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FILE – In this March 4, 2020, file photo Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley testifies to Senate Armed Services Committee about the budget on Capitol Hill in Washington. President-elect Joe Biden will inherit Milley as his senior
This satellite photo combo provided Sunday Jan. 17, 2021 by Planet Labs, Inc. shows the destruction of U.N. World Food Program warehouses at the Shimelba refugee camp in Ethiopia’s Tigray region on Jan. 5, 2021, bottom center left, and before it was
Supporters of leading opposition challenger Bobi Wine cheer as election officials count the ballots after polls closed in Kampala, Uganda, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. Ugandans voted in a presidential election tainted by widespread violence that some fear could escalate as security forces
The campaign is unfolding in India, a country that has reported more than 10 million coronavirus infections. — NYT: Top Stories
FILE – In this Dec. 23, 2020 file photo, a woman participates in a protest against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s handling of the new coronavirus pandemic in Brazilia, Brazil. The country hasn’t approved a single vaccine yet, and independent health experts who
Friday: The New York State’s vaccine rollout is not going smoothly. — NYT: Top Stories
A bus in New York City which careened off a road in the Bronx neighborhood of New York is left dangling from an overpass Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, after a crash late Thursday that left the driver in serious condition, police said.
Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda returned to Mexico last year after the Department of Justice abruptly dropped drug-trafficking and corruption charges. — NYT: Top Stories
Dr. David Kessler, who helped speed the development and approval of AIDS drugs in the 1990s, will become the top science official at Operation Warp Speed. — NYT: Top Stories