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Apr 23, 2021
New restrictions are being imposed in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures, as Japan sees a sharp rise in new coronavirus cases.
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Apr 23, 2021
The Pentagon says it will send airborne assets to help with the search as Indonesian officials say only a few hours of oxygen are left for the submarine's crew of 53 even if the vessel is intact.
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Apr 23, 2021
The fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin began refusing food on March 31 to demand medical care for leg and back pain.
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Apr 23, 2021
U.S. lawmakers expect President Biden to recognize the 1915 mass killing and deportation of Armenians as genocide — even if it makes Turkey angry.
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Apr 23, 2021
President Biden's long push for U.S. recognition of the 1915 killings of Armenians as genocide is now expected to happen — even if it makes Turkey angry.
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Apr 23, 2021
The company's third crewed spacecraft took off from Florida early Friday.
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Apr 23, 2021
In an NPR interview, H.R. McMaster says the United States and its allies need to compete more effectively with China. He also urges a multinational approach for dealing with Beijing militarily.
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Apr 23, 2021
Data from a Boston hospital showed that Latino patients who did not speak English well had a 35% greater risk of death from COVID-19. The hospital has added interpretation capacity.
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Apr 23, 2021
In an evenly divided Senate, the moderate Democrat is key to passage of President Biden's massive infrastructure and jobs proposal. Now he's facing pressure from unions back home to back the measure.
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Apr 23, 2021
In the next phase of the race to vaccinate Americans, the Biden administration knows the government is not the best messenger. So it's asking communities for help.
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Apr 22, 2021
"I have an 18-year-old ... and I tell him, unfortunately, never called the cops for anything because ... things can unfortunately end up like this," a neighbor said.
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Apr 22, 2021
A Republican Arizona state senator broke ranks and voted against a GOP-backed measure that could remove tens of thousands of voters from the state's early ballot mailing list.
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Apr 22, 2021
The CSU Chancellor called the directive "the most comprehensive and consequential university plan for COVID-19 vaccines in the country." It will affect more than 1 million students and employees.
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Apr 22, 2021
The opposing speech will give the Senate's lone Black Republican an opportunity to pitch himself to the American public, but the spotlight often comes with harsher scrutiny.
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Apr 22, 2021
Rapid COVID-19 tests are now available at pharmacies in the U.S. Dr. Michael Mina of Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health says these can help people wondering if they are infectious right now.
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Apr 22, 2021
The study's author says he was shocked to find the toll of long COVID was so substantial and multifaceted: "When you put it all together ... it's actually quite jarring."
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Apr 22, 2021
Researchers say cocaine, meth and other street drugs are increasingly contaminated with deadly synthetic opioids, contributing to a major spike in deaths.
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Apr 22, 2021
"This is the most effective way to enable movement of people between countries," an Israeli official says. Israel says this is the world's first bilateral agreement on COVID-19 vaccine passports.
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Apr 22, 2021
The Senate passed new legislation to address a spike in hate crimes and violence targeted at the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Josh Hawley was the only senator to vote against it.
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Apr 22, 2021
The new law also makes blocking public roadways a misdemeanor offense.
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Apr 22, 2021
"I've had my eye on that job for a long time," the actor and director said recently. Nearly 250,000 people have signed a petition backing his dream.
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Apr 22, 2021
Yale professor Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff co-founded the Center for Policing Equity, which collects data on police behavior from 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the country.
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Apr 22, 2021
The five-year spending outline is much more narrowly focused on traditional infrastructure than the president's sweeping proposal.
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Apr 22, 2021
As anti-vaccine sentiment spread among ultra-Orthodox Jews, officials waged an aggressive campaign against rumors and hesitancy. Today, 80% of ultra-Orthodox adults over age 30 are vaccinated.
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Apr 22, 2021
India's COVID-19 caseload plummeted to record lows in February. Now a startling spike is causing health systems — and possibly law and order — to break down. What went wrong?
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Apr 22, 2021
Mourners are gathering to pay their respects to Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man shot dead by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minn., earlier this month.
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Apr 22, 2021
Mourners gathered to pay their respects to Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man shot dead by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minn., earlier this month.
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Apr 22, 2021
Just a week ago, only 33 countries were on the U.S. Do Not Travel list. New additions include Canada, Mexico, Germany, the U.K., and dozens of other countries.
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Apr 22, 2021
Russia says it will begin a phased reduction of troops from its border with neighboring Ukraine - apparently ending a standoff that had alarmed Kyiv and Western observers.
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Apr 22, 2021
The effort to make Washington, D.C. the 51st star on the U.S. flag has never had more support. But the measure's fate in the Senate is uncertain.
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Apr 22, 2021
Fresh off the first-ever powered flight on another world, NASA's Mars 2020 mission has managed another key first that could pave the way for future astronauts.
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Apr 22, 2021
Residents of Elizabeth City, N.C., are pressing for answers after a Black man, Andrew Brown Jr., was shot dead by a sheriff's deputy carrying out a search warrant on Wednesday.
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Apr 22, 2021
Generous personal injury coverage on your auto insurance policy may not be enough to cover your medical bills. Patients can get financially blindsided when car and health insurance policies differ.
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Apr 22, 2021
Rescuers are scouring the Bali Sea for a submarine that disappeared this week. Officials say if the crew is still alive, they're expected to run out of oxygen by Saturday.
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Apr 22, 2021
Namibia's president says disparate global rates of vaccination represent "COVID apartheid." When you compare percent of people vaccinated in the most populous countries, you can understand his ire.
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Apr 22, 2021
In at least 36 states and the District of Columbia, child welfare agencies use a child's benefit checks to offset the cost of foster care, often leaving them with a tattered safety net as adults.
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Apr 22, 2021
From now until August, you can sign up for or change coverage through the federal and state health insurance marketplaces. Many people are eligible for better or less expensive plans — or both.
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Apr 22, 2021
The president will begin a climate summit by announcing that the United States will aim to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half, based on 2005 levels, by the end of the decade.
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Apr 22, 2021
Four astronauts are set to launch to the space station Friday. When they arrive, the new crew of 11 will be the largest since the shuttle program, and there aren't enough sleeping pods for them all.
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Apr 22, 2021
The case involves a conservative nonprofit with ties to a Koch brothers-founded group that gave at least $1 million to fund a campaign to win Senate confirmation of her Supreme Court nomination.
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Apr 22, 2021
Prosecutors amended the criminal complaint against Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa Wednesday to include more than 40 new charges.
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Apr 22, 2021
Demonstrators demanded the release from prison of Kremlin-critic Alexei Navalny, who has been on a hunger strike for three weeks. The marches swept across dozens of cities.
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Apr 21, 2021
Honda said Wednesday that it had tried more than 100 times to reach owners of the 2002 Accord with recall warnings.
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Apr 21, 2021
The 51-49 vote elevates Gupta to the No. 3 position inside the Justice Department, where she's expected to help shape the administration's efforts to reform policing.
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Apr 21, 2021
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says his city is taking more steps to change policing following the murder conviction of Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd.
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Apr 21, 2021
Cyrus Vance Jr. announced the new policy on Wednesday and appeared virtually in court to seek the dismissal of more than 5,000 prostitution-related cases dating back to the 1970s.
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Apr 21, 2021
The Small Business Administration experienced a rough launch for its grant program intended to help long-beleaguered venues. After so long without a lifeline, though, time is running thin.
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Apr 21, 2021
In celebrating the milestone, the president also announced the administration would begin offering tax credits to employers who give workers time off to get vaccinated.
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Apr 21, 2021
Columbus, Ohio, authorities say Officer Nicholas Reardon shot Ma'Khia Bryant, 16, after police were called to a neighborhood due to a reported disturbance.
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Apr 21, 2021
The report on Emergent BioSolutions' Baltimore factory found an array of problems, from peeling paint to inadequate measures to prevent cross-contamination. Manufacturing at the facility is on hold.
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Apr 21, 2021
"It would have been unimaginable just even a month ago that something like that was possible," activist and civil rights lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong says following Derek Chauvin's murder conviction.
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Apr 21, 2021
Unless people are packed together, "there really just is not much spread happening outdoors," Dr. Ashish Jha of Brown University's School of Public Health says.
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Apr 21, 2021
Bilateral ties are at a low and while Washington and Beijing agreed on climate cooperation, details are unclear. Competition with China is key to the Biden administration's response to climate change.
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Apr 21, 2021
The guilty verdict against the former officer has added new urgency around stalled talks on legislation to ban chokeholds and end qualified immunity for police. But the path remains far from clear.
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Apr 21, 2021
The first Syrian refugee has withdrawn his candidacy because of racist abuse and death threats. The news was announced the same week a German comedian did a TV sketch about the election in blackface.
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Apr 21, 2021
Scientists in Michigan went out in the dead of night to dig up part of an unusual long-term experiment. It's a research study that started in 1879 and is handed from one generation to the next.
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Apr 21, 2021
Derek Chauvin is scheduled to be sentenced in June. Later this summer, his three fellow former officers are slated to go on trial on charges of aiding and abetting murder.
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Apr 21, 2021
Derek Chauvin is scheduled to be sentenced in June. Later this summer, his three fellow former officers are slated to go on trial for aiding and abetting murder.
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Apr 21, 2021
In a letter to the president, 12 governors asked that the White House order a ban on greenhouse gas-emitting cars and light trucks within 14 years.
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Apr 21, 2021
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the inquiry a day after a jury convicted former officer Dereck Chauvin on murder charges in the death of George Floyd.
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Apr 21, 2021
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the inquiry a day after a jury convicted former officer Derek Chauvin on murder charges in the death of George Floyd.
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Apr 21, 2021
The aging KRI Nanggala-402 was reportedly on a torpedo training mission in waters north of Bali when it failed to report results of the exercise.
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Apr 21, 2021
WPLN News reports on Nashville's long-suffering live music scene and the city's lack of a cohesive plan.
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Apr 21, 2021
They are introducing legislation that would eliminate tuition and fees at public, four-year institutions for those from families earning up to $125,000 and make community college free for everyone.
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Apr 21, 2021
Six British teams announced on Tuesday they were stepping back from plans to create the Super League, essentially killing the project altogether.
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Apr 21, 2021
The former president's book features portraits of 43 immigrants — athletes, public servants, business leaders, educators: "I am attempting to join others in saying the system's broken. Let's fix it."
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Apr 21, 2021
The pandemic has been stressful for millions of children. If that stress isn't buffered by caring adults, it can have lifelong consequences. There's a lot schools can do to keep that from happening.
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Apr 21, 2021
Experts fear steep declines in testing and diagnoses mean more people will contract HIV and die of AIDS. The problem is particularly acute in the South, the epicenter of the nation's HIV crisis.
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Apr 20, 2021
Across the country, jubilation and relief broke out at the guilty verdict for the former Minneapolis police officer. At the same time, many people see it as the start of a long fight toward justice.
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Apr 20, 2021
Ma'Khia Bryant felt she was in danger and called the Columbus police, according to her aunt. But when officers arrived at her home on Tuesday afternoon, the girl ended up dead.
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Apr 20, 2021
Ma'Khia Bryant felt she was in danger and called the Columbus police, according to her aunt. But when officers arrived at her home on Tuesday afternoon, the girl ended up dead.
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Apr 20, 2021
Ma'Khia Bryant felt she was in danger and called the Columbus police, according to her aunt. But when officers arrived at her home on Tuesday afternoon, the girl ended up dead.
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Apr 20, 2021
Around the country, people celebrated after a former Minneapolis police officer was convicted in the murder of George Floyd.
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Apr 20, 2021
George Floyd's siblings shared their relief and trauma after the guilty verdict of the ex-cop who killed their brother. "The world saw his life being extinguished and I could do nothing but watch."
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Apr 20, 2021
"George Floyd! Justice!" yelled the crowd gathered outside the Hennepin County Government Center after the jury convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin.
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Apr 20, 2021
"We know that true justice is about much more than a single verdict in a single trial," the nation's first Black president and the former first lady said in a statement.
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Apr 20, 2021
"I would not call today's verdict justice, however, because justice implies true restoration. But it is accountability which is the first step towards justice," Keith Ellison said on Tuesday.
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Apr 20, 2021
"I would not call today's verdict justice, however, because justice implies true restoration. But it is accountability, which is the first step towards justice," Keith Ellison said on Tuesday.
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Apr 20, 2021
A jury has found Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts he faced over the killing of George Floyd. The outcome was far from guaranteed, as convictions of police officers are historically rare.
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Apr 20, 2021
"It was a murder in the full light of day, and it ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see [systemic racism]," the president said after the guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin.
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Apr 20, 2021
Philonise Floyd began weeping as Judge Peter Cahill read the three guilty verdicts aloud in court on Tuesday. "As an African American, we usually never get justice," he told reporters through tears.
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Apr 20, 2021
Closely associated with Meat Loaf, Jim Steinman also wrote over-the-top hits for Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply and Celine Dion, as well as music for the stage.
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Apr 20, 2021
Republicans criticized the California Democrat's remarks urging protesters to "get more confrontational" if former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is acquitted in his trial.
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Apr 20, 2021
Some companies, under pressure from shareholders, are tying executive compensation to climate targets. It's not widespread yet, but the approach is catching on.
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Apr 20, 2021
Apple suspended the platform from its app store in the wake of the Capitol riots, citing inadequate content moderation practices. Parler says it will relaunch next week with "several new safeguards."
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Apr 20, 2021
The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. As the country reacts, NPR revisits key moments from the last three weeks.
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Apr 20, 2021
For decades, the U.S. has spent many millions hunting down viruses in hope of stopping a pandemic. Yet the efforts failed. A group of researchers thinks there's a better strategy for the future.
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Apr 20, 2021
Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, has been found guilty of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
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Apr 20, 2021
George Floyd's death sparked sustained protests in Minneapolis, across the United States and around the world. It also set off a national reckoning on police violence and systemic racism.
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Apr 20, 2021
As adults of all ages get access to the COVID-19 vaccines, health researchers worry that the trend could worsen.
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Apr 20, 2021
The 2020 census results are months overdue after COVID-19 upended the national count. Efforts to extend reporting deadlines stalled last year after Trump officials decided to cut short counting.
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Apr 20, 2021
The group is more racially diverse than Hennepin County, Minn., as a whole: Six are white, four are Black, and two identify as multiracial. Derek Chauvin's fate is now in their hands.
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Apr 20, 2021
While emphasizing that the risk is low, the health agency said there should be a warning about the rare condition included in the product information for the vaccine.
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Apr 20, 2021
Hough was 15 when her family left the Children of God cult. Afterward, she struggled to face the trauma of her past. Her new collection of personal essays is Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing.
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Apr 20, 2021
The 12 jurors, who have remained anonymous throughout the trial, will be fully sequestered each night at a nearby hotel until they reach a decision. Any verdict must be unanimous.
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Apr 20, 2021
Across the state young people left class in an impromptu demonstration as jurors in Minneapolis began deliberating Derek Chauvin's guilt or innocence.
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Apr 20, 2021
The death of Déby, who came to power in 1990, was announced a day after his re-election for a sixth term was certified. The army said that his son, a four-star general, will become interim president.
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Apr 20, 2021
John Sullivan is returning for "consultations" after a new round of tit-for-tat sanctions between Moscow and Washington last week.
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Apr 20, 2021
It's been a year since teachers were handed an unprecedented request: educate students in entirely new ways amid a pandemic. This week is Shameem Patel, a second-grade teacher in Dallas.
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Apr 20, 2021
The president prioritizes racial justice while also acting as an ally of law enforcement, and the trial's end could be the first significant flashpoint over race and policing in Biden's presidency.
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