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Year: 2021

Phoenix-area colleges extend Spring Break after possible cyberattack

Community college students in the Phoenix area are getting an extra week of Spring Break after a suspected cyberattack crippled their schools’ computer networks. A network outage has impacted the information technology systems of the Maricopa County Community College District, Interim Chancellor Steven Gonzales announced in a message to students Friday evening. “Out of an

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Specter of civil conflict in Lebanon looms as economic meltdown gives way to violence

In Lebanon, fistfights break out in supermarkets on a nearly daily basis. Long lines snake out of the few gas stations that remain open. Pharmacies have threatened to shutter. Gunfights inexplicably erupt in various parts of the capital. Angry demonstrators have blocked roads around the country, tightening an already stifling economic stranglehold. The infernal scenes

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Did Tanzania’s Covid-denying leader die of the coronavirus? It’s one of many questions he leaves behind

President John Magufuli, the Covid-denying leader of Tanzania, was said to have died from heart failure, which he apparently battled for more than a decade, according to the country’s new president. Samia Suluhu Hassan said Magufuli had been receiving treatment in a Tanzanian hospital when he died on Wednesday evening. However, opposition leaders insist Magufuli

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Extraordinary diplomatic clash signals tough times ahead for the US and China

Chinese officials dismissed Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan as “condescending.” An unnamed US official said the Chinese were “grandstanding.” And with that, any chance the US and China might shift course after four turbulent years of the Trump administration quickly faded. The tense and unusual diplomatic clash Thursday between

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Speaking out against hate crimes, Biden tries to restore moral clarity to the presidency

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris moved to reassert control over America’s bully pulpit Friday, decrying acts of violence against Asian Americans after a year in which former President Donald Trump inflamed racist attitudes by referring countless times to the coronavirus as “Kung Flu” and the “China virus.” Condemning the permissive culture of

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Former daughter-in-law of Trump Org officer has talked to New York prosecutors about rent-free apartments

The former daughter-in-law of a Trump Organization officer said she is cooperating with inquiries by New York investigators who are looking into former President Donald Trump and his business, and have asked her about apartments she and her ex-husband were allowed to live in rent-free. Jennifer Weisselberg — a former ballet dancer who was married

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