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Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., alongside other members of the Congressional Black Caucus, stands in front of the Senate chambers to voice his support of voting rights legislation at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

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Democrats eye new strategy after failure of voting bill
By BRIAN SLODYSKO - Associated Press
Thu,01/20/22-6:10PM, 17 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats were picking up the pieces Thursday following the collapse of their top-priority voting rights legislation, with some shifting their focus to a narrower bipartisan effort to repair laws Donald Trump exploited in his bid to overturn the 2020 election.
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President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Year 2: Biden plans more public outreach, less legislating
By ZEKE MILLER AND ALEXANDRA JAFFE - Associated Press
Thu,01/20/22-4:45PM, 27 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden launched into his second year in office Thursday with a new focus on making fatigued Americans believe they’re better off under his leadership as he embraces a pared-back agenda before the midterm elections.
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A passenger walks past a Southwest Airlines plane at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, March 26, 2021. AT&T and Verizon have agreed to delay the launch of a new slice of 5G service by two weeks after airlines and the nation's aviation regulator complained about potential interference with systems on board planes. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

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EXPLAINER: Why fear of 5G halting flights has faded
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thu,01/20/22-4:30PM, 24 Reads
The rollout of new 5G wireless service in the U.S. failed to have the much-dreaded result of crippling air travel, although it began in rocky fashion, with international airlines canceling some flights to the U.S.
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A Ryanair plane with registration number SP-RSM, that was carrying Belarus opposition journalist Raman Pratasevich from Athens to Vilnius and was diverted to Minsk, Belarus, after a bomb threat, lands at the International Airport outside Vilnius, Lithuania, on May 23, 2021.. U.S. prosecutors charged four Belarusian government officials on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, with aircraft piracy for diverting a Ryanair flight last year to arrest an opposition journalist, using a ruse that there was a bomb threat. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)

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US charges Belarus with air piracy in reporter's arrest
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thu,01/20/22-3:54PM, 23 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. prosecutors charged four Belarusian government officials on Thursday with aircraft piracy for diverting a Ryanair flight last year to arrest an opposition journalist, using a ruse that there was a bomb threat.
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