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    • A COVID warning for the world from Brazil

      A COVID warning for the world from Brazil

      Studies suggest a coronavirus variant that swept through the city of Manaus is not only more contagious, but also might infect people who've already recovered from other versions.

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      • Biden, Senate Dems strike deal on check eligibility

        Biden, Senate Dems strike deal on check eligibility

      • Iowa reporter's trial sends 'a chilling message'

        Iowa reporter's trial sends 'a chilling message'

      • Man U-turned on highway to save abandoned infant

        Man U-turned on highway to save abandoned infant

      • Scandal surrounds 25-year-old freshman GOP lawmaker

        Scandal surrounds 25-year-old freshman GOP lawmaker

      • Report reveals unflattering findings about ex-WH doctor

        Report reveals unflattering findings about ex-WH doctor

    • South Korea's first transgender soldier found dead
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      BBC

      South Korea's first transgender soldier found dead

      The cause of death of Byun Hee-soo, a transgender rights campaigner, is not yet known. The 23-year-old had been receiving counselling from a mental health centre near her home in Cheongju in Chungcheong province (which is south of Seoul). Ms Byun's case triggered debate about the treatment of transgender troops and soldiers from the LGBTQ community in the country.

    • Intense preparations before pontiff meets Iraqi ayatollah
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      Associated Press

      Intense preparations before pontiff meets Iraqi ayatollah

      In Iraq's holiest city, a pontiff will meet a revered ayatollah and make history with a message of coexistence in a place plagued by bitter divisions. One is the chief pastor of the world-wide Catholic Church, the other a pre-eminent figure in Shiite Islam whose opinion holds powerful sway on the Iraqi street and beyond. Pope Francis and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani are to meet on Saturday for at most 40 minutes, part of the time alone except for interpreters, in the Shiite cleric's modest home in the city of Najaf.

    • Violence erupts as kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls return to families
      World
      Reuters

      Violence erupts as kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls return to families

      One moment, Hadiza was weeping and flinging her arms around her father for the first time since her abduction; the next - gunfire and tear gas filled the air and people ran for cover. It was supposed to be a joyous reunion to end the five-day ordeal of 279 girls kidnapped last week from the Jangebe Government Girls Science Secondary School in a remote corner of northwest Nigeria. Cheering children had lined the street as buses brought the girls, grinning and waving, back to their school from the Zamfara state capital Gusau, where they had been cared for since their release on Tuesday.

      • Nigerian governor: 279 schoolgirls freed by captors
        Nigerian governor: 279 schoolgirls freed by captors
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      • Nigerian governor says 279 kidnapped schoolgirls are freed
        Nigerian governor says 279 kidnapped schoolgirls are freed
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    • It's back to school for Jill Biden and new education chief
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      Associated Press

      It's back to school for Jill Biden and new education chief

      Jill Biden, the teacher in the White House, along with new Education Secretary Miguel Cardona went back to school Wednesday in a public push to show districts that have yet to transition back to in-person learning that it can be done safely during the pandemic. Teachers want to be back," the first lady said after she and Cardona spent about an hour visiting classrooms and other areas at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in Meriden, Connecticut. We want to be back.

      • Former teacher sworn in as US Education Secretary
        Former teacher sworn in as US Education Secretary
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      • Back to school for first lady Jill Biden: There's 'light at end of tunnel' for reopening schools
        Back to school for first lady Jill Biden: There's 'light at end of tunnel' for reopening schools
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    • McManus: The Republican Party's biggest problem is spelled T-R-U-M-P
      Politics
      LA Times

      McManus: The Republican Party's biggest problem is spelled T-R-U-M-P

      They can't live with him, and they can't live without him. That about sums up the Republican Party's Donald Trump problem. After losing a presidential election, the usual next step for a political party is to pause, take stock of its problems and begin looking to a new generation of leaders without the same liabilities.

    • Israel sentences Palestinian lawmaker to two years in prison
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      Associated Press

      Israel sentences Palestinian lawmaker to two years in prison

      An Israeli military court has sentenced a prominent Palestinian lawmaker to two years in prison in a plea bargain that convicted her of belonging to an outlawed group. But the court found insufficient evidence to press more serious charges against her, the army said Tuesday. Khalida Jarrar, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, has been held without charge since October 2019.

    • Beijing dismisses alleged Chinese hacking of Indian vaccine makers
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      Reuters

      Beijing dismisses alleged Chinese hacking of Indian vaccine makers

      China on Tuesday rejected an allegation by a cyber intelligence firm that a state-backed hacking group targeted the IT systems of two Indian coronavirus vaccine makers. Cyfirma told Reuters that hacking group APT10, known as Stone Panda, had identified gaps and vulnerabilities in the IT infrastructure and supply chain software of Bharat Biotech and the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world's largest vaccine maker. "Without showing any evidence, the relevant party made baseless speculation, distorted and concocted facts, to malign a specific party," China's foreign ministry told Reuters.

    • 'If the others go I'll go': Inside China's scheme to transfer Uighurs into work
      World
      BBC

      'If the others go I'll go': Inside China's scheme to transfer Uighurs into work

      China's policy of transferring hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang to new jobs often far from home is leading to a thinning out of their populations, according to a high-level Chinese study seen by the BBC. The government denies that it is attempting to alter the demographics of its far-western region and says the job transfers are designed to raise incomes and alleviate chronic rural unemployment and poverty. But our evidence suggests that - alongside the re-education camps built across Xinjiang in recent years - the policy involves a high risk of coercion and is similarly designed to assimilate minorities by changing their lifestyles and thinking.

    • US warns of military response to rocket attack on Iraq base
      World
      Associated Press

      US warns of military response to rocket attack on Iraq base

      The White House warned that the U.S. may consider a military response to the rocket attack on Wednesday that hit an air base in western Iraq where American and coalition troops are housed, raising concerns this could trigger a new round of escalating violence. A U.S. contractor died after at least 10 rockets slammed into the base. And while no group claimed responsibility, it was the first strike since the U.S. bombed Iran-aligned militia targets along the Iraq-Syria border last week.

      • Rockets hit air base hosting U.S.-led coalition troops in Iraq
        Rockets hit air base hosting U.S.-led coalition troops in Iraq
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      • US: Rockets hit airbase in Iraq hosting US troops
        US: Rockets hit airbase in Iraq hosting US troops
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    • QAnon and conspiracy theories are taking hold in churches. Pastors are fighting back
      U.S.
      LA Times

      QAnon and conspiracy theories are taking hold in churches. Pastors are fighting back

      Details emerging from investigations into hundreds of Capitol rioters have cast an unsettling light on the toxic roles that fringe religious beliefs and QAnon conspiracy theories have played in shaking big and small churches across the nation. Trump's false insistence that he won the 2020 election may have incited the mob, but it also pointed to a dangerous intersection of God and politics. A Kentucky man who the FBI charged as the first to enter the Capitol through a broken window saw himself as fighting a holy war on behalf of his president and, in a booking photo, wore a T-shirt that quoted Ephesians 6:11: โ€œPut on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's ...

    • EU vows legal response as UK moves unilaterally on Northern Ireland
      World
      Reuters

      EU vows legal response as UK moves unilaterally on Northern Ireland

      The European Union promised legal action on Wednesday after the British government unilaterally extended a grace period for checks on food imports to Northern Ireland, a move Brussels said violated terms of Britain's divorce deal. Since it left the EU last year, Britain's relations with the bloc have soured, with both sides accusing the other of acting in bad faith in relation to part of their trade agreement that covers goods movements to Northern Ireland. The British government extended a grace period for some checks on agricultural and food products imported by retailers to Northern Ireland until Oct. 1 in a move it said was necessary to ensure the free flow of goods to the British region.

      • EU, Britain clash again in latest post-Brexit spat
        EU, Britain clash again in latest post-Brexit spat
        Associated Press
      • Brussels accuses UK of โ€˜violatingโ€™ Brexit deal and threatens legal action
        Brussels accuses UK of โ€˜violatingโ€™ Brexit deal and threatens legal action
        The Independent
    • Former Pakistan PM wins Senate election in setback to gov't
      World
      Associated Press

      Former Pakistan PM wins Senate election in setback to gov't

      A former Pakistani prime minister Wednesday defeated a ruling party candidate in Senate elections in a major setback to the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan, election authorities and opposition parties said. Yusuf Raza Gilani defeated the ruling Tehreek-e-Insaf party's Hafeez Sheikh, an adviser to Khan who was named finance minister in December 2020, Gilani received 169 votes to Sheikh's 164. Gilani's success suggested some ruling party lawmakers revolted and didn't vote for Sheikh for the key seat reserved for the capital Islamabad.

    • ICC prosecutor to probe war crimes in Palestinian Territories, angering Israel
      World
      Reuters

      ICC prosecutor to probe war crimes in Palestinian Territories, angering Israel

      The International Criminal Court prosecutor said on Wednesday her office will formally investigate war crimes in the Palestinian Territories, a move welcomed by the Palestinian Authority and denounced by Israel. The decision follows a ruling by the court on Feb. 5 that it has jurisdiction in the case, prompting swift rejections by Washington and Jerusalem. "The decision to open an investigation followed a painstaking preliminary examination undertaken by my office that lasted close to five years," Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in a statement.

      • Israel moving to protect hundreds of personnel against ICC probe
        Israel moving to protect hundreds of personnel against ICC probe
        Reuters
      • ICC launches war crimes probe into Israeli practices
        ICC launches war crimes probe into Israeli practices
        Associated Press
    • Concerns over China vaccine diplomacy "narrow-minded": political advisory body
      World
      Reuters

      Concerns over China vaccine diplomacy "narrow-minded": political advisory body

      Concerns about China using vaccines to sway other countries are "narrow-minded," a top political advisory body said, apparently dismissing a notion among rival powers that Beijing exploits the fight against COVID-19 to boost its global influence. Guo Weimin, spokesman for the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), said some suspect China is using COVID-19 vaccines to "expand our geopolitical influence." "This idea is extremely narrow-minded", Guo said at a news conference on Wednesday ahead of the opening of the annual meeting of CPPCC on Thursday.

    • 9 of the Best Outdoor Rugs That Literally Ground Any Space
      World
      Architectural Digest

      9 of the Best Outdoor Rugs That Literally Ground Any Space

      High-traffic areas are about to meet their match Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest

    • 75 ex-top prosecutors endorse Bidenโ€™s pick for associate AG
      Politics
      Associated Press

      75 ex-top prosecutors endorse Bidenโ€™s pick for associate AG

      More than 75 former U.S. attorneys are throwing their support behind President Joe Biden's nominee for associate attorney general and urging congressional leaders to quickly confirm her to the post. Vanita Gupta has been nominated for the No. 3 position in the Justice Department, a position in which she would be responsible for overseeing the department's civil, antitrust and civil rights litigation, but also for helping to implement policy decisions on a host of nationwide issues. The Senate has scheduled the confirmation hearing for Gupta and Lisa Monaco, Biden's nominee for deputy attorney general, for March 9.

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      Hunter banned from 48 states after Colorado poaching spree

      A hunter from Colorado Springs, Colo. has been permanently banned from hunting in 48 states, including Colorado, after he pleaded guilty to several poaching charges across the state.

    • Trump's cash plea could complicate GOP fundraising efforts
      Politics
      Associated Press

      Trump's cash plea could complicate GOP fundraising efforts

      โ€œPresident Trump's Legacy is in your hands," another pleaded. Others advertised โ€œMiss Me Yet?โ€ T-shirts featuring Donald Trump's smiling face. While some Republicans grapple with how fiercely to embrace the former president, the organizations charged with raising money for the party are going all in.

    • Hungary's Fidesz party leaves largest EU parliamentary group
      World
      Reuters

      Hungary's Fidesz party leaves largest EU parliamentary group

      Hungary's ruling Fidesz party said on Wednesday it was leaving the largest centre-right political group in the European Parliament after the faction moved towards suspending it in a tug-of-war over Prime Minister Viktor Orban's democratic record. Fidesz's departure from the European People's Party (EPP) group is likely to reduce Orban's influence in Brussels following a long conflict over his perceived backsliding on the rule of law and human rights. "I hereby inform you that Fidesz MEPs resign their membership in the EPP Group," Orban wrote in a letter to the faction's head, Manfred Weber, which was published on Twitter by Katalin Novak, a Fidesz deputy chairwoman.

    • Biden's Cabinet half-empty after slow start in confirmations
      Politics
      Associated Press

      Biden's Cabinet half-empty after slow start in confirmations

      President Joe Biden's Cabinet is taking shape at the slowest pace of any in modern history, with just over a dozen nominees for top posts confirmed more than a month into his tenure. Among Biden's 23 nominees with Cabinet rank, just 13 have been confirmed by the Senate, or a little over half. On Tuesday, Biden's Cabinet was thrown into further uncertainty when his nominee to lead the White House budget office, Neera Tanden, withdrew from consideration after her nomination faced opposition from key senators on both sides of the aisle.

      • Biden suffers first Cabinet defeat as Neera Tanden withdraws nomination
        Biden suffers first Cabinet defeat as Neera Tanden withdraws nomination
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      • Biden pick Neera Tanden withdraws nomination to head budget office
        Biden pick Neera Tanden withdraws nomination to head budget office
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      Reuters

      U.S. calls German warship's plan to sail South China Sea support for rules-based order

      The United States on Wednesday hailed plans by NATO ally Germany to sail a warship across the contested South China Sea, calling it welcome support for a "rules-based international order" in the region, something Washington says is threatened by China. German government officials said on Tuesday a German frigate would set sail for Asia in August and, on its return journey, become the first German warship to cross the South China Sea since 2002. "The United States has a national interest in the maintenance of peace and stability, respect for international law, lawful unimpeded commerce, and freedom of navigation and other lawful uses of the sea," a spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department said.

    • UN: 38 died on deadliest day yet for Myanmar coup opposition
      World
      Associated Press

      UN: 38 died on deadliest day yet for Myanmar coup opposition

      Myanmar security forces were seen firing slingshots at protesters, chasing them down and even brutally beating an ambulance crew in video showing a dramatic escalation of violence against opponents of last month's military coup. A U.N. official speaking from Switzerland said 38 people had been killed Wednesday, a figure consistent with other reports though accounts are difficult to confirm inside the country. The increasingly deadly violence could galvanize the international community, which has responded fitfully so far.

      • Crowds protest Myanmar coup, defy deadly crackdown
        Crowds protest Myanmar coup, defy deadly crackdown
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      • At least 38 people killed by Myanmar security forces in anti-coup protests, UN says
        At least 38 people killed by Myanmar security forces in anti-coup protests, UN says
        Axios
    • Police uncover โ€˜possible plotโ€™ by militia to breach Capitol
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      Associated Press

      Police uncover โ€˜possible plotโ€™ by militia to breach Capitol

      Capitol Police say they have uncovered intelligence of a โ€œpossible plotโ€ by a militia group to breach the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, nearly two months after a mob of supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the iconic building to try to stop Congress from certifying now-President Joe Biden's victory. The threat appears to be connected to a far-right conspiracy theory, mainly promoted by supporters of QAnon, that Trump will rise again to power on March 4. Online chatter identified by authorities included discussions among members of the Three Percenters, an anti-government militia group, concerning possible plots against the Capitol on Thursday, according to two law enforcement officials who were not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

      • Capitol Police Boost Security, House Ends Work Early In Response To Possible Militia Plot
        Capitol Police Boost Security, House Ends Work Early In Response To Possible Militia Plot
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        AP Top Stories March 3 P
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    • ICE has opened a human-smuggling investigation after an overpacked SUV crashed in California near the Mexican border, killing 13
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      INSIDER

      ICE has opened a human-smuggling investigation after an overpacked SUV crashed in California near the Mexican border, killing 13

      At least 13 people were killed in a collision involving a packed SUV in Southern California on Tuesday. ICE said late Tuesday that the crash had prompted a human-smuggling investigation. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is investigating whether human smuggling played a role in a crash in Southern California on Tuesday that left at least 13 people dead, The Associated Press reported.

      • Authorities investigate whether human smuggling involved in Calif. crash
        Authorities investigate whether human smuggling involved in Calif. crash
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      • Police: 13 killed on California highway when big rig hits SUV carrying 25 people
        Police: 13 killed on California highway when big rig hits SUV carrying 25 people
        Yahoo News Video
    • Yemenโ€™s rebels say latest US sanctions will prolong the war
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      Associated Press

      Yemenโ€™s rebels say latest US sanctions will prolong the war

      Yemen's Iran-backed rebels Wednesday warned that the U.S. sanctions imposed the previous day on two of their military leaders would only prolong the conflict in the impoverished Arab country. President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday slapped sanctions on two Houthi leaders, citing their alleged roles in cross-border attacks on Saudi Arabia and shipping vessels in the Red Sea. Rebel leaders Monsour al-Saadi and Ahmed al-Hamzi were responsible for attacks โ€œimpacting Yemeni civilians, bordering nations, and commercial vessels in international waters,โ€ the departments of State and Treasury said.

    Should humans be next to explore Mars?
    • โ€œTaking humans to Mars would require an investment astronomically out of kilter with the possible benefits.โ€

    • โ€œCan a Mars settlement be a freer society than we enjoy on Earth? Maybe.โ€

    • โ€œWhat we learn...may spark the next revolution that will make life in 2071 beyond anything we can imagine right now.โ€

    • โ€œOur presence on Mars could jeopardize one of our main reasons for being there โ€” the search for life.โ€

    • โ€œThe future of geologic investigation of other worlds lies with highly improved versions of our Mars rovers.โ€

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