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    • Scientists confirm California has its own COVID strain

      Scientists confirm California has its own COVID strain

      Scientists suspect the homegrown strain is likely linked to the case surge in Los Angeles County since November.

      Several unknowns surround the variant »
      • Son tells FBI dad was planning 'something big'

        Son tells FBI dad was planning 'something big'

      • 2 masks are the new masks

        2 masks are the new masks

      • Gov. Newsom lifts California's stay-at-home orders

        Gov. Newsom lifts California's stay-at-home orders

      • IG to probe DOJ officials over possible election plot

        IG to probe DOJ officials over possible election plot

      • Senate confirms Janet Yellen as treasury secretary

        Senate confirms Janet Yellen as treasury secretary

    • Why Black Americans aren't being vaccinated for COVID-19 at the same rate as whites
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      Yahoo News

      Why Black Americans aren't being vaccinated for COVID-19 at the same rate as whites

      Early data on the rollout of the vaccines for COVID-19 shows that minority populations in the United States already disproportionately affected by the pandemic are not being immunized at the same rate as white Americans. Yahoo News Medical Contributor Dr. Uché Blackstock believes there are multiple factors contributing to this disparity. “One of the problems that I saw very early on is that if you're going to have mostly hospitals and pharmacies dispensing the vaccine, we're going to miss a lot of people,” Blackstock said.

    • Joe Biden: America's second Catholic president
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      BBC

      Joe Biden: America's second Catholic president

      Joe Biden has been back in Washington for six days, and already he has attended Catholic Mass twice. Then, on the first Sunday of his presidency, he took in morning services at Holy Trinity Church, in the Georgetown neighbourhood of northwest DC. The Jesuit-affiliated Holy Trinity is the same church to which John F Kennedy, the nation's first Catholic president, belonged.

      • Biden attends Mass at DC church where he worshipped as VP
        Biden attends Mass at DC church where he worshipped as VP
        Associated Press
      • Biden attends Mass at DC church he went to as VP
        Biden attends Mass at DC church he went to as VP
        Associated Press Videos
    • The Senate is effectively deadlocked over McConnell's filibuster demand
      Politics
      The Week

      The Senate is effectively deadlocked over McConnell's filibuster demand

      Senate Democrats are drawing a line at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) demand that a power-sharing agreement in the 50-50 Senate include a pledge to retain the legislative filibuster. "If we gave him that, then the filibuster would be on everything, every day," Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) told NBC's Chuck Todd on Sunday's Meet the Press.

      • Mitch McConnell Backs Down In Fight Over Filibuster
        Mitch McConnell Backs Down In Fight Over Filibuster
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      • McConnell backs off Senate filibuster fight with Schumer
        McConnell backs off Senate filibuster fight with Schumer
        Associated Press
    • China pushes conspiracy theories on COVID origin, vaccines
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      Associated Press

      China pushes conspiracy theories on COVID origin, vaccines

      Chinese state media have stoked concerns about Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, despite rigorous trials indicating it is safe. A government spokesperson has raised the unsubstantiated theory that the coronavirus could have emerged from a U.S. military lab, giving it more credence in China. As the ruling Communist Party faces growing questioning about China's vaccines and renewed criticism of its early COVID-19 response, it is hitting back by encouraging conspiracy theories that some experts say could cause harm.

    • EU states no longer recognise Guaido as Venezuela's interim president
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      Reuters

      EU states no longer recognise Guaido as Venezuela's interim president

      Venezuela's Juan Guaido is a "privileged interlocutor" but no longer considered interim president, European Union states said in a statement on Monday, sticking by their decision to downgrade his status. The EU's 27 states had said on Jan. 6 they could no longer legally recognise Guaido as after he lost his position as head of parliament following legislative elections in Venezuela in December, despite the EU not recognising that vote. Following the disputed re-election of President Nicolas Maduro in 2018, Guaido, as head of parliament, became interim president.

    • Biden replaces White House doctor with longtime physician
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      Associated Press

      Biden replaces White House doctor with longtime physician

      President Joe Biden has brought back Dr. Kevin O'Connor as his physician, replacing President Donald Trump's doctor with the one who oversaw his care when he was vice president. The White House confirmed that Dr. Sean Conley, the Navy commander who served as the head of the White House Medical Unit under Trump and oversaw his treatment when he was hospitalized with COVID-19, will assume a teaching role at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. O'Connor, a retired Army colonel, was Biden's doctor during his entire tenure as vice president, having remained in the role at Biden's request.

    • Indian and Chinese troops involved in new border clash in eastern Himalayas
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      The Telegraph

      Indian and Chinese troops involved in new border clash in eastern Himalayas

      Indian and Chinese soldiers armed with sticks and stones have brawled again along their disputed frontier, Delhi said, as the neighbours' months-long border stand-off continued. Indian security officials said there were clashes after at least 18 Chinese soldiers tried to cross into Indian-claimed territory at Naku La in Sikkim on January 20. A senior Indian Army official told the Telegraph that four Indian soldiers were wounded after they challenged the Chinese PLA soldiers.

      • India, China soldiers brawl again along disputed frontier
        India, China soldiers brawl again along disputed frontier
        Associated Press
      • India says troops had 'minor face-off' with China in Sikkim border area
        India says troops had 'minor face-off' with China in Sikkim border area
        Reuters
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      Female student athletes speak out against Biden executive order on transgender competition

      Three Connecticut female student athletes who filed a discrimination complaint over transgender competition argue that the president's new executive order is not fair.

    • Factbox: Latest on worldwide spread of the coronavirus
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      Reuters

      Factbox: Latest on worldwide spread of the coronavirus

      * British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was looking at toughening border quarantine rules because of the risk of "vaccine-busting" new variants. * China reported a fall in new COVID-19 infections as the number of cases in two of the provinces particularly hard hit by the latest coronavirus wave fell to single digits. * Indonesia is set to officially surpass one million coronavirus cases on Tuesday.

    • Shyamala Gopalan: The woman who inspired Kamala Harris
      Celebrity
      BBC

      Shyamala Gopalan: The woman who inspired Kamala Harris

      What Kamala Harris did on her first day Howard students' joy as Kamala Harris makes history The oldest of the four children of a civil servant father and a homemaker mother, Ms Gopalan wanted to study biochemistry. But hard sciences were not on offer at Delhi's Lady Irwin College for women, founded by India's British colonial rulers, and she had to settle for an undergraduate degree in home science, where she would have studied subjects like nutrition and homemaking skills. "My father and I would tease her about it," Gopalan Balachandran, her brother, told the BBC.

    • Pets are back: Biden's 2 dogs settle in at White House
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      Associated Press

      Pets are back: Biden's 2 dogs settle in at White House

      The patter of paws is being heard in the White House again following the arrival of President Joe Biden's dogs Champ and Major. The two German shepherds are the first pets to live at the executive mansion since the Obama administration. Major burst onto the national scene last year after Biden, then president-elect, broke his right foot while playing with the dog at their home in Wilmington, Delaware.

      • White House Welcomes 2 Very Good Boys As Biden's Dogs Move In
        White House Welcomes 2 Very Good Boys As Biden's Dogs Move In
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      • First dogs Champ and Major move into at White House
        First dogs Champ and Major move into at White House
        Associated Press Videos
    • Trump lawyer Giuliani faces $1.3 billion lawsuit over 'big lie' election fraud claims
      U.S.
      Reuters

      Trump lawyer Giuliani faces $1.3 billion lawsuit over 'big lie' election fraud claims

      A U.S. voting machine company filed a $1.3 billion lawsuit against former President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, accusing him of defamation in what it called his "big lie" campaign about widespread fraud in the presidential election, court documents on Monday showed. The Denver-based company, Dominion Voting Systems Inc, filed an earlier lawsuit against pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, whom the company also accused of spreading false conspiracy theories about the election that Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden. A senior Dominion employee, Eric Coomer, also filed a defamation lawsuit against the Trump campaign, saying he had been driven into hiding because of death threats from Trump supporters.

      • Rudy Giuliani faces $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit by voting machine company
        Rudy Giuliani faces $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit by voting machine company
        Yahoo News Video
      • Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani For Defamation, Seeks $1.3 Billion
        Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani For Defamation, Seeks $1.3 Billion
        HuffPost
    • U.S.
      Associated Press

      COVID-19 vaccine theft charge dismissed against Texas doc

      A judge on Monday dismissed a theft charge against a Houston area health department doctor who had been accused by prosecutors of stealing nine doses of coronavirus vaccine from a damaged vial and administering them to family and friends. Authorities had alleged that Hasan Gokal, who worked for Harris County Public Health, stole a vial of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine while working at a vaccination site at a suburban Houston park on Dec. 29. But Harris County Court-At-Law Judge Franklin Bynum found there was no probable cause to charge Gokal with theft.

    • Fact check: National Guard members didn't turn away from Biden's Inauguration Day motorcade in dissent
      Politics
      USA TODAY

      Fact check: National Guard members didn't turn away from Biden's Inauguration Day motorcade in dissent

      The claim: Video shows National Guard members turned away from Biden's motorcade History will remember President Joe Biden's inauguration for its many irregularities, including the 26,000 National Guard members who descended upon Washington to provide additional security after pro-Trump rioters breached the U.S. Capitol two weeks earlier. While tensions were high on Inauguration Day, a viral video does not show guard members insulting Biden, as online opponents claim. A 21-second video titled “Troops Turn Backs on Biden as Motorcade Drives By” shows guard members standing along a road, with some backs turned from the presidential motorcade.

      • Fact check: Meme uses debunked image to draw misleading Trump-Biden comparison
        Fact check: Meme uses debunked image to draw misleading Trump-Biden comparison
        USA TODAY
      • More Than 150 National Guard Members Test Positive For COVID Since Inauguration
        More Than 150 National Guard Members Test Positive For COVID Since Inauguration
        Scary Mommy
    • Ivanka Trump would face ‘tough race’ for Florida Senate, says Republican incumbent Marco Rubio
      Politics
      The Independent

      Ivanka Trump would face ‘tough race’ for Florida Senate, says Republican incumbent Marco Rubio

      Florida Republican senator Marco Rubio has shrugged off rumours that Ivanka Trump could challenge him to a primary in the 2022 midterm elections. The daughter of recently deposed president, Donald Trump, has made no secret of her own political ambitions after serving as a senior adviser in her father's White House and recently relocated her family to a luxury condominium in Miami. Ms Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, likewise an adviser to the 45th president, have also recently acquired a $30m (£22m) lot on nearby Indian Creek Island with a view to building a new home for themselves there, indicating their intention to stay on in the Sunshine State, where Mr Trump himself now resides at his Mar-a-Lago mansion.

    • Asia Today: Taiwan quarantines 5,000 after hospital cluster
      Health
      Associated Press

      Asia Today: Taiwan quarantines 5,000 after hospital cluster

      Health authorities in Taiwan are quarantining 5,000 people while looking for the source of two new coronavirus cases linked to a hospital. Officials said on Monday that they have not been able to identify how the husband and wife became infected after a brief hospital stay in the Taoyuan General Hospital, located in the city of Taoyuan just outside Taiwan's capital city. The man had stayed at the hospital for three days for health problems unrelated to COVID-19, while his wife looked after him.

    • California reverses stay-at-home order as conditions improve
      U.S.
      Associated Press

      California reverses stay-at-home order as conditions improve

      Business owners hailed Gov. Gavin Newsom's decision to lift stay-at-home orders across California in response to improving coronavirus conditions, but local health officials expressed concern that it may cause residents to let down their guard. California is experiencing a “flattening of the curve,” Newsom said during a virtual news conference on Monday. The metrics are markedly improved since last month, when some Southern California hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients were crafting emergency plans for rationing care.

      • California lifts stay-at-home orders on Monday
        California lifts stay-at-home orders on Monday
        Yahoo News Video
      • California lifts virus stay-at-home order and curfew
        California lifts virus stay-at-home order and curfew
        Associated Press
    • Biden predicts anyone who wants a coronavirus vaccine will be able to get one by 'this spring'
      Health
      Business Insider

      Biden predicts anyone who wants a coronavirus vaccine will be able to get one by 'this spring'

      President Joe Biden believes coronavirus vaccines will be widely available by the spring. "I think it'll be this spring," Biden said. This was the first time Biden offered such a time window for the vaccine rollout.

      • Biden more bullish on vaccines, suggests 1.5M shots per day
        Biden more bullish on vaccines, suggests 1.5M shots per day
        Associated Press Videos
      • Joe Biden: Those Who Want Covid-19 Vaccine Should Be Able To Get One By This Spring
        Joe Biden: Those Who Want Covid-19 Vaccine Should Be Able To Get One By This Spring
        Deadline
    • ‘Don’t let him off the hook’: Beto O’Rourke says Ted Cruz is guilty of sedition
      Politics
      The Independent

      ‘Don’t let him off the hook’: Beto O’Rourke says Ted Cruz is guilty of sedition

      Former Congressman Beto O'Rourke accused Sen. Ted Cruz - who he challenged in a Senate race in 2018 - of being "guilty of sedition." Mr O'Rourke made the statement on Twitter while imploring citizens not to "let him off the hook" for his involvement in the US Capitol riots. "Don't let him off the hook.

    • Moderna shot protects against new virus variants; higher blood thinner dose keeps patients off ventilators
      Health
      Reuters

      Moderna shot protects against new virus variants; higher blood thinner dose keeps patients off ventilators

      The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. Moderna vaccine protects against new variants The COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna Inc protects against the new virus variants found in Britain and South Africa, researchers reported on Monday on bioRxiv ahead of peer review. They found no reduction in the effect of vaccine-induced antibodies on the UK variant.

      • Moderna CEO: COVID-19 vaccine ‘will protect against’ UK strain
        Moderna CEO: COVID-19 vaccine ‘will protect against’ UK strain
        Yahoo Finance Video
      • Coronavius: Moderna shares surge as it says it is working on new vaccine against South African variant
        Coronavius: Moderna shares surge as it says it is working on new vaccine against South African variant
        Yahoo Finance UK
    • Witnesses: Eritrean soldiers loot, kill in Ethiopia's Tigray
      World
      Associated Press

      Witnesses: Eritrean soldiers loot, kill in Ethiopia's Tigray

      Warily, Zenebu watched them try on dresses and other clothing looted from homes in a town in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region. “They were focused on trying to take everything of value,” even diapers, said Zenebu, who arrived home in Colorado this month after weeks trapped in Tigray, where she had gone to visit her mother. On the road, she said, trucks were full of boxes addressed to places in Eritrea for the looted goods to be delivered.

    • A New York Times editor lost her job after she tweeted about having 'chills' about Biden's inauguration
      U.S.
      Business Insider

      A New York Times editor lost her job after she tweeted about having 'chills' about Biden's inauguration

      New York Times editor Lauren Wolfe tweeted about having "chills" seeing Biden arrive for his inauguration. Many criticized her for appearing to show political bias, and The Times later fired Wolfe. A New York Times editor lost her job after receiving criticism for tweeting about her excitement for President Joe Biden's inauguration.

      • New York Times fires editor targeted by rightwing critics over Biden tweet
        New York Times fires editor targeted by rightwing critics over Biden tweet
        The Guardian
      • NY Times Under Fire for Terminating Editor Lauren Wolfe After Pro-Biden Tweets
        NY Times Under Fire for Terminating Editor Lauren Wolfe After Pro-Biden Tweets
        The Wrap
    • China tackles pandemic with mass construction once again
      World
      Associated Press

      China tackles pandemic with mass construction once again

      A sprawling quarantine center with more than 4,000 rooms is being thrown up in northern China in response to a COVID-19 outbreak in Shijiazhuang, a city of more than 10 million people in Hebei province. Satellite images from the European Space Agency show dramatic changes over 10 days in an area where there had been only flat land before construction started on Jan. 13. It's common practice for China to mobilize resources nationwide to tackle natural disasters and other crises.

    • Justice Department inspector general investigates whether staffers sought to improperly overturn 2020 election result
      Politics
      USA TODAY

      Justice Department inspector general investigates whether staffers sought to improperly overturn 2020 election result

      WASHINGTON – The Justice Department's inspector general launched an investigation Monday into whether current or former department officials improperly sought to “alter the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. The announcement follows disclosures last week that Trump considered firing acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen during the last weeks of the president's administration in an effort to replace him with a loyalist to pursue challenges to election results. Rosen stepped into the job last month after his predecessor, William Barr, contradicted the president's accusations of widespread voter fraud.

      • Watchdog probes if Department of Justice officials tried to overturn election
        Watchdog probes if Department of Justice officials tried to overturn election
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      • Watchdog to probe if Justice Dept officials improperly tried to alter 2020 election
        Watchdog to probe if Justice Dept officials improperly tried to alter 2020 election
        Reuters
    • China is spreading conspiracy theories that the coronavirus was created in an American lab and that a US-created vaccine is killing the elderly
      World
      INSIDER

      China is spreading conspiracy theories that the coronavirus was created in an American lab and that a US-created vaccine is killing the elderly

      Chinese state media is spreading a conspiracy theory that a US Army base created the coronavirus. The disinformation push comes as WHO scientists arrive in Wuhan to study the virus' origins. Chinese state media is playing up a conspiracy theory about the novel coronavirus' origins while also questioning the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine's safety in older people.

    What is Donald Trump’s legacy?
    • “By encouraging this act of terror on our capital, Trump’s legacy is destroyed.”

    • “Both backers and critics of Trump agreed that he remade the federal judiciary — a change that will impact America for decades.”

    • “He was largely responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans who did not need to die.”

    • “I do know what the future should hold for this country. That is to say, a policy of Trumpism without Trump.”

    • “It will be decades before the consequences of his tenure are fully known.”

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