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Coronavirus World Map: Tracking The Spread Of The Outbreak

A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed at least 1 million globally. (Image credit: Connie Hanzhang Jin/NPR)

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Cory Booker and Tiffany Muller: How the Next Congress Can Improve U.S. Elections and Protect Voting Rights

This year, voters across the country faced a myriad of barriers to casting their vote — a global pandemic, a concerted disinformation campaign waged by the President and his allies and amplified by foreign adversaries, shifting deadlines, hours-long wait times

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Blast rips through Yemen’s Aden airport as new cabinet members land

No reports of casualties among the government delegation but officials say they saw bodies on the ground

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Ohio Senator Brown Joins Sanders in Delaying Senate Holiday Over $2K Stimulus Checks – Newsweek

Ohio Senator Brown Joins Sanders in Delaying Senate Holiday Over $2K Stimulus Checks  Newsweek McConnell moves to combine Trump asks in potential ‘poison pill’ for stimulus checks  CNN McConnell blocks $2,000 stimulus checks, then ties them to unrelated Trump demands on tech

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Israel officially scraps hotel quarantine requirement for returning travelers

Israelis may now self-isolate at home if tested for COVID-19 at airport; Health Ministry says 14 infected people were on flight from Dubai

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Like a spy in the night: What the press is saying on December 30

Jonathan Pollard’s middle of the night arrival is met with a modicum of excitement from most. Now the question is what’s next for him, and for Netanyahu

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Congress injects a further $900bn of stimulus into the American economy

Donald Trump has managed to make himself peripheral to the biggest legislative acts of his presidency

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Ten injured and 26 missing after landslide in Norway

Ten people have been wounded and 26 are missing after a landslide in southern Norway, police said.

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Jonathan Pollard, Who Spent 30 Years In U.S. Prison, Arrives In Israel

Ex-Navy analyst Jonathan Pollard, who was imprisoned for three decades after pleading guilty to spying for Israel, arrived in Israel a month after the Justice Department allowed his parole to expire.

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Vetting panel approves appointment of Yaakov Shabtai as new police chief

Shabtai’s candidacy now awaits an okay from the cabinet to become official

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