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Google News
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Yahoo News
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- Russia withdraws from Open Skies Treaty after U.S. departure
- Billionaire right-wing patron Adelson buried in Jerusalem
- Trump plans to fly away from White House to Mar-a-Lago on morning of Biden inauguration
- GOP Sen. Lankford apologizes to Black Oklahomans for electoral challenge
- Millions won't get stimulus money before the IRS cut-off date
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NY Times
- Confused About the Vaccine Rollout? You’re Not Alone
- When is Inauguration Day 2021? What You Need to Know
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AP News
- Bus dramatically plunges off bridge; driver, passengers hurt
- Russia withdraws from Open Skies Treaty after US departure
- Iranian Guard drones in drill mirror those in Saudi attacks
- Biden taps former FDA chief Kessler to lead vaccine science
- China builds new quarantine center as virus cases rise
- Rare conviction of South Sudan soldiers for rape raises hope
- Spain rejects virus confinement as most of Europe stays home
- Capitol rioters included highly trained ex-military and cops
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CNN
- Guitarist Sylvain Sylvain dead at 69
- Rehearsal for Biden inauguration ceremony pushed back a day amid security concerns
- DC AG looks at Trump speeches before riot
- Facebook is playing whack-a-mole against 'stop the steal' groups
- DC tightens security
- Man who beat police officer says 'death is the only remedy'
- What we know about potential armed protests ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration
- Already shunned from polite society, Ivanka and Jared face cold post-insurrection reality
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Buzzfeed News
- Like Other New Social Media Platforms Focused On Growth, TikTok Is Clumsily Regulating Sketchy Ads
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- Some White Officers Are “Not Even Hiding” Their Radicalization, Anymore Black Police Say
- Disneyland Is Getting Rid Of Its Popular Annual Pass Program Due To The Coronavirus Pandemic
- US Solar Companies Rely On Materials From Xinjiang, Where Forced Labor Is Rampant
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Huffington Post
- These Textbooks In Thousands Of K-12 Schools Echo Trump’s Talking Points
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- Stephen Colbert Has A Way To Trick Mitch McConnell Into Removing Donald Trump
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Axios
- Biden taps ex-FDA chief to lead Operation Warp Speed amid rollout of COVID plan
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- The post-Trump Republican Party has been gutted in almost every way imaginable
- Senate postpones confirmation hearing for Biden intel pick Avril Haines
- Cloud-based cars powered by 5G and new computers are on the way
- Anita Dunn to join Biden White House as senior adviser
- Black figures publicly take COVID-19 vaccine to fight mistrust and misinformation
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Digg
- A Look At What's In Biden's $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan
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Vice
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- The English Language Wikipedia Just Had Its Billionth Edit
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- The QAnon Shaman Wants a Trump Pardon for Storming the Capitol
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Medium
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- You Don’t Hit Your Goals Because You Don’t Feel Worthy of Them
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- A Scientifically Proven Method for Predicting the Future
- How Andy Mills followed the rules of audio and why we want to break them
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Mother Jones
- Trump’s State Department Had a “Humiliating” Lack of Diversity. Can Joe Biden Fix It?
- “No One Took Us Seriously”: Black Cops Warned About Racist Capitol Police Officers for Years
- These 10 Billionaires Went All-In Trying To Get Donald Trump Re-Elected
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- Lawmakers Who Attended the President’s Pre-Riot Rally Are Going to Feel Fundraising Pain
- A New Watchdog Report Reveals Just How Obsessed Trump Officials Were With Family Separation
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The Guardian
- US executes Corey Johnson for 1992 Virginia murders
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BBC
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Washington Post
- Trump’s last days and the echo of one specific Hitler analogy
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Politico
- ‘He has an obligation to them’: Attorney for ‘QAnon shaman’ asks Trump to pardon rioters
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The Daily Beast
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ABC News
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CBS
- Anita Dunn to join Biden administration temporarily
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- Doctors say some wealthy and well-connected people are trying to cut vaccine line
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CNBC
- Walmart's e-commerce chief Marc Lore to leave after jumpstarting retailer's digital business
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NPR
- Retail Spending Dips For 3rd Straight Month As Infections Surge
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LA Times
- Diaper masks, close quarters: Fast-food restaurants have struggled to protect workers from COVID-19
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Salon
- Media suddenly shifts its tone on Trump
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Euronews
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- Kim Jong-un vows to boost North Korea’s nuclear arsenal
- Dutch government under pressure after Labour Party leader steps down over welfare benefits scandal
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Newsweek
- Mike Pence Greets Troops Guarding U.S. Capitol as Donald Trump Lays Low in White House
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The Intercept
- Capitol Mob Has Roots in Anti-Lockdown Protests
- “There Was a Very Real Fear That We Would Not Make It Out”: Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Her Escape From the Capitol Riot
- The DOJ's Promised Probe Into Capitol Riot Raises Alarm About Prosecutorial Overreach
- Maryland Democrats Rethink Planned Domestic Terror Bill After Criticism
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- Dustin Higgs, the Last Man to Be Executed in Terre Haute, Maintains His Innocence
- John Sullivan, Who Filmed Shooting of Ashli Babbitt in Capitol, Detained on Federal Charges
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Drudge Report
- Explodes at nixon comparisons..
- Mag: among the insurrectionists..
- Rioters included highly trained ex-military and cops..
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Fox News
- Trump expected to travel to Mar-a-Lago on morning of Biden's inauguration: sources
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- At least 34 dead in Indonesia quake
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The Blaze
- Norwegian medical experts warn COVID-19 vaccine side effects could be devastating for patients over 80 and the terminally ill
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- Rudy Giuliani explains calling for 'trial by combat' to rally crowd ahead of Capitol attack
- Woman arrested for rioting at Capitol quit her job at Cleveland schools to expose 'global evil' of pedophilia in gov't
- CNN reports a Dem rep grabbed a crowbar during Capitol attack. He actually grabbed an energy bar
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- Capitol rioter arrested for encouraging violence is an anti-Trump agitator and a Black Lives Matter supporter
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Vox
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Slate
- To Celebrate Wikipedia’s 20th Birthday, Try Editing It
- Justice Department Filing Says “Strong Evidence” Capitol Rioters Intended to “Capture and Assassinate” Lawmakers
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Business Insider
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- Grab's financial services arm has raised $300 million to expand its services
- Adtech company Viant just filed to go public. Here are 7 digital advertising companies experts say are likely to IPO next
- Seema Verma says she has 'no regrets' about her healthcare tenure in the Trump administration even after much backlash
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The Atlantic
- Trump Is Putting the Machinery of Death Into Overdrive
- Here Come the Anarchists
- MAGA Isn’t a Typical Protest Movement
- COVID-19 Deaths Are 25 Percent Higher Than in Any Previous Week
- The Atlantic Daily: The Danger That Will Outlast The Trump Presidency
- We Don’t Know How Many People Have Recovered From COVID-19
- Go Ahead, Share Your Vaccine Selfie
- Pandemic Life Is Turning Your Body Into a Stiff, Hunched, Itchy, Sore, Headachy Husk
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Time
- We Could Use a Pandemic-Era Romantic Comedy, But Locked Down Isn’t It
- Alberta King, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Mother, Made Her Own Contributions to Civil Rights
- ‘Alarmingly Similar.’ What the Chaos Around Lincoln’s First Inauguration Can Tell Us About Today, According to Historians
- Melinda Gates: Why Women’s Voices Must Be at the Center of Rebuilding After COVID-19
- Strong Earthquake Sets Off Landslides and Flattens Homes in Indonesia
- Poet Amanda Gorman, 22, Will Read at Joe Biden’s Inauguration
- North Korea Holds a Huge Military Parade as Kim Vows to Expand His Nuclear Program
- Joe Biden Unveils a $1.9 Trillion Plan to Stem the Virus and Steady the Economy
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PBS Newshour
- FBI tracking 'extensive' online chatter about armed protests ahead of Biden inauguration
- Investigations intensify in the wake of the Capitol riot as inauguration approaches
- News Wrap: U.S. coronavirus deaths near 390,000
- Former Michigan governor charged for mishandling Flint water crisis
- Joanne Rogers, widow of TV's famed Mister Rogers, dies at 92
- Businesses begin backing away from Republicans after Capitol attack
- With Trump leaving office, what is the GOP's future?
- Trump's last-minute policy moves could have deep, long-lasting impacts
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Google Business
- U.S. retail sales fall again in December
- Exxon Draws SEC Probe Over Permian Basin Asset Valuation
- Pfizer to temporarily reduce Covid vaccine deliveries to Europe
- Citigroup profit beats, but shares dip on higher costs, weak revenue
- Wells Fargo's stock slumps after revenue falls more than forecast, but profit breaks streak of misses
- Amazon to let automakers use Alexa software to create their own in-car voice assistants
- JPMorgan Profit Soars 42% After Bank Releases Reserves for Bad Loans
- NHTSA says U.S. highway traffic deaths rose in 2020 due to risky driving
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Forbes
- U.S. Adds Chinese Phone Maker Xiaomi To Military Blacklist
- GOP Senator Lankford Apologizes To Black Constituents For Challenging Election Results
- The Future Of Healthcare Is Mobile
- Downtown DC Retailers Try To Maintain A ‘Business As Usual’ Image As Inauguration Day Nears
- Our Gritty Digital Transformation Reality -- And How To Make It Better
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FiveThirtyEight
- Can You Hunt For The Mysterious Numbers?
- Since The Capitol Attack, Trump’s Approval Rating Has Plummeted At A Record Rate
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FastCompany
- In London, an experimental building houses two very different types of tenants
- 5 strategies to smoothly handle a workplace confrontation
- An artificial intelligence scholar urges technologists to embrace humility
- IRS stimulus checks: Painfully slow mailed-out payments frustrate many Americans
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Metafilter
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Smithsonian
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Atlas Obscura
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Scientific American
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Outside
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TMZ
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Variety
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Rolling Stone
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The Onion
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Mentalfloss
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Bleacher Report
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GQ
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Refinery29
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The Verge
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- Bumble disables politics filter after Capitol rioters spotted in app
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Engadget
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Wired
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Techmeme
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Hacker News
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Buzzfeed
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Financial Times
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Wall Street Journal
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The Economist
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Marketwatch
- Walmart U.S.eCommerce CEO Mark Lore to retire at the end of the month
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Motley Fool
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NYT Business
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Wikipedia Current Events
2021 January 15
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan
- Taliban insurgency
- At least nine security personnel are killed in Kunduz, near the border with Tajikistan, when Taliban insurgents simultaneously attack two checkpoints. (Al Arabiya English)
- Taliban insurgency
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
- COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
- Indonesia reports a record 12,818 new confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, including 3,095 in West Java, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 882,418. (detikHealth)
- COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
- China reports 144 new cases, majority of them are in Hebei and Northeastern Heilongjiang province. It is the highest number of daily cases in 10 months and brings the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 87,988. (The Straits Times)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
- COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
- Germany surpasses two million cases of COVID-19. (France 24)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
- 2020–21 H5N8 outbreak
- Authorities in Namibia suspend the import and transit of poultry from European countries where an outbreak of the Avian influenza subtype H5N8 has been reported. (Xinhua)
- Pan Am Flight 103
- The family of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, loses a posthumous appeal at a top Scottish court against his conviction. Al-Megrahi was the only person convicted for the terrorist attack, whereas his family say he was victim of a "miscarriage of justice". (BBC)
- 2021 Ugandan general election
- Opposition activist Bobi Wine claims victory in the presidential election, despite early results giving incumbent President Yoweri Museveni a wide lead, calling the results "a joke". (France 24)
- The Lao People's Revolutionary Party elects Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith as its new General Secretary, replacing retiring chief Bounnhang Vorachit. Sisoulith was elected for a five-year term as leader of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, the top post in the country, and part of the country Politburo. (Reuters)
- The Third Rutte cabinet of The Netherlands falls after negotiations regarding the childcare allowance affair. (nos.nl (in Dutch))