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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 tipped off FBI, dad charged in Capitol riot

        Son tipped off FBI, dad charged in Capitol riot

      • 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

      • Reported DOJ effort to overturn election probed

        Reported DOJ effort to overturn election probed

      • Janet Yellen becomes 1st female treasury secretary

        Janet Yellen becomes 1st female treasury secretary

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

    • 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.

    • The Senate is effectively deadlocked over McConnell's filibuster demand
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      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
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    • EU to hold off on new Russia sanctions if Navalny released
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      Reuters

      EU to hold off on new Russia sanctions if Navalny released

      The European Union will hold off from imposing fresh sanctions on Russian individuals if the Kremlin releases pro-democracy campaigner Alexei Navalny, EU foreign ministers said on Monday, sending the bloc's top diplomat to Moscow next week. Despite calls from Baltic countries, Italy and Romania for sanctions on Russian officials in response to Navalny's detention as he returned to Russia from Germany on Jan. 17, Germany pushed to give the Kremlin more time. "We have agreed today to wait for the court's decision, to wait to see ...

    • 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.

    • 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
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    • 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
    • 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.

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      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.

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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.

    • Biden news: Trump impeachment article delivered, as Brazil Covid variant reaches US
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      The Independent

      Biden news: Trump impeachment article delivered, as Brazil Covid variant reaches US

      The Senate has received Donald Trump's impeachment article from the House, triggering a February trial. The Democratic House impeachment managers delivered their ratified article against Donald Trump to the Senate, automatically triggering a process that will culminate with a dramatic trial for the ex-president on 8 February. Joe Biden says the country should be on its way to achieving Covid herd immunity by the summer and that most Americans should get the vaccine by the spring.

      • House delivers article of impeachment against Trump
        House delivers article of impeachment against Trump
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      • House delivers article of impeachment against Trump to Senate. Here's what happens next.
        House delivers article of impeachment against Trump to Senate. Here's what happens next.
        Yahoo News
    • Asia Today: Taiwan quarantines 5,000 after hospital cluster
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      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.

    • Factbox: Latest on worldwide spread of the coronavirus
      World
      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.

    • California reverses stay-at-home order as conditions improve
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      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
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      • California lifts virus stay-at-home order and curfew
        California lifts virus stay-at-home order and curfew
        Associated Press
    • 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 acknowledged Monday that Joe Biden is the president and Kamala Harris is 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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    • Navalny's team calls new protests in Russia for his release
      World
      Associated Press

      Navalny's team calls new protests in Russia for his release

      Allies of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who faces years in prison, called for new protests next weekend to demand his release, following a wave of demonstrations that turned out tens of thousands across the country in a defiant challenge to President Vladimir Putin. Mass rallies took place Saturday in over 100 cities in what observers said was the largest outpouring of anger in years, and Navalny's supporters urged protesters to keep up the pressure. During Saturday's protests, over 3,700 people were detained, according to OVD-Info, a human rights group that monitors political arrests.

      • WH calls on Russia to release Alexei Navalny
        WH calls on Russia to release Alexei Navalny
        Reuters Videos
      • Putin calls pro-Navalny marches illegal, new protest set for Sunday
        Putin calls pro-Navalny marches illegal, new protest set for Sunday
        Reuters
    • Moderna says it believes vaccine will work against new variants
      Health
      Reuters

      Moderna says it believes vaccine will work against new variants

      Moderna Inc said on Monday it believes its COVID-19 vaccine protects against new variants found in Britain and South Africa, although it will test a new booster shot aimed at the South African variant after concluding the antibody response could be diminished. The company said in a news release it found no reduction in the antibody response against the variant found in Britain. Against the South African variant, it found a reduced response but still believed its two-dose regimen would provide protection.

      • 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
      • Coronavirus update: Moderna launches booster study for South African strain, Merck pulls out of vaccine race
        Coronavirus update: Moderna launches booster study for South African strain, Merck pulls out of vaccine race
        Yahoo Finance
    • 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.

    • Cindy McCain says censure by Arizona GOP is ‘badge of honour’
      Politics
      The Independent

      Cindy McCain says censure by Arizona GOP is ‘badge of honour’

      The wife of the late Republican Senator John McCain has said she counts being censured by the Arizona GOP as a “badge of honour”. Cindy McCain was among three people censured by the state party for openly disparaging former president Donald Trump. Former Sen. Jeff Flake and Gov. Doug Ducey were also censured following a vote by the Arizona GOP, although their censure is largely symbolic.

      • Arizona Republicans censure Cindy McCain and GOP governor
        Arizona Republicans censure Cindy McCain and GOP governor
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      • The Arizona GOP Censured Cindy McCain, Jeff Flake, and Gov. Ducey
        The Arizona GOP Censured Cindy McCain, Jeff Flake, and Gov. Ducey
        Esquire
    • Veteran activists campaign for Biden's immigration reform
      Politics
      Associated Press

      Veteran activists campaign for Biden's immigration reform

      Immigrant rights activists energized by a new Democratic administration and majorities on Capitol Hill are gearing up for a fresh political battle to push through a proposed bill from President Joe Biden that would open a pathway to citizenship for up to 11 million people. The multimillion-dollar #WeAreHome campaign was launched Monday by national groups including United We Dream and the United Farm Workers Foundation. “We are home,” a young woman's voice declares in the first video spot showing immigrants in essential jobs such as cleaning and health care.

    • GOP Ohio Sen. Portman not seeking reelection, cites gridlock
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      Associated Press

      GOP Ohio Sen. Portman not seeking reelection, cites gridlock

      Ohio Sen. Rob Portman said Monday that he won't seek reelection to a third term in 2022, expressing dismay with the deep partisanship and dysfunction in American politics. The career establishment Republican with a reputation for bipartisanship cited a political climate that has made it “harder to break through the partisan gridlock and make progress." “Our country is very polarized,” Portman said, adding that former President Donald Trump did not help with the polarization.

      • Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman won't seek reelection
        Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman won't seek reelection
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      • Ohio GOP Sen. Rob Portman Not Running For Reelection
        Ohio GOP Sen. Rob Portman Not Running For Reelection
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    • 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
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      Hannity: Biden administration won't hold China accountable 'for anything'

      Sean Hannity analyzes President Biden's first executive orders and the state of the nation.

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

    • Shyamala Gopalan: The woman who inspired Kamala Harris
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      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.

    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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