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MINNEAPOLIS — George Floyd’s girlfriend cried on the witness stand Thursday as she told the story of how they first met in 2017 at a Salvation Army shelter where Floyd was a security guard with “this great Southern voice, raspy.”

“I think people fear what they don’t understand,” says Levine, assistant secretary for health and the first openly transgender person to serve in a Senate-confirmed position. (Image credit: Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Citing vaccination rollouts and various stimulus packages globally, the powerful oil cartel and its allies made a surprise announcement that it would gradually boost oil production over three months. (Image credit: Fayez Nureldine/AFP via Getty Images)

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While Germany struggles to try to contain the pandemic, airlines have planned more than 300 extra flights to take German vacationers to sunny Majorca over the Easter holidays.

COGAT head Kamil Abu Rukun says he’ll recommend ‘stopping everything,’ also opposes allowing ballots to be cast in East Jerusalem, a major sticking point for Palestinians

Lockdown has distorted our perceptions of time, making months of mandatory monotony congeal into a goo of boredom and malaise. How could we register the passage of, say, six months when July feels just like January, except hotter? Improbably enough,

Palau has seen no COVID-19 cases and Taiwan has kept the virus in check. Taiwan’s first tourist flight to Palau during the pandemic era landed Thursday. Travelers do not need to quarantine on arrival. (Image credit: Chiang Ying-ying/AP)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday accused Moscow of building up troops on his country’s border as the United States warned Russia against “intimidating” Ukraine. Kiev has been locked in a conflict with Russian-backed separatists since 2014, and this week