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Capt. Sir Tom Moore, Who Raised Millions To Fight COVID-19, Dies At 100

Captain Sir Tom Moore, a World War II veteran who raised more than $40 million to help Britain’s health service fight the coronavirus, has died from COVID-19 at 100 years old.

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Fareed Zakaria On How The Coup In Myanmar Will Test President Biden

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Washington Post columnist and CNN host of GPS Fareed Zakaria about how the coup in Myanmar presents a test for President Biden.

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WATCH LIVE: Senate votes to confirm Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden’s homeland security nominee

The Senate is expected to vote Feb. 2 on the confirmation of Alejandra Mayorkas for secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

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WATCH LIVE: Biden signs immigration executive orders

President Joe Biden planned to sign orders on family separation, border security and legal immigration, bringing to nine the number of executive actions on immigration during his first two weeks in office.

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Jeff Bezos will no longer be CEO of Amazon as of later this year

Amazon founder and current CEO Jeff Bezos will be transitioning to executive chair of the company sometime in Q3 of this year, with current AWS CEO Andy Jassy taking over the top executive role at the commerce company. Amazon announced

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Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy to take over in Q3 – CNBC

Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy to take over in Q3  CNBC Jeff Bezos is stepping down as Amazon CEO  CNN Stocks Rally Ahead of Tech Reports; Bezos Set to Step Down as Amazon CEO  TheStreet Jeff Bezos to

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Biden bids to undo ‘national shame’ of Trump child separations

In May 2018 a six-year-old Honduran boy named Andres was wrested kicking and screaming from his father by US border guards implementing Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy toward undocumented immigrants. It took another 10 months for the pair to be

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What Myanmar’s coup could mean for the Rohingya and other persecuted minorities

Rohingya refugees are relocated to the flood-prone island Bhashan Char in Chittagong, Bangladesh, on January 30, 2021. | Rehman Asad/NurPhoto via Getty Images The takeover is terrible for Myanmar. It may be worse for the country’s most vulnerable. The Myanmar

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Pentagon chief purges defense boards of Trump appointees

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered hundreds of Pentagon advisory board members to resign this month as part of a broad review of the panels, essentially purging several dozen last-minute appointments under the Trump administration.

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Senate Makes Alejandro Mayorkas First Latino Head Of Homeland Security

Senate confirmation of the first immigrant to lead DHS comes on the same day President Biden is expected to sign a series of executive actions on immigration. (Image credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images)

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