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Approximately a third of U.S. military servicemembers are declining the COVID-19 vaccine, a Pentagon official told a Congressional panel on Wednesday.

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DALLAS—As a historic winter storm raged across Texas over the weekend, Akilah Scott-Amos received an alarming message from her power company: Please switch services because “prices are about to explode.”

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Former President Donald Trump called into Fox News on Wednesday to break his weeks-long media silence and pay tribute to Rush Limbaugh, who died at 70. And of course, the disgraced ex-president found the time to peddle the lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him.

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Keith Gill, the Massachusetts financial educator turned basement YouTuber turned Reddit folk hero for his early investment in GameStop before a massive surge—and subsequent drop—in the company’s stock, is being sued in a class-action suit.

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Rush Limbaugh was a college dropout when he began his combustible radio career, repeatedly losing gigs as a deejay and news-talk host; he spent much of 1974 jobless and living in his parents’ basement in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investing $200 million in a new genome-sequencing pilot program to ramp up surveillance of COVID-19 variants, the administration announced Wednesday. The move comes months after the mutated viruses began spreading overseas—months in which the U.S. was “flying blind,” according to one expert.

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International pressure was building Wednesday on the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to provide a full accounting of his daughter Princess Latifa’s health and whereabouts.

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Atlantic City just got a little bit less Trumpy. On Wednesday morning, the old Trump Plaza building in the heart of the Jersey Shore destination—once the jewel of Trump’s casino empire—got blown to bits.

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Editor’s note: Jim Bell is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and has worked on a number of Mars missions. On Feb. 18, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will be arriving at the red planet, and hopefully will place the Perseverance Rover on the surface. Bell is the primary investigator leading a team in charge of one of the camera systems on Perseverance. We spoke with him for The Conversation’s new podcast, The Conversation Weekly.

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ABUJA, Nigeria—Since the start of the year, Zimbabwe's oldest cemetery has been extremely busy. Gravediggers are having to dig over a dozen graves on a daily basis at the Warren Hills Cemetery in the capital, Harare, as the number of deaths from coronavirus continue to grow at disturbing rates.

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On Presidents’ Day, hundreds gathered on a Florida street corner with flags and signs. But they weren’t there to celebrate the current democratically elected president, nor American presidents in general. The crowd was dedicating the holiday to Donald Trump, the twice-impeached political exile who passed through the demonstrators in his motorcade and flashed a thumbs-up.

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In successful organizations, the cream rises to the top. In dysfunctional ones, something else floats to the surface. Nowhere has this been clearer than in the Republican Party, which has in the past several weeks yet again demonstrated that it has handed over control to the worst of its members. It is now the party led by and for thugs, terrorists, racists, and dopes.

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Taylor Torres of San Antonio had an understandable reaction when she awoke in total darkness at 3 a.m. on Tuesday while sick with COVID and still without power in 12 degree weather.

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“In 1970, the Band were really at the peak of their fame,” Sandra Tooze, author of a new biography of the group’s irascible drummer, says of the period when the Band were making their third album Stage Fright. “They’d just been on the cover of TIME magazine, but they really didn’t like fame. Levon [Helm], especially, wanted to be appreciated when he was onstage, but when he was offstage, he just wanted to live like a regular guy. And there were all these people around plying them with drugs... Читать дальше...

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You might be surprised to learn this, but the Capitol riot was actually all Democrat Nancy Pelosi’s fault. Yes, you might think this is completely insane, and that’s because it is. But despite its complete insanity, some Republican elected officials have decided that the real guilty party isn’t the ex-president who shopped the Big Lie, tweeted about violence, and gave an incendiary speech that morning at the “Stop the Steal” rally.

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President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser has vowed to put “solving the climate crisis at the center of creating jobs.” But during the three years he spent in charge of “sustainability” at the world’s largest investment firm, the company increased its holdings tied to deforestation.

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Vivian Kubrick, the reclusive daughter of legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and the director of a making-of documentary on his movie The Shining, has been accused of “spreading anti-Semitic conspiracies,” anti-vax propaganda, and violent far-right memes on Twitter.

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For Teresita Batayola, landing doses of the COVID vaccine for her Seattle clinic is like chasing tickets to a hot concert or winning a golden ticket. She also put the hunt for vaccinations in starker terms: “We have people referring to this as The Hunger Games.”

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DALLAS—Millions are without power in the Lone Star State as local and state government officials struggle to respond to the most devastating winter storm in over 100 years.

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Jimmy Kimmel returned from the holiday weekend on Tuesday night to weigh in on the surprisingly dramatic, if ultimately anti-climactic conclusion to Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial.

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In the weeks since his inauguration, President Joe Biden has publicly taken on the role of reassurer-in-chief, telling Americans that the long-promised solution to the coronavirus pandemic and the rebuilding of the nation’s economy are on their way.

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MSNBC host Chris Hayes blasted Fox News and right-wing media for falsely blaming wind turbines as the root cause of the debilitating power outages plaguing Texas, accusing “these charlatans” on Tuesday of pushing “painful culture war idiocy” in an effort to demonize clean energy.

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Another year, another reminder that white privilege still exists in America.

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Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers say their client is being abused in prison and that she is “a shell of her former self” as a result of her incarceration.

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