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    • Trump boycotting Biden inauguration with early exit

      Trump boycotting Biden inauguration with early exit

      Refusing to abide by tradition and participate in the ceremonial transfer of power, Donald Trump will instead hold his own departure ceremony at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

      Officials consider elaborate send-off »
      • Boebert spokesman quits less than 2 weeks into term

        Boebert spokesman quits less than 2 weeks into term

      • Music pioneer, convicted murderer Spector dead at 81

        Music pioneer, convicted murderer Spector dead at 81

      • Census decision deals blow to Trump efforts on House seats

        Census decision deals blow to Trump efforts on House seats

      • 4th victim dies after gunman's attacks in Illinois

        4th victim dies after gunman's attacks in Illinois

      • Biden camp responds to op-ed on telling Trump secrets

        Biden camp responds to op-ed on telling Trump secrets

    • Wilmington 1898: When white supremacists overthrew a US government
      U.S.
      BBC

      Wilmington 1898: When white supremacists overthrew a US government

      They destroyed black-owned businesses, murdered black residents, and forced the elected local government - a coalition of white and black politicians - to resign en masse. Historians have described it as the only coup in US history. Its ringleaders took power the same day as the insurrection and swiftly brought in laws to strip voting and civil rights from the state's black population.

    • Federal authorities arrest the mother of Tennessee man who was pictured holding plastic restraints during Capitol riots
      U.S.
      INSIDER

      Federal authorities arrest the mother of Tennessee man who was pictured holding plastic restraints during Capitol riots

      The mother of the man who was pictured with plastic zip-tie restraints during the Capitol riots was arrested and charged by the FBI. Lis Eisenhart was arrested in Nashville on Saturday. According to an affidavit, footage from the riot revealed that both Eisenhart and Munchel appeared to be "holding flex cuffs in each of their hands" while following a violent mob who were chasing two Capitol police officers during the siege.

      • Mom Of 'Zip Tie Guy' In Capitol Mob Arrested In Nashville
        Mom Of 'Zip Tie Guy' In Capitol Mob Arrested In Nashville
        HuffPost
      • Mom of ‘zip tie guy’ arrested for her role in US Capitol insurrection, feds say
        Mom of ‘zip tie guy’ arrested for her role in US Capitol insurrection, feds say
        Miami Herald
    • Feeding an army in D.C.: Chef José Andrés steps in to help feed huge influx of National Guard
      U.S.
      LA Times

      Feeding an army in D.C.: Chef José Andrés steps in to help feed huge influx of National Guard

      Early Saturday afternoon on a partially cordoned-off street in Washington, D.C., Peter Baca pushed a big stack of boxes containing thousands of cookies toward the doors of Jaleo, a Spanish-inspired tapas restaurant that famed chef and humanitarian José Andrés opened in 1993. Inside, workers with World Central Kitchen — Andrés' emergency response nonprofit — were busy assembling meals for thousands of troops guarding the city in anticipation of President-elect Biden's inauguration Wednesday and in reaction to the pro-Trump mob that on Jan. 6 stormed the U.S. Capitol. Baca, of the veteran-focused Dog Tag Bakery in Georgetown, said his cookie gift was "a small token to say how much we appreciate their service to our country."

    • Egypt unveils ancient funerary temple south of Cairo
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      Associated Press

      Egypt unveils ancient funerary temple south of Cairo

      Egypt's former antiquities minister and noted archaeologist Zahi Hawass on Sunday revealed details of an ancient funerary temple in a vast necropolis south of Cairo. Hawass told reporters at the Saqqara necropolis that archaeologists unearthed the temple of Queen Neit, wife of King Teti, the first king of the Sixth Dynasty that ruled Egypt from 2323 B.C. till 2150 B.C. Archaeologists also found a 4-meter (13-foot) long papyrus that includes texts of the Book of the Dead, which is a collection of spells aimed at directing the dead through the underworld in ancient Egypt, he said.

    • Pew: Biden to start presidency with strong performance ratings
      Politics
      Axios

      Pew: Biden to start presidency with strong performance ratings

      Joe Biden will start his presidency next week with relatively strong performance ratings, according to a Pew Research Center survey. On the other hand: President Trump will leave the the White House with his lowest approval rating ever. 64% of voters expressed a positive opinion of Biden's conduct since he won the November election, Pew found.

    • UK sees third-highest daily death toll with new cases at three-week low
      World
      Reuters

      UK sees third-highest daily death toll with new cases at three-week low

      Britain reported its lowest number of daily new coronavirus infections since the start of the year on Saturday, adding to signs that a national lockdown is slowing the spread of a more infectious variant of the disease. However the effect of the recent surge in cases remains clear in the death toll, which was the third-highest on record. Britain has Europe's highest death toll - though more have died in Italy and Belgium on a per capita basis.

    • A couple of Capitol rioters told the FBI an officer shook their hands and said 'it's your house now' as insurrectionists stormed the US Capitol
      U.S.
      INSIDER

      A couple of Capitol rioters told the FBI an officer shook their hands and said 'it's your house now' as insurrectionists stormed the US Capitol

      Two Capitol rioters claim an officer told them "It's your house now" as hundreds stormed the Capitol on January 6. Bobby Bauer and a relative were identified as among those who breached the US Capitol after an unknown caller tipped the FBI's National Threat Operations Center. Bauer told authorities an officer "grabbed his hand, shook it, and said, 'It's your house now."

      • Capitol rioters taking selfies leave digital trail of 140,000 images under FBI investigation
        Capitol rioters taking selfies leave digital trail of 140,000 images under FBI investigation
        The Independent
      • The FBI is probing whether foreign governments, groups or individuals funded Capitol rioters using Bitcoin, says report
        The FBI is probing whether foreign governments, groups or individuals funded Capitol rioters using Bitcoin, says report
        Business Insider
    • Gen. Milley key to military continuity as Biden takes office
      Politics
      Associated Press

      Gen. Milley key to military continuity as Biden takes office

      In taking charge of a Pentagon battered by leadership churn, the Biden administration will look to one holdover as a source of military continuity: Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. President-elect Joe Biden will inherit Milley as his senior military adviser, and although Biden could replace Milley, he likely won't. A Princeton-educated history buff with the gift of gab, Milley has been a staunch defender of the military's apolitical tradition even as President Donald Trump packed the Pentagon with political loyalists.

    • Vice President-elect Harris to resign her Senate seat Monday
      Politics
      Associated Press

      Vice President-elect Harris to resign her Senate seat Monday

      Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will resign her Senate seat on Monday, two days before she and President-elect Joe Biden are inaugurated. Aides to the California Democrat confirmed the timing and said Gov. Gavin Newsom was aware of her decision, clearing the way for him to appoint fellow Democrat Alex Padilla, now California's secretary of state, to serve the final two years of Harris' term. Padilla will be the first Latino senator from California, where about 40% of residents are Hispanic.

      • Democrats Call For Fast-Tracking Citizenship For Undocumented Essential Workers
        Democrats Call For Fast-Tracking Citizenship For Undocumented Essential Workers
        HuffPost
      • Kamala Harris will resign from her Senate seat on Monday ahead of inauguration as vice president
        Kamala Harris will resign from her Senate seat on Monday ahead of inauguration as vice president
        Business Insider
    • They were rounded up for protesting Trump’s inauguration – this is what happened next
      U.S.
      The Independent

      They were rounded up for protesting Trump’s inauguration – this is what happened next

      Donald Trump declared victory in the early morning hours of 9 November 2016 while gripping a lectern inside a Hilton Hotel in Manhattan, blocks from his Fifth Avenue penthouse. Hours later, anti-Trump demonstrations had erupted across the US. At his inauguration on 20 January 2017, then president-elect Trump's motorcade and the streets of Washington DC faced a massive protest drawing a line against his demagoguery and agenda with a warning to the nation about the nascent fascism that would follow.

    • Germany: Merkel's party elects pragmatic Laschet as leader
      World
      Associated Press

      Germany: Merkel's party elects pragmatic Laschet as leader

      Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right party on Saturday chose Armin Laschet, the pragmatic governor of Germany's most populous state, as its new leader — sending a signal of continuity months before an election in which voters will decide who becomes the new chancellor. Laschet will have to build unity in the Christian Democratic Union, Germany's strongest party, after beating more conservative rival Friedrich Merz. Saturday's vote isn't the final word on who will run as the center-right candidate for chancellor in Germany's Sept. 26 election, but Laschet will either run himself or have a big say in who does.

      • Divided CDU picks Laschet to lead party into post-Merkel era
        Divided CDU picks Laschet to lead party into post-Merkel era
        Reuters
      • Germany's CDU picks new leader for post-Merkel era
        Germany's CDU picks new leader for post-Merkel era
        Reuters Videos
    • Biden's incoming chief of staff says the administration is prepared to tackle the 'huge mess' it's inheriting in COVID-19 vaccine rollout
      Politics
      INSIDER

      Biden's incoming chief of staff says the administration is prepared to tackle the 'huge mess' it's inheriting in COVID-19 vaccine rollout

      Incoming chief of staff Ronald Klain told CNN's Jake Tapper the Biden administration is inheriting a 'huge mess' from the Trump team when it comes to the vaccine rollout. Klain said the Biden administration has a plan to fix it and speed up the delivery of the vaccine. Incoming White House chief of staff Ronald Klain said Sunday President-elect Joe Biden's administration is gearing up to address the "huge mess" it is inheriting from the Trump administration regarding the coronavirus vaccine rollout.

      • Biden's relief plan includes billions for vaccine rollout
        Biden's relief plan includes billions for vaccine rollout
        Yahoo Finance Video
      • Biden lays out plan to get America vaccinated
        Biden lays out plan to get America vaccinated
        Reuters Videos
    • Iran asks watchdog not to publish 'unnecessary' nuke details
      World
      Associated Press

      Iran asks watchdog not to publish 'unnecessary' nuke details

      Iran urged the United Nations' nuclear watchdog to avoid publishing “unnecessary” details on Tehran's nuclear program, state TV reported Sunday, a day after Germany, France and Britain said Tehran has “no credible civilian use” for its development of uranium metal. The report quoted a statement from Iran's nuclear department that asked the International Atomic Energy Agency to avoid publishing details on Iran's nuclear program that may cause confusion. It is expected the international atomic energy agency avoid providing unnecessary details and prevent paving ground for misunderstanding” in the international community, the statement said.

    • Politics
      FOX News Videos

      Gov. Hutchinson: Trump misled followers into believing election was rigged, resulted in attack on Capitol

      Asa Hutchinson, R-Ark. joins Chris Wallace on 'Fox News Sunday.

    • Israel OKs hundreds of settlement homes in last-minute push
      World
      Associated Press

      Israel OKs hundreds of settlement homes in last-minute push

      Israeli authorities on Sunday advanced plans to build nearly 800 homes in West Bank settlements, in a last-minute surge of approvals before the friendly Trump administration leaves office later this week. COGAT, the Israeli defense body that authorizes settlement construction, confirmed the approvals, which drew swift condemnations from the Palestinians. The anti-settlement monitoring group Peace Now said that over 90% of the homes lay deep inside the West Bank, which the Palestinians seek as the heartland of a future independent state, and over 200 homes were located in unauthorized outposts that the government had decided to legalize.

    • Trump will take nuclear football out of DC on his final day in office - and the codes will be deactivated at the stroke of noon
      Politics
      The Independent

      Trump will take nuclear football out of DC on his final day in office - and the codes will be deactivated at the stroke of noon

      Donald Trump will get to take the nuclear football with him when he leaves Washington DC on his final day in office – but the codes will be deactivated at the stroke of noon. Mr Trump will be accompanied by the 45-pound briefcase when he flies to Florida on the morning of Joe Biden's inauguration, as he is reportedly expected to do. Military officials will have a nuclear football ready and waiting to accompany Mr Biden after he becomes the commander-in-chief, officials told CNN.

    • Fact check: Image of Lauren Boebert at rally is from 2019, unrelated to U.S. Capitol riot
      Politics
      USA TODAY

      Fact check: Image of Lauren Boebert at rally is from 2019, unrelated to U.S. Capitol riot

      On Jan. 6, hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attack that forced lawmakers to flee their chambers and left five dead. Since the riot, users on Facebook and Twitter have leveled accusations that U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., provided assistance to the insurrectionists. One Facebook user posted on Jan. 13 a photo of Boebert and about dozen other people, at least four of whom appear to be making a white supremacist hand gesture.

    • Parler's CEO fled his home and went into hiding after receiving death threats and security breaches, a court filing says
      U.S.
      Business Insider

      Parler's CEO fled his home and went into hiding after receiving death threats and security breaches, a court filing says

      Parler CEO John Matze Jr. and his family have fled their homes after receiving death threats, a new court filing says. Parler was recently removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, and Amazon Web Services stopped hosting the platform after it deemed Parler a "risk to public safety." Trump supporters flocked to the platform after the president was banned from Twitter following the siege at the Capitol on January 6.

    • The Kashmiri Families Begging for Their Sons’ Bodies Back
      World
      The Daily Beast

      The Kashmiri Families Begging for Their Sons’ Bodies Back

      Indian-administered Kashmir—On the afternoon of Jan. 7, 2021, a narrow lane covered with a huge layer of snow—and the muddy foot imprints of Kashmiri mourners—formed a track leading to the door of Mushtaq Ahmad Wani's house. Two Kashmiri men in their early 20s who wore long dull-colored pheran, a traditional Kashmiri dress, served the tea to the mourners, who had come to express their condolences to Mushtaq over the killing of his only son, 16-year-old Athar Ashraf Wani. The teen was killed two weeks earlier on the highway that connects Srinagar, the capital city of Indian-administered Kashmir, to the northern and southern parts of the region.

    • Biden inauguration: Executive orders to reverse Trump policies
      Politics
      BBC

      Biden inauguration: Executive orders to reverse Trump policies

      Details are emerging of a raft of executive orders planned by US president-elect Joe Biden as soon as he takes office this week. Mr Biden will issue decrees to reverse President Trump's travel bans and re-join the Paris climate accord on his first day, US media report. All 50 US states are on high alert for possible violence in the run-up to the inauguration ceremony, with National Guard troops deployed in their thousands to guard Washington DC.

      • Can Biden's inauguration be kept safe?
        Can Biden's inauguration be kept safe?
        Yahoo News 360
      • Biden plans 'roughly a dozen' Day One executive actions: aide
        Biden plans 'roughly a dozen' Day One executive actions: aide
        Reuters
    • Rioters who love their guns could lose them if convicted of felonies in US Capitol siege
      U.S.
      USA TODAY

      Rioters who love their guns could lose them if convicted of felonies in US Capitol siege

      MILWAUKEE – As charges pile up against people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, one of the consequences defendants could face is the loss of the right to have guns. Trump support and Second Amendment enthusiasm often overlap, which suggests many of the nearly 100 people charged – and hundreds more that are likely to be charged – may own firearms, even if they did not have them during the siege. Conviction of even something as innocuous-sounding as "knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority" can bring 10 years in prison if the person carries a gun or dangerous weapon, or if the offense results in significant bodily injury.

    • Norwegian health officials have adjusted their advice on who gets a COVID-19 vaccine as 29 frail elderly people die
      World
      Business Insider

      Norwegian health officials have adjusted their advice on who gets a COVID-19 vaccine as 29 frail elderly people die

      Norwegian health officials have changed their advice on who gets a COVID-19 vaccine after more than 25 elderly people with underlying health conditions died. According to the agency, "all deaths" are linked to the Pfizer vaccine, which was the only one available in the country until Friday. However, Norwegian officials maintain they are not alarmed and have advised individual doctors to decide who should receive a vaccine.

    • Politics
      Reuters Videos

      Gunmen kill female judges in Afghan capital

      Two female judges were killed by unknown gunmen in the Afghan capital on Sunday (January 17). Police say no-one has claimed responsibility for the early morning ambush that also saw their driver wounded. A spokesman for the Taliban said its fighters were not involved.

    • America's Cup challenger series: American Magic loses twice
      Sports
      Associated Press

      America's Cup challenger series: American Magic loses twice

      American Magic had back-to-back losses on a bizarre day of light winds in the America's Cup challenger series at Auckland on Saturday to remain without a win after three races. The United States team first failed to finish a race against Italy's Luna Rossa, then sustained its second loss to British challenger INEOS Team UK which leads the Prada Cup series with a 3-0 record. In both races American Magic made pre-start errors and struggled to recover in conditions for which it seemed unprepared and which favored its opponents.

      • U.S. team sure of continuing in America's Cup after capsize
        U.S. team sure of continuing in America's Cup after capsize
        Associated Press
      • Ineos Team UK back up fantastic start to Prada Cup with third race win
        Ineos Team UK back up fantastic start to Prada Cup with third race win
        The Telegraph
    • A Biden presidency could bring a wave of policy shifts. Here are the ones you likely care about.
      Politics
      USA TODAY

      A Biden presidency could bring a wave of policy shifts. Here are the ones you likely care about.

      For the first time in a decade, Democrats will control both chambers of Congress, as well as the White House. President-elect Joe Biden, who will be sworn in to office Wednesday, has made clear his top priorities will be to not only reverse some of those implemented by President Donald Trump's administration, but also to implement aggressive relief toward COVID-19, and several areas of progressive legislation. Any of Biden's legislative priorities will have to pass through the Senate, which is narrowly Democratic-controlled but still requires at least 10 Republican votes to advance legislation and break a filibuster.

    Why Democrats won in Georgia
    • “If you’re looking to win elections, it is probably best not to urge your supporters not to vote.”

    • “Warnock’s portrayal of himself as a dog lover, a means of overcoming white suspicions of Black men, smacked of pure genius.”

    • “Trump has done damage to the Republican brand among suburban voters that goes well beyond just races where he is on the ballot.”

    • “Once more, Democrats must profusely thank activist Stacey Abrams.”

    • “Overall, demographic trends show that the state’s electorate is becoming younger and more diverse each year.”

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