BREAKING: The Trump impeachment defense team expects to complete oral arguments by Friday, meaning the impeachment trial could conclude over the weekend.

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Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett to President Biden during his visit to the NIH: “I actually like to think that I’m responding to a second pandemic...”

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BREAKING: 9,056 patients recovering from COVID-19 were sent to hundreds of nursing homes under a controversial executive order signed by NY Governor Cuomo in March 2020. The current nursing home death count in New York is almost 15,000. (AP)

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BREAKING: The Biden administration has paused implementing further tariffs on the European Union, resulting in a positive reaction by the E.U. Further negotiations are currently put on hold until Biden's trade representative nominee, Katherine Tai, is confirmed by the Senate. (Reuters)

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House impeachment manager Rep. Cicilline labels US Capitol janitorial employees as "Black and Brown workers" and says they were "forced to clean up the mess left by mobs of white nationalists." -- "feces smeared on the wall, blood of a rioter who had died..."

NEW: Nikki Haley, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, publicly criticized Donald Trump in an interview with POLITICO.

"We need to acknowledge he let us down. He went down a path he shouldn't have, and we shouldn't have followed him, and we shouldn't have listened to him. And we can't let that ever happen again."

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BREAKING: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the country would be ready to sever ties with the European Union. The statement was released amid increasing pressure for the E.U. to impose economic sanctions on Russia.

"We don’t want to isolate ourselves from global life, but we have to be ready for that. If you want peace then prepare for war."

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BREAKING: The Biden administration announced plans to allow 25,000 asylum seekers with active court cases into the United States while their cases are processed. People with denied or closed cases will remain in Mexico.

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BREAKING: Law firm Kirland & Ellis, on behalf of Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs, and Jeanine Pirro, filed a motion to request the dismissal of the $2.7 billion Smartmatic libel lawsuit. (AP)

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BREAKING: Gov. Cuomo's secretary has admitted that Cuomo's administration covered up COVID-19 nursing home deaths because they feared that the data would "be used against us" by the Justice Dept.

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BREAKING: The CDC issued new guidance supporting the safe reopening of schools as long as masks, social distancing, hand washing, disinfecting, testing, and contact tracing are implemented. The vaccination of teachers is not required, but provides "an additional layer of protection."

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NEW: China refused to provide WHO investigators raw details on 174 early cases of COVID-19, instead providing their own summaries and analyses. The cases of concern occurred during or before December 2019 in Wuhan. No agreement was reached between the WHO and China to secure access to the data. (WSJ)

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Trump lawyer Michael van der Veen: "To claim that the president in any way wished, desired or encouraged lawless or violent behavior is a preposterous and monstrous lie"

BREAKING: S&P 500 (3,934.83) and Nasdaq (14,095.47) closed at record highs.

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Facebook is developing a smartwatch which it expects to be ready for retail by next year.

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NEW: The Census Bureau does not expect to have complete redistricting data from the 2020 Census until the end of September. However, the data should be finalized in time for the 2022 midterms.

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BREAKING: The CEOs of Melvin Capital, Robinhood, Citadel, and Reddit will testify to the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on Feb. 18 regarding the recent scandals surrounding stocks such as Gamestop (GME).

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NEW: Richard Grenell, former ambassador to Germany and Acting Director of National Intelligence during the Trump administration, is considering running for Governor of California. (POLITICO)

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NEW: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that "all hypotheses remain open and require further analysis and study" during a press briefing about the current WHO investigations into the origins of the novel coronavirus. (Reuters)

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