‘Something very wrong happened here.’ Lawmakers grill Robinhood C.E.O. at GameStop hearing.

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U.S. and Novavax Will Aid Global Vaccination Campaign

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‘Such Dire Straits’: Hobbled Texas Hospitals Are Filling Dialysis Needs

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February 19, Aaj ka Panchang: Read About Tithi, Nakshatra, Shubh Muhurat, Rahu Kaal and Vrat for The Day

The day will also mark Ratha Saptami Vrat which is also known as Surya Jayanti. The Shukla Paksha Saptami Tithi of Magha Maas is considered as one of the most auspicious days to perform Dan-Punya.

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Bully, Or Just Queens Tough? Criticism Piles Up For Cuomo

Over his long career, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been known as a brutal, even vindictive political opponent, quick to retaliate against people who oppose his agenda or challenge him publicly.

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Texas Crisis Has Governor Facing Big Backer: Energy Industry

As frozen Texas reels under one of the worst electricity outages in U.S. history, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has blamed grid operators and icedover wind turbines but gone easier on another culprit: an oil and gas industry that is the state's dominant business and his biggest political contributor.

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Grand Jury Rejects Charges Against Officer In Teen's Death

A grand jury has decided not to file charges against a police officer who fatally shot a teenager following a chase last summer in a suburb near Atlanta.

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Mexico Finds Clandestine Burial Pits In North, Gulf Coast

At least a halfdozen bodies have been found buried in shallow pits in the scrubland of the northern Mexico state of Sonora, while in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, experts and police uncovered at least three burial pits in a tropical mangrove island, authorities said Thursday.

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Biden To Debut At G7 With Vaccines, Economy And China In Focus

Joe Biden will attend his first meeting as U.S. president with Group of Seven leaders on Friday to discuss plans to defeat the novel coronavirus, reopen the battered world economy and counter the challenge posed by China.

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Belarus Jails Journalists For Filming Protests, U.S. Imposes New Sanctions

A Belarusian court on Thursday jailed a pair of journalists for two years on charges of orchestrating protests against President Alexander Lukashenko, while Washington imposed visa restrictions on 43 Belarusian officials it accused of undermining democracy.

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Georgia House Republicans Push To Ban Sunday Early Voting

Republican lawmakers in Georgia's state House on Thursday introduced a sweeping election bill that would place restrictions on absentee voting and ban counties from holding early voting on Sundays, a popular day for Black churchgoers who vote during Souls to the Polls events.

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Biden Withdraws Trump's Restoration Of UN Sanctions On Iran

The Biden administration on Thursday rescinded former president Donald Trumps restoration of U.N. sanctions on Iran, an announcement that could help Washington move toward rejoining the 2015 nuclear agreement aimed at reining in the Islamic Republics nuclear program.

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Israel and Syria Complete a Prisoner Swap, Mediated by Russia

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