Joe Biden was proclaimed the winner of the 2020 American presidential race on Saturday, Nov. 7. Biden crossed the 270 Electoral College votes threshold needed to secure the presidency. The rest of the votes are still being counted. They are yet to be certified by each of America’s 50 states. In electoral parlance, Biden is now…
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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/11/11/arts/11davido1/11davido1-moth.jpgDavido — the American-born Nigerian Afrobeats artist David Adedeji Adeleke — has built an international career on songs about love and lust that have collectively amassed more than a billion streams. The album he is releasing on Friday, “A Better
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https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5fac29cf240000bb26b0417e.jpeg?ops=224_126 GENEVA (AP) — As the coronavirus explodes again, the World Health Organization finds itself both under intense pressure to reform and holding out hope that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will reverse a decision by Washington to leave the health
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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/11/11/us/politics/11dc-miller1/11dc-miller1-moth.jpgWASHINGTON — A little-known counterterrorism official named Christopher C. Miller flew to the Middle East last month to pursue a diplomatic idea: asking Qatar to help devise plans to buy off or otherwise marginalize some senior leaders of the Shabab,
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/photo/2020/11/winners-close-up-photographer-year/a01_KONCZ‑1/lead_960.jpgThe second year of the Close-Up Photographer of the Year competition has just come to a close, and the winners have been announced. The contest “celebrates close-up, macro, and micro photography,” among seven separate categories. More than 6,500 entries were
Lebanese architect Leila Meroue is using a technique intended to build shelters on the moon, to build a sustainable school in the Senegalese village of Tivaouane Peulh. The bricks are made using sack cut from a long roll into individual bags
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November 11, 2020 LA Times, Tribune pay $3M to settle journalist discrimination case This story, plus social media companies struggle with moderating misinformation on live streams, a look at how a local reporter covered the election in Georgia,
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Jigawa State in north-western Nigeria experienced the worst floods in decades in September. 15,000 people were made homeless and are currently living in makeshift camps. The farming community was hit the hardest, as the majority of Jigawa’s population relies on farming
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Warning: This story contains images some people may find distressing With the Ethiopian government conducting a military offensive in the northern Tigray region, some people have taken the opportunity to spread misinformation
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