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Mark Kelly sworn into Senate for Arizona, narrowing GOP edge

Husband of former Jewish congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who survived assassination attempt, gives Democrats 48 seats in upper chamber

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Leifer case to come before Supreme Court for what could be final time

Top legal body set to hear appeal of lower court ruling to extradite former principal wanted in Australia on 74 charges of child sex abuse

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Twitter now supports hardware security keys for iPhones and Android

Twitter said Wednesday that accounts protected with a hardware security key can now log in from their iPhone or Android device. The social media giant rolled out support for hardware security keys in 2018, allowing users to add a physical

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Putin orders ‘large-scale’ COVID-19 vaccination in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a “large-scale” COVID-19 immunization campaign to start by late next week. Putin said that doctors and teachers set to be first in line to get a Russian-designed vaccine named Sputnik V.

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Helping big banks out-Affirm Affirm and out-Chime Chime, gives Amount a $681 million valuation

Amount, a new service that helps traditional banks compete in a digital world, has raised $81 million from none other than Goldman Sachs as it looks to help legacy fintech players compete with their more nimble digital counterparts. The company,

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Government-Controlled Media In Eastern Europe Promote Claims Of Stolen U.S. Election

As Eastern European nationalists prepare for life after President Trump, the media they control are promoting false claims that Joe Biden’s victory was rigged.

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U.K. Authorizes Coronavirus Vaccine

The U.K. is the first Western country to authorize experimental use of a major coronavirus vaccine. The U.K. health minister says the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine will be available next week.

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Afghan Government And Taliban Reach Breakthrough To Proceed With Peace Talks

The two sides have agreed on a way forward for substantive negotiations aimed at ending decades of almost continuous war in the country, representatives said in near-twin tweets. (Image credit: Hussein Sayed/AP)

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The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has just been approved in the United Kingdom

The UK has become the first country to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for widespread use. The government has ordered 40 million doses and the first batch of 800,000 doses is expected to be shipped from Belgium – where the vaccine

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