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    • How Fauci felt when Trump suggested bleach cured virus

      How Fauci felt when Trump suggested bleach cured virus

      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' »
      • Driver strikes pedestrians across 15-block stretch

        Driver strikes pedestrians across 15-block stretch

      • Rock that looks like Cookie Monster worth a lot of cash

        Rock that looks like Cookie Monster worth a lot of cash

      • COVID patient survives after 25 days on ventilator

        COVID patient survives after 25 days on ventilator

      • Trump tries to remain a force; targets emerge

        Trump tries to remain a force; targets emerge

      • Twitter permanently suspends My Pillow CEO

        Twitter permanently suspends My Pillow CEO

    • Biden promotes racial equity for Asian Americans in wake of Trump's anti-China talk
      Politics
      LA Times

      Biden promotes racial equity for Asian Americans in wake of Trump's anti-China talk

      President Biden will take action Tuesday to disavow another aspect of his predecessor's legacy — racial animus toward Asian Americans, which rose sharply during a pandemic that President Trump blamed on "the China virus." Biden's executive order, one of four addressing racial equity that he will sign at the White House in the afternoon, will provide the Justice Department with additional guidance and resources to more accurately track hate crimes and harassment of Asian Americans, according to a senior administration official.

      • Joe Biden Signs Executive Order Condemning Anti-Asian Racism Related To COVID-19
        Joe Biden Signs Executive Order Condemning Anti-Asian Racism Related To COVID-19
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      • How Biden Is Erasing Trump's White Supremacist Legacy
        How Biden Is Erasing Trump's White Supremacist Legacy
        HuffPost
    • US Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell drops objection to power-sharing deal with Democrats
      Politics
      The Telegraph

      US Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell drops objection to power-sharing deal with Democrats

      Mitch McConnell, the US Senate Republican leader, said on Monday he would agree to a power-sharing agreement with Democrats, dropping demands that had held up the basic organisation and daily work of the 50-50 chamber for days. Democrat Chuck Schumer, now the majority leader thanks to Vice President Kamala Harris' tie-breaking vote, and Mr McConnell had been at odds over the Republican's request that Democrats promise to protect the filibuster, which requires a 60-vote supermajority to advance most legislation. Mr Schumer has refused to guarantee the filibuster would stay.

      • Mitch McConnell Backs Down In Fight Over Filibuster
        Mitch McConnell Backs Down In Fight Over Filibuster
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      • 'I'm glad we've stepped back from this cliff' -McConnell
        'I'm glad we've stepped back from this cliff' -McConnell
        Reuters Videos
    • Exclusive: Astra offers small concession, EU pleads for UK-made shots amid vaccine row - sources
      World
      Reuters

      Exclusive: Astra offers small concession, EU pleads for UK-made shots amid vaccine row - sources

      AstraZeneca has offered to bring forward some deliveries of its COVID-19 vaccine to the European Union while the bloc has asked the British drugmaker if it can divert doses from the UK to make up for a shortfall in supplies, European officials told Reuters. The Anglo-Swedish company unexpectedly announced on Friday it would cut supplies to the EU of its vaccine candidate in the first quarter of this year, a move that a senior EU official told Reuters meant a 60% reduction to 31 million doses for the bloc. That complicated the EU's vaccination plans, after Pfizer had also announced a temporary slowdown in deliveries of its vaccine, and triggered an outcry in Brussels and EU capitals.

      • UK economy hangs in balance amid EU vaccine row
        UK economy hangs in balance amid EU vaccine row
        Yahoo Finance UK
      • EU seeks supply answers from AstraZeneca
        EU seeks supply answers from AstraZeneca
        Reuters Videos
    • US exploring new bases in Saudi Arabia amid Iran tensions
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      Associated Press

      US exploring new bases in Saudi Arabia amid Iran tensions

      The U.S. military is exploring the possibility of using a Red Sea port in Saudi Arabia and an additional two airfields in the kingdom amid heightened tensions with Iran, the military said Tuesday. While describing the work as "contingency" planning, the U.S. military said it already has tested unloading and shipping cargo overland from Saudi Arabia's port at Yanbu, a crucial terminal for oil pipelines in the kingdom. Using Yanbu, as well as air bases at Tabuk and Taif along the Red Sea, would give the American military more options along a crucial waterway that has come under increased attack from suspected mine and drone boat attacks by Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.

    • Chuck Schumer tried to unseat Susan Collins, and now it's personal
      Politics
      The Week

      Chuck Schumer tried to unseat Susan Collins, and now it's personal

      Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will have his work cut out for him as he tries to maneuver through the 50-50 upper chamber. Take, for example, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who ultimately won a hard fought re-election campaign last year against Democratic challenger Sara Gideon. Despite the victory, Collins appears to have taken Schumer's efforts to unseat her personally.

    • Ghislaine Maxwell seeks dismissal of charges on multiple grounds
      U.S.
      The Telegraph

      Ghislaine Maxwell seeks dismissal of charges on multiple grounds

      Ghislaine Maxwell, who is 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 the British socialite 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
      • Epstein's ex-girlfriend seeks dismissal of charges she faces
        Epstein's ex-girlfriend seeks dismissal of charges she faces
        Associated Press
    • EU countries could band to sue AstraZeneca for breach of contract: Latvia
      World
      Reuters

      EU countries could band to sue AstraZeneca for breach of contract: Latvia

      European Union member states could take AstraZeneca to court for a breach of supply contracts if the company does not honour the COVID-19 vaccine delivery schedule, Latvian foreign affairs minister Edgars Rinkevics said on Tuesday. "The possibility should be evaluated, and it should be coordinated among the EU countries," the minister told Reuters, via his spokesman. Each EU member state has a separate supply contract with the company.

      • EU seeks supply answers from AstraZeneca
        EU seeks supply answers from AstraZeneca
        Reuters Videos
      • EU locks horns with AstraZeneca on vaccine deliveries amid 'supply shock'
        EU locks horns with AstraZeneca on vaccine deliveries amid 'supply shock'
        Reuters
    • Lawmakers say North Korean diplomat defected to South  Korea
      World
      Associated Press

      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
    • Student Suicides Drive Las Vegas Schools to Reopen
      U.S.
      National Review

      Student Suicides Drive Las Vegas Schools to Reopen

      A surge of student suicides in the Clark County school district in Nevada is driving the district to reopen for in-person learning, The New York Times reported on Sunday. The coronavirus pandemic forced the mass closure of schools across the country in March 2020, and school districts have struggled to return to in-person learning. The nation's largest district, New York City public schools, delayed its reopening for weeks in September 2020, while the January 2021 opening of Chicago public schools, the third-largest district, is proceeding in fits and starts.

      • Las Vegas-area school district reopens after spree of student suicides
        Las Vegas-area school district reopens after spree of student suicides
        FOX News Videos
      • The 5th largest school district in the US announced a plan to phase back into in-person learning after a rise in student suicides
        The 5th largest school district in the US announced a plan to phase back into in-person learning after a rise in student suicides
        Business Insider
    • Biden extends Europe, Brazil travel restrictions, adds South Africa
      Politics
      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
    • N. Carolina state Sen. Jeff Jackson enters US Senate race
      Politics
      Associated Press

      N. Carolina state Sen. Jeff Jackson enters US Senate race

      A North Carolina state senator announced Tuesday that he's running for the U.S. Senate in 2022, hoping to flip fortunes for Democrats from his state to serve in the chamber after a string of defeats. Jeff Jackson, a Charlotte business attorney, Afghan war veteran and National Guard soldier, unveiled his bid, saying he is committed to “honesty and decency” in politics and helping working people and working families. Jackson, 38, is the second high-profile Democrat to enter the race to succeed three-term Republican Sen. Richard Burr, who is not seeking reelection.

    • Millions of Covid vaccines missing under Trump
      Politics
      The Independent

      Millions of Covid vaccines missing under Trump

      Millions of coronavirus vaccine doses appear to be missing after they were shipped by the Trump administration to US states. According to the Daily Beast and sources within the Biden administration, there could be almost 20 million doses missing since they were shipped to states by the previous administration. The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that 41.1 million doses have been sent to states since last month, but only 22.7 million Americans have received a dose.

      • 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
      • Turkey receives 6.5 million doses of China's Sinovac vaccine: media
        Turkey receives 6.5 million doses of China's Sinovac vaccine: media
        Reuters
    • Inadequate immune responses force Merck to abandon COVID-19 vaccines
      Health
      The Week

      Inadequate immune responses force Merck to abandon COVID-19 vaccines

      Merck, one of the world's most storied vaccine makers, is abandoning the development of its two COVID-19 vaccines after initial trials resulted in inadequate immune responses, Stat News reports. Both vaccines produced lower levels of coronavirus antibodies than have been found in the blood of individuals who recovered from natural COVID-19 infections. For reference, the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines produced antibody levels several times higher than natural infections.

      • Merck ends COVID vaccine program, cites inferior immune responses
        Merck ends COVID vaccine program, cites inferior immune responses
        Reuters
      • Merck Gives Up on Coronavirus Vaccines
        Merck Gives Up on Coronavirus Vaccines
        Motley Fool
    • Exclusive: Hong Kong police obtain financial records of arrested democracy activists
      World
      Reuters

      Exclusive: Hong Kong police obtain financial records of arrested democracy activists

      Hong Kong authorities are scrutinizing the financial records of pro-democracy activists as they crack down on political opposition, according to some activists and a senior bank executive. Six pro-democracy activists told Reuters that Hong Kong police obtained some of their bank records without their consent and questioned them about certain transactions after they were arrested earlier this month on suspicion of subversion under the territory's national security law. The number of requests for customers' financial records by Hong Kong police has more than doubled over the past six months or so, an executive at a major retail bank in Hong Kong with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

    • First female VP swears in 1st female Treasury secretary
      Politics
      Associated Press

      First female VP swears in 1st female Treasury secretary

      Janet Yellen was sworn in Tuesday as the nation's 78th Treasury secretary and the first woman to hold the office. Yellen's husband, George Akerlof, winner of the 2001 Nobel prize in economics, and their son Robert, also an economist, were present for the brief ceremony. Yellen became the third of President Joe Biden's Cabinet nominees to win Senate approval on a vote of 84-15 late Monday.

      • Janet Yellen confirmed as Treasury Secretary — first woman to hold the position
        Janet Yellen confirmed as Treasury Secretary — first woman to hold the position
        Yahoo Finance
      • Yellen nomination passes through Senate panel
        Yellen nomination passes through Senate panel
        Yahoo Finance Video
    • 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
    • 'Wear a mask': Mexicans urge president to follow rules after COVID-19 setback
      World
      Reuters

      'Wear a mask': Mexicans urge president to follow rules after COVID-19 setback

      Mexicans hope President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador makes a speedy recovery from COVID-19, though many believe he could have avoided infection if he had more strictly followed the government's own health advice - and worn a face mask. Lopez Obrador's diagnosis on Sunday capped the deadliest week of the coronavirus pandemic in the country with the world's fourth-highest death toll https://tmsnrt.rs/34pvUyi. "He wasn't looking after himself, always walking around without a mask, and not respecting social distancing," said Mexico City rubbish collector Luis Enrique Flores, wheeling his cart past a wall plastered with government posters urging people to wear masks.

      • Mexican president contracts COVID-19 after worst week of pandemic
        Mexican president contracts COVID-19 after worst week of pandemic
        Reuters
      • What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
        What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
        Reuters
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      FOX News Videos

      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.

    • Officials say Israeli minister visited Sudan to discuss ties
      World
      Associated Press

      Officials say Israeli minister visited Sudan to discuss ties

      An Israeli delegation headed by the country's intelligence minister quietly visited Sudan and met with the African nation's leaders, officials from both countries said Tuesday. The visit Monday was the first by an Israeli minister to Sudan less than three weeks after Khartoum inked an agreement to normalize ties with Israel. Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen, head of the Israeli delegation, met with Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of the ruling sovereign council, Defense Minister Yassin Ibrahim and other military and government officials.

      • Sudan hosts first-ever visit from Israeli government minister
        Sudan hosts first-ever visit from Israeli government minister
        Axios
      • Israel hails new first in relations with Sudan
        Israel hails new first in relations with Sudan
        AFP
    • 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
        HuffPost
    • 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
    • Indonesia's confirmed coronavirus cases exceed 1 million
      World
      Associated Press

      Indonesia's confirmed coronavirus cases exceed 1 million

      Indonesia's confirmed coronavirus infections since the pandemic began crossed 1 million on Tuesday and hospitals in some hard-hit areas were near capacity. Indonesia's Health Ministry announced that new daily infections rose by 13,094 on Tuesday to bring the country's total to 1,012,350, the most in Southeast Asia. The milestone comes just weeks after Indonesian launched a massive campaign to inoculate two-thirds of the country's 270 million people, with President Joko Widodo receiving the first shot of a Chinese-made vaccine.

      • Indonesia set to pass one million coronavirus cases as vaccinations roll out
        Indonesia set to pass one million coronavirus cases as vaccinations roll out
        Reuters
      • Grim milestone for Indonesia as coronavirus cases pass 1 million mark
        Grim milestone for Indonesia as coronavirus cases pass 1 million mark
        Reuters
    • At least one killed as thousands of Indian farmers clash with police amid agricultural reforms
      World
      The Telegraph

      At least one killed as thousands of Indian farmers clash with police amid agricultural reforms

      A farmer died and dozens of others were injured as clashes with police during protests over agriculture reforms overshadowed India's Republic Day. Thousands of farmers in a convoy of tractors were met with tear gas shells and stick-wielding police as they broke through barricades in the capital, New Delhi. The farmers, some on foot and others on horseback, went on to storm the city's Red Fort as they continued a rebellion which has proved the biggest challenge to Narendra Modi's government since agitation against citizenship law reforms a year ago.

      • Indian farm protesters battle police to plant flags at historic Red Fort
        Indian farm protesters battle police to plant flags at historic Red Fort
        Reuters
      • Angry Indian farmers prepare for massive Republic Day rally
        Angry Indian farmers prepare for massive Republic Day rally
        Associated Press
    • Biden plans to replace the US government's fleet of 650,000 vehicles with electric models in a shift to clean energy
      Politics
      Business Insider

      Biden plans to replace the US government's fleet of 650,000 vehicles with electric models in a shift to clean energy

      President Joe Biden said Monday he plans to replace the "enormous fleet" of government vehicles with electric models. President Joe Biden said on Monday his new administration will replace the US government's fleet of around 650,000 vehicles with electric models in a bid to shift to clean energy. Whilst signing a new "Buy American" executive order, Biden said: "The federal government also owns an enormous fleet of vehicles, which we're going to replace with clean electric vehicles made right here in America made by American workers."

      • Biden plans to replace federal fleet with American-made electric vehicles
        Biden plans to replace federal fleet with American-made electric vehicles
        Autoblog
      • President Joe Biden commits to replacing entire federal fleet with electric vehicles
        President Joe Biden commits to replacing entire federal fleet with electric vehicles
        TechCrunch
    • 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.

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    • “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.”

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