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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global

PLAINS OF UR, Iraq — Pope Francis and Iraq’s top Shiite cleric delivered a powerful message of peaceful coexistence Saturday, urging Muslims in the war-weary Arab nation to embrace Iraq’s long-beleaguered Christian minority during a historic meeting in the holy

Amanda Gorman, who became a sensation after her poem at Joe Biden’s inauguration, says a security guard told her she looked “suspicious.” (Image credit: Win McNamee/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

‘This Is The Reality Of Black Girls’: Inauguration Poet Says She Was Tailed By Guard  NPR Amanda Gorman Says Security Guard Confronted Her, Saying She Looked ‘Suspicious’  The New York Times Poet Amanda Gorman says she was profiled by security outside her

The pandemic has disrupted international trade, driving up the cost of shipping goods and adding a fresh challenge to the global economic recovery.

Senate moves forward with stimulus bill “vote-a-rama” after nearly 12 hours of stalemate  CBS News Senate slogs through overnight series of votes to push Biden’s Covid relief plan  CNN Compromises being made to pass $1.9 trillion COVID bill  Yahoo News Coronavirus relief bill

New York AG sends notice to Cuomo to preserve documents in sexual harassment probe  NBC News Joe Concha: Cuomo nursing home scandal now has a ‘follow-the-money-angle’  Fox News Bill to repeal Cuomo’s emergency executive powers reaches governor’s desk  CNN Pride, and publication, go

These states are rolling back Covid restrictions, including mask mandates and indoor capacity caps  NBC News Resisting pressure, Alabama governor extends mask order  Fox News Many businesses plan on keeping mask mandate after April 9  WHNT News 19 EDITORIAL: Continue to mask up,

Full text of Trump statement on ‘out of control’ immigration, border security  Boston Herald Trump tears into Biden for ‘spiraling tsunami’ at the border, amid spike in migrant numbers  Fox News U.S. detained nearly 100,000 migrants at Mexico border in February, sources

At work every day, Agnes Boisvert attends to ICU patients “gasping for air” and dying from COVID-19. But communicating that harsh reality to her skeptical community has been a challenge. (Image credit: Isabel Seliger for NPR)