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    • Fauci reveals his reaction to Trump's bleach suggestion

      Fauci reveals his reaction to Trump's bleach suggestion

      The nation’s leading infectious diseases expert finally opened up on Monday about one of the most infamous claims about COVID-19 made by the former president.

      'Oh, my goodness gracious' »
      • Trump tries to remain a force; targets emerge

        Trump tries to remain a force; targets emerge

      • Woman, 62, defies severe case of COVID-19

        Woman, 62, defies severe case of COVID-19

      • Volcanic rock looks just like 'Sesame Street' character

        Volcanic rock looks just like 'Sesame Street' character

      • Driver strikes pedestrians across 15-block stretch

        Driver strikes pedestrians across 15-block stretch

      • Twitter permanently suspends My Pillow CEO

        Twitter permanently suspends My Pillow CEO

    • Probe begins into thwarted Justice Department 'coup' to keep Trump in power
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      Probe begins into thwarted Justice Department 'coup' to keep Trump in power

      The Justice Department's inspector general announced Monday that he had started an investigation into whether current or former officials in the department had engaged in an “improper attempt” to overturn the 2020 presidential election to keep Donald Trump in power. Michael Horowitz, the DOJ inspector general, released a statement announcing the decision. The DOJ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is initiating an investigation into whether any former or current DOJ official engaged in an improper attempt to have DOJ seek to alter the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election.

      • 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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      • DOJ to probe if its officials tried to alter vote
        DOJ to probe if its officials tried to alter vote
        Reuters Videos
    • UN group says Sri Lanka virus cremation rule violates rights
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      UN group says Sri Lanka virus cremation rule violates rights

      A group of U.N experts has criticized Sri Lanka's requirement that those who die of COVID-19 be cremated, even it goes against a family's religious beliefs, and warned that decisions based on “discrimination and aggressive nationalism” could incite hatred and violence. The experts, who are part of the Special Procedures of the U.N Human Rights Council, said in a statement Monday that rule amounts to a human rights violation. “We deplore the implementation of such public health decisions based on discrimination, aggressive nationalism and ethnocentrism amounting to persecution of Muslims and other minorities in the country,” the experts said.

    • Biden extends Europe, Brazil travel restrictions, adds South Africa
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      Reuters

      Biden extends Europe, Brazil travel restrictions, adds South Africa

      U.S. President Joe Biden signed an order on Monday barring most non-U.S. citizens who have recently been in South Africa from entering the United States, effective Saturday. Biden's order also reimposes an entry ban, set to expire on Tuesday, on nearly all non-U.S. travelers who have been in Brazil, the United Kingdom, Ireland and 26 countries in Europe that allow travel across open borders. Last week, then-U.S. President Donald Trump revoked those restrictions which were imposed last year effective Tuesday.

      • Biden To Reinstate Restrictions On Travel From Brazil, Most European Countries
        Biden To Reinstate Restrictions On Travel From Brazil, Most European Countries
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      • Biden orders COVID-19 travel restrictions, adds South Africa
        Biden orders COVID-19 travel restrictions, adds South Africa
        Associated Press
    • Biden did not, in fact, remove Trump's 'Diet Coke button' from the Resolute Desk, White House clarifies
      Politics
      The Week

      Biden did not, in fact, remove Trump's 'Diet Coke button' from the Resolute Desk, White House clarifies

      The new Biden administration has yet not disclosed the secrets of Area 51 or explained what the Air Force really knows about UFOs, but it did clarify, at least, the mystery of the vanished "Diet Coke button" former President Donald Trump would use to summon refreshments in the Oval Office. The usher button, as it is formally known, is not gone, even if it is no longer used to summon Diet Cokes, a White House official tells Politico. The White House official "unfortunately wouldn't say what Biden will use the button for," Politico's Daniel Lippman writes, suggesting Biden might summon Orange Gatorade and not the obvious answer, ice cream — or, let's get real, coffee.

      • Biden brought the button Trump used to order Diet Cokes back to the Oval Office
        Biden brought the button Trump used to order Diet Cokes back to the Oval Office
        Business Insider
      • President Biden Seems to Have Removed the Famed 'Diet Coke Button' from the Oval Office
        President Biden Seems to Have Removed the Famed 'Diet Coke Button' from the Oval Office
        Food & Wine
    • Lawmakers say North Korean diplomat defected to South  Korea
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      Lawmakers say North Korean diplomat defected to South Korea

      A North Korean diplomat who served as the country's acting ambassador to Kuwait has defected to South Korea, according to South Korean lawmakers who were briefed by Seoul's spy agency. Ha Tae-keung, a conservative opposition lawmaker and an executive secretary of the National Assembly's intelligence committee, said Tuesday he was told by officials from the National Intelligence Service that the diplomat arrived in South Korea in September 2019 with his wife and at least one child. That would make him one of the most senior North Koreans to defect in recent years.

      • North Korea's acting envoy to Kuwait has defected to South Korea: lawmaker
        North Korea's acting envoy to Kuwait has defected to South Korea: lawmaker
        Reuters
      • North Korea diplomat 'defects to South Korea': Reports
        North Korea diplomat 'defects to South Korea': Reports
        BBC
    • No word from pirates who seized sailors off Nigeria, Turkey says
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      Reuters

      No word from pirates who seized sailors off Nigeria, Turkey says

      Pirates who seized 15 sailors when they stormed a Turkish-crewed container ship in the Gulf of Guinea two days ago have not yet made contact with authorities, Turkey's foreign minister said on Monday. "We have not yet received word from the pirates," foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters in Ankara. Turkey was in contact with officials in Gabon, where he said the Liberian-flagged container ship Mozart had docked with its remaining crew, and with authorities in neighbouring countries.

    • 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.

    • Jailed Kremlin foe Navalny being used by West to destabilise Russia: Putin ally
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      Reuters

      Jailed Kremlin foe Navalny being used by West to destabilise Russia: Putin ally

      Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is being used by the West to try to destabilise Russia, a prominent hardliner and ally of President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday, saying he must be held to account for repeatedly breaking the law. Navalny was remanded in custody for 30 days last week after returning from Germany where he had been recovering from a nerve agent poisoning. Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Security Council, called for Navalny to face the full force of the law in comments that offered a glimpse into the mood inside Russia's security establishment after tens of thousands of Navalny's supporters protested against his jailing on Saturday.

      • Putin calls pro-Navalny marches illegal, new protest set for Sunday
        Putin calls pro-Navalny marches illegal, new protest set for Sunday
        Reuters
      • Protesters in Russia demand the release of Alexey Navalny
        Protesters in Russia demand the release of Alexey Navalny
        CBS News Videos
    • EU's coronavirus jabs 'may have ended up' in Britain
      World
      The Telegraph

      EU's coronavirus jabs 'may have ended up' in Britain

      AstraZeneca vaccines meant for and paid for by the EU could have ended up in Britain, diplomatic sources in Brussels claimed today. The suspicion is that the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company supplied the UK from the EU vaccine stock because Britain paid a higher price for the dose and approved it sooner. On Monday, Brussels threatened to block EU vaccine exports to non-EU countries, after AstraZeneca revealed that it would not be able to fulfil its contractual obligations as originally hoped.

      • UK government 'confident' in Pfizer jabs supply despite EU threat to block COVID vaccine exports
        UK government 'confident' in Pfizer jabs supply despite EU threat to block COVID vaccine exports
        Yahoo News UK
      • Exclusive: Astra offers small concession, EU pleads for UK-made shots amid vaccine row - sources
        Exclusive: Astra offers small concession, EU pleads for UK-made shots amid vaccine row - sources
        Reuters
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      Associated Press

      Guatemalan families think massacre victims were migrants

      Relatives of migrants from Guatemala said Monday they believe that 13 of the 19 charred corpses found in a northern Mexico border state could be their loved ones and the country's Foreign Ministry said it was collecting DNA samples from a dozen relatives to see if there was a match with any of the bodies. If true, the killings would revive memories of the 2010 massacre of 72 migrants in the same gang-ridden state of Tamaulipas. Ramiro Coronado told The Associated Press by telephone that he had a relative among a group of 13 migrants who left the province of San Marcos and were travelling together before family members lost contact with them on Thursday.

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      Biden administration has system in place where reporters will not ask president tough questions: Media critic

      Steve Krakauer, editor at Fourth Watch, says 'it shouldn't be contingent' on one reporter to ask Biden tough questions.

    • Trump's press secretary Kayleigh McEnany to head to Fox News
      Politics
      The Independent

      Trump's press secretary Kayleigh McEnany to head to Fox News

      Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany spent her time as the president's mouthpiece spinning his words, attacking his enemies, and attempting to undermine the credibility of reporters who questioned his actions. Now, with her days at the White House behind her, Ms McEnany will step into a new role where she can once again use the skill set she cultivated during her time with the president; she'll be joining Fox News. Government watchdog organisation CREW obtained a financial disclosure report that showed Ms McEnany and Fox News entered into an employment agreement on 1 January.

    • Boycott 'wildcat' Scottish independence vote, says Scottish Conservative leader
      World
      Reuters

      Boycott 'wildcat' Scottish independence vote, says Scottish Conservative leader

      Backers of the union of the United Kingdom's four nations should boycott any "wildcat" independence referendum for Scotland, the leader of the Scottish Conservative Party said on Monday, after the nation's first minister pressed ahead with plans for a vote. Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said on Sunday she was hoping a strong performance by her Scottish National Party (SNP) in an election in May would give her the mandate to hold a second referendum. To get a legal referendum, any such vote must be approved by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has ruled out doing so.

      • Nicola Sturgeon should focus on COVID rather than Scottish independence, says Boris Johnson
        Nicola Sturgeon should focus on COVID rather than Scottish independence, says Boris Johnson
        Yahoo News UK
      • Scottish Tory leader says he would boycott independence referendum without UK government approval
        Scottish Tory leader says he would boycott independence referendum without UK government approval
        The Independent
    • Epstein's ex-girlfriend seeks dismissal of charges she faces
      U.S.
      Associated Press

      Epstein's ex-girlfriend seeks dismissal of charges she faces

      A British socialite charged with recruiting teenage girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse in the 1990s asked a judge Monday to dismiss the case on multiple grounds, including that a deal years ago not to prosecute Epstein and others should shield her from prosecution. Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell said the indictment against their client was obtained unjustly and doesn't allege crimes specific enough to bring before a jury. The agreement sought to protect Epstein and those around him, but Maxwell was not identified by name in the document that was signed as Epstein agreed to plead guilty to state charges in Florida that forced him to register as a sex offender afterward.

      • Apollo CEO Leon Black is one of many business figures with ties to Jeffrey Epstein
        Apollo CEO Leon Black is one of many business figures with ties to Jeffrey Epstein
        Yahoo Finance
      • Ghislaine Maxwell seeks dismissal of criminal case, cites Epstein agreement
        Ghislaine Maxwell seeks dismissal of criminal case, cites Epstein agreement
        Reuters
    • Germany denies false reports Oxford vaccine is ineffective in older people
      World
      The Telegraph

      Germany denies false reports Oxford vaccine is ineffective in older people

      Germany has denied media reports that it has data suggesting the Oxford vaccine is drastically less effective in older people, blaming an apparent mix-up in the figures. The German health ministry issued a swift denial after two German newspapers claimed Angela Merkel's government has data that suggests the vaccine is largely ineffective in people aged over 75. Handelsblatt newspaper claimed the vaccine's effectiveness could be as low as 8 per cent, while Bild reported it was “under 10 per cent”.

      • Germany denies newspaper claims that AstraZeneca vaccine is only 8% effective for over-65s
        Germany denies newspaper claims that AstraZeneca vaccine is only 8% effective for over-65s
        Yahoo News UK
      • AstraZeneca denies report vaccine less effective in elderly
        AstraZeneca denies report vaccine less effective in elderly
        Reuters
    • Joe Biden to call for end of federally run private prisons
      Politics
      Associated Press

      Joe Biden to call for end of federally run private prisons

      President Joe Biden on Tuesday will formally call on the federal government to end its reliance on private prisons and acknowledge the central role the government has played in implementing discriminatory housing policies, according to a senior administration official. The moves come as Biden is set to sign a series of orders and memorandums Tuesday as the new administration says it will make combatting racial injustice a central focus of his presidency. They were detailed by a senior administration official who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity ahead of Biden's formal announcement, scheduled for later Tuesday.

      • Biden to limit private prisons and bolster fair housing policies
        Biden to limit private prisons and bolster fair housing policies
        Reuters
      • Biden to Order Justice Department to End Use of Private Prisons
        Biden to Order Justice Department to End Use of Private Prisons
        Bloomberg
    • AstraZeneca denies report vaccine less effective in elderly
      Health
      Reuters

      AstraZeneca denies report vaccine less effective in elderly

      AstraZeneca denied on Monday its COVID-19 vaccine is not very effective for people over 65, after German media reports said officials fear the vaccine may not be approved in the European Union for use in the elderly. German daily papers Handelsblatt and Bild said in separate reports the vaccine - co-developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University - had an efficacy of 8% or less than 10%, respectively, in those over 65. German officials were concerned that the vaccine may not receive approval from the EU's medicines authority EMA for use in those over 65, Bild said in its online edition.

      • Germany denies newspaper claims that AstraZeneca vaccine is only 8% effective for over-65s
        Germany denies newspaper claims that AstraZeneca vaccine is only 8% effective for over-65s
        Yahoo News UK
      • EU drugs agency says it is advising makers of Russian vaccine
        EU drugs agency says it is advising makers of Russian vaccine
        Reuters
    • Surging global ice melt suggests sea level rise predictions are far too conservative
      Science
      The Week

      Surging global ice melt suggests sea level rise predictions are far too conservative

      The world's ice is melting so fast that sea level rise predictions can't keep up. Climate change is largely responsible for the huge ice melt surge, the Cryosphere study reports. In fact, about three percent of all the energy trapped within the Earth's systems because of climate change has gone toward that ice melt, the study estimates.

      • Earth’s ice ‘is melting 57% faster’ than 30 years ago (and 28 trillion tons have already gone)
        Earth’s ice ‘is melting 57% faster’ than 30 years ago (and 28 trillion tons have already gone)
        Yahoo News UK
      • Earth's ice melting at record rate: study
        Earth's ice melting at record rate: study
        Reuters Videos
    • Senate confirms Antony Blinken as 71st secretary of state
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      Associated Press

      Senate confirms Antony Blinken as 71st secretary of state

      Blinken, 58, served as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration. He has pledged to be a leading force in the administration's bid to reframe the U.S. relationship with the rest of the world after four years in which President Donald Trump questioned longtime alliances. He is expected to start work on Wednesday after being sworn in, according to State Department officials.

      • U.S. Senate confirms Biden nominee Blinken as secretary of state
        U.S. Senate confirms Biden nominee Blinken as secretary of state
        Reuters
      • Senate confirms Antony Blinken as secretary of state
        Senate confirms Antony Blinken as secretary of state
        Axios
    • China ambassador says export delays for Brazil vaccine supplies not political
      World
      Reuters

      China ambassador says export delays for Brazil vaccine supplies not political

      The issues holding up vaccine supply exports from China to Brazil are due to technical, rather than political obstacles, China's ambassador said on Tuesday, as delays to Brazil's vaccine rollout began to grow. Some have speculated that China, which for years has been the butt of attacks by Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, may have stalled approving the exports as some form of political vengeance. Brazil is waiting for ingredients from China needed to produce two vaccines locally - one from China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd and another from AstraZeneca Plc .

      • Bolsonaro thanks China for fast-tracking COVID-19 vaccine supplies
        Bolsonaro thanks China for fast-tracking COVID-19 vaccine supplies
        Reuters
      • Germany backs EU export restrictions on vaccine after supply cuts
        Germany backs EU export restrictions on vaccine after supply cuts
        Reuters
    • Iran sentences brother of senior vice president to 2 years
      World
      Associated Press

      Iran sentences brother of senior vice president to 2 years

      Iran has sentenced the brother of the country's senior vice president to two years in prison on corruption charges, the website of the Iranian judiciary reported Tuesday. According to the judiciary's spokesman, Gholamhossein Esmaili, the verdict for Mahdi Jahangiri, the brother of Eshaq Jahangiri, is final and cannot be appealed. Mahdi Jahangiri was on the board of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce and was also the founder of the private Gardeshgari Bank.

    • Rudy Giuliani admits Biden is president hours after being sued for $1.3 billion by voting-machine company
      Politics
      Business Insider

      Rudy Giuliani admits Biden is president hours after being sued for $1.3 billion by voting-machine company

      Rudy Giuliani on Monday acknowledged Joe Biden as president and Kamala Harris as vice president. The statement came hours after Dominion Voting Systems sued Giuliani for $1.3 billion. Giuliani spent months peddling conspiracy theories about the company's role in the 2020 election.

      • 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
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    • Taliban backs Afghan vaccine drive after COVAX pledges $112 million
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      Reuters

      Taliban backs Afghan vaccine drive after COVAX pledges $112 million

      Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents on Tuesday gave their backing to a vaccination programme to which the World Health Organization's COVAX programme has pledged $112 million. The COVAX programme is a global scheme to vaccinate people in poor and middle income countries against the coronavirus. It aims to deliver at least 2 billion vaccine doses by the end of 2021 to cover 20% of the most vulnerable people in 91 poor and middle-income countries.

      • Morocco prepares to launch COVID-19 vaccination programme
        Morocco prepares to launch COVID-19 vaccination programme
        Reuters
      • Moderna says on track to deliver 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses by first quarter
        Moderna says on track to deliver 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses by first quarter
        Reuters
    • Top Brazil court authorizes investigation of health minister
      World
      Associated Press

      Top Brazil court authorizes investigation of health minister

      A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Monday authorized an investigation of Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello to determine whether he is criminally responsible for the COVID-19 crisis in the Amazonian city of Manaus. The largest city in Brazil's vast rainforest region was slammed this month by a severe second wave of infections, and jam-packed hospitals ran out of oxygen. Patients' family members searched for tanks to keep their loved ones breathing, and dozens died asphyxiated.

    • Politics
      Reuters Videos

      Taiwan air force flexes muscles after latest Chinese incursion

      Taiwan, claimed by China as its territory, has been on edge since the large-scale incursion by Chinese fighters and nuclear-capable bombers into the southwestern part of its air defence identification zone on Saturday (January 23) and Sunday (January 25), which coincided with a U.S. carrier group entering the South China Sea. The base in the southern city of Tainan, home to F-CK-1 Ching-kuo Indigenous Defence Fighters (IDF), frequently scrambles jets to intercept China's air force.

    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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