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Google News
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Yahoo News
- China reports ice cream contaminated with coronavirus
- Fact check: Image of Lauren Boebert at rally is from 2019, unrelated to U.S. Capitol riot
- USPS says it's removing mailboxes and suspending mail collection in several major cities ahead of Biden's inauguration
- Congresswoman's spokesman quits less than 2 weeks into term
- Moon rocket test firing aborted after engine shutdown
- Fleeing the pandemic and two hurricanes, thousands of migrants walk toward the U.S
- Ex-Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones 'turning herself in' to face new charge
- Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin turns from his son's funeral to managing Trump's impeachment
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NY Times
- A man with a gun arrested by Capitol Police at a security checkpoint calls it an ‘honest mistake.’
- Loews Hotels says it won’t host a fund-raiser with Senator Josh Hawley
- N.F.L. Playoff Updates: Packers Lead Rams 3-0
- George Whitmore, Climber Who Vanquished El Capitan, Dies at 89
- Joe Biden Actually Has a Covid Plan
- Biden Seeks Quick Start With Executive Actions and Aggressive Legislation
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AP News
- Biden to prioritize legal status for millions of immigrants
- Bus driver in dramatic bridge plunge says it 'just took off'
- Betty White marks 99th birthday Sunday; up late as she wants
- Banking heir Benjamin de Rothschild dies at 57
- Boy reported dead at sea in attempt to reach Canary Islands
- Wind, rain, heavy snow batter New England, eastern Canada
- Biden outlines 'Day One' agenda of executive actions
- March for Life asks its supporters to stay home this year
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CNN
- Analysis: A nation on edge braces for the transfer of power
- Elon Musk donates $5 million to education group Khan Academy
- Analysis: The end of the Merkel era
- Acting secretary of defense orders NSA chief to install Trump loyalist as agency's general counsel
- Up to 8,000 US-bound migrants enter Guatemala from Honduras
- Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy demands truth before unity
- Opinion: Capitol riot a stunning reminder of US policing crisis
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Buzzfeed News
- The Man Arrested At An Inauguration Checkpoint With A Gun And Ammo Says It Was A "Mistake" And That He's A Security Guard
- Far-Right Troll “Baked Alaska” Has Been Arrested For The Coup Attempt At The Capitol
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Huffington Post
- Some In The GOP Parrot Far-Right Talk Of A Coming Civil War
- Ocasio-Cortez: Zuckerberg, Facebook 'Bear Partial Responsibility' For Capitol Riot
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- Facebook Bans Weapon Accessories, Protective Gear Ads In U.S
- Virginia Man Arrested At D.C. Checkpoint With Gun, 500 Rounds Of Ammo: Reports
- Joe Biden: GOP Lawmakers Who Didn't Wear Masks During Capitol Riot Need To 'Grow Up'
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- Capitol Insurrectionists Said They Were Following Trump’s Orders
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Axios
- In photos: D.C. and U.S. states on alert for violence ahead of Biden inauguration
- Axios AM New Washington Deep Dive on Biden's plans
- Rep. Lou Correa tests positive for COVID-19
- Far-right figure "Baked Alaska" arrested for involvement in Capitol siege
- Tech scrambles to derail inauguration threats
- Uganda's election: Museveni declared winner, Wine claims fraud
- Off the rails: Trump's premeditated election lie lit the fire
- Armin Laschet elected as leader of Merkel's CDU party in Germany
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Digg
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- Man Who Shot Video Of Fatal Capitol Shooting Is Arrested, Remains Focus Of Political Storm
- Selfie-Snapping Rioters Leave FBI A Trail Of Over 140,000 Images
- I Tested The Dumbest PPE Of All Time – The Rich Guy COVID Helmet
- Trump Finishes With Worst First Term Approval Rating Ever
- Far-Right Personality 'Baked Alaska' Arrested In Riot Probe
- The 15 Most Notable Lies Of Donald Trump's Presidency
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Vice
- The Capitol Hill Insurrectionists Had Some Trouble Staying on Message
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- Why Is My Feed Full of Gross Cooking 'Hacks'?
- Ariel Pink and Tucker Carlson Are Both Parasites
- Amazon Launches Anti-Union Website to Derail Alabama Union Drive
- This Texas Realtor Wants To Flip the Election Results
- Is It Possible to Tell From a Photo if Someone Is Using Steroids?
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Medium
- How Parents Can Find Their Lost Identity After Trauma
- 4 Habits for Better Mental Health in 2021
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- Stop Apologizing For Taking Up Space
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- The Effects of Video Gaming on Young Peoples Behavior and Mental Health
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Mother Jones
- Who’s Rolling Out the COVID-19 vaccine the Fastest
- Trump Administration Executes Federal Inmate Days Before Biden Takes Office
- A List of the Lawmakers Who Joined Pro-Trump Crowds on the Day of the Capitol Riot
- Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: January 15 Update
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- Amy Coney Barrett Set To Hear Case Against Shell
- Why “Everybody Should Be Deeply Skeptical” of Corporate America’s Turn Against Trump
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The Guardian
- Mahatma Gandhi's killer venerated as Hindu nationalism resurges in India
- Historians having to tape together records that Trump tore up
- 'Grave military implications': Iran making uranium metal alarms Europe
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- Coronavirus live: struggle to quash Sydney cluster with six new cases; Brazil's fifth day of more than 1,000 deaths
- Green Bay Packers carve up LA Rams to reach NFC championship game
- 'This is not justice': supreme court liberals slam Trump's federal executions
- Leicester go second as James Maddison sets up win over Southampton
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BBC
- Statues to get protection from 'baying mobs'
- Church of England services hit by Covid pandemic
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- Airline industry needs up to another $80bn to survive pandemic
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Washington Post
- Massive blackouts have hit Iran. The government is blaming bitcoin mining
- A lab in Italy reported a cluster of the U.K. coronavirus variant. Four cases grew to 29 before the town was alerted
- Britons lament ‘U.K. variant’ label, as coronavirus strain spreads around the world
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Politico
- Mother-son duo facing conspiracy charges for role in Capitol assault
- Census Bureau says Trump's push to exclude undocumented is dead
- Biden plans dozens of executive orders for early days of presidency
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The Daily Beast
- I Know Why Haredi Jews Joined Neo-Nazis at the Trumpist Riot
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ABC News
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CBS
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CNBC
- Democratic governors accuse Trump administration of misleading them about vaccine stockpile
- House probes security and intelligence failures in U.S. Capitol attack
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NPR
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- Man Arrested Near Capitol With Loaded Handgun And 500 Rounds Of Ammunition
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- House Lawmakers Open Investigation Into Capitol Attack
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LA Times
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- LAPD chief calls out deadly crime surge
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- National Guard deployed around Sacramento in preparation for potential unrest
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Salon
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Euronews
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- DC police arrest man with loaded handgun and 500 rounds of ammunition ahead of inauguration
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- NRA declares bankruptcy and plans to incorporate in Texas
- German farmers and animal rights activists protest agricultural policy
- China's famous Ice Town sees annual sculpture festival scaled back amid pandemic
- Bosnia: Hundreds of migrants grappling with freezing temperatures in makeshift shelters
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Newsweek
- U.S. Says Wuhan Researchers Fell Ill in Fall of 2019, Calls for Transparency
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- Picking Alabama for Space Command HQ 'Politically-Motivated,' States Demand Probe
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The Intercept
- Oil Industry Reconsiders Donations to Election Deniers
- Watchdog Report on “Zero Tolerance” Leads to Calls for Prosecutions, Reparations
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- “There Was a Very Real Fear That We Would Not Make It Out”: Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Her Escape From the Capitol Riot
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- Doctor Who Joined Capitol Attacks Leads a Far-Right Campaign Against Covid-19 Vaccine
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Drudge Report
- Grand finale: the pardons
- Airports could close altogether..
- Prioritizes legal status for 11 million immigrants..
- England isn't listening to boris lockdown orders any more..
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Fox News
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The Blaze
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- Pennsylvania Dem Lt. governor gets schooled after he claims 'lies' about election are 'not protected speech'
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Vox
- Poll: Most Republicans believe Trump bears no responsibility for Capitol attacks
- Capitol Police arrested an armed man at a DC security checkpoint
- The Trump administration’s execution of Dustin Higgs, explained
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- Trump’s Twitter and Facebook ban is working. One stat shows it
- “A colossal waste”: Some Republicans question Joe Biden’s coronavirus relief plan
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- House Democrats launch investigation into Capitol riot security failures
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Slate
- Trump Targeted the Mentally Ill With His Lame Duck Execution Spree
- Man Arrested in D.C. With Unauthorized Inauguration Credentials, a Loaded Gun, and Lots of Ammo
- Fox News Can Barely Admit the Capitol Riot Is a Story
- Trump Allies Reportedly Want Ivanka to Challenge Rubio for Florida Senate Seat
- Sotomayor Condemns Trump’s Execution Spree: “This Is Not Justice”
- Officer Almost Crushed by Capitol Mob: “If it Wasn’t My Job I Would Have Done That for Free”
- The Golf World Hardly Deserves Praise for “Breaking” With Trump
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Business Insider
- Rudy Giuliani said he is working on Trump's defense for the impeachment trial and that he's open to the president...
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- USPS says it's removing mailboxes and suspending mail collection in several major cities ahead of Biden's inauguration
- A critical test of NASA's moon rocket ended abruptly due to an engine problem, possibly ending hopes of launching in 2021
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The Atlantic
- QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within
- The Real Villain of WandaVision
- America’s Second-Worst Scenario
- The Early-Pandemic Heist Thriller That No One Asked For
- The People Profiting Off the Pandemic in India
- How to Break the Demagogue Cycle
- We’re Just Finding Out How Bad the Riot Really Was
- The Other Tragedy of January 6
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Time
- Our Fragile Optimism
- Federal Prisons on Lockdown Ahead of Biden Inauguration
- India Starts World’s Largest COVID-19 Vaccination Drive
- Indonesia Earthquake Rescue Hindered by Damaged Roads and Lack of Gear
- The U.S. Capitol Riot Was Years in the Making. Here’s Why America Is So Divided
- Trump Administration Carries Out 13th and Final Execution
- The Right’s Message to Silicon Valley: “Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee”
- Wandavision Offers Hope That Originality Can Survive the Era of the Ever-Expanding Franchise
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PBS Newshour
- An Olympian, a therapist, professionals: A look at the rioters stoked by extremism
- State capitols boarded up, fenced off, patrolled by troops
- With the highest cases in the country, CA has one of the lowest inoculation rates
- Symbols of hate, and their racial implications, at the Capitol Hill riot
- Will Trump's mishandling of records leave a hole in history?
- India starts world's largest COVID-19 vaccination drive
- Internet radicalization experts knew violence was brewing. What did they see?
- Journalists prepare for protests where they could be targets
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Google Business
- Parler's CEO fled his home and went into hiding after receiving death threats and security breaches, a court filing says
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- Numbers revealed for massive $640M Powerball jackpot
- Powerball lottery: Did you win Saturday’s $640M Powerball drawing? Winning numbers, live results (1/16/2021)
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- FAA approves first fully-automated commercial drone flight
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Forbes
- The Hidden Drag From The S&P 500 That Can Reduce Your Returns
- How Ghost Kitchens And Business Innovations Are Aiding The Industry
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FiveThirtyEight
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FastCompany
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- Actually, Americans are feeling better than you think this winter
- Director Emerald Fennell explains why ‘Promising Young Woman’ doesn’t end how you’d expect
- The rise, fall, and future of Parler, the right-wing site that Amazon shut down
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Smithsonian
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Atlas Obscura
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- Why Longtime Alaska Residents Are Called 'Sourdoughs'
- St. Mary's Well, Jesmond in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
- Huang Kuan Statue in Edinburgh, Scotland
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Scientific American
- The Timeless Journey of the Möbius Strip
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- Coronavirus News Roundup, January 9-January 15
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Outside
- How to Cook with Plant-Based Beef
- The Pandemic Bike Boom Is Here to Stay
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TMZ
- Black Man Helped by Mental Health Officer Day Before Shooting Death
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- Virginia Man Arrested with Gun & Ammo Trying to Breach D.C. Checkpoint
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Variety
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Rolling Stone
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Fark
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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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Business and economy
- Automotive manufacturers Fiat Chrysler and PSA finalize their 50-50 merger agreement, founding Stellantis. The new corporation becomes the world's fourth largest automobile manufacturer by volume. (AFP via RTL)
- Five people die of carbon monoxide poisoning at a nursing home in Lanuvio, Lazio, Italy. Seven other people are hospitalized in critical condition. (Il Fatto Quotidiano)
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in North America
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- COVID-19 pandemic in California
- Los Angeles County surpasses one million cases of COVID-19, becoming the first county in the United States to do so. Additionally, the county also reports their first case of the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a man who traveled to the UK and is currently in quarantine in Oregon. (NBC News)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Michigan
- Michigan reports their first case of the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a woman from Washtenaw County who traveled to the United Kingdom. (WEYI-TV)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Louisiana
- Louisiana reports their first case of the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 in the Greater New Orleans area. (Office of the Governor of Louisiana)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Wyoming
- Wyoming reports their first case of the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a man from Teton County with no known travel history. (Casper Star Tribune)
- COVID-19 pandemic in California
- COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
- Canada surpasses 700,000 cases of COVID-19. (Global News)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
- COVID-19 pandemic in India
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches the world's largest vaccination programme against COVID-19 in India, which plans to vaccinate more than 1.3 billion people. A sanitation worker is the first person to receive the vaccine. (BBC)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
- Indonesia reports a record 14,224 new cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 896,642. (CNN Indonesia)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia
- Malaysia reports a record 4,029 new confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 155,095. (New Straits Times)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan
- The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan approves the AstraZeneca vaccine for emergency use in the country. (Livemint)
- COVID-19 pandemic in India
- COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
- COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark
- Denmark reports their first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 that originated in South Africa in a person who travelled to Dubai, according to the Statens Serum Institut. (Politiken)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal
- COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia
- Serbia receives one million doses of Sinopharm's BBIBP-CorV vaccine, becoming the first European country to receive a Chinese-made vaccine. (AFP via Barron's)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey
- Vice President Fuat Oktay receives the first dose of the CoronaVac vaccine at a hospital in Ankara. (Anadolu Agency)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark
- COVID-19 pandemic in South America
- COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina
- Argentina receives their second batch of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine. (U.S. News & World Report)
- Argentina reports their first case of the more infectious B.1.1.7 variant in a man who travelled from the United Kingdom in late December and later tested positive. (MedicalXpress)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, COVID-19 vaccine
- The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency announces that the country has returned documents from União Química seeking approval for Russia's Sputnik V vaccine as it didn't meet the criteria. (Reuters)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina
- COVID-19 pandemic in North America
- Qatar–Saudi Arabia relations, Qatar diplomatic crisis
- Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud announces that Saudi Arabia will re-open its embassy in Qatar in the coming days, after a diplomatic crisis that saw the nations severing ties for three years. (Reuters)
- Aftermath of the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation announces that far-right activist Tim Gionet, commonly known as Baked Alaska, has been arrested in Houston for participating in the storming of the United States Capitol. (New York Times)
- Capital punishment in the United States
- The federal government carries out its final execution under the Trump administration, executing convicted murderer Dustin Higgs by lethal injection at USP Terre Haute in Indiana. (Reuters)
- 2021 Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election
- North Rhine-Westphalia minister-president Armin Laschet is elected leader of the Christian Democratic Union, one of the ruling parties in the Bundestag and the party of incumbent Chancellor Angela Merkel. Laschet's election makes him a front-runner to be the party's candidate in the federal election in September. (AFP via The Local)
- 2021 Ugandan general election
- The Electoral Commission of Uganda declares incumbent President Yoweri Museveni the winner of the presidential election, winning about 59% of the vote, while opposition leader Bobi Wine received only 35% of the vote, according to the commission. (BBC)
- Discoveries of exoplanets
- Scientists announce the identification of TOI-561b, one of the oldest planetary systems to be discovered in the Milky Way, via NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. (Digital Trends)