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- By Erica L. Green / New York Times
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Jan. 26, 2021
- Updated 2:14 pm
The reminders of pandemic-driven suffering among students in Clark County, Nevada, have come in droves, including as text messages alerting school district officials to the latest mental health episode that requires attention.
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- By Alan Feuer and Frances Robles / New York Times
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Jan. 26, 2021
- Updated 3:36 pm
The leadership of the Proud Boys has come under increased scrutiny as agents and prosecutors across the country try to determine how closely members of the far-right nationalist group communicated during the riot at the Capitol this month and to what extent they might have planned the assault in advance, according to federal law enforcement officials.
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- By Mark Landler and Stephen Castle / New York Times
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Jan. 26, 2021
- Updated 1:36 pm
Britain today surpassed 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus, a tragic milestone that laid bare the missteps in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the pandemic, as well as the tough choices he now faces in trying to keep lethal new variants of the virus out of the country.
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- By Katie Robertson / New York Times
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Jan. 26, 2021
- Updated 2:30 pm
Martin Baron, a newsroom giant who led The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Miami Herald to numerous Pulitzer Prizes in a storied journalism career, said today that he would retire Feb. 28 after eight years as The Post’s executive editor.
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- By David Streitfeld and Kristin Hussey / New York Times
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Jan. 26, 2021
- Updated 1:51 pm
Tony Hsieh, who developed Zappos into a billion-dollar internet shoe store and formulated an influential theory about corporate happiness, deliberately locked himself in a shed moments before it was consumed by the fire that would kill him.
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- By Kate Conger / New York Times
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Jan. 26, 2021
- Updated 2:27 pm
Twitter said today that it had acquired an email newsletter service, Revue.
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- By Luke Broadwater, Emily Cochrane and Adam Goldman / New York Times
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Jan. 26, 2021
- Updated 11:55 am
The acting chief of the Capitol Police apologized to Congress today for the agency’s massive security failures Jan. 6, acknowledging during a closed-door briefing that the department knew there was a “strong potential for violence” but failed to take adequate steps to prevent what she described as a “terrorist attack.”
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- By Associated Press
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Jan. 25, 2021
The patter of paws is being heard in the White House again following the arrival of President Joe Biden’s dogs Champ and Major. The two German shepherds are the first pets to live at the executive mansion since the Obama administration.
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- By Associated Press
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Jan. 25, 2021
Five days into her new role, Jill Biden signaled today that she’ll be a more active first lady, with a trio of virtual appearances before governors’ spouses, young Latinos and library officials.
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- By Associated Press
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Jan. 25, 2021
Biden press secretary Jen Psaki said today that the Treasury Department is taking steps to resume efforts to put the 19th-century abolitionist leader on the $20 bill. Obama administration Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had selected Tubman to replace Andrew Jackson, the nation’s seventh president, on the $20 bill.
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- By Nellie Bowles / New York Times
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Jan. 23, 2021
The Bay Area’s latest tech era is ending for a growing crowd of tech workers and their companies. They have suddenly movable jobs and money in the bank — money that will go plenty further somewhere else.
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- By Associated Press
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Jan. 23, 2021
People following a violent movement that promotes a second U.S. civil war or the breakdown of modern society have been showing up at recent protests across the nation armed and wearing tactical gear. But the anti-government “boogaloo” movement has adopted an unlikely public and online symbol: the so-called Aloha shirt.
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- By Associated Press
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Jan. 23, 2021
Mexico will start vaccinating teachers and other school personnel in Campeche, one of the country’s 32 states this weekend with an eye toward resuming in-person classes there as early as late next month, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday, Jan. 22.
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- By Associated Press
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Jan. 23, 2021
Democrats plan to move quickly on one of the first bills of the new Congress, which would set federal election standards. The For the People Act would require states to offer early voting, same-day registration and the option of absentee voting for all registered voters.
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- By Associated Press
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Jan. 23, 2021
A look at how the country Biden now leads has changed over his lifetime and how his presidency might reflect that.
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- By Associated Press
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Jan. 23, 2021
Dave Chappelle tested positive for the coronavirus just before his comedy show scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 21, forcing his upcoming appearances to be canceled, a spokeswoman said.
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- By Associated Press
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Jan. 22, 2021
The confrontation highlights Australia’s leading role in the global movement to push back against the outsize influence of U.S. tech giants over the news business.
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- By Associated Press
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Jan. 22, 2021
Paul Chavez had no idea where a sculpture of his father, Latino American civil rights and labor leader Cesar Chavez, would end up in the White House.
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- By Associated Press
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Jan. 22, 2021
Saying, “The Biden’s are a National Guard family,” first lady Jill Biden greets members of the National Guard with chocolate chip cookies at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
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- By Associated Press
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Jan. 22, 2021
Texas today moved to stop President Joe Biden from allowing a 100-day moratorium on deportations, bringing one of the first lawsuits against his new administration.
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- By Associated Press
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Jan. 22, 2021
Yosemite National Park will remain closed through the weekend after high winds that battered much of California knocked down two giant sequoias and caused millions of dollars in damage.
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