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    Capitol Insurrection Updates
    Rioters storm the Capitol on Jan. 6. Three individuals associated with an extremist group were indicted Wednesday on charges that include conspiracy and obstructing an official proceeding.
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    3 People From Extremist 'Oath Keepers' Indicted On Capitol Riot Conspiracy Charges

    Jan 27, 2021
    Those indicted have ties to what the Justice Department calls "a paramilitary organization focused on recruitment of current and former military, law enforcement, and first responder personnel."
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    Business
    Boeing is reporting a loss of $8.4 billion in the fourth quarter on weaker demand for planes during the pandemic.
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    Pandemic Piles On Already Reeling Boeing, Leading To Nearly $12 Billion Loss In 2020

    Jan 27, 2021
    The airplane manufacturer was already struggling to fix design flaws in the grounded 737 Max when the pandemic all but froze demand for new aircraft.
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    National
    California's first surgeon general, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, is sworn in by Gov. Gavin Newsom in February 2019. A leading voice on health care equity, she's helping shape the state's vaccination makeover following its rocky start.
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    COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution: How High-Tech California Is Now Trying To Fix It

    Jan 27, 2021
    The nation's most populous state says it's pivoting fast following a chaotic and inefficient county-based rollout of the vaccine. Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris tells NPR about the do-over.
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    Biden Transition Updates
    The Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin warning of a continued threat from domestic violent extremists "with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition."
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    DHS Warns Of 'Heightened Threat Environment' From Domestic Violent Extremists

    Jan 27, 2021
    The bulletin did not cite any specific threat but said that the risk of violence will persist for weeks. It warned that some extremists may be "emboldened" by the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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    Music News
    Soca star Alison Hinds of Barbados performs on the inaugural Showdown livestream in October 2020.
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    Showdown, The Caribbean Answer To Verzuz, Is Part Of A Long-Running Musical Exchange

    Jan 27, 2021
    The livestream event debuted in 2020, with two soca stars facing off. Even though Verzuz came first, the American series arguably owes its existence to Caribbean music.
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    Obituaries
    Cloris Leachman, pictured in 1974, seemed game for anything, from playing a creepy housekeeper in Mel Brooks' <em>Young Frankenstein</em> to competing on ABC's <em>Dancing With the Stars.</em>
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    Actress Cloris Leachman, Who Played Both Silly And Serious, Dies At 94

    Jan 27, 2021
    The actress seemed game for anything: She played a heartbroken lover in The Last Picture Show, a creepy housekeeper in Young Frankenstein and even competed on Dancing With the Stars.
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    President Biden Takes Office
    Linda Thomas-Greenfield appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on her nomination to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations, Wednesday.
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    Biden's Pick For U.N. Ambassador Faces Tough Questioning For Past Remarks On China

    Jan 27, 2021
    Linda Thomas-Greenfield was grilled by members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about a speech she gave at a Chinese-backed institution on the campus of Savannah State University in 2019.
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    Obituaries
    Billye Aaron listens during "A Celebration of Henry Louis Aaron," a memorial service celebrating the life and enduring legacy of the late Hall of Famer and American icon at Truist Park in Atlanta.
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    Funeral For Hank Aaron: The 'Marvel From Mobile' Is Honored In Atlanta

    Jan 27, 2021
    Even before Hank Aaron set foot on the field or got a hit in Atlanta, said former Mayor Andrew Young, he "changed this city" for the better.
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    National
    A U.S. census worker sits in the plaza of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City in September. The Census Bureau announced Wednesday that the first results of the 2020 census are expected to be released by April 30.
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    Census Numbers For Dividing Up House Seats Delayed Until April 30, Bureau Says

    Jan 27, 2021
    The 2020 census results used to determine representation in Congress and the Electoral College for the next decade will likely be released four months late, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Wednesday.
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    Capitol Insurrection Updates
    Supporters of former President Donald Trump clash with police and security forces on Jan. 6 as people try to storm the U.S. Capitol.
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    'Unconscionable': Capitol Police Union Says Leadership Failed Officers In Riot

    Jan 27, 2021
    The union decried leadership's actions as a failure that led directly to the harm of its officers.
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    President Biden Takes Office
    NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and then-Vice President Joe Biden talk during the 51st Munich Security Conference in February 2015.
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    Biden Team's Video Of Call With NATO Chief Provides Rare Insight

    Jan 27, 2021
    The conversation is part of a new effort to bring the public closer and share more of the president's work with foreign leaders.
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    Goats and Soda
    Indigenous health care workers treat patients last week at a campaign hospital set up in the Parque das Tribos neighborhood of Manaus, Brazil. Oxygen shortages at hospitals in Brazil's Amazon prompted authorities to airlift patients to other states.
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    Why Scientists Are Very Worried About The Variant From Brazil

    Jan 27, 2021
    They don't yet understand why the coronavirus variant called P.1 has spread so explosively there. Its set of mutations seem especially dangerous. And this week P.1 was confirmed in the U.S.
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    National
    Ty Garbin, one of six defendants charged in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, is shown at the time of his arrest in October. Garbin pleaded guilty to a single count of kidnapping conspiracy.
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    Suspect Pleads Guilty In Plot To Kidnap Michigan Governor, Turns Government Witness

    Jan 27, 2021
    Ty Garbin is one of six far-right extremists charged with conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. In exchange for his conspiracy guilty plea, the government agreed not to bring further charges.
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    Shots - Health News
    Mikkel and Kayla Kjelshus' daughter, Charlie, had a complication during delivery that caused her oxygen levels to drop and put her at risk for brain damage. Charlie needed seven days of neonatal intensive care, which resulted in a huge bill — $207,455
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    'Birthday Rule' Blindsides First-Time Parents With A Mammoth Medical Bill

    Jan 27, 2021
    An insurance regulation known as "the birthday rule" is tripping up couples who are putting their newborn children on the wrong policy and risk losing thousands of dollars.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    A sign noting a retail space is available for lease appears in San Francisco in December. A resurgence in the pandemic likely dealt a major blow to the U.S. economy in the fourth quarter.
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    Down But Not Out: Pandemic Likely Dealt Blow To Economy, But There's Room For Hope

    Jan 27, 2021
    The U.S. economy is likely to have slowed in the last three months of the year, ending 2020 smaller than it began. But for some companies, business is now back to pre-pandemic levels.
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    President Biden Takes Office
    Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, President Biden's nominee for energy secretary, speaks last month in Wilmington, Del.
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    Energy Nominee Jennifer Granholm Stresses Climate Action And Jobs

    Jan 27, 2021
    Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm says "good-paying jobs" can help zero out U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. But some Republicans are skeptical they can help fossil fuel workers.
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    America Reckons With Racial Injustice
    Housing discrimination against communities of color also involves lenders, local zoning laws and other issues, says Andre Perry, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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    Biden's Push Against Housing Discrimination Must Go Beyond HUD, Researcher Says

    Jan 27, 2021
    Andre Perry of Brookings says discrimination against communities of color also involves lenders, zoning laws and other issues in which the Department of Housing and Urban Development is less involved.
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    Technology
    Journalist Jon Fasman says local police departments are increasingly using powerful surveillance tools — with little oversight.
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    Surveillance And Local Police: How Technology Is Evolving Faster Than Regulation

    Jan 27, 2021
    Journalist Jon Fasman says local police are frequently able to access very powerful surveillance tools with little oversight. He writes about the threat to privacy in We See It All.
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    Space
    The first private excursion to the International Space Station includes a crew of former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría (from left) along with Canadian Mark Pathy, American Larry Connor and Israeli Eytan Stibbe.
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    First Private Crew Will Visit Space Station. The Price Tag: $55 Million Each

    Jan 27, 2021
    The astronauts will spend around eight days in orbit in what would be a new step for joint private-public space missions.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    Dr. Anthony Fauci, shown here earlier this month, participated on Wednesday in the Biden administration's coronavirus team's briefing.
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    At Biden Administration's 1st COVID-19 Briefing, A Pledge To Let Scientists Lead

    Jan 27, 2021
    "This is a national emergency. Four hundred thousand people have died. Everything is on the table across the whole supply chain," said Jeffrey Zients, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator.
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    TV Reviews
    <em>The Lady and the Dale</em> tells the true story of Elizabeth Carmichael, an automobile executive who introduced a bold new three-wheel car in the 1970s.
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    'Lady And The Dale,' A 4-Part Series About A 3-Wheeled Car, Is A Wild Ride

    Jan 27, 2021
    HBO's new documentary miniseries tells the story of Elizabeth Carmichael, the auto executive who tried to market a three-wheeled, gas-efficient car at the height of the '70s oil crisis.
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    World
    A Boeing 737 Max airliner is shown at the Boeing Factory in Renton, Wash., in November. European aviation regulators gave the all-clear to return to service following a pair of deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019.
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    Boeing's 737 Max Cleared To Return To European Skies, Regulator Says

    Jan 27, 2021
    The European Union Aviation Safety Agency announced a modified version of the 737 Max will be allowed to fly once again. The Max jetliner was grounded worldwide after two deadly crashes.
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    Politics
    Former CEO of U.S. Agency for Global Media Michael Pack was appointed by President Trump. During his time with the agency, Pack waged ideological warfare on his own agency, targeting his executives and staffers with investigations.
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    Trumpism At Voice Of America: Firings, Foosball And A Conspiracy Theory

    Jan 27, 2021
    Michael Pack's scandal-tarred tenure over Voice of America and its parent agency obscures the human toll of the ideological war he waged: executives fired, staff investigated, reputations shattered.
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    President Biden Takes Office
    A horizontal drilling rig and a pump jack sit on federal land in Lea County, N.M., in September. The state stands to lose royalties and revenue from a Biden administration pause on new oil and gas leases.
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    Biden Hits 'Pause' On Oil And Gas Leasing On Public Lands And Waters

    Jan 27, 2021
    The move is one of his more controversial campaign promises, and industry groups say they will sue. But it won't have much immediate impact on driving down climate-warming emissions.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Chicago Teachers Union leaders appear outside City Hall with a list of their demands and a box of coal in December. As of Tuesday, the union has failed to reach an agreement with Chicago Public Schools on a return to in-person learning.
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    Don't Call It A Comeback: School Districts That Never Opened Are Having Trouble Now

    Jan 27, 2021
    About a third of U.S. students haven't had a single day in a classroom since March 2020. Coming back now — with the virus still spreading and teachers pushing back — hasn't been easy.
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