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Brazil enjoys fun in the sun as COVID-19 deaths top 200,000
SAO PAULO - The night before New Year's Eve in Rio de Janeiro, thousands of revelers clad in their bathing suits crowded onto the iconic Ipanema beach to have some seaside drinks. It was one of many o...
Jan 07, 2021
Iowa governor, aides appear in PR video for no-bid vendor
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Iowa's governor and four aides helped make a marketing video for a Utah company that was awarded no-bid contracts for work on the coronavirus pandemic, a move that has raised allegat...
Jan 07, 2021
Social platforms flex their power, lock down Trump accounts
After years of treating President Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric with a light touch, Facebook and Instagram are silencing his social media accounts for the rest of his presidency. The move, whic...
Jan 07, 2021
Kim vows to improve ties with outside world at party meeting
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un underscored the need to drastically improve his nation's ties with the outside world as he addressed a major political conference for the th...
Jan 07, 2021
Mexico leader condemns Twitter, Facebook for blocking Trump
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's president on Thursday condemned the decision by social media platforms to block the accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump. President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador at the same time...
Jan 07, 2021
Publisher drops book by Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley
NEW YORK - A planned book by Sen. Josh Hawley, who objected to President-elect Joe Biden's win and backed baseless claims that the election was stolen, has been cancelled by its publisher in the wake ...
Jan 07, 2021
Black leaders cheer Georgia success, push for more progress
What started as a day of celebration for Black organizers, voters and other Georgians who helped deliver two historic Senate runoff victories was overshadowed Wednesday when a violent, mostly white mo...
Jan 07, 2021
Trump finally concedes - amid talk of ouster from office
WASHINGTON - With 13 days left in his term, President Donald Trump finally bent to reality on Thursday amid growing talk of trying to force him out early, acknowledging he'll peacefully leave after Co...
Jan 07, 2021
Conservative media decry Capitol riot, but grievances remain
NEW YORK - Media outlets that appeal to conservatives offered condemnations, explanations and deflections following the U.S. Capitol riot by President Donald Trump's supporters, but little introspecti...
Jan 07, 2021
Neil Sheehan, Pentagon Papers reporter, Vietnam author, dies
WASHINGTON - Neil Sheehan, a reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who broke the story of the Pentagon Papers for The New York Times and who chronicled the deception at the heart of the Vietnam W...
Jan 07, 2021