Have a Ball This Super Bowl Sunday

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PM-virus-fader-update

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Downscale Your Super Bowl Spread

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Trump Parts Ways With Lead Impeachment Lawyer

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Savor a Performance Series and Homemade Pizza

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Quotation of the Day: Attacked by a ‘Superspreader’ of Online Smears

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Federal officials pause plan to vaccinate Guantánamo detainees.

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Protesters disrupt motorists from entering Dodger Stadium vaccination site.

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VAMS, a CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M to manage rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, has been abandoned by states due to bugs and problems (Cat Ferguson/MIT Technology Review)

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VAMS, a CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M to manage rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, has been abandoned by states due to bugs and problems  —  The CDC ordered software that was meant to manage the vaccine rollout.  Instead, it has been plagued by problems and abandoned by most states.

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Sundance Diary, Part 3: Documentaries That Don’t Despair

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Pentagon Halts Plan to Vaccinate the 40 Prisoners at Guantánamo Bay

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Coronavirus in Algeria: 'No-one could travel to say goodbye to grandpa'

Algeria's coronavirus restrictions mean that people in the diaspora are unable to properly mourn.

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Covid: The pandemic's young widows and widowers

"The grief creeps up on you," says Pamela who is raising two children alone after losing her husband.

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Japan whale hunting: 'By-catch' rule highlighted after minke death

The death of a whale which got trapped in a net off Japan has once again exposed the hunting divide.

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Joseph Sonnabend, Early Force in Fight Against AIDS, Dies at 88

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Part of Highway 1 in California Falls Into the Ocean

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Product Misplacement

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Sylvia Lieber, Creative Kindergarten Teacher, Dies at 102

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The variant that emerged in South Africa has been reported in Maryland.

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Sonny Fox, Whose ‘Wonderama’ Mixed Fun and Learning, Dies at 95

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Swedish Covid nurse to watch entire film festival alone in lighthouse

Swedish nurse Lisa Enroth will spend a week living alone in a lighthouse watching 60 movies.

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Lebanon ambulance driver: 'Hospitals can't take our Covid patients'

Lebanon's hospitals are turning away patients as the country buckles under Covid and economic collapse.

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Could a vaccine get rid of malaria for good?

Seventeen-year-old Victoline explores progress to tackle the disease in her home country, Kenya.

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G.O.P. Quiet as Pressure Mounts to Address Lawmaker’s Conspiracy Claims

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Australian Open to allow up to 30,000 fans to attend per day

Up to 30,000 fans a day will be allowed to attend the Australian Open, Victoria's minister for sport has announced.

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Russian anti-Putin anger spreads: 'We have to protest'

Russia is seeing some of the biggest demonstrations for a decade over the imprisonment of Alexei Navalny.

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Amsterdam drugs: Tourists face ban from cannabis cafes

The mayor of Amsterdam has angered coffee shop owners, who fear that drug gangsters could step in.

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Jonas Gwangwa The South African jazz icon who stood up to apartheid

Remembering iconic trombonist and exiled anti-apartheid activist Jonas Gwangwa who has died aged 83.

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Coronavirus: What's behind Latin America's oxygen shortages?

Some Latin American countries struggle with insufficient oxygen as Covid-19 continues to spread.

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Robinhood has placed trade restrictions on more than 50 stocks as of Friday and limited the purchase of some stocks, like GameStop, to a single share (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

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Robinhood has placed trade restrictions on more than 50 stocks as of Friday and limited the purchase of some stocks, like GameStop, to a single share  —  The company is giving us numbers for what ‘limited buys’ really means  —  Robinhood only wants users to have a limited number of shares …

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Graphika: Huawei officials retweeted messages from fake accounts on Twitter to spread a pro-5G influence campaign in Belgium; Huawei is investigating the claim (Adam Satariano/New York Times)

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Graphika: Huawei officials retweeted messages from fake accounts on Twitter to spread a pro-5G influence campaign in Belgium; Huawei is investigating the claim  —  A covert online push to sway telecommunications policy in favor of the Chinese company may presage a new twist in social manipulation.

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Share Your Memories of Someone You Lost to Covid-19

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A West Virginia newspaper company is suing Google and Facebook over online ads.

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Biden Visits Walter Reed, the Hospital That Treated Both Him and His Son

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A ‘Race’ to Vaccinate, After South Africa Variant Is Detected in South Carolina

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Why Did the N.Y.P.D. Solve Fewer Crimes Last Year?

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Violence in Afghanistan May Delay U.S. Troop Withdrawal

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It’s Been 10 Months, and I Still Don’t Know When to Replace My Mask!

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For Dreamers, Action Will Speak Louder Than Words

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G.M. Announcement Shakes Up U.S. Automakers’ Transition to Electric Cars

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Behind the Stock Market’s Wild Ride This Week

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Tet Is Full of Traditions, but You Can Have It Your Way

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Black Lives Matter foundation wins Swedish human rights prize

Organisers of the Olof Palme prize praise the group for promoting "peaceful civil disobedience".

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Covid: Argentina imposes new tax on wealthiest

A one-off tax on Argentina's richest people will pay for medical supplies and help for businesses.

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The exiles: Hong Kong at a crossroads

Pro-democracy protesters face a tough decision over continuing to fight or fleeing to the UK.

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Surfing duck: Pet becomes local celebrity at Australian beach

The duck - called Duck - has become renowned locally for his daily forays into the sea.

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Navalny defiant as judge dismisses appeal

The prominent anti-Putin campaigner decried his detention as "illegal" in a video link hearing.

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Microsoft reports it has "high confidence" the hacking campaign targeting infosec researchers is linked to ZINC, a DPRK-affiliated and state-sponsored group (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

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Microsoft reports it has “high confidence” the hacking campaign targeting infosec researchers is linked to ZINC, a DPRK-affiliated and state-sponsored group  —  Earlier this week, Google disclosed that a North Korean government-backed hacking group has been using social networks to target security researchers.

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Google Project Zero researcher discovers and details new security system on iOS 14 named BlastDoor, which provides an improved sandbox system for iMessage data (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

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Google Project Zero researcher discovers and details new security system on iOS 14 named BlastDoor, which provides an improved sandbox system for iMessage data  —  iOS 14 shipped with BlastDoor, a new sandbox system for processing iMessages data.  —  With the release of iOS 14 last fall …

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How Mayor de Blasio Plans to Lead the City Out of the Pandemic

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A Washington hospital system apologizes after offering vaccines to wealthy donors.

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New York Times Reporter Is Accused of Using Racial Slur With Student Group

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The G.O.P. Is in a Doom Loop of Bizarro

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Children Need to Be Back in School Tomorrow

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Joe Biden, the Irishman

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Biden Moves to Expand Health Coverage in Pandemic Economy

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Pentagon May Send Troops to Assist With Vaccines, Enlarging Federal Role

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Yankees’ Off-Season Yields a Few Gambles, and One Sure Thing

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Eleanor Torrey West, Preserver of Her Inherited Island, Dies at 108

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California moves to help tenants hit by the pandemic pay their back rent.

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Reeling Texans Set to Hire David Culley as Head Coach

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