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Myanmar Blocks Facebook Access After Online Protests of Military Coup

Images of people banging pots and pans or making a three-finger salute from “The Hunger Games” were used to show opposition.

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Republicans test the precise meaning of Joe Biden’s talk of unity

The president has ten Republican votes in the Senate for a sizeable stimulus. Does he want them?

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‘We Know Our Stories Matter.’ Brit Bennett, Jasmine Guillory and Jacqueline Woodson Discuss the Importance of Fiction

Black women have been honoring and lifting our voices, sharing our strengths, broadening our revolutionary scope since we got here. We tell stories that come through our hair and our hips, our shoulders and our ride-or-die stride as we walk

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‘Unity With Purpose.’ Amanda Gorman and Michelle Obama Discuss Art, Identity and Optimism

Amanda Gorman captivated the world when she read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ Jan. 20 Inauguration ceremony. Sitting just feet away from the 22-year-old that day was former First Lady Michelle

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More countries taking repression outside borders: report

The murder of a Saudi journalist in Turkey, the US detention of a Russian asylum applicant and the abduction of a China-born Swedish citizen from Thailand all have one thing in common. All three represent a sharp increase in countries

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The U.S. and China Are Battling for Influence in Latin America, and the Pandemic Has Raised the Stakes

When Alex Almeida surveys his family farm in a rural corner of landlocked Paraguay, he sees mainly fields, punctuated by small houses with sheet-metal roofs and, in the distance, native lapacho trees blooming with bright yellow flowers. But despite the

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Wuhan lab denies it leaked COVID as WHO team probes virus origin

There was no accidental leakage of disease from a Chinese laboratory with a history of studying coronaviruses, an international team investigating the origins of COVID-19 has been told.

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Donald Trump’s backers failed to take down Liz Cheney. But the GOP’s ‘civil war’ is nowhere near over. – USA TODAY

Donald Trump’s backers failed to take down Liz Cheney. But the GOP’s ‘civil war’ is nowhere near over.  USA TODAY House Republican leader punts on punishing Marjorie Taylor Greene as Democrats move toward removing her from committees  CNN House GOP holds critical

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Donald Trump’s backers failed to take down Liz Cheney. But the GOP’s ‘civil war’ is nowhere near over. – USA TODAY

Donald Trump’s backers failed to take down Liz Cheney. But the GOP’s ‘civil war’ is nowhere near over.  USA TODAY Donald Trump takes up a post-presidency hobby: revenge  The Guardian QAnon fight, impeachment fallout expose Republicans’ post-Trump rift  NBC News Trump Is Gone,

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