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The transition to Biden’s administration begins.

Like many places in Europe — and in contrast to New York and other big American cities — school districts in Canada’s largest province and many elsewhere are finding in-class learning outweighs the risks.

South Korea scrambles to contain a third wave.

AstraZeneca said its vaccine candidate was up to 90 percent effective, suggesting that the world could eventually have at least three working vaccines. At the same time, the virus is accelerating across the U.S., and officials are imposing new restrictions to flatten the curve.

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New York governor had planned to spend holiday with mother and daughters, despite urging constituents to limit gatherings due to pandemicCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAndrew Cuomo won’t be having Thanksgiving with his mother after all.The New York governor had announced on Monday that he would be spending Thanksgiving with his 89-year-old mother […]

Francis mentions plight of Muslim minority in China, alongside Rohingya and Yazidi, in new bookPope Francis has for the first time called China’s Muslim Uighurs a “persecuted” people, something human rights activists have been urging him to do for years.In the wide-ranging book Let Us Dream: the Path to a Better Future, he said: “I […]

Without any explicit politics, and barely any specificity at all, the new adaptation espouses the same regressive ideology as J.D. Vance’s memoir.

With promising vaccines in development, the end is in sight: our job is to get everyone around us safely there.

For a generation, Georgia has been a Republican stronghold. What changed?

But not the one you were hoping for.