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An elite panel of world leaders has called out China for its bungled coronavirus response and is vowing to shore up the fledgling ‘global pandemic alert system’ by May

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World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Fabrice COFFRINI/Getty Images A group of world leaders tasked with leading a ...

Cuomo asked Pfizer to sell its COVID-19 vaccine directly to New York, as the head of the WHO warns of mounting inequities in vaccine distribution

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked Pfizer on Monday to sell its coronavirus vaccine directly to his state. Spencer Platt/Getty ...

Trump is planning to sneak away to Florida instead of attending the Biden inauguration, FAA data reveals

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President Donald Trump boarding Air Force One. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP President Donald Trump appears to be heading south to Mar-a-Lago ...

The man accused of breaking the window Ashli Babbitt tried to climb through when she was shot during the Capitol insurrection has been arrested

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Riots at the US Capitol Building. Michael Nigro/Pacific Press:LightRocket/Getty Chad Barrett Jones, 42, of Coxs Creek, Kentucky, was arrested in ...

Mobile ad tech firm Pocketmath shuts down

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Hi! Welcome to the Insider Advertising daily for January 19. I’m Lauren Johnson, a senior advertising reporter at Business Insider. ...

LA County has suspended air-quality regulations that limit the number of cremations as it handles a ‘backlog’ of bodies from the pandemic

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In this Jan. 12, 2020 file photo, provided by the LA County Dept. of Medical Examiner-Coroner Elizabeth “Liz” Napoles, right, ...

Tell us what Kamala Harris making history as vice president means to you – and the country

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Kamala Harris will be sworn in as vice president on Wednesday. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images On Wednesday, Kamala Harris will make ...

Fox News required its settlement with the family of killed DNC staffer Seth Rich remain undisclosed until after the 2020 election

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A close-up of the Fox News Channel website with a picture of President Donald Trump displayed on a smartphone. Rafael ...

The Trump administration gave more than $850,000 in PPP loans to prominent anti-vaccine groups

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An anti-vaccination fundraiser. Scott Eisen/Getty Images Top anti-vaccine advocacy groups received PPP funding from the Trump administration, The Washington Post ...

Fauci predicts that people will be able to go back to singing in church by mid-fall, when an ‘overwhelming proportion’ of the US has been vaccinated

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Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock, pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool Church services ...

Coronavirus cases in Israel are finally beginning to decline from record highs after it vaccinated 27% of its population

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A woman prepares to receive a Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine from medical personnel at a vaccination center in Jerusalem Ilia Yefimovich/picture ...

The US Capitol complex was briefly locked down after a fire broke out at a nearby homeless encampment

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Barbed wire, is seen atop security fencing, with the dome of the U.S. Capitol Building on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021 ...

All 4 nurses in a Kansas county’s health department refused to give out COVID-19 vaccines

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Pharmacies are finding themselves with leftover coronavirus vaccines, meaning some people can score a shot early with the planning. Jessica ...

A record $3.7 billion in Bitcoin options are set to expire on January 29 as interest in cryptocurrencies surges

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The Bitcoin price has risen more than 300% in a year, driving people towards options and other products KTSDESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO ...

I’m a butler for wealthy NYC families who earns a six-figure salary and has lots of time to see my kids. From checking for dust with a flashlight to taking wine cellar inventory, this is what my job is like.

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Stanley (not his real name) has been a professional butler and house manager for 12 years. Courtesy photo Stanley (not ...

A Texas real-estate agent who flew on a private jet to join the Capitol riot has asked Trump for a pardon, saying she was only following his orders

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Jenna Ryan speaking to local news after returning to Texas from the Capitol riot. CBS 11 Texas real-estate agent Jenna ...

Health officials slam Walgreens and CVS for ‘fiasco’ vaccine rollout to nursing homes

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Vera Leip, 88, receives a Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at the John Knox Village Continuing Care Retirement Community on December 16, ...

Jamie Lynn Spears called Tesla’s quiet engines a ‘secret cat-killer’ and said Elon Musk ‘owes’ her some new pets, before walking back her comments in since-deleted posts

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Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk and actress Jamie Lynn Spears. Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images, John Shearer/WireImage via Getty Images Actor Jamie Lynn ...

Trump memoir opposed by hundreds of editors, writers, and agents, who have signed an open letter opposing one.

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Donald Trump signs copies of his book, “Crippled America: How to Make Our Country Great Again”, at Trump Tower on ...

Former Trump campaign staffers helped organize the rally that led to the deadly Capitol riot, records show, despite the campaign’s repeated claims it wasn’t involved

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President Donald Trump speaking at a rally before the Capitol riot. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images Some former staffers on President Donald ...

Watch a Virgin Orbit rocket successfully launch from beneath the wing of a Boeing 747, marking the latest entrant to the commercial space race

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“Cosmic Girl” departed from California’s Mojave Air and Space Port, carrying a LauncherOne rocket under its wing Patrick T. Fallon/AFP ...

Parler attracted senior members of the UK government before it shut down, according to reports

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US futures and European stocks slip as concerns over economic recovery surface, while robust China GDP lifts Asian markets

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Thomson Reuters US and European stocks dipped on Monday, while Asian stocks got a boost from solid China GDP. The ...

‘Investment in the future’: Credit Suisse creating a scholarship for NC HBCU students

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“We think systemic problems require systemic solutions,” Credit Suisse says in launching an endowments to create scholarships for students to ...

‘Investment in the future’: Credit Suisse creating a scholarship for NC HBCU students

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“We think systemic problems require systemic solutions,” Credit Suisse says in launching an endowments to create scholarships for students to ...

Goldman Sachs lifts US GDP forecast to 6.6% in 2021 on Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package

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Eric Thayer/Reuters Goldman Sachs raised its US GDP forecast to 6.6% on Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan. Bank economists ...

10 things in tech you need to know today

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Apple’s CEO Tim Cook. Karl Mondon/Digital First Media/The Mercury News via Getty Images Good morning! This is the tech news ...

The FBI is investigating whether a woman stole a laptop from Pelosi’s office to sell it to Russia, after receiving a tip from someone claiming to be her ex

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sanitizes the gavel after Vice President Mike Pence walked off the dais during a joint session ...

A new coronavirus variant has been tied to at least 90 infections in a deadly outbreak at a medical center in San Jose, California

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Co-director of the intensive care unit at CommonSpirit’s Dignity Health-California Hospital Medical Center, Dr. Zafia Anklesaria, attends to a COVID-19 ...