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- China takes parting shot at 'lying and cheating' Pompeo
  China's foreign ministry has taken aim at the outgoing U.S. Secretary of State while saying it would seek cooperation with the incoming administration of Jo…
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Iran imposes symbolic sanctions on President Trump
Iran on Tuesday imposed sanctions on President Donald Trump and a number of members of his administration over their alleged role in support of “terrorism," according to its fo…
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President Trump gives farewell address
The outgoing president has chosen to communicate with the American people largely by video statement since the Capitol riot.
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U.S. virus deaths top 400K as Trump leaves office
As President Donald Trump entered the final year of his term last January, the U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19. Not to worry, Trump insisted, his administrat…
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Judge orders 'Tiger King' zoo to turn over big cats
A federal judge in Oklahoma has ordered the new owners of an Oklahoma zoo featured in Netflix’s “Tiger King” documentary to turn over all the lion and tiger cubs in their posse…
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Self-described militia members jailed on riot charges
Three self-described militia members from Ohio and Virginia faced federal charges Tuesday that they participated in the assault on the U.S. Capitol earlier this month. Thomas E…
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12 Guard members removed from Biden inauguration
Two U.S. Army National Guard members have been removed from the presidential inauguration security mission after they were found to have ties with right-wing militia groups, ac…
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Judge rejects 'Pharma Bro' Shkreli's bid for release
A federal judge rejected former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli's request to be freed from prison, rejecting his claim that his deteriorating mental health justified co…
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McConnell said Trump 'fed lies' to mob about Biden election
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell opened the Senate on Tuesday saying the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol was “fed lies” by the president and others in the deadly…
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A new COVID-19 challenge: Mutations rise along with cases
On Friday, the World Health Organization urged more effort to detect new variants. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a new version first identified in th…
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U.S. court deals final blow to Trump EPA's clean power rule replacement
A federal court on Tuesday struck down the Trump administration's scaled-down replacement of the Obama administration's signature climate change regulation for power plants, a …
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Viewers' guide to Biden's Inauguration Day: Everything you need to know
The theme is "America United," but COVID-19 and the specter of domestic terrorism are casting shadows over the event.
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How offshoring rolled along under Trump, who vowed to stop it
Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency four years ago, in part, by a promise to Midwest factory workers that he would stop companies like Schneider Electric SE from moving jobs o…
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Police officer, suspect killed after armed standoff in Ohio
An Ohio city on Tuesday was mourning a police officer who died after an hourslong armed standoff ended in gunfire and also claimed the life of a suspect, police said. Toledo Po…
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Poll: Virus, economy swamp other priorities for US
Containing the coronavirus outbreak and repairing the economic damage it has inflicted are the top priorities for Americans as Joe Biden prepares to become the 46th president o…
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Analysis - Trump's legacy: A more divided America, a more unsettled world
When President Donald Trump delivered his inaugural speech on Jan. 20, 2017, he promised an end to “American carnage,” a bleak and dysfunctional nation he had promised that he …
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U.S. teen jailed in Cayman Islands for breaking Covid protocols returns home
An 18-year-old American college student who broke the mandatory 14-day quarantine protocol for visitors to the Cayman Islands has returned home. After spending a month behind b…
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Washington now a 'ghost town with soldiers'
Central Washington is an armed fortress, fenced off with razor wire and surrounded by 25,000 National Guard troops ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesda…
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Biden's national security Cabinet nominees face Senate tests
President-elect Joe Biden’s national security Cabinet may be bare on Day One of his presidency, but an inauguration eve spurt of Senate confirmation hearings suggests that won’…
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Biden picks transgender woman for health role
Rachel Levine is to become assistant secretary of health, the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

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