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    • WHO chief expresses alarm over COVID-19 infection rate

      WHO chief expresses alarm over COVID-19 infection rate

      The number of new coronavirus cases per week has nearly doubled globally over the past two months, approaching the highest rate seen so far during the pandemic.

      'Situation is extremely challenging' »
      • Police: Brandon Scott Hole identified as FedEx shooter

        Police: Brandon Scott Hole identified as FedEx shooter

      • 12 still missing in shipwreck off Louisiana coast

        12 still missing in shipwreck off Louisiana coast

      • Chauvin trial leaves police officers feeling disillusioned

        Chauvin trial leaves police officers feeling disillusioned

      • Waters tells Jordan 'shut your mouth' in tense exchange

        Waters tells Jordan 'shut your mouth' in tense exchange

      • Liberty seeks millions from disgraced former president

        Liberty seeks millions from disgraced former president

    • Israel says it will 'definitely' stop Iran from getting bomb
      World
      Associated Press

      Israel says it will 'definitely' stop Iran from getting bomb

      Israel's foreign minister said Friday that his country was determined to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon, after Tehran promised to step up its uranium enrichment process. “We will do whatever it takes to prevent the extremists (in Iran) from succeeding, and definitely will prevent this regime from having a nuclear weapon,” Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi told reporters on a visit to Cyprus. Iranian officials say the country will begin enriching uranium up to 60% purity following an attack on its nuclear facility at Natanz, in central Iran, on Sunday, that it blamed on Israel.

      • Iran starts enriching uranium to 60%, its highest level ever
        Iran starts enriching uranium to 60%, its highest level ever
        Associated Press
      • Iran, world powers resume nuclear talks amid strains over enrichment, Natanz attack
        Iran, world powers resume nuclear talks amid strains over enrichment, Natanz attack
        Reuters
    • Spain acquits man of sexually abusing 14-year-old stepdaughter who gave birth to his child
      World
      The Telegraph

      Spain acquits man of sexually abusing 14-year-old stepdaughter who gave birth to his child

      A Spanish court has provoked outrage by acquitting a man of sexually abusing his 14-year-old stepdaughter despite the fact she gave birth to his child. The Pamplona court accepted the defendant's claim that the teenager had sat astride him while he was asleep on the sofa and engaged in penetrative sex. The girl's mother reported the father for alleged sexual abuse of her daughter, who initially said she had been raped in the street before changing her story to corroborate her stepfather's claim that he had not been conscious when they had sex.

    • Biden keeps U.S. refugee cap at Trump-era 15,000
      Politics
      Reuters

      Biden keeps U.S. refugee cap at Trump-era 15,000

      WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden signed an order on Friday limiting U.S. refugee admissions this year to the historically low 15,000 cap set under his predecessor Donald Trump, a senior administration official said, shelving a plan to raise it to 62,500 and drawing the ire of refugee advocates and some Democratic lawmakers. The decision was a blow to advocacy groups that wanted the Democratic president to move swiftly to reverse the refugee policies of the Republican Trump, who had set the 15,000 figure as a way to limit immigration. Biden, who took office in January, had signaled two months ago plans to raise the cap to 62,500 during the 2021 fiscal year ending on Sept. 30, but held off on actually doing so.

      • Democrats Criticize Joe Biden Over Low Refugee Admissions Announcement
        Democrats Criticize Joe Biden Over Low Refugee Admissions Announcement
        HuffPost
      • Biden Maintains Trump's Low Refugee Cap
        Biden Maintains Trump's Low Refugee Cap
        HuffPost
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      Yahoo News Video

      Chicago releases video of fatal police shooting of 13-year-old boy

      Body camera footage of a Chicago police officer fatally shooting Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old boy last month shows the officer yelling “Drop it! at the teen right before he opens fire.

    • The 9 Best Wireless Headphones for Every Kind of Use
      Lifestyle
      Architectural Digest

      The 9 Best Wireless Headphones for Every Kind of Use

      From the most comfortable pair to the best value buy, these headphones will carry you through the spring, summer, and beyond Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest

    • New blast at St. Vincent volcano; cruise ship helps evacuees
      World
      Associated Press

      New blast at St. Vincent volcano; cruise ship helps evacuees

      La Soufriere volcano shot out another explosive burst of gas and ash on Friday as a cruise ship arrived to evacuate some of the foreigners who had been stuck on a St. Vincent island coated in ash from a week of violent eruptions. Friday morning's blast “wasn't a big explosion compared to the ones that we last weekend, but it was big enough to punch a hole through the clouds," said Richard Robertson, lead scientist at the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Center, in an interview with local NBC radio. During a comparable eruption cycle in 1902, explosive eruptions continued to shake the island for months after an initial burst killed some 1,700 people, though the new eruptions so far have caused no reported deaths among a population that had received official warning a day earlier that danger was imminent.

      • St Vincent fears COVID-19 outbreak with volcano evacuations
        St Vincent fears COVID-19 outbreak with volcano evacuations
        Associated Press
      • St Vincent volcano: UN warns humanitarian crisis will last months
        St Vincent volcano: UN warns humanitarian crisis will last months
        BBC
    • Exclusive: EU agrees to sanction two companies close to Myanmar military, diplomats say
      World
      Reuters

      Exclusive: EU agrees to sanction two companies close to Myanmar military, diplomats say

      The European Union has agreed to impose sanctions on another 10 individuals linked to the Feb. 1 coup in Myanmar and to target two businesses run by the armed forces for the first time in protest at the military takeover, two diplomats said. The measures, which the diplomats said could take effect next week, would target two companies that generate revenue for the Myanmar Armed Forces. While the EU has an arms embargo on Myanmar and targeted 11 senior military officials last month, the decision to target two companies is the most significant response so far for the bloc since the coup that ousted an elected government led by Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

    • Jimmy Lai: Hong Kong's rebel mogul and pro-democracy voice
      World
      BBC

      Jimmy Lai: Hong Kong's rebel mogul and pro-democracy voice

      The billionaire media mogul Jimmy Lai is one of the most prominent supporters of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement. Mr Lai was 12 years old when he fled his village in mainland China, arriving in Hong Kong as a stowaway on a fishing boat. Like a number of the city's famed tycoons, he went from a menial role, toiling in a Hong Kong sweatshop, to founding a multi-million dollar empire.

      • Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 14 months in prison for unauthorised assembly
        Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 14 months in prison for unauthorised assembly
        Reuters
      • Outspoken Hong Kong billionaire Jimmy Lai sentenced to 14 months in prison for taking part in pro-democracy protests
        Outspoken Hong Kong billionaire Jimmy Lai sentenced to 14 months in prison for taking part in pro-democracy protests
        Business Insider
    • France asks citizens to leave Pakistan amid violent protests
      World
      Associated Press

      France asks citizens to leave Pakistan amid violent protests

      The French embassy in Pakistan on Thursday advised all of its nationals and companies to temporarily leave the country after anti-France violence erupted in the Islamic nation over the arrest of a radical leader. Saad Rizvi was arrested Monday for threatening the government with mass protests if it did not expel French envoy Marc Baréty over the publication depictions of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Agnes Von Der Muhll said about 400 to 500 French nationals live in Pakistan and they will be able to leave via commercial flights.

      • Pakistan briefly blocks social media amid anti-France rally
        Pakistan briefly blocks social media amid anti-France rally
        Associated Press
      • France urges citizens to leave Pakistan amid anti-French protests
        France urges citizens to leave Pakistan amid anti-French protests
        BBC
    • Search for kayaker’s body suspended after dog was found in Colorado lake, cops say
      U.S.
      Raleigh News and Observer

      Search for kayaker’s body suspended after dog was found in Colorado lake, cops say

      Crews have suspended the search for a missing man, who is now presumed dead, after officials spotted a capsized kayak on Sunday and rescued his dog from Carter Lake in Colorado, according to officials. The Larimer County Sheriff's Office officials said on Friday that the search has been suspended after teams have spent more than 700 hours looking for the man believed to be from Loveland. Rangers found an uninjured dog wearing a flotation device and a kayak in the lake Sunday afternoon but no kayaker.

    • J&J scientists refute 'class effect' to blame for clots in those who got its COVID-19 vaccine
      Health
      Reuters

      J&J scientists refute 'class effect' to blame for clots in those who got its COVID-19 vaccine

      Scientists at Johnson & Johnson on Friday refuted an assertion in a major medical journal that the adenovirus-based design of their COVID-19 vaccine, which is similar AstraZeneca's, may explain why both have been linked to very rare brain blood clots in some vaccine recipients. The United States earlier this week paused distribution of the J&J vaccine to investigate six cases of a rare brain blood clot known as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), accompanied by a low blood platelet count, in U.S. women under age 50, out of about 7 million people who got the shot. The blood clots in patients who received the J&J vaccine bear close resemblance to 169 cases in Europe reported with the AstraZeneca vaccine, out of 34 million doses administered there.

      • Coronavirus update: J&J vaccine pause remains, Oxford studies blood clots and COVID-19 vaccines
        Coronavirus update: J&J vaccine pause remains, Oxford studies blood clots and COVID-19 vaccines
        Yahoo Finance
      • America is about to hit a 'vaccine wall' as demand drops — with or without Johnson & Johnson
        America is about to hit a 'vaccine wall' as demand drops — with or without Johnson & Johnson
        Yahoo News
    • Beijing warns US, Japan against collusion vs China
      World
      Associated Press

      Beijing warns US, Japan against collusion vs China

      China said Friday it has expressed “serious concerns” to the United States and Japan over what it calls negative moves and collusion between the two countries against China. The statement from Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian came just before President Joe Biden welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to the White House on Friday in his first face-to-face meeting with a foreign leader. That meeting is seen as reflecting Biden's emphasis on strengthening alliances to deal with a more assertive China and other global challenges.

      • Japan's Suga comes to US for China-focused talks with Biden
        Japan's Suga comes to US for China-focused talks with Biden
        Associated Press
      • Japan's Suga visits for Biden's first White House summit; China tops agenda
        Japan's Suga visits for Biden's first White House summit; China tops agenda
        Reuters
    • A week after she was found in a Florida Keys swimming pool, Georgia toddler dies
      U.S.
      The State

      A week after she was found in a Florida Keys swimming pool, Georgia toddler dies

      A 2-year-old Georgia girl died Thursday, almost a week after she was found unresponsive in the swimming pool of the Florida Keys vacation rental home in which she and her family were staying. Leland Rudeen's family released a statement on Facebook Thursday saying that she had died a day after undergoing an MRI at Nicklaus Children's Hospital near South Miami. “Shortly after the devastating MRI results, as we were trying to wrap our head around some hard decisions ahead of us, Leland took the choice out of our hands and started her painless decline,” the statement reads.

    • Officials: 2nd dead worker from capsized boat found in Gulf
      U.S.
      Associated Press

      Officials: 2nd dead worker from capsized boat found in Gulf

      The Coast Guard said Friday that it has found the body of a second dead worker from the lift boat that capsized off Louisiana's coast earlier this week. Rescuers in the air and the sea have been searching for the 19 workers who were aboard the vessel when it overturned Tuesday in rough weather about 8 miles (13 kilometers) from the Louisiana coast. The second body was found in the water near the partially submerged Seacor Power lift boat Thursday night, according the Coast Guard news release.

      • Loved ones wait for missing from capsized boat
        Loved ones wait for missing from capsized boat
        Associated Press Videos
      • Families of boat workers clinging to hope
        Families of boat workers clinging to hope
        Associated Press Videos
    • ‘Alarm is growing’: Michigan governor faces shutdown dilemma as Covid cases rise
      Politics
      The Guardian

      ‘Alarm is growing’: Michigan governor faces shutdown dilemma as Covid cases rise

      The coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions that Michigan's governor, Gretchen Whitmer, enacted in March last year were among the nation's toughest, and the governor's leadership is thought to have saved lives. Now, as Michigan faces another surge of cases and hospitalizations, its worst yet, Whitmer has changed tack. Despite past success and growing calls for another lockdown from public health experts, and doctors managing hospitals with Covid patients, the governor is resisting further restrictions, and is instead largely relying on a vaccination rollout and a voluntary suspension of in-person dining services.

      • Michigan governor talks about spring surge of COVID cases in her state
        Michigan governor talks about spring surge of COVID cases in her state
        ABC News Videos
      • Gretchen Whitmer Resists Biden Administration on Coronavirus Lockdowns
        Gretchen Whitmer Resists Biden Administration on Coronavirus Lockdowns
        National Review
    • Antony Blinken makes surprise stop in Afghanistan to sell Biden troop withdrawal
      World
      USA TODAY

      Antony Blinken makes surprise stop in Afghanistan to sell Biden troop withdrawal

      U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Thursday to sell Afghan leaders and a wary public on President Joe Biden's decision to withdraw all American troops from the country and end America's longest war. Blinken sought to assure senior Afghan politicians that the United States remains committed to the country despite Biden's announcement a day earlier that the 2,500 U.S. soldiers remaining in the country would be coming home by the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that led to the U.S. invasion in 2001.

      • Biden sets Sept. 11 deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
        Biden sets Sept. 11 deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
        Yahoo News
      • Biden Visits Arlington Cemetery After Afghanistan Withdrawal Speech
        Biden Visits Arlington Cemetery After Afghanistan Withdrawal Speech
        HuffPost
    • U.S.
      Raleigh News and Observer

      Durham man pleads guilty to shooting grandfather in the head at 16. Why did he do it?

      Nearly six years after William Evans was found shot and cold in a Durham parking lot, his grandson pleaded guilty to shooting the 65-year-old man with his own gun. Under a plea agreement, Dominick Jackson pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to up to nearly 10 years in prison, with credit for the more than five years he spent in jail awaiting trial. Under North Carolina sentencing laws, courts must consider mitigating and aggravating factors that could decrease or increase the sentence.

    • Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, and other GOP lawmakers who criticized Trump or voted to impeach him have spent tens of thousands of dollars on private security
      Politics
      Business Insider

      Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, and other GOP lawmakers who criticized Trump or voted to impeach him have spent tens of thousands of dollars on private security

      Lawmakers who criticized Trump or voted to impeach him spent thousands to improve personal security after the Capitol attack. Republicans including Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney beefed up their security, per Punchbowl News. Prominent lawmakers spent tens of thousands of dollars on private security guards and other protection following the Capitol riots, a Punchbowl News analysis of campaign finance records shows.

      • Liz Cheney's Answer On If She'd Ever Vote For Trump Stumps Fox News Anchor
        Liz Cheney's Answer On If She'd Ever Vote For Trump Stumps Fox News Anchor
        HuffPost
      • Romney, Cheney, and other Trump critics spend 'tens of thousands' on security after Capitol riot
        Romney, Cheney, and other Trump critics spend 'tens of thousands' on security after Capitol riot
        The Week
    • Biden expels Russian diplomats and announces new sanctions in retaliation for hacking
      World
      The Independent

      Biden expels Russian diplomats and announces new sanctions in retaliation for hacking

      US president Joe Biden has announced sanctions against a number of Russian officials and ordered the immediate expulsion of ten diplomats from the country, following allegations of election interference and hacking. The US government said for the first time on Thursday that that the hack, which affected at least 100 private-sector businesses and nine federal agencies, was carried out by Russia. The US has also alleged that Russian president Vladimir Putin authorised attempts to swing the 2020 US presidential election in favour of Donald Trump.

      • US expels Russian diplomats in response to SolarWinds hack
        US expels Russian diplomats in response to SolarWinds hack
        Engadget
      • U.S. sanctions Russia, expels diplomats over hacking, interference
        U.S. sanctions Russia, expels diplomats over hacking, interference
        Yahoo News Video
    • Mesh mask lands Capitol riot defendant in hot water with judge
      U.S.
      Politico

      Mesh mask lands Capitol riot defendant in hot water with judge

      A federal judge is demanding that a Pennsylvania woman arrested for her alleged role in the Capitol riot, Rachel Powell, explain why a video of her circulating online shows her wearing a porous, mesh mask despite another judge's order to comply with Covid mask requirements while she awaits trial. U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth said Powell's decision to wear the obviously noncompliant mask “mocks” the initial requirement decreed by the court's chief judge, Beryl Howell, soon after Powell's release in February. Defendant must wear a mask whenever she leaves her residence,” Howell ruled at the time.

    • Lawyer for the police officer who shot Adam Toledo complained that people hadn't asked how his client was doing
      U.S.
      INSIDER

      Lawyer for the police officer who shot Adam Toledo complained that people hadn't asked how his client was doing

      Eric Stillman fatally shot the 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago on March 29. A lawyer for the police officer who fatally shot the 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago has complained that few people have asked how his client is doing. The lawyer for Eric Stillman said in a statement quoted by The Daily Beast: "What is amazing and disheartening is that very few have asked about the welfare of the officer."

      • Chicago Releases Video Of Police Fatally Shooting 13-Year-Old Adam Toledo
        Chicago Releases Video Of Police Fatally Shooting 13-Year-Old Adam Toledo
        HuffPost
      • Chicago releases video of fatal police shooting of 13-year-old boy
        Chicago releases video of fatal police shooting of 13-year-old boy
        Yahoo News Video
    • Cuba’s budding civil society asks to be heard as island prepares for historic congress
      World
      Miami Herald

      Cuba’s budding civil society asks to be heard as island prepares for historic congress

      Famous musicians long aligned with the communist government poke a finger at the revolution with a song that mocks a slogan penned by Fidel Castro. Cuba's upcoming Communist Party Congress, in which Raúl Castro is expected to hand the reins of power to a younger generation of leaders, coincides not just with a deep economic crisis but also the advent of a nascent civil society movement demanding greater freedoms and channeling growing discontent on the island. In the lead up to the conclave, opposition groups have called on Cuba's leaders to open the debate on the island's future to a more diverse range of voices and consider significant reforms to the island's one-party system and Soviet-style economy.

      • A retiring Castro to bring younger face to Cuba's communists
        A retiring Castro to bring younger face to Cuba's communists
        Associated Press
      • Raul Castro confirms he's resigning, ending long era in Cuba
        Raul Castro confirms he's resigning, ending long era in Cuba
        Associated Press
    • Shop Troye Sivan’s Eclectic Home Style
      Entertainment
      Architectural Digest

      Shop Troye Sivan’s Eclectic Home Style

      Take a page out of the stylish young star's book, from must-have splurges to affordable accessories Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest

    • Biden condemns ‘stain’ of gun violence in wake of Indiana mass shooting
      U.S.
      The Independent

      Biden condemns ‘stain’ of gun violence in wake of Indiana mass shooting

      President Joe Biden has echoed his demands to Congress to pass gun control legislation in the wake of another mass shooting and the deaths of eight people fatally shot at a FedEx facility in Indiana on Thursday night. “Last night and into the morning in Indianapolis, yet again families had to wait to hear word about the fate of their loved ones,” he said. In a statement on Friday, the president condemned the “epidemic” of gun violence in the US following the killings, just one week after his administration issued a series of executive actions with the Justice Department to curb the proliferation of certain firearms.

      • Indiana sports community reacts on Twitter after mass shooting at Indianapolis FedEx facility
        Indiana sports community reacts on Twitter after mass shooting at Indianapolis FedEx facility
        Yahoo Sports
      • Biden says gun violence 'stains our character and pierces the very soul of our nation' in response to Indianapolis mass shooting
        Biden says gun violence 'stains our character and pierces the very soul of our nation' in response to Indianapolis mass shooting
        Business Insider
    • GOP Reps. Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene were the only 'no' votes on a bill reauthorizing the National Marrow Donor Program
      Politics
      Business Insider

      GOP Reps. Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene were the only 'no' votes on a bill reauthorizing the National Marrow Donor Program

      GOP Reps. Greene and Boebert voted against a bill that would renew the National Marrow Donor Program. "Nothing in this bill prevents the funding of aborted fetal tissue," a spokesman for Greene said. GOP Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Lauren Boebert of Colorado were the only members of Congress to vote against a bill that would provide patients who suffer from leukemia or other blood diseases access to potentially life-saving bone marrow transplants.

      • ‘Comically evil’: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert cause outrage by voting against bone marrow donor program
        ‘Comically evil’: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert cause outrage by voting against bone marrow donor program
        The Independent
      • Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are lone lawmakers to vote against National Marrow Donor Program
        Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are lone lawmakers to vote against National Marrow Donor Program
        The Week
    Companies speak out on voting rights
    • “There’s no ‘both sides of the debate’ when it comes to active voter suppression.”

    • “Companies that do this ooze contempt for their own customers and employees who are not in the leftmost quarter of opinion.”

    • “The truth is that Fortune 500 companies were never taking moral stances from the goodness of their corporate hearts.”

    • “The truth is, the companies hold the cards…If companies stick to their guns, Georgia is likely to back down as well.”

    • “When a company folds to the unfounded outrage of a few misinformed nuts, they are forever at the mob’s beck-and-call.”

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