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Egyptian authorities released three prominent human rights advocates on bail after weeks of international pressure, including from the nominee to be the Biden administration’s secretary of state.

Organizers across the state are pushing for large turnout in two runoff races that will determine control of the Senate.

The U.S. government says it will issue a vaccine card and use other tools to help millions of Americans follow through with their immunizations against COVID-19. (Image credit: EJ Hersom/Defense.gov)

Thousands of Yazidis who were in displacement camps in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Region have returned to Sinjar. “It’s a beautiful feeling to be home,” says a Yazidi woman who recently arrived. (Image credit: Jane Arraf/NPR)

Thousands of Yazidis who were in displacement camps in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Region have returned to Sinjar. “It’s a beautiful feeling to be home,” says a Yazidi woman who recently arrived. (Image credit: Jane Arraf/NPR)

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is sounding a more optimistic tone about the chances for an end of the year COVID-19 relief package, telling reporters “there has been some movement this week.”

The official serving as President Donald Trump’s eyes and ears at the Justice Department has been banned from the building after trying to pressure staffers to give up sensitive case information she could relay to the White House.

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The president worries about persecution from Democrats when he is out of office. Critics say he is trying to help cronies — and maybe himself — escape accountability. (Image credit: Evan Vucci/AP)

The Bangladesh government is moving thousands of Rohingya refugees to a remote island in the coming days – despite human rights groups’ calls to stop the process.