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President-elect Biden picks Samantha Power, former UN envoy, for US aid post
3 days ago | By WBALTV
Power served as U.N. ambassador from 2013 to 2017.
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Interventionist Samantha Power is latest pick to serve in Joe Biden administration as USAID head
3 days ago | By RT
Former UN Ambassador Samantha Power, famous for her screaming duels over Syria with late Russian envoy Vitaly Churkin, was picked by Joe Biden to head the US Agency for International Development in his administration.
Though her appointment was rumored in Washington for weeks, Biden's transition team officially confirmed it on Wednesday. Power is best known for her “ humanitarian ” interventionism advocacy. As an aide at the Obama White House, she championed US intervention in Syria and Libya - where US-backed Islamist militants sought to overthrow secular governments - in the name of...
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Samantha Power: Biden picks former UN envoy for USAID post
3 days ago | By Al Jazeera
Biden says USAID will coordinate the US's work to lead global response to combat the coronavirus in vulnerable nations.
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Election Barack Obama NewsState capitols boarded up, fenced off, patrolled by troops
Chain-link fencing surrounds state capitols and police and National Guard troops are on patrol or standby in advance of possible violence leading up to the inauguration of... Read more ...
Trump administration carries out 13th and final execution
Dustin Higgs, convicted in the killings of three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge in 1996, was the third to receive a lethal injection this week at the federal prison in... Read more ...
Far-right personality ‘Baked Alaska' arrested after Capitol riot
Far right social media personality Tim Gionet - who goes by the name "Baked Alaska" - was arrested Saturday as part of an ongoing federal probe into the siege on Capitol Hill Read more ...
NH reports 19 new COVID-19 deaths
Nineteen more New Hampshire residents have died of COVID-19, state health officials announced Saturday. Read more ...
Report: Steelers 'expected' to promote QB coach Matt Canada to offensive...
Ian Rapoport, National Insider for the NFL Network, made the announcement in a tweet Saturday afternoon. Read more ...
COVID-19 Update: Allegheny County reports 38 more deaths, 526 new cases
The county has reported 135 coronavirus-related deaths of county residents this week, more than 100 of them having occurred in December. Read more ...
COVID data analyst Rebekah Jones says she is turning herself in to police
The Florida data analyst who claims she was fired because she wouldn't doctor state coronavirus data tweeted Saturday she was turning herself into police - though it's unclear... Read more ...
Wisconsin sets new single-day record for COVID-19 deaths
Wisconsin has set a new record for COVID-19 deaths reported in a single day. Read more ...
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