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• Cuomo: NYC Restaurants Opening Indoor Dining To 25 Percent Friday Before Valentines Day | NBC News
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• Coronavirus: Quebec imposes curfew, tightens lockdown restrictions | FULL
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• Live: Officials Hold Briefing On Operation Warp Speed, Covid Vaccine Distribution
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• Dan Rather on the Capitol attack, the state of our nation and ‘What Unites Us’
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• Gov. Gen. Julie Payette resigning amid “scathing” Rideau Hall workplace review
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• China overhauls Hong Kong’s education system amid ongoing crackdown
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• Georgia secretary of state: ‘We have to follow the process, follow the law’ l ABC News
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• Violent attacks against Asian-Americans on rise in US
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• With a focus on intent, Democrats wrap up their case in Trump’s impeachment trial
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• Vatican City backs away from COVID-19 vaccination decree
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• Blackwater attack survivor to Trump: You will have to face God
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• ‘Complete bunk’: Erin Burnett calls out Sen. Hawley’s explanation
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