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The presidential palace says French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19 and will self-isolate for seven days.
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Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has become the latest Trump administration official to test positive for the coronavirus.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. makes chips for iPhones, video game consoles and fighter jets. Now it’s being forced to choose sides.
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Seven Tyson Foods plant managers who were accused of betting on how many employees would get coronavirus were fired Wednesday, the company said.
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Hundreds of desperate Tunisians have set themselves on fire over the past 10 years in an act of protest, following the example of 26-year-old fruit seller Mohammed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation in 2010 led to the downfall of Tunisia’s dictator of 23 years
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New charges are expected in connection with the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people.
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The Utah Senator described the Smithsonian’s proposed National Museum of the American Latino as divisive. More divisive: a society that erases Latinos
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U.S. officials say they’re actively negotiating for additional purchases of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine after passing up a chance to lock in a contract this summer because it was still unclear how well the shots would work
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President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President Mike Pence are set to receive the COVID-19 vaccine soon.
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California is scrambling to find enough nurses, doctors and other medical staff to deal with the pandemic’s rising demands.
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Snow continued to fall early Thursday during a key period in the pandemic, days after the start of the U.S. vaccination campaign and in the thick of a coronavirus surge that has throngs of people seeking tests daily.
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As COVID-19 vaccinations roll out, health authorities are keeping close watch for any unexpected side effects, including serious allergic reactions.
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Armenian cultural legacy is at risk in Nagorno-Karabakh, or Artsakh. With Trump officials unresponsive, artists are drawing attention to the issue.
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Anxiety has overwhelmed many in Nigeria’s northern village of Kankara, where families await word on boys who were abducted from a government school.
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Jean Graetz, who was among the first white civil rights activists to stand with Rosa Parks and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 90.
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Three countries sent spacecraft to Mars, and robotic explorers grabbed moon rocks and asteroid rubble. Space offered moments of hope amid COVID-19.
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A Chinese capsule has returned to Earth with the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 40 years.
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President-elect Joe Biden introduces his former primary rival Pete Buttigieg as his nominee for secretary of Transportation.
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The fugitive widow of an Islamic State gunman and a man described as his logistician have been convicted of charges linked to 2015 attacks in Paris.
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Joyce Warshaw, the mayor of Dodge City, Kan., is resigning after receiving threats over her support of a mask mandate amid the coronavirus crisis.
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In U.S.-China dispute over missile defense system, Beijing punishes South Korea by restricting tourism and holding trade hostage.
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Beijing’s aggressive South China Sea expansion shows its willingness to defy international laws for President Xi Jinping’s visions of power.
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China’s paramount leader, Xi Jinping, sees himself as a savior, anointed to steer the Communist Party and China away from corruption and foreign influence, into a ‘new era’ of prosperity, power and political devotion. Whether his vision matches reality is another question.
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China’s oppression of Muslims reaches beyond Xinjiang into Pakistan. Why does it stay quiet?
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China’s ‘purification’ of classrooms: A new law erases history, silences teachers and rewrites books
China’s ‘purification’ of classrooms: A new law erases history, silences teachers and rewrites books
China’s crackdown on Hong Kong is purging teachers, rewriting textbooks and increasing pressure on schools over what to put in the minds of students. A new national security law has endangered freedom of thought and expression.
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A South Korean study raises concerns that six feet of social distance may not be far enough to keep people safe from the coronavirus.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. makes chips for iPhones, video game consoles and fighter jets. Now it’s being forced to choose sides.
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Seven Tyson Foods plant managers who were accused of betting on how many employees would get coronavirus were fired Wednesday, the company said.
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The presidential palace says French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19 and will self-isolate for seven days.
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Beijing says it has met its goal of wiping out extreme poverty in China by the end of 2020. The top-down effort has disrupted untold individual lives.
