The men — laborers Abrar Ahmad Khan, Imtiyaz Ahmad and Abrar Ahmad Yousuf, who had left their homes to look for work — were killed in an army operation in …
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Most of their European neighbors can only dream of snow-covered slopes while they endure holiday lockdowns, but Austrians are jamming ski resort parking lots and lift lines, defying social distancing …
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I’m not entirely sure I’d ever consciously thought about Hilaria Baldwin until this week. She occupies a level of fame slightly above social influencer but below TV actress. A podcaster …
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As President Donald Trump complains about “pork” in the current COVID-19 relief package, The Wall Street Journal reports that the last time around, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) helped manipulate the …
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US House votes to override Donald Trump’s veto of $740 bn defense policy bill – World News , Firstpost
The override vote, which required a two-thirds supermajority, was 322 to 87, with a majority of Republicans joining most Democrats in breaking with the US president File image of Donald …
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A Georgia corrections officer was shot and a man was killed after officers got into a shooting with men suspected of trying to smuggle contraband onto the grounds of a …
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A white Ohio police officer was fired after bodycam footage showed him fatally shooting 47-year-old Andre Hill, a Black man holding a cellphone, and refusing to administer first aid for …
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The lack of Covid testing capacity in the United States could mean the new, highly transmissible coronavirus strain that first emerged in the United Kingdom is already working its way …
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Spain will register those who choose not to get vaccinated, and will share the information with the E.U.
Spain plans to collect and share with other European Union nations information about residents who decide not to get vaccinated for Covid-19, the country’s health minister said on Monday. Spain’s …
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In the opening moments of Netflix’s new comedy special Death to 2020, Samuel L. Jackson, playing a jaded veteran reporter named Dash Bracket, asks the fictional filmmakers what their fictional …
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PHOENIX (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was hit with several lawsuits Monday for allegedly covering up decades of sexual abuse among Boy Scout troops in …
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President-elect Joe Biden accused Trump loyalists at national security agencies of throwing up roadblocks to a smooth presidential transition and warned that adversaries could take advantage of the situation without …
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MOSCOW: Russia’s prison service on Monday gave Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a last minute ultimatum: Fly back from Germany at once and report at a Moscow office early on Tuesday …
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President-elect Joe Biden said on Monday many of America’s security agencies had been “hollowed out” under President Donald Trump and the lack of information being provided to his transition team …
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Containers and trucks at the port of Qingdao, China on February 14, 2019. Reuters BEIJING — China has not fully recovered from the shock of the coronavirus pandemic, business leaders …
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A nurse at the suburban Seattle nursing home that was ravaged by the first U.S. cluster of coronavirus cases sat down beside a visiting pharmacist on Monday, pulled up her …
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The House voted on Monday to override President Donald Trump’s veto of a sweeping $740 billion defense bill that previously passed in both chambers of Congress with veto-proof majorities. Though …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Monday to override President Donald Trump’s veto of a $740 billion defense policy bill, in a rebuke to the president that underscored …
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Millions of Americans are about to see their jobless benefits expire on Saturday as President Donald Trump has so far refused to sign into law a $2.3 trillion pandemic aid …
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In rare, personal comments, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke Monday of his “personal pain” over the “worsening” conflict raging in his home country of Ethiopia. “In addition …
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., September 28, 2020. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The House voted Monday to increase the second round of federal …
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ROME — Pope Francis has stripped the Vatican’s most powerful office of its significant financial assets, the Vatican said Monday, after dubious investments squandered millions of euros in church donations, …
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The House has voted to increase stimulus checks to $2,000. It’s probably dead in the Senate.
The House of Representatives has voted to increase the latest round of Covid-19 stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000. Even though President Donald Trump supports the move, it is unlikely …
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A Republican congressman from Texas has teamed up with Arizona’s would-be GOP electors to sue Vice President Mike Pence in a long-shot effort to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over …
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Europe launched a mass COVID-19 vaccination drive on Sunday with pensioners and medics lining up to get the first shots to see off a pandemic that has crippled economies and …
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D.: A team of prosecutors is waiting for testing results on a piece of debris that may show where the South Dakota Attorney General’s car was when he …