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Northwestern scientist who wrote anti-Semitic and racist tweets dies by suicide

Bart van Alphen, a postdoctoral fellow, recently denied he was a white supremacist and apologized for the “distress, fear and anger” his comments caused

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IDF: Palestinian shot and killed after trying to infiltrate West Bank farm

Man apparently got into fight with local resident before being shot by another person, no other injuries reported

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People getting COVID twice may be ‘far more common than we imagined’, doctor says

People may be able to catch COVID-19 twice and suffer two completely separate bouts of the disease within just four months, doctors have said.

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Angry Republican leaders float removing Trump from office – CNN

Angry Republican leaders float removing Trump from office  CNN Trump’s Speech Helped Set Violence at the Capitol in Motion  The New York Times ‘He screwed the country’: Trump loyalty disintegrates  POLITICO Trump’s Coup Was Born Online  The Atlantic View Full Coverage on Google News

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Donald Trump resigns from SAG-AFTRA: Read his full letter, actors’ guild’s response – USA TODAY

Donald Trump resigns from SAG-AFTRA: Read his full letter, actors’ guild’s response  USA TODAY

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From Jail, Alexei Navalny Urges Russians to Overcome Their Fear and ‘Free’ the Country

MOSCOW — In a note from jail, opposition leader Alexei Navalny urged Russians Thursday to overcome their fear and “free” the country from a “bunch of thieves,” while the Kremlin cast the arrests of thousands of protesters as a due

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Horned US Capitol stormer moved to Virginia jail for organic meals

Self-proclaimed QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley has been refusing to eat in DC lockup, saying organic food part of his ‘shamanic belief system and way of life’

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Biden Signals Break With Trump Foreign Policy in a Wide-Ranging State Dept. Speech

The president said that he would end support for Saudi Arabia in its intervention in Yemen and that the U.S. would no longer be “rolling over in the face of Russia’s aggressive actions.”

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U.S. Coronavirus Deaths surpass 450,000 With the Daily Toll Still Stubbornly High

Coronavirus deaths in the United States surpassed 450,000 on Thursday, and daily deaths remain stubbornly high at more than 3,000 a day, despite falling infections and the arrival of multiple vaccines. Infectious disease specialists expect deaths to start dropping soon,

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Been Kicked Off Her Committees by the Democratic-Led House

WASHINGTON — A fiercely divided House tossed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off both her committees Thursday, an unprecedented punishment that Democrats said she’d earned by spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories. Underscoring the political vise her inflammatory commentary has clamped

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