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U.S. tops 3 million confirmed cases of COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic has reached a grim milestone in the U.S., with more than three million cases confirmed. Meanwhile, Canada's finance minister will give the country its first look at the government's finances since the start of the pandemic. Here's what's going on around the world on Wednesday.
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Writers, academics sign open letter criticizing 'ideological conformity,' cancel culture
Dozens of artists, writers and academics have signed an open letter decrying the weakening of public debate and warning that the free exchange of information and ideas is in jeopardy amid a rise in what they call 'illiberalism.'
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Harvard, MIT sue to block Trump administration rule on international students during pandemic
Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, seeking to block a new rule that would bar foreign students from remaining in the U.S. if their universities move all courses online due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Rare gorillas in Nigeria captured on camera with babies
Conservationists have captured the first images of a group of rare Cross River gorillas with multiple babies in Nigeria's Mbe Mountains, proof that the subspecies once feared to be extinct is reproducing amid protection efforts.
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Mary Trump offers scathing portrait of president in new book
U.S. President Donald Trump's niece offers a scathing portrayal of her uncle in a new book, blaming a toxic family for raising a narcissistic, damaged man who poses an immediate danger to the public, according to a copy obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
