's U.N. envoy, saying he was speaking for the ousted civilian government, urged the United Nations to use "any means necessary" to reverse the Feb. 1 coup. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the army seized power and detained elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and much of her party leadership, alleging fraud in a November election her party won in a landslide. The coup, which stalled Myanmar's progress toward democracy, has brought hundreds of thousands of protesters onto the streets and drawn condemnation from Western countries, with some imposing limited sanctions.

      • Myanmar envoy appeals to U.N. to stop coup as police break up protests
        Myanmar envoy appeals to U.N. to stop coup as police break up protests
        Reuters
      • Myanmar riot police fire to break up protests
        Myanmar riot police fire to break up protests
        Reuters Videos
    • Sen. John Cornyn, Gov. Greg Abbott — but not Ted Cruz —  to meet with Joe Biden in Texas
      Politics
      USA TODAY

      Sen. John Cornyn, Gov. Greg Abbott — but not Ted Cruz —  to meet with Joe Biden in Texas

      Two out of Texas' top three Republican officials will meet with President Joe Biden during his Friday trip to Houston following the state's winter storm and power outages last week. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, plan to join Biden and first lady Jill Biden as they survey storm and power grid damage, visit an emergency operations center and food bank and stop by NRG Stadium, a mass vaccination site. The state's other senator, Ted Cruz, won't be joining them.

      • Biden brings empathy to storm-battered Texas, security official lays out state's mistakes
        Biden brings empathy to storm-battered Texas, security official lays out state's mistakes
        Reuters
      • Iran 'can't act with impunity', Biden says
        Iran 'can't act with impunity', Biden says
        Reuters Videos
    • More Inside A New Safari Lodge Treehouse Tucked Away in Botswana’s Okavango Delta
      U.S.
      Architectural Digest

      More Inside A New Safari Lodge Treehouse Tucked Away in Botswana’s Okavango Delta

      Only reachable by canoe, this Xigera hideaway is centered along lush riverbeds and a rich concentration of wildlife. Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest

    • Pakistan expert: Religiosity aiding spike in militancy
      World
      Associated Press

      Pakistan expert: Religiosity aiding spike in militancy

      Militant attacks are on the rise in Pakistan amid a growing religiosity that has brought greater intolerance, prompting one expert to voice concern the country could be overwhelmed by religious extremism. Pakistani authorities are embracing strengthening religious belief among the population to bring the country closer together. But it's doing just the opposite, creating intolerance and opening up space for a creeping resurgence in militancy, said Mohammad Amir Rana, executive director of the independent Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies.

    • CPAC is promoting Donald Trump’s big lie of election fraud
      Politics
      The Independent

      CPAC is promoting Donald Trump’s big lie of election fraud

      The nation's largest right-wing summit has devoted at least seven panels to relitigating or amplifying false claims about the 2020 presidential election, not counting the speeches from high-profile Republicans and right-wing figures raising questions about “election integrity” after Donald Trump's loss and a persistent lie that the election was “stolen” from his supporters. Matt Schlapp, chair of the CPAC-hosting American Conservative Union, told CNN ahead of the conference that “we're going to spend a lot of time going through what happened in the states” despite the Trump campaign's spurious legal big and admission from his own Justice Department and nationwide election officials that no such fraud occurred. Speakers have said their concerns are about “protecting elections” and ensuring “election integrity” but they have promoted the same baseless, legally dubious complaints that the former president and his campaign have argued for months leading up to the deadly riot at the Capitol on 6 January, as his supporters stormed into the halls of Congress to stop the certification of the votes.

    • Biden: Strikes in Syria sent warning to Iran to 'be careful'
      World
      Associated Press

      Biden: Strikes in Syria sent warning to Iran to 'be careful'

      President Joe Biden said Friday that Iran should view his decision to authorize U.S. airstrikes in Syria as a warning that it can expect consequences for its support of militia groups that threaten U.S. interests or personnel. You can't act with impunity. Be careful,” Biden said when a reporter asked what message he had intended to send with the airstrikes, which the Pentagon said destroyed several buildings in eastern Syria but were not intended to eradicate the militia groups that used them to facilitate attacks inside Iraq.

      • On Texas visit, Biden warns Iran 'to be careful'
        On Texas visit, Biden warns Iran 'to be careful'
        Associated Press Videos
      • Pentagon: Strikes in Syria make clear US will act
        Pentagon: Strikes in Syria make clear US will act
        Associated Press Videos
    • How Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble
      Business
      BBC

      How Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble

      President Biden's top economic adviser described Bitcoin as "an extremely inefficient way to conduct transactions," saying "the amount of energy consumed in processing those transactions is staggering". From buying a Bentley to losing it all Bitcoin keeps hitting new highs after Tesla backing Bitcoin hits new record of $50,000 It's unclear exactly how much energy Bitcoin uses. Cryptocurrencies are - by design - hard to track.

    • Residents of an Indian slum thought they were getting vaccinated like everyone else but were unknowingly part of a clinical trial
      World
      INSIDER

      Residents of an Indian slum thought they were getting vaccinated like everyone else but were unknowingly part of a clinical trial

      A white van drove through the slums of Bhopal in central India advertising a COVID-19 vaccine. The van reportedly said that anyone who got one would receive 750 rupees. It seemed like a win-win for residents in the slums of Bhopal in central India when a white van drove through the streets advertising, "Come and take the coronavirus vaccine and get 750 rupees!" from its speaker system.

    • South Dakota's legislature is moving to impeach its attorney general after investigators uncovered a hit-and-run victim's glasses in his car
      U.S.
      Business Insider

      South Dakota's legislature is moving to impeach its attorney general after investigators uncovered a hit-and-run victim's glasses in his car

      AG Jason Ravnsborg was charged with three misdemeanors in connection to a fatal car crash. New details have since emerged with the victim's glasses found in Ravnsborg's car. Ravnsborg was charged with three misdemeanors last week after initially saying he thought he hit a deer, not a person.

      • Judge stops Noem from releasing records in AG's fatal crash
        Judge stops Noem from releasing records in AG's fatal crash
        Associated Press
      • Calls for South Dakota attorney general's impeachment rise amid investigation
        Calls for South Dakota attorney general's impeachment rise amid investigation
        CBS News Videos
    • At pivotal moment in Afghanistan war, Biden weighs a dilemma
      World
      Associated Press

      At pivotal moment in Afghanistan war, Biden weighs a dilemma

      President Joe Biden's choices in Afghanistan boil down to this: withdraw all troops by May, as promised by his predecessor, and risk a resurgence of extremist dangers, or stay and possibly prolong the war in hopes of compelling the Taliban to make peace with a weak and fractured government. Afghanistan presents one of the new administration's tougher and more urgent decisions. The U.S. public is weary of a war nearly 20 years old, but pulling out now could be seen as giving the Taliban too much leverage and casting a shadow over the sacrifices made by U.S. and coalition troops and Afghan civilians.

    • Brazil death toll tops 250,000, virus still running rampant
      World
      Associated Press

      Brazil death toll tops 250,000, virus still running rampant

      Brazil's COVID-19 death toll, which surpassed 250,000 on Thursday, is the world's second-highest for the same reason its second wave has yet to fade: Prevention was never made a priority, experts say. Since the pandemic's start, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro scoffed at the “little flu” and lambasted local leaders for imposing restrictions on activity; he said the economy must keep humming along to prevent worse hardship.

    • Trump lost because 'character counts.' That's why his CPAC speech won't change anything.
      Politics
      USA TODAY Opinion

      Trump lost because 'character counts.' That's why his CPAC speech won't change anything.

      Many dispirited Republicans, still struggling to accept Donald Trump's decisive and legitimate defeat in last November's election, have begun pondering what they might have done differently to have produced a different result. After all, their nominee needed to draw only an additional 65,013 votes, distributed strategically in four close races — Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin and the second Congressional district of Nebraska — to have eked out another Electoral College victory (270-268) while still losing the popular vote by a margin of 7,000,000. — that would have all-but-guaranteed a comfortable GOP victory.

    • Fledgling Actor From Texas Bashed a Cop With a Crutch in Capitol Riot: Docs
      U.S.
      The Daily Beast

      Fledgling Actor From Texas Bashed a Cop With a Crutch in Capitol Riot: Docs

      An aspiring actor from Texas, who said he was almost “gassed to death like… a Jew” during the Capitol insurrection, has been charged with using a crutch to bash a cop in the Jan. 6 riot. Luke Coffee, a 41-year-old from Dallas, has been charged with a slew of crimes, including assault of a federal law enforcement officer with a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. In a newly unsealed criminal complaint, prosecutors said Coffee is seen in photos and videos using a crutch to assault D.C. Police officers who were trying to protect the Capitol.

    • Merkel says she won't take AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine because she's too old, as 1.4 million jabs are left unused
      World
      Business Insider

      Merkel says she won't take AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine because she's too old, as 1.4 million jabs are left unused

      German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she won't take AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine. The vaccine has been approved for only people under 65 in Germany, and Merkel is 66. Recent trials have linked AstraZeneca's vaccine with a dramatic drop in hospitalization risk.

      • Merkel won’t take AstraZeneca vaccine, says she's too old
        Merkel won’t take AstraZeneca vaccine, says she's too old
        Yahoo News Video
      • Canada approves AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shot
        Canada approves AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shot
        Reuters Videos
    • Analysis: Biden ambitions run into reality of Senate's rules
      Politics
      Associated Press

      Analysis: Biden ambitions run into reality of Senate's rules

      The early ambitions of Joe Biden's presidency are quickly running into the guardrails of archaic Senate rules, testing his willingness to remake an institution he reveres to fulfill many of the promises he has made to Americans. It will also shape Biden's ability to keep two restive wings of the Democratic Party united: swing state moderates wary of the appearance of effectively giving up on bipartisanship and more progressive Democrats who argue that Republicans aren't coming along anyway. Biden — who spent four decades as a senator and speaks of the institution with veneration, as well as some revisionist history about the good old days of cross-party cooperation — is so far trying to find the middle ground.

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      Yahoo News Video

      Merkel won’t take AstraZeneca vaccine, says she's too old

      German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she won't take AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine because she is too old, a comment that comes as millions of Germans refuse to take the vaccine because they do not trust it.

    If Trump runs again, can he win?
    • “How about we skip ‘he won’t win’ cycle and not do 2016 all over again. Trump can absolutely win another presidential election.”

    • “With independents deserting him, there is simply no path for Trump to get back into the White House — except as a tourist.”

    • “They might as well cancel the 2024 primaries...because there is no way he can lose.”

    • “The next Republican presidential primary will be heavily shaped by Trump — whether or not he decides to run again.”

    • “Donald Trump will not be running for president again. He will, however, continue to tease the possibility of a 2024 run.”

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