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The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a pall over Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem, all but shutting down the biblical town revered as Jesus’ birthplace.
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President-elect Joe Biden is considering former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to serve as his transportation secretary.
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President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, is quickly emerging as a political lightning rod.
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A man who made phony bomb and shooting threats, including to LAX and Southern California schools, has been sentenced to nearly eight years in prison.
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The head of the World Health Organization says Mexico is in ‘bad shape’ with the COVID-19 pandemic and urges its leaders to get serious about it.
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Dr. Scott Atlas, a science advisor to President Trump who was skeptical of measures to control the coronavirus outbreak, is leaving his White House post.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says schools will remain open despite the rise in confirmed COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
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On a bustling street in east London, shops are scrambling to adapt to the pandemic and survive
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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance is grappling with a dilemma over its future in Afghanistan, as the United States starts pulling troops out while violence mounts.
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While vaccine hesitancy is a major cause for concern in general, it’s an acute problem in Black communities, a recent survey shows. And such fears exist among Black people for good reason, columnist Erika D. Smith writes.
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Joe Biden’s victory in Wisconsin has been certified following a partial recount that added slightly to his 20,600-vote margin over President Trump.
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The U.N. refugee chief says Ethiopia’s announcement that it has completed its military offensive in its defiant Tigray region ‘does not mean the conflict is finished.’
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After helping to free Alice Marie Johnson in 2018, Kim Kardashian West is now raising awareness of the case of death-row inmate Brandon Bernard.
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The deadline is part of the U.K.'s strategy to harden its line against Huawei, considering it a ‘high risk’ supplier and threat to national security.
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The U.S. Transportation Department’s new policy, announced during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, narrows what ‘unfair and deceptive practices’ means.
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Biden is only the second Democrat in 70 years to win Arizona. In the final tally, he won by 10,457 votes, 0.3% of the nearly 3.4 million ballots cast.
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The pachyderm dubbed the ‘world’s loneliest elephant’ after languishing alone in a Pakistani zoo has arrived safely in Cambodia, with Cher’s help.
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who consistently downplays the COVID-19 pandemic, suffered heavy losses in mayoral elections across the country.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic surges in the United States, we documented a day in the life of frontline workers.
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Moderna is asking U.S. and European regulators to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine as study results confirm the shots’ efficacy.
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In U.S.-China dispute over missile defense system, Beijing punishes South Korea by restricting tourism and holding trade hostage.
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Beijing’s aggressive South China Sea expansion shows its willingness to defy international laws for President Xi Jinping’s visions of power.
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China’s paramount leader, Xi Jinping, sees himself as a savior, anointed to steer the Communist Party and China away from corruption and foreign influence, into a ‘new era’ of prosperity, power and political devotion. Whether his vision matches reality is another question.
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China’s oppression of Muslims reaches beyond Xinjiang into Pakistan. Why does it stay quiet?
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China’s ‘purification’ of classrooms: A new law erases history, silences teachers and rewrites books
China’s ‘purification’ of classrooms: A new law erases history, silences teachers and rewrites books
China’s crackdown on Hong Kong is purging teachers, rewriting textbooks and increasing pressure on schools over what to put in the minds of students. A new national security law has endangered freedom of thought and expression.
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The pachyderm dubbed the ‘world’s loneliest elephant’ after languishing alone in a Pakistani zoo has arrived safely in Cambodia, with Cher’s help.
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The head of the World Health Organization says Mexico is in ‘bad shape’ with the COVID-19 pandemic and urges its leaders to get serious about it.
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A shiny silver monolith in the Utah desert has disappeared less than 10 days after it was first spotted on a flyover, bewildering authorities.
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Dr. Scott Atlas, a science advisor to President Trump who was skeptical of measures to control the coronavirus outbreak, is leaving his White House post.
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The Times set out to document a day in the pain and loss of COVID-19.
