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Mexico posts new daily highs for pandemic cases and deaths

MEXICO CITY - Mexico posted new one-day highs for the pandemic Thursday, with 22,339 newly confirmed coronavirus infections and 1,803 deaths from COVID-19 recorded for the previous 24 hours. The recen...

Jan 21, 2021

World leaders cheer US return to climate fight under Biden

BERLIN - World leaders breathed an audible sigh of relief that the United States under President Joe Biden is rejoining the global effort to curb climate change, a cause that his predecessor had shunn...

Jan 21, 2021

CNN, MSNBC viewers flip for Biden; Fox audience slumps

NEW YORK - Nothing illustrates the political passions of a television network's audience quite like ratings for a presidential inaugural. The 6.53 million people who watched President Joe Biden take t...

Jan 21, 2021

McConnell seeks to push Trump impeachment trial to February

WASHINGTON - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is proposing to push back the start of Donald Trump's impeachment trial to February to give the former president time to prepare and review his ca...

Jan 21, 2021

EU leaders call on Russia to release Navalny

BRUSSELS - The European Union used a video summit of its 27 leaders Thursday to call on Russia to immediately release opposition leader Alexei Navalny and make sure that his rights are fully respected...

Jan 21, 2021

Health experts blame rapid expansion for vaccine shortages

Public health experts Thursday blamed vaccine shortages around the U.S. in part on the Trump administration's push to get states to vastly expand their vaccination drives to reach the nation's estimat...

Jan 21, 2021

Native Americans question use of folk song at inaugural

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - On the first day of Joe Biden's presidency, Native Americans had reason to celebrate. Biden cancelled construction of the border wall that threatened to physically separate Indigeno...

Jan 21, 2021

Biden halts oil and gas leases on US land, water for 60 days

BILLINGS, Mont. - The Biden administration announced Thursday the suspension of new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits for U.S. lands and waters for 60 days as part a broad review of programs at...

Jan 21, 2021

US government approves routes for Wyoming CO2 pipelines

CASPER, Wyo. - The U.S. government has approved routes for a system of pipelines that would move carbon dioxide across Wyoming in what could be by far the largest such network in North America, if it ...

Jan 21, 2021

Congress poised for quick action on Biden's Pentagon nominee

WASHINGTON - The Democratic-controlled House easily passed legislation required to confirm retired Gen. Lloyd Austin as President Joe Biden's secretary of defence, brushing aside concerns that his ret...

Jan 21, 2021