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Coronavirus deaths are rising in nearly two-thirds of American states as a winter surge pushes the overall toll toward 400,000 amid warnings that a new, highly contagious variant is taking hold.
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Biden announced his intent to nominate Chopra on Monday, along with his intent to nominate Gary Gensler, the former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as the next chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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The coronavirus pandemic forced the annual King Day service at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church online during the 35th celebration of his birthday as a national holiday.
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U.S. Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham says he plans to resign with the change in presidential administrations.
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Louisiana is taking nominations for state poet laureate.
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Add Garth Brooks to the lineup of entertainers at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
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FBI authorities are seeking a Pennsylvania woman in connection with the U.S. Capitol riot earlier this month after an accusation from a former romantic partner that she took a laptop from the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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Sen. Josh Hawley has found a new publisher after his book was dropped by Simon & Schuster in the wake of the siege of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump.
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A former Florida Department of Health employee who was fired for insubordination after repeatedly violating the agency’s policy about communicating with the media turned herself in to sheriff’s officials on Sunday night on charges of accessing computer equipment without authority.
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The man was “scared to go home due to COVID,” and told authorities that he’d found a badge and that other passengers at the airport had given him food.
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The World Health Organization chief on Monday lambasted drugmakers’ profits and vaccine inequalities, saying it’s “not right” that younger, healthier adults in wealthy countries get vaccinated against COVID-19 before older people or health care workers in poorer countries.
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Joe Biden faces a fraught moment as he prepares to deliver a speech that aides say he wants to use to “call Americans to unity.”
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A well-known anti-violence activist in Baltimore has been shot to death on the city’s streets, officials said.
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“Guardians of the Galaxy” actor Dave Bautista is offering a $20,000 reward to catch whoever etched “Trump” into a Florida manatee’s back.
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Attorneys for Democrat Bri Buentello of Pueblo filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Denver, claiming she was blocked after calling for the Colorado Republican to be recalled in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by loyalists to President Donald Trump.
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The New Mexico county official was arrested on charges of illegally entering the U.S. Capitol.
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Heavily fortified statehouses around the U.S. are seeing small and peaceful protests, despite widespread fears of another burst of right-wing violence like the attack on the Capitol in Washington.
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U.S. defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
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Twitter has temporarily suspended the account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican U.S. Congresswoman from Georgia who has expressed racist views and support for QAnon conspiracy theories online.
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Sarah Fuller, the first woman to score in a Power Five conference football game, says she’s been invited to attend President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2021 at 5:58 PM CST
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The Kansas City Chiefs forced the Cleveland Browns to punt in the waning minutes Sunday with star quarterback Patrick Mahomes out with a concussion.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2021 at 3:56 PM CST
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Democrats are building their case for convicting President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2021 at 2:46 PM CST
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Russia’s prison service said opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained at a Moscow airport after returning from Germany on Sunday.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2021 at 2:29 PM CST
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One person is dead and six others injured after an early-morning shooting Sunday outside a Phoenix nightclub, police said.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2021 at 2:23 PM CST
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Phil Spector, the revolutionary music producer convicted of murdering an actress, has died at 81.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2021 at 10:52 AM CST
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President-elect Joe Biden will deliver an appeal to national unity when he is sworn in Wednesday and plans immediate moves to combat the coronavirus pandemic and undo some of President Donald Trump’s most controversial policies, his incoming chief of staff said Sunday.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2021 at 10:48 AM CST
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Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will resign her Senate seat on Monday, two days before she and President-elect Joe Biden are inaugurated.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2021 at 10:39 AM CST
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Some experts have warned that the withdrawal of an estimated 700 U.S. military personnel comes at the worst possible time for Somalia.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2021 at 8:59 AM CST
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Biden’s inaugural committee announced the lineup Sunday for “Celebrating America,” a multinetwork broadcast that the committee bills as a mix of stars and everyday citizens.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2021 at 7:10 AM CST
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The Powerball jackpot will grow to an estimated $730 million after there were no winners Saturday for the lottery's top prize. The results come as there was also no winner of the Mega Millions jackpot on Friday.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2021 at 7:10 AM CST
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A Florida woman fired from her job as a COVID-19 data curator said she’ll surrender to authorities Sunday amid an investigation of allegations that she had hacked into the state’s emergency response system.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 10:34 PM CST
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Law enforcement officials across the country have been working to locate and arrest suspects who committed federal crimes. So far, they have brought nearly 100 cases in federal court and the District of Columbia Superior Court.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 9:01 PM CST
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In his first hours as president, Joe Biden plans to take executive action to roll back some of the most controversial decisions of his predecessor and to address the raging coronavirus pandemic, his incoming chief of staff said Saturday.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 6:41 PM CST
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Police have arrested a man with a handgun and 500 rounds of ammunition at a checkpoint in Washington set up ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 5:44 PM CST
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Dr. Dre was back at home Saturday after being treated at a Los Angeles hospital for a reported brain aneurysm.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 5:22 PM CST
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Science organizations were also quick to praise Lander and the promotion of the science post.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 3:10 PM CST
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With the FBI warning of potential for violence at all state capitols, the ornate halls of government and symbols of democracy looked more like heavily guarded U.S. embassies in war-torn countries.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 11:57 AM CST
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A single article of impeachment — for “incitement of insurrection” — was approved by the House on Wednesday, one week after a violent mob of Trump supporters invaded the Capitol.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 11:45 AM CST
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The problem was discovered when the company received four consumer complaints of extraneous material in pepperoni Hot Pockets, the department said.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 11:29 AM CST
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The lockdown decision is precautionary, no specific information led to it and it is not in response to any significant events occurring inside facilities, the bureau said.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 9:43 AM CST
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They were expected to be the 11 department appointees that Biden was announcing Saturday to serve under his pick for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, the official said.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 9:36 AM CST
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Seven passengers suffered minor injuries after one part of the articulated bus fell 50 feet (15.2 meters) onto a highway ramp.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 7:28 AM CST
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Numbers were drawn Friday night for the $750 million Mega Millions prize, the fifth-largest jackpot ever. On Saturday, players will have a chance at a $640 million Powerball prize.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 3:33 AM CST
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Defense attorneys won temporary stays of execution this week for Higgs and another inmate, Corey Johnson, after arguing that their recent COVID-19 infections put them at greater risk of unnecessary suffering during the lethal injections.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 3:09 AM CST
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President-elect Joe Biden is proposing a $1.9 trillion plan to expand coronavirus vaccinations, help individuals and jump-start the economy.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 12:20 AM CST
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The coronavirus pandemic could be a complicating factor as the executive mansion gets ready for a new president and executes the Inauguration Day ritual of moving out one leader and settling in another.
Updated: Jan. 15, 2021 at 11:41 PM CST
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A federal judge in Washington on Friday night halted a plan to release and put on house arrest the Arkansas man photographed sitting at a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Updated: Jan. 15, 2021 at 10:15 PM CST
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The Latest on President Donald Trump’s impeachment and the fallout from the Jan. 6 attack of the Capitol by pro-Trump loyalists.
Updated: Jan. 15, 2021 at 10:07 PM CST
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National Rife Association files for bankruptcy, says gun-rights group will legally move from New York to Texas.
Updated: Jan. 15, 2021 at 8:37 PM CST
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Nearly 100 cats have survived a house fire in a town outside Rochester, New York, according to an animal protection group.