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Israel on Sunday announced plans to vaccinate tens of thousands of Palestinians who work inside Israel and its West Bank settlements, at a time of vast disparities in access to vaccines between the …
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By JOSEF FEDERMAN
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2/28/21
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A Louisiana State Police trooper has been suspended without pay for kicking and dragging a handcuffed Black man whose in-custody death remains unexplained and the subject of a federal civil rights …
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By JIM MUSTIAN
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2/27/21
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FEB. 20 - 26, 2021
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from around the world.
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2/27/21
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The newest pledges by countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions are falling far short of what's needed to limit global warming to what the Paris climate accord seeks, a new United Nations report …
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By SETH BORENSTEIN
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2/26/21
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South Korea administered its first available shots of coronavirus vaccines to people at long-term care facilities Friday, launching a mass immunization that health authorities hope will restore some …
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2/25/21
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In one corner sponsors, many household names like Airbnb, Coca-Cola, Visa, Toyota, Samsung, and General Electric. Together they pay at least $1 billion to the International Olympic Committee, and in …
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By STEPHEN WADE
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2/25/21
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How would COVID-19 vaccine makers adapt to variants?
By tweaking their vaccines, a process that should be easier than coming up with the original shots.
Viruses constantly mutate as they …
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By The Associated Press
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2/25/21
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It’s been more than three years since the #MeToo movement launched a culture-shifting conversation about sexual violence. But Tarana Burke, the activist who gave the movement its name, says …
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By JOCELYN NOVECK
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2/24/21
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Facebook, following in Google's footsteps, says it to "support the news industry” over the next three years.
The social networking giant, which over a law that would make social platforms pay …
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By TALI ARBEL
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2/24/21
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A real-world test of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in more than half a million people confirms that it’s very effective at preventing serious illness or death, even after one dose.
Wednesday’s …
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By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
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2/24/21
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As the coronavirus pandemic exploded worldwide last April, global organizations banded together to help ensure that the world's most vulnerable people would get vaccines amid the rush for shots. The …
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By MARIA CHENG
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2/24/21
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Nasser Banyameen speaks about his hometown of Qaraqosh in the historical heartland of Iraqi Christianity with nostalgia. Before Islamic State group fighters swept through the Nineveh Plains in …
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By MARIAM FAM
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2/24/21
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Police officers shown on body camera on a city street last winter until he stopped breathing will not face criminal charges, according to a grand jury decision announced Tuesday.
The 41-year-old …
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By MICHAEL HILL and CAROLYN THOMPSON
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2/23/21
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The Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee voted Tuesday to oust four of its churches, two over policies deemed to be too inclusive of LGBTQ people and two more for employing pastors …
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By DAVID CRARY
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2/23/21
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The U.S. stood Sunday at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus.
A year into the pandemic, the running total of lives lost was about 498,000 — roughly the …
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By JOHN RABY
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2/21/21
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FEB. 13 - 19, 2021
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from around the world.
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2/19/21
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This week’s killer freeze in the U.S. was no surprise.
Government and private meteorologists saw it coming, some nearly three weeks in advance. They started sounding warnings two weeks ahead of …
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BY SETH BORENSTEIN
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2/19/21
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For years, Facebook has been in a defensive crouch amid a slew of privacy scandals, antitrust lawsuits and charges that it was letting hate speech and extremism destroy democracy. Early Thursday, …
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By BARBARA ORTUTAY and TALI ARBEL
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2/19/21
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Humans are making Earth a broken and increasingly unlivable planet through climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. So the world must make dramatic changes to society, economics and daily …
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BY SETH BORENSTEIN
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2/18/21
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Life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic caused its first wave of deaths, health officials are …
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By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
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2/18/21
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