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01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
Disinfectant is sprayed on Wednesday at a train station in Wuhan, China, the center of the coronavirus outbreak.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
Utah has became the 19th U.S. state to ban conversion therapy aimed at changing sexual orientation or gender identity in lesbian, gay, transsexual, bisexual and queer children.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
France's Senate voted on Wednesday in favor of a bill that would allow single women and lesbian couples access to in-vitro fertilization (IVF), the first major social reform of President Emmanuel Macron's term.
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
The United States is moving to add more countries to its travel ban list, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday without giving details but saying the changes would be announced soon.
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
China has failed to send home North Korean workers by a December deadline in violation of United Nations sanctions, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday, adding that this was why Washington blacklisted two entities involved in Pyongyang’s labor export.
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
President Trump and his wife, Melania Trump, at an inaugural ball in 2017.
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
Harvey Weinstein, left, arriving for his trial in Manhattan on Wednesday. A defense lawyer said the relationships between Mr. Weinstein and his accusers were consensual.
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
I discovered that we’re building a digital surveillance state much like the one in China.
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
Eli Manning, the Giants’ quarterback for 16 seasons, led the team to two Super Bowl titles.
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, on Wednesday at the Capitol during the impeachment trial against President Trump.
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
No one’s really grappling with the meth disaster.
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
France's Senate voted on Wednesday in favor of a bill that would allow single women and lesbian couples access to in-vitro fertilization (IVF), the first major social reform of President Emmanuel Macron's term.
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
U.N. experts have demanded an immediate investigation by U.S. and other authorities into allegations that Saudi Arabia's crown prince was involved in a plot to hack the phone of Amazon boss and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos.
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
Democrats accused President Donald Trump at the start of his impeachment trial on Wednesday of a corrupt scheme to pressure Ukraine to help him get re-elected and warned that America's global prestige would suffer if the U.S. Senate acquits him.
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
From left, Luke Austin Lane, Jacob Kaderli and Michael Helterbrand were arrested in Georgia on charges of conspiracy to commit murder and participating in a criminal street gang.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
A bipartisan majority of Americans want to see new witnesses testify in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, and the public appears to be largely following the proceedings even after a bruising congressional inquiry that lasted several months, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling released Wednesday.
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
For PEOPLE Magazine's annual "Half Their Size" issue, two pups who lost a lot of weight got a special feature: Chihuahua mix Shorty and beagle Pearl. (Jan. 22)
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
Deaths from China's new flu-like virus rose to 17 on Wednesday, with more than 540 cases confirmed, leading the city at the center of the outbreak to close transportation networks and urge citizens not to leave as fears rose of the contagion spreading.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it will decide on Thursday whether to declare a global emergency over the outbreak of a new flu-like virus spreading in and beyond China.
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
Deaths from China's new flu-like virus rose to 17 on Wednesday, with more than 540 cases confirmed, leading the city at the center of the outbreak to close transportation networks and urge citizens not to leave as fears rose of the contagion spreading.
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it will decide on Thursday whether to declare a global emergency over the outbreak of a new flu-like virus spreading in and beyond China.
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
Travelers arriving in Kolkata, India, from China were screened with a thermographic camera for signs of coronavirus infection.
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
Jeff Bezos received a text from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with digital spyware, United Nations experts said.
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
The gun-rights rally in Richmond, Va., on Monday.
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
Swiss police on Wednesday used water cannons, rubber bullets and tear gas to subdue demonstrators in Zurich who ignited fireworks and threw bottles as part of a protest targeting the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) conference in Davos.
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
A scene from one of the commercials that the Hallmark Channel, which Bill Abbott had led since 2009, removed last month.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
The contamination of U.S. drinking water with man-made "forever chemicals" is far worse than previously estimated with some of the highest levels found in Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans, said a report on Wednesday by an environmental watchdog group.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
About 11 million TV viewers watched the start of the U.S. Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Tuesday when lawmakers sparred for hours over witnesses and records for the historic proceedings, according to Nielsen ratings data.
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
President Reuven Rivlin of Israel, center, with heads of state during a dinner reception at his official residence in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
Americans doubt the Senate impeachment trial will do anything to change their minds about whether President Donald Trump should be removed from office. That's according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research (Jan. 22)
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
Britain moved a step closer to its Jan. 31 exit from the European Union when the legislation required to ratify its deal with Brussels passed its final stage in parliament on Wednesday.
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said for the first time on Wednesday that he would consider entering an unprecedented coalition government with the country's second-largest party and historic rival Fianna Fail after next month's election.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd will allow all crew members and frontline employees to wear surgical masks due to concerns over a new coronavirus, and said passengers to and from Wuhan, China, could change or cancel flights for free through March 31.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
Technology shares led the S&P 500 marginally higher on Wednesday, as a healthy forecast from IBM helped mitigate worries over the developing coronavirus outbreak.
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd will allow all crew members and frontline employees to wear surgical masks due to concerns over a new coronavirus, and said passengers to and from Wuhan, China, could change or cancel flights for free through March 31.
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
Democratic House impeachment managers argued Wednesday that President Donald Trump abused his presidential powers and should be removed from office. Lead manager Rep. Adam Schiff asks, should the American people "just get over it?" (Jan. 22)
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, danced during an event in Shanghai last week where the company delivered cars made in China to customers.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
World stock markets gained back some ground on Wednesday as investors took heart from measures to curb the spread of a flu-like virus from China, while oil prices tumbled on a forecast for a market surplus.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
Troubled that former American spies are plying their trade for foreign governments, Congress has passed new legislation requiring U.S. spy agencies to provide an annual assessment detailing the risks such conduct poses for national security.
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
Here's the latest for Wednesday, January 22: Opening arguments in President Trump's impeachment trial; Republicans block Democratic efforts to call witnesses; Wuhan, China, stopping planes and trains due to virus; Harvey Weinstein's rape trial begins.
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. arriving Wednesday at the Capitol for the impeachment trial of President Trump.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
Democratic presidential contender Tulsi Gabbard sued Hillary Clinton for defamation on Wednesday, seeking at least $50 million in damages for harming her reputation by suggesting last year that one of the party's White House contenders was a "Russian asset."
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday that clashes between migrants and members of the National Guard on the border with Guatemala this week were an "isolated case" and that security forces are instructed to not use violence.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he did not consider the brain injuries suffered by 11 U.S. service members in Iran's recent attack on a base in Iraq to be serious, as the American military moved more troops out of the region for potential injuries.
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he did not consider the brain injuries suffered by 11 U.S. service members in Iran's recent attack on a base in Iraq to be serious, as the American military moved more troops out of the region for potential injuries.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou returned to a Vancouver courtroom on Wednesday where Canadian prosecutors defended a U.S. extradition request, saying Meng's alleged bank fraud is the heart of the case that has strained relations between Ottawa and Beijing.
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders entering the room for a Clinton campaign rally in 2016.
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
Kristin Smart, a former student from Cal Poly has been missing since 1996, was declared dead in 2002 but her case is still an open investigation.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
Starting on Wednesday, seven members of the House of Representatives will try to convince the U.S. Senate that President Donald Trump should be removed from office.
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
A man has come forward, saying he's the one who saved a baby from gunfire at a Walmart in El Paso. Police say there's a "good possibility it's him."
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
Keepers at the Brookfield Zoo near Chicago repurpose the zoo's discarded Christmas trees to give some animals a post holiday treat. (Jan. 22)
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
Kyle Chayka’s book delves into art, architecture, music and philosophy to learn why the idea of “less is more” keeps resurfacing.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday ruled out a so-called witness trade in which Republicans call witnesses Democrats want in exchange for former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden testifying in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
The weather in Florida has been so cold, iguanas are falling from trees. People are selling their meat.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
At least nine people have died from a new coronavirus in China following an outbreak in the city of Wuhan and more than 470 cases have been reported globally, most in China.
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
At least nine people have died from a new coronavirus in China following an outbreak in the city of Wuhan and more than 470 cases have been reported globally, most in China.
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
Sanders supporters before a campaign event in Des Moines on Monday.
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
Health authorities are watching an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new virus that originated in China. The Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) says a vaccine to combat the virus is underway. (Jan. 22)
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on a visit to Jamaica on Wednesday, cautioned nations against taking "easy money" from China, warning it could be counterproductive, in a second attack in as many days against China's economic role in the region.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
Here are key facts about China's central city of Wuhan, home to more than 11 million people, which has emerged as the epicenter of a new virus outbreak that has infected 440 people and killed nine, spurring comparisons to the SARS epidemic of 2003.
01/22/2020 Reuters Top News
Saudi Arabia will start screening passengers arriving from China and take other preventive measures following the outbreak of the new coronavirus in China, the kingdom's health ministry said on Wednesday.
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
Here are key facts about China's central city of Wuhan, home to more than 11 million people, which has emerged as the epicenter of a new virus outbreak that has infected 440 people and killed nine, spurring comparisons to the SARS epidemic of 2003.
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
Saudi Arabia will start screening passengers arriving from China and take other preventive measures following the outbreak of the new coronavirus in China, the kingdom's health ministry said on Wednesday.
01/22/2020 New York Times Top News
An Israel Museum exhibition explores the complicated relationship between the hieroglyphs of antiquity and emoji, the lingua franca of the digital age.
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
CEO David Calhoun, in his first major remarks to reporters, expressed confidence in the troubled jet and vowed to fix Boeing's culture
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
Harvey Weinstein said he was confident about getting a fair trial as he made his way into the courtroom Wednesday. When asked why, he said: "I have good lawyers." Weinstein is charged with raping one woman and sexually assaulting another. (Jan. 22)
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday he would travel to Ukraine sometime soon, but gave no date for his planned visit to the country central to President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial.
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
A look at the day's best photographs from around the world.
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
A tour guide died and five French tourists were missing after a group of snowmobilers plunged through the ice into the water near Québec's Lac-Saint-Jean Tuesday night, police said.
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
U.S. President Donald Trump called climate activists like Greta Thunberg "prophets of doom" at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday. By Wednesday he was lamenting not having watched the teenage activist's speech.
01/22/2020 Reuters World News
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said on Wednesday that an allegation the kingdom's crown prince had been involved in a plot to hack the phone of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was "absurd".
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
Rep. Adam Schiff, the lead House impeachment manager says, "The Senate should allow us a fair trial." He also accused President Donald Trump of bragging about keeping documents from House lawmakers during their impeachment inquiry. (Jan. 22)
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
The U.S. Senate began opening arguments Wednesday in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, with Democratic House managers making the case that Trump abused his presidential power in precisely the way the Founding Fathers feared. (Jan. 22)
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
Acetaminophen, an active ingredient in popular pain relief medications such as Tylenol and Excedrin, may be considered a carcinogen by California.
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
Eva Umlauf was only two years old when she was liberated from Auschwitz. She doesn't have any conscious memories from her early childhood in the Nazi death camp, but even so the nightmarish experience has cast a dark shadow over her entire life. (Jan. 22)
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
The National Weather Service in Miami has issued an unofficial warning for falling iguanas tonight due to an unusual cold snap in the Sunshine State.
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
Presidential hopeful and Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is facing a balancing act of squaring constitutional requirements to serve as a juror in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump with the demands of her run for the US presidency. (Jan. 22)
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the the first full day of the impeachment trial into President Donald Trump represented "a dark day and a dark night for the Senate," and he urged his Republican colleagues to make the trial "more fair." (Jan. 22)
01/22/2020 USA Today - Nation
The victim was later discharged from Hershey Medical Center weighing 45 pounds after receiving medical attention for weeks.