Abuja, Nigeria At least seven people were killed in a Boko Haram attack on the majority-Christian village of Pemi in Nigeria’s Borno state on Christmas Eve, a local official said.
Biden announces Rachel Levine as pick for assistant secretary at HHS, would be first transgender Senate-confirmed federal official
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President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Dr. Rachel Levine to serve as assistant health secretary, and she would make history as the first out, transgender federal official to be confirmed by the United States Senate...
Trump to lift Covid-19 related travel restrictions before he leaves office, White House official says
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President Donald Trump is expected to lift coronavirus-related travel restrictions starting on January 26, nearly a week after he leaves office, a White House official said Monday. The White House official said Trum...
The White House’s latest excuse for Trump’s silence on the Capitol attack is the worst yet
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President Donald Trump's egging on of rioters before the storming of the US Capitol -- and his silence as that mob overran the building -- was a deeply injurious moment for the country and a dark mark on his legacy....
Massachusetts might soon have an official state dinosaur. A bunch of other states already do
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We've all heard of state flowers and state birds, but Massachusetts is stepping it up by proposing a state dinosaur. There's already a state fossil (surprisingly enough, dinosaur tracks), but now state Rep. Jack Pat...
Dozens killed, some decapitated, in suspected rebel attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Forty-six people from the ethnic Pygmy group were killed -- some of them decapitated -- on Wednesday in a suspected militant attack in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, according to an NGO official based in th...
Bus is dangling from New York overpass after accident that left at least seven people injured
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At least seven people, including the bus driver, were injured after a bus crashed through a overpass barrier in New York City's Bronx area, according to the New York Police Department. The tandem bus is now danglin...
Ex-Obama official who helped fix botched healthcare.gov rollout to join Biden’s Covid-19 team
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Andy Slavitt, the former acting chief of Medicare and Medicaid under the Obama administration, is expected to join President-elect Joe Biden's Covid-19 team in a senior advisory role, CNN has learned. Slavitt's ro...
The US Capitol attack fits into the history of White backlash
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Washington A pro-Trump mob in thrall to White supremacy and incited by President Donald Trump laid siege to the US Capitol on January 6. With their Confederate flags and zip ties in hand, rioters sought to overturn t...
Investigation into Capitol attack is unprecedented in scope, Justice Department says
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Federal investigators are chasing thousands of leads in twin efforts to prosecute people involved in last week's attack on the US Capitol and to try to prevent feared follow-up attacks in Washington and around the c...
Gunman kills at least 3 in multiple shootings in Illinois, police say
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A gunman killed at least three people and wounded several others in a series of shootings in the Chicago area Saturday before being shot and killed by police, authorities said. Chicago Police Superintendent David Br...
10 tips for talking to your kids about the attack on the US Capitol
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Dr. Neha Chaudhary is a double board-certified child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and cofounder of Brainstorm, Stanford's Lab for Mental Health Innov...
New Zealand woman, 19, dies after suspected shark attack
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A 19-year-old woman died Thursday after a suspected shark attack in New Zealand's North Island. According to local police, the woman was injured while in the waters off Waihī Beach late on Thursday afternoon, and di...