

Nation Jan 10

Social media companies decided this past week they had finally seen enough from President Donald Trump. Twitter ended a nearly 12-year run and shuttered his account, severing an instant line of communication to his 89 million followers.
By Kevin Freking, Associated Press
Health Jan 10

With daily cases crossing 250,000, COVID-19 has killed nearly 380,000 people in the U.S. -- the highest in the world. As states roll out vaccines in phases amid reports of the two more transmissible variants from the UK and South…
By PBS NewsHour
Nation Jan 10

The January 6 attack on The U.S. Capitol was the staggering culmination of years of political division and misinformation. Now, as debate rages over if President Trump should be held accountable for inciting the riot, President-elect Biden prepares to take…
By PBS NewsHour
World Jan 10

Condemning the Capitol Hill riot, President George W. Bush and Senator Marco Rubio likened it to political upheavals in “Banana Republics” and the “third world.” But Lucia Dammert, a Wilson Center Global Fellow and Professor at the University of Santiago…
By Ivette Feliciano
Jan 10

By Ivette Feliciano, Connie Kargbo
As many countries began their COVID-19 vaccination rollouts last month, one country quickly charged ahead of the pack: Israel. The Middle Eastern nation is now the world's top vaccinator per capita, already inoculating more than 1.5 million people, or nearly…
Jan 10

By Zarar Khan, Associated Press
Hours after the late Saturday outage, Energy Minister Omar Ayub said on Twitter that power was being restored in phases, starting with Islamabad. He said later Sunday that power had been restored to much of the country.
Jan 10

By Victoria Milko, Edna Tarigan, Associated Press
The head of Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency, Bagus Puruhito, said officials believe they identified the location of the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder — the so-called black boxes — because emergency signals transmitted by the devices…
Jan 10

By Darlene Superville, Alan Fram, Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press
Two Republican senators now say President Donald Trump should resign as support for the drive to impeach him a second time is gaining momentum in his final days in office after the deadly riot at the Capitol by a violent…
Jan 10

By David Crary, Associated Press
In a growing consensus, religious leaders at the forefront of the anti-abortion movement in the United States are telling their followers that the leading vaccines available to combat COVID-19 are acceptable to take, given their remote and indirect connection to…
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