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GOP Sen. Ron Johnson is planning days of stunts that threaten to turn debate over the package into a made-for-conservative-cable-TV farce
Much of the Republican Party -- despite the deaths of more than half a million Americans -- still acts as though the pandemic is more a platform for political grandstanding than the worst national crisis since World War II.
[ cnn.com ]China approves sale of traditional medicine products to treat Covid-19
China has approved three traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) products for sale to help treat Covid-19, the government's National Medical Products Administration announced on Wednesday.
[ cnn.com ]DC National Guard general says 'unusual' Pentagon restrictions slowed response to Capitol riot
The commanding general of the Washington, DC, National Guard testified Wednesday that he did not need authorization from Pentagon leaders before deploying troops in response to protests at the nation's capital last summer but that changed in the days before the January 6 insurrection.
[ cnn.com ]Military leaders are prepared to defend Pentagon response to Capitol riot at hearing
The Pentagon is ready to defend itself if necessary at a Senate hearing Wednesday against accusations it delayed or hindered the deployment of the National Guard on January 6, a senior defense official said, as two competing narratives emerge about the response to US Capitol riot.
[ cnn.com ]Amanda Gorman's Dutch translator stands down after uproar that Black writer wasn't chosen
Dutch writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, who won the International Booker Prize in 2020, has withdrawn from a project to translate Black American poet Amanda Gorman's work following a backlash against the commission.
[ cnn.com ]Whole towns are refusing Covid-19 vaccines in Mexico
For Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, vaccinating all Mexicans is a matter of responsible national health policy as well as social justice.
[ cnn.com ]US groups are declaring today a national day of mourning for Covid-19 victims
Almost one year after the first known US coronavirus death, activists and community groups are calling on officials to memorialize the more than half a million Americans who died with an official Covid Memorial Day.
[ cnn.com ]Hong Kong protesters come out as 47 pro-democracy figures appear in court
Hundreds of protesters risked arrest to demonstrate outside a Hong Kong court, where 47 pro-democracy activists appeared Monday charged with subversion under the national security law, as authorities step up their crackdown against opposition voices.
[ cnn.com ]Opinion: Trump and his CPAC fans lead GOP down a losing path
Donald Trump's return to the national stage at the Conservative Political Action Convention (CPAC) was about what I expected: In a two-track speech where he was intermittently bored by a teleprompter and amused by his own adlibs, he teased a third presidential run, came home to his animating issue, immigration (which was inexplicably absent from his 2020 reelection campaign) and continued the farce that he actually won last November. He even ran through a "hit list" of Republicans to be ousted from the party.
[ cnn.com ]Indians are telling their 18 million-strong diaspora to keep out of their affairs
When American author Meena Harris tweeted criticism of the Indian state's clampdown on farmers protesting agricultural reforms, nationalist counter-protesters responded by burning her portrait. Hundreds of Indians barraged her with abuse on Twitter, telling her to stay out of their country's affairs.
[ cnn.com ]US Soccer scraps anthem-kneeling policy
United States Soccer on Saturday voted to end a ban on players kneeling during the national anthem, something they have done to protest racial inequality and police brutality.
[ cnn.com ]47 Hong Kong opposition figures charged under national security law
The Hong Kong authorities charged 47 opposition activists with violating the city's national security legislation on Sunday, in the biggest application of the law since it was imposed by Beijing last year.
[ cnn.com ]Myanmar police shoot protester dead, and wound others, as they open fire on demonstrations
Myanmar's military junta fired the country's United Nations ambassador Saturday after he made an impassioned plea at the UN General Assembly for international action to help overturn the coup.
[ cnn.com ]Analysis: The court of international public opinion long ago found MBS guilty over Khashoggi murder. The US just caught up
There is no mystery in how Jamal Khashoggi died, it was cold-blooded and brutal.
[ cnn.com ]100-year-old UK fundraising hero Captain Tom Moore honored at funeral
Captain Tom Moore, who raised millions for a British charity supporting the National Health Service by walking laps of his garden ahead of his 100th birthday, was honored at a funeral on Saturday.
[ cnn.com ]Wreckage from TWA Flight 800 to be destroyed years after explosion
The reconstructed wreckage of Trans World Airlines Flight 800, which exploded minutes after taking off from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on July 17, 1996, will be decommissioned and destroyed, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
[ cnn.com ]Doctor: I'm worried the Olympics can't be made safe against Covid
On February 3, the International Olympics Committee (IOC) released a playbook describing the measures to be taken to protect staff, athletes and communities from SARS-CoV-2 in the rescheduled 2021 Tokyo Summer Games, set to begin in late July. On February 25, guidelines for the Olympic Torch relay were announced.
[ cnn.com ]Myanmar's UN ambassador pleads for global action to help overturn coup
Myanmar's United Nations ambassador has pleaded for immediate international action to help overturn the country's military coup.
[ cnn.com ]Brisbane is the 'preferred host' for 2032 Olympics, IOC says
The Australian city of Brisbane is the "preferred host" for the 2032 Summer Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Wednesday, in a move which officials said was designed to bring "stability" to the Games after the delay of the Tokyo 2020 edition.
[ cnn.com ]Australia's Qantas says it will resume international flights in October of 2021
Australian airline Qantas said it plans to resume international flights by the end of October, 2021.
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