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News in brief this evening: Top stories from Dec. 30

  • Dec 30, 2021
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Here are some of the top trending headlines from today, Dec. 30.

Watch now: Finnish man blows up Tesla over $22.6K repair bill

(The Daily Astorian, Ore.) — Tuomas Katainen of Finland was in a bind. His 2013 Tesla Model S ran fine, but only for only 932 miles, before error codes started popping up, so he had the car towed to a Tesla dealer for repairs.

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Ghislaine Maxwell verdict is bad news for Prince Andrew in civil case

A 2009 settlement agreement between Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Giuffre, bearing directly on Giuffre's civil lawsuit accusing Britain's Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, is to be made public.

LONDON (AP) — Prince Andrew wasn't on trial in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case, but her conviction is bad news for the man who is ninth in line to the British throne.

With the conclusion of the Maxwell case, attention will now turn to a U.S. civil suit in which the plaintiff alleges Maxwell and long-time boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein took her to London, New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands to have sex with Andrew when she was underage.

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Ghislaine Maxwell convicted in Epstein sex abuse case
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Ghislaine Maxwell convicted in Epstein sex abuse case

  • By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press
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Britain's Prince Andrew is seen in a November 2019 file photo.

AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit
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A world ablaze: Top images captured by AP photographers in 2021

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A couple kiss in front of a barricade set on fire by demonstrators during clashes with police following a protest condemning the imprisonment of rap singer Pablo Hasél in Barcelona, Spain, on Feb. 18, 2021. Hasél was convicted of insulting the Spanish monarchy and praising terrorist violence.

AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti
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President-elect Joe Biden, left, and Vice President Mike Pence, right, watch as Lady Gaga steps off the stage after performing the national anthem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 2021.

AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
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Firefighters battle the Sugar Fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex Fire, in Doyle, Calif., on July 9, 2021.

AP Photo/Noah Berger
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Yemeni fighters backed by the Saudi-led coalition ride on the back of an armored vehicle as they leave the front lines of Marib, Yemen, on June 19, 2021.

AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty
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People cry out as the body of their relative is recovered from the rubble of a building damaged by an earthquake in Mamuju, West Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Jan. 15, 2021.

AP Photo/Yusuf Wahil
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Demonstrators attack a barricade protecting Mexico City's National Palace during a march to commemorate International Women's Day and protest against gender violence on March 8, 2021.

AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell
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Yohaness, from Eritrea, prays with other migrants as they arrive at the coast of Italy aboard the Spanish vessel Open Arms on Jan. 4, 2021, after being rescued in the Mediterranean sea.

AP Photo/Joan Mateu
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A penguin swims in an enclosure housing gentoo and chinstrap penguins at Mexico City's Inbursa Aquarium on Jan. 13, 2021.

AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell
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A voodoo pilgrim bathes in a waterfall believed to have purifying powers during an annual celebration in Saut d' Eau, Haiti, on July 16, 2021.

AP Photo/Matias Delacroix
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A farmer smokes a bidi, or hand-rolled cigarette, during a tractor rally to protest new farm laws in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, on Jan. 7, 2021.

AP Photo/Altaf Qadri
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A migrant is comforted by a member of the Spanish Red Cross at the Spanish enclave of Ceuta near the border of Morocco and Spain on May 18, 2021.

AP Photo/Bernat Armangue
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Honduran migrants clash with Guatemalan soldiers in Vado Hondo, Guatemala, on Jan. 17, 2021.

AP Photo/Sandra Sebastian
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Shredded trees and the shells of homes lie half buried in mud near the Taal volcano almost a year after it erupted in Batangas province, a popular tourist destination just south of Manila, Philippines, on Jan. 10, 2021.

AP Photo/Aaron Favila
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Tin Tin Win, center, weeps over the body of her son, Tin Htut Hein, at his funeral in Yangon, Myanmar, on Feb. 24, 2021. Tin Htut Hein was shot four days earlier while acting as a volunteer guard for a neighborhood watch group that was set up over fears that authorities were using criminals released from prison to spread fear and commit violence.

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A woman holds a cutout of President Donald Trump's face at a rally in Washington in support of Trump called the "Save America Rally" on Jan. 6, 2021.

AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
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A health worker prepares Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute in Quezon City, Philippines, on Nov. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Aaron Favila
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Mahavir Singh, 90, stands for a photograph as he participates in a protest against new farm laws at the border of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh states in India, on Jan. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Altaf Qadri
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Nepalese supporters of the splinter group in the governing Nepal Communist Party celebrate in Kathmandu on Feb. 23, 2021, after the Supreme Court ordered the reinstatement of Parliament, which had been dissolved by the prime minister. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Niranjan Shrestha
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Police with guns drawn face off against rioters trying to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

J. Scott Applewhite
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection mounted officers attempt to contain migrants, mostly from Haiti, as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas, on Sept. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Felix Marquez
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A man carries a mannequin dressed as Superman ahead of a no confidence vote against Romanian Prime Minister Florin Citu's government in Romania's parliament in Bucharest, on Oct. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Andreea Alexandru
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Holocaust survivor Rivka Papo, 87, gets makeup applied during a special beauty pageant honoring Holocaust survivors in Jerusalem, on Nov. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Oded Balilty
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Israeli Arabs stand under a waterfall during the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday at the Gan HaShlosha national park near the northern Israeli town of Beit Shean, on July 21, 2021. Eid al-Adha meaning "Feast of Sacrifice," marks the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham to Christians and Jews) to sacrifice his son. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Oded Balilty
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Simone Biles of the United States trains on vault for artistic gymnastics at Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo, Japan, on July 22, 2021, ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Ashley Landis
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Vendors wear hats for shade as they sell cooking coal at a market in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, on July 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Matias Delacroix
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A home is engulfed in flames as the Dixie fire rages south of Janesville in Northern California, on Aug. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

Ethan Swope
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Men place a coffin containing the remains of Francois Elmay into a tomb after recovering his body from the rubble of a home destroyed four days earlier by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Tobek, Haiti, on Aug. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

Joseph Odelyn
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A child weeps as he is unloaded from an inflatable raft after being smuggled into the United States across the Rio Grande in Roma, Texas, on March 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Dario Lopez-Mills
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Young cadets attend a ceremony on the first day of school at a cadet lyceum in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 1, 2021. Ukraine marks Sept. 1 as Knowledge Day, the traditional launch of the academic year. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Efrem Lukatsky
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Guan Chenchen, of China, performs on the balance beam on her way to winning the gold medal during the artistic gymnastics women's apparatus final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, Japan, on Aug. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Ashley Landis
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Luciana Benetti, 16, embraces her pet pig Chanchi at home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Sept. 4, 2021. Benetti found her plans for a big traditional 15th birthday party scrapped due to the COVID-19 pandemic last year. In its place, her parents gave her a pig, which turned out to be a loyal and loving companion. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Natacha Pisarenko
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A model waits to have her headdress removed after a presentation of the William Zhang collection by designer Hongwei Zhang during the China Fashion Week in Beijing, on Sept. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Ng Han Guan
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A firefighter places his hand on engraved names on the south memorial pool during a ceremony to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2021, at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

John Minchillo
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Children watch a movie of the "Cinema no Morro" or "Cinema on the hill" project in a cultural center at Vila Cruzeiro favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sept. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Silvia Izquierdo
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An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man from the Kiryat Sanz Hassidic sect prays on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean Sea during a Tashlich ceremony in Netanya, Israel, on Sept. 14, 2021. Tashlich, which means "to cast away" in Hebrew, is the practice in which Jews symbolically "throw away" their sins by throwing a piece of bread, or similar food, into a large body of water before the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Ariel Schalit
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Children jump over a puddle of water as they play during a rainstorm on a street in Barcelona, Spain, on Sept. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Emilio Morenatti
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Russian communist supporters hold flags and portraits of Vladimir Lenin as they walk to the mausoleum housing the Soviet founder's remains to mark the 151st anniversary of his birth on April 22, 2021, in Moscow. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Pavel Golovkin
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A man runs to escape the heat from multiple funeral pyres of COVID-19 victims at a crematorium on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, on April 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Amit Sharma)

Amit Sharma
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A woman carries a wooden cross during a pilgrimage to pray that the Pacaya volcano decreases its activity, in San Vicente Pacaya, Guatemala, on May 5, 2021. The volcano, just 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Guatemala's capital, became more active in early February. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Moises Castillo
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Father Felix Mendoza, a Venezuelan Catholic priest, prays over a woman who is crying out in physical pain, at a public hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Ariana Cubillos
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A blast from an Israeli airstrike on a building in Gaza City throws dust and debris on May 13, 2021, as Hamas and Israel traded more rockets and airstrikes and Jewish-Arab violence raged across Israel at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Hatem Moussa
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A group of migrants arrive outside a holding center for migrants in the Spanish North African enclave of Melilla, on May 18, 2021, after crossing into Melilla in the early hours by jumping over the enclave's double fence. (AP Photo/Javier Bernardo)

Javier Bernardo
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Impoverished Sri Lankans salvage debris that washed ashore on May 26, 2021, from the burning Singaporean ship X-Press Pearl, which caught fire several days earlier off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Eranga Jayawardena
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Anti-government protesters angry over proposed tax increases on public services, fuel, wages and pensions clash with police in Madrid, Colombia, on the outskirts of Bogota, on May 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Ivan Valencia
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New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso walks to his position between innings of the team's baseball game against the Chicago Cubs on June 17, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Kathy Willens
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Health care worker Nazir Ahmed carries a cooler with vaccines and looks out from a hillock for Kashmiri shepherds to vaccinate in Tosamaidan, southwest of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on June 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Dar Yasin
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Surgeon-turned-refugee Dr. Tewodros Tefera performs surgery on a man's severely infected toe, at the Sudanese Red Crescent clinic in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Nariman El-Mofty
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Performers dressed as rescue workers gather around the Communist Party flag during a gala show ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing, on June 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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President Joe Biden speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington after returning from a trip to Cincinnati, on July 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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A boy bicycle-kicks a ball in a flooded area of the Belen community in Iquitos, Peru, on March 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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A fighter loyal to the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) mans a guard post on the outskirts of the town of Hawzen, then-controlled by the group but later re-taken by government forces, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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A Palestinian man carries an olive tree as he crosses illegally into Israel from the West Bank, through a gap in the separation barrier, south of the West Bank town of Hebron, on March 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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Victor Tripiana, 86, reaches out to touch the hand of his daughter-in-law, Silvia Fernandez Sotto, separated by a plastic sheet to prevent the spread of COVID-19, at the Reminiscencias residence for the elderly in Tandil, Argentina, on April 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

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Villas on the fronds of the Jumeirah Palm Island in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, are seen from the observation deck of The View at The Palm Jumeirah on April 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

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In this photo created with an in-camera multiple exposure, registered nurse Lisa Lampkin, part of the first group of nurses who had been treating coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit, stands for a photo in the empty COVID-19 ICU at Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif., on April 6, 2021. "I would go home, try to sleep," she says. Then she would "wake up to the reality of this pandemic again." (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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A funeral worker removes empty coffins that held remains that were later cremated at La Recoleta cemetery in Santiago, Chile, during the coronavirus pandemic, on April 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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Military police officer Everaldo Pinto, dressed as superhero Captain America, greets children and encourages them to protect themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic in Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, on April 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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A train passes a railroad crossing surrounded by floodwaters from rain and melting snow in Nidderau near Frankfurt, Germany, on Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress prepared to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Migrants and refugees of various African nationalities wait for assistance aboard an overcrowded wooden boat in the Mediterranean Sea 122 miles off the coast of Libya as aid workers on the Spanish search and rescue vessel Open Arms approach on Feb. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Bruno Thevenin)

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A ray of sunshine illuminates the face of a baby Jesus figure, held by a man waiting to have the figurine blessed, at the Purification of Our Lady of Candlemas Chapel in Mexico City, on Feb. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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Khushi Mir, left, a transgender Kashmiri, relaxes with friends after a meeting of community members in the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on June 4, 2021. Khushi and four young boys have begun a volunteer group to distribute food kits to the transgender community. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

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An Ethiopian woman argues with others over the allocation of yellow split peas distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on May 8, 2021. In war-torn Tigray, it is not just that people are starving; it is that many are being starved, The Associated Press found. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Relatives and neighbors wail during the funeral of Waseem Ahmed, a policeman who was killed in a shootout, on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on June 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

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A wood frog looks out from the clover in East Waterford, Pa., on June 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Switzerland's Marc Hirschi lies on the side of the road after crashing during the first stage of the Tour de France cycling race on June 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and children read by candle light from the book of Eicha (Book of Lamentations) during the annual Tisha B'Av (Ninth of Av) fasting and memorial day, commemorating the destruction of ancient Jerusalem temples, in the Ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, on July 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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Supporters of President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the the U.S. Capitol in Washington as they try to storm the building on Jan. 6, 2021, while inside Congress prepared to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's election victory. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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A man watches as a wildfire approaches Kochyli beach near the village of Limni, Greece, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Athens, on Aug. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Thodoris Nikolaou)

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Stephen Mudoga, 12, tries to chase away a swarm of locusts on his farm as he returns home from school, at Elburgon, in Nakuru county, Kenya, on March 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

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Larrecsa Cox peers around a stairwell in an abandoned home frequented by people struggling with drug addiction in Huntington, W.Va., on March 18, 2021. Cox leads the Quick Response Team, whose mission is to save every person who survives an overdose from the next one. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Migrants walk on a dirt road along the Rio Grande in Mission, Texas, on March 23, 2021, after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Jen Ho Lee, a 76-year-old South Korean immigrant, poses in her apartment in Los Angeles on March 31, 2021, with a sign from a recent rally she attended in Koreatown against anti-Asian hate crimes. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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A patient in a car receives oxygen provided by a gurdwara, a Sikh place of worship, in New Delhi, India, on April 24, 2021. India's health system has been overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic, leaving patients desperate for oxygen and other supplies. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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Displaced Tigrayan women, one wearing an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian cross, sit in a metal shack to eat food donated by local residents at a reception center for the internally displaced in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on May 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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A ballerina in the National Opera performs during the avant premiere staging of the 1870 comic ballet Coppelia in Bucharest, Romania, on May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

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River herring, also known as alewives, swim in a stream on May 16, 2021, in Franklin, Maine. The fish were once headed for the endangered species list but have been making a comeback in some U.S. states. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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A group of migrants mainly from Honduras and Nicaragua wait along a road after turning themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, in La Joya, Texas, on May 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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Lucy Mbewe, a traditional birth attendant, assists a pregnant woman at her home in Simika Village, Chiradzulu, southern Malawi, on May 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

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Daniel Turjman, 60, rests in a bomb shelter that is also used as a synagogue near his apartment building in Ashdod, Israel, on May 19, 2021, as fighting escalates between the Israeli military Hamas militants. (AP Photo/Heidi Levine)

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Taliban fighters ride in a boat in the Qargha dam outside Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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Laila poses for a photo on Sept. 27, 2021, as she plays in a poor neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan, where hundreds of internally displaced people from the eastern part of the country have been living for years. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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Police beat a woman participating in a protest over the death in prison of Mushtaq Ahmed, a writer who was arrested on charges of violating a sweeping digital security law, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Feb. 26, 2021. Ahmed, 53, was arrested in May 2020 for making comments on social media that criticized how the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was handling the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

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Medical students grieve and some flash the three-fingered salute during the funeral of their fellow student Khant Ngar Hein in Yangon, Myanmar, on March 16, 2021. Khant Ngar Hein, 18, was shot in the chest two days earlier by security forces during a protest against the military takeover of the country. (AP Photo)

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Cruises should be avoided regardless of vaccination status, CDC says

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday increased the risk level for cruise ship travel to its highest level and said it should be avoided, regardless of vaccination status.

The agency bumped up the travel risk level for cruise travel from Level 3 to Level 4, indicating the risk for Covid-19 is "very high."

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Omicron surge is 'unlike anything we've ever seen,' expert says

An unprecedented spike in Covid-19 cases fueled by the fast-moving Omicron variant is crushing hospitals across the United States, with doctors describing packed emergency rooms as health experts implore New Year's Eve revelers to keep parties small and outdoors to help avert an even worse surge.

"It's unlike anything we've ever seen, even at the peak of the prior surges of Covid," Dr. James Phillips, who works in Washington, DC, said Wednesday, when the nation hit a new pandemic high of 300,886 average new daily cases over the prior week, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

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UK bank mistakenly pays out $175 million on Christmas Day

UK bank Santander got into the Christmas spirit this year by paying out a total of £130 million ($175 million) to customers by mistake on December 25.

The total payment was split over 75,000 transactions for around 2,000 corporate and commercial customers, Santander said in a statement published Thursday.

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Dionne Warwick is in a Twitter battle with Oreo

Dionne Warwick has been a legend in the music industry for years, and she continues to cement her legendary status on Twitter.

The singer has come to be known for her wonderfully direct tweets. Now she's now found herself in a bit of a battle with Oreo, and it's kind of delicious.

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High-end Champagne shortage could ruin your New Year's Eve

Enough already! Can we call it a wrap on 2021?

As if this year hasn't been challenging enough, it's leaving us with one more parting shot — a Champagne shortage.

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Dwayne Johnson reflects on his record-breaking year, becoming the tequila king and whether he'll run for the White House

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has plenty of reasons to toast 2021 with some Teremana.

He produced and starred in two hit films, "Jungle Cruise" and "Red Notice," debuted his biographical sitcom "Young Rock," saw unprecedented sales growth with his Teremana tequila, and became the most followed American man on Instagram with 285 million followers.

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Tiger at Florida zoo shot to death after pulling man's arm into enclosure, sheriff's office says

A critically endangered tiger was shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy Wednesday after a man was attacked by the animal at a zoo in Naples, Florida, officials said.

The man, who is in his 20s, was seriously injured when he entered an unauthorized area of the tiger enclosure at the Naples Zoo at Caribbean Gardens and began either petting or feeding the tiger, the Collier County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post.

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A world ablaze: Top images captured by AP photographers in 2021

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A couple kiss in front of a barricade set on fire by demonstrators during clashes with police following a protest condemning the imprisonment of rap singer Pablo Hasél in Barcelona, Spain, on Feb. 18, 2021. Hasél was convicted of insulting the Spanish monarchy and praising terrorist violence.

AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti
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President-elect Joe Biden, left, and Vice President Mike Pence, right, watch as Lady Gaga steps off the stage after performing the national anthem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 2021.

AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
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Firefighters battle the Sugar Fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex Fire, in Doyle, Calif., on July 9, 2021.

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Yemeni fighters backed by the Saudi-led coalition ride on the back of an armored vehicle as they leave the front lines of Marib, Yemen, on June 19, 2021.

AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty
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People cry out as the body of their relative is recovered from the rubble of a building damaged by an earthquake in Mamuju, West Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Jan. 15, 2021.

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Demonstrators attack a barricade protecting Mexico City's National Palace during a march to commemorate International Women's Day and protest against gender violence on March 8, 2021.

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Yohaness, from Eritrea, prays with other migrants as they arrive at the coast of Italy aboard the Spanish vessel Open Arms on Jan. 4, 2021, after being rescued in the Mediterranean sea.

AP Photo/Joan Mateu
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A penguin swims in an enclosure housing gentoo and chinstrap penguins at Mexico City's Inbursa Aquarium on Jan. 13, 2021.

AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell
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A voodoo pilgrim bathes in a waterfall believed to have purifying powers during an annual celebration in Saut d' Eau, Haiti, on July 16, 2021.

AP Photo/Matias Delacroix
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A farmer smokes a bidi, or hand-rolled cigarette, during a tractor rally to protest new farm laws in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, on Jan. 7, 2021.

AP Photo/Altaf Qadri
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A migrant is comforted by a member of the Spanish Red Cross at the Spanish enclave of Ceuta near the border of Morocco and Spain on May 18, 2021.

AP Photo/Bernat Armangue
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Honduran migrants clash with Guatemalan soldiers in Vado Hondo, Guatemala, on Jan. 17, 2021.

AP Photo/Sandra Sebastian
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Shredded trees and the shells of homes lie half buried in mud near the Taal volcano almost a year after it erupted in Batangas province, a popular tourist destination just south of Manila, Philippines, on Jan. 10, 2021.

AP Photo/Aaron Favila
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Tin Tin Win, center, weeps over the body of her son, Tin Htut Hein, at his funeral in Yangon, Myanmar, on Feb. 24, 2021. Tin Htut Hein was shot four days earlier while acting as a volunteer guard for a neighborhood watch group that was set up over fears that authorities were using criminals released from prison to spread fear and commit violence.

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A woman holds a cutout of President Donald Trump's face at a rally in Washington in support of Trump called the "Save America Rally" on Jan. 6, 2021.

AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
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A health worker prepares Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute in Quezon City, Philippines, on Nov. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Aaron Favila
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Mahavir Singh, 90, stands for a photograph as he participates in a protest against new farm laws at the border of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh states in India, on Jan. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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Nepalese supporters of the splinter group in the governing Nepal Communist Party celebrate in Kathmandu on Feb. 23, 2021, after the Supreme Court ordered the reinstatement of Parliament, which had been dissolved by the prime minister. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Niranjan Shrestha
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Police with guns drawn face off against rioters trying to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

J. Scott Applewhite
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection mounted officers attempt to contain migrants, mostly from Haiti, as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas, on Sept. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Felix Marquez
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A man carries a mannequin dressed as Superman ahead of a no confidence vote against Romanian Prime Minister Florin Citu's government in Romania's parliament in Bucharest, on Oct. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Andreea Alexandru
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Holocaust survivor Rivka Papo, 87, gets makeup applied during a special beauty pageant honoring Holocaust survivors in Jerusalem, on Nov. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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Israeli Arabs stand under a waterfall during the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday at the Gan HaShlosha national park near the northern Israeli town of Beit Shean, on July 21, 2021. Eid al-Adha meaning "Feast of Sacrifice," marks the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham to Christians and Jews) to sacrifice his son. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Oded Balilty
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Simone Biles of the United States trains on vault for artistic gymnastics at Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo, Japan, on July 22, 2021, ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Ashley Landis
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Vendors wear hats for shade as they sell cooking coal at a market in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, on July 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Matias Delacroix
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A home is engulfed in flames as the Dixie fire rages south of Janesville in Northern California, on Aug. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

Ethan Swope
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Men place a coffin containing the remains of Francois Elmay into a tomb after recovering his body from the rubble of a home destroyed four days earlier by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Tobek, Haiti, on Aug. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

Joseph Odelyn
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A child weeps as he is unloaded from an inflatable raft after being smuggled into the United States across the Rio Grande in Roma, Texas, on March 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Dario Lopez-Mills
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Young cadets attend a ceremony on the first day of school at a cadet lyceum in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 1, 2021. Ukraine marks Sept. 1 as Knowledge Day, the traditional launch of the academic year. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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Guan Chenchen, of China, performs on the balance beam on her way to winning the gold medal during the artistic gymnastics women's apparatus final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, Japan, on Aug. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Ashley Landis
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Luciana Benetti, 16, embraces her pet pig Chanchi at home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Sept. 4, 2021. Benetti found her plans for a big traditional 15th birthday party scrapped due to the COVID-19 pandemic last year. In its place, her parents gave her a pig, which turned out to be a loyal and loving companion. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Natacha Pisarenko
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A model waits to have her headdress removed after a presentation of the William Zhang collection by designer Hongwei Zhang during the China Fashion Week in Beijing, on Sept. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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A firefighter places his hand on engraved names on the south memorial pool during a ceremony to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2021, at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

John Minchillo
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Children watch a movie of the "Cinema no Morro" or "Cinema on the hill" project in a cultural center at Vila Cruzeiro favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sept. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Silvia Izquierdo
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An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man from the Kiryat Sanz Hassidic sect prays on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean Sea during a Tashlich ceremony in Netanya, Israel, on Sept. 14, 2021. Tashlich, which means "to cast away" in Hebrew, is the practice in which Jews symbolically "throw away" their sins by throwing a piece of bread, or similar food, into a large body of water before the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Children jump over a puddle of water as they play during a rainstorm on a street in Barcelona, Spain, on Sept. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Russian communist supporters hold flags and portraits of Vladimir Lenin as they walk to the mausoleum housing the Soviet founder's remains to mark the 151st anniversary of his birth on April 22, 2021, in Moscow. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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A man runs to escape the heat from multiple funeral pyres of COVID-19 victims at a crematorium on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, on April 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Amit Sharma)

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A woman carries a wooden cross during a pilgrimage to pray that the Pacaya volcano decreases its activity, in San Vicente Pacaya, Guatemala, on May 5, 2021. The volcano, just 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Guatemala's capital, became more active in early February. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

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Father Felix Mendoza, a Venezuelan Catholic priest, prays over a woman who is crying out in physical pain, at a public hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

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A blast from an Israeli airstrike on a building in Gaza City throws dust and debris on May 13, 2021, as Hamas and Israel traded more rockets and airstrikes and Jewish-Arab violence raged across Israel at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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A group of migrants arrive outside a holding center for migrants in the Spanish North African enclave of Melilla, on May 18, 2021, after crossing into Melilla in the early hours by jumping over the enclave's double fence. (AP Photo/Javier Bernardo)

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Impoverished Sri Lankans salvage debris that washed ashore on May 26, 2021, from the burning Singaporean ship X-Press Pearl, which caught fire several days earlier off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Anti-government protesters angry over proposed tax increases on public services, fuel, wages and pensions clash with police in Madrid, Colombia, on the outskirts of Bogota, on May 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

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New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso walks to his position between innings of the team's baseball game against the Chicago Cubs on June 17, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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Health care worker Nazir Ahmed carries a cooler with vaccines and looks out from a hillock for Kashmiri shepherds to vaccinate in Tosamaidan, southwest of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on June 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Dar Yasin
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Surgeon-turned-refugee Dr. Tewodros Tefera performs surgery on a man's severely infected toe, at the Sudanese Red Crescent clinic in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Nariman El-Mofty
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Performers dressed as rescue workers gather around the Communist Party flag during a gala show ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing, on June 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Ng Han Guan
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Kian Navales poses at home in Quezon city, Philippines, on July 6, 2021, holding a pillow with a photo on it of his late father, Arthur, who died from COVID-19. Navales, who also had the virus, says he misses going out for noodles with his dad. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Aaron Favila
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President Joe Biden speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington after returning from a trip to Cincinnati, on July 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Susan Walsh
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A boy bicycle-kicks a ball in a flooded area of the Belen community in Iquitos, Peru, on March 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Rodrigo Abd
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A fighter loyal to the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) mans a guard post on the outskirts of the town of Hawzen, then-controlled by the group but later re-taken by government forces, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Ben Curtis
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A Palestinian man carries an olive tree as he crosses illegally into Israel from the West Bank, through a gap in the separation barrier, south of the West Bank town of Hebron, on March 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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Victor Tripiana, 86, reaches out to touch the hand of his daughter-in-law, Silvia Fernandez Sotto, separated by a plastic sheet to prevent the spread of COVID-19, at the Reminiscencias residence for the elderly in Tandil, Argentina, on April 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Natacha Pisarenko
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Villas on the fronds of the Jumeirah Palm Island in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, are seen from the observation deck of The View at The Palm Jumeirah on April 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Kamran Jebreili
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In this photo created with an in-camera multiple exposure, registered nurse Lisa Lampkin, part of the first group of nurses who had been treating coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit, stands for a photo in the empty COVID-19 ICU at Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif., on April 6, 2021. "I would go home, try to sleep," she says. Then she would "wake up to the reality of this pandemic again." (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Jae C. Hong
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A funeral worker removes empty coffins that held remains that were later cremated at La Recoleta cemetery in Santiago, Chile, during the coronavirus pandemic, on April 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Esteban Felix
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Military police officer Everaldo Pinto, dressed as superhero Captain America, greets children and encourages them to protect themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic in Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, on April 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Silvia Izquierdo
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A train passes a railroad crossing surrounded by floodwaters from rain and melting snow in Nidderau near Frankfurt, Germany, on Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Michael Probst
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Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress prepared to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

John Minchillo
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Migrants and refugees of various African nationalities wait for assistance aboard an overcrowded wooden boat in the Mediterranean Sea 122 miles off the coast of Libya as aid workers on the Spanish search and rescue vessel Open Arms approach on Feb. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Bruno Thevenin)

Bruno Thevenin
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A ray of sunshine illuminates the face of a baby Jesus figure, held by a man waiting to have the figurine blessed, at the Purification of Our Lady of Candlemas Chapel in Mexico City, on Feb. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Rebecca Blackwell
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Khushi Mir, left, a transgender Kashmiri, relaxes with friends after a meeting of community members in the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on June 4, 2021. Khushi and four young boys have begun a volunteer group to distribute food kits to the transgender community. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Dar Yasin
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An Ethiopian woman argues with others over the allocation of yellow split peas distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on May 8, 2021. In war-torn Tigray, it is not just that people are starving; it is that many are being starved, The Associated Press found. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Ben Curtis
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Relatives and neighbors wail during the funeral of Waseem Ahmed, a policeman who was killed in a shootout, on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on June 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Dar Yasin
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A wood frog looks out from the clover in East Waterford, Pa., on June 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Carolyn Kaster
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Switzerland's Marc Hirschi lies on the side of the road after crashing during the first stage of the Tour de France cycling race on June 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Daniel Cole
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and children read by candle light from the book of Eicha (Book of Lamentations) during the annual Tisha B'Av (Ninth of Av) fasting and memorial day, commemorating the destruction of ancient Jerusalem temples, in the Ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, on July 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Oded Balilty
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Supporters of President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the the U.S. Capitol in Washington as they try to storm the building on Jan. 6, 2021, while inside Congress prepared to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's election victory. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Jose Luis Magana
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A man watches as a wildfire approaches Kochyli beach near the village of Limni, Greece, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Athens, on Aug. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Thodoris Nikolaou)

Thodoris Nikolaou
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Stephen Mudoga, 12, tries to chase away a swarm of locusts on his farm as he returns home from school, at Elburgon, in Nakuru county, Kenya, on March 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Brian Inganga
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Larrecsa Cox peers around a stairwell in an abandoned home frequented by people struggling with drug addiction in Huntington, W.Va., on March 18, 2021. Cox leads the Quick Response Team, whose mission is to save every person who survives an overdose from the next one. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

David Goldman
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Migrants walk on a dirt road along the Rio Grande in Mission, Texas, on March 23, 2021, after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Julio Cortez
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Jen Ho Lee, a 76-year-old South Korean immigrant, poses in her apartment in Los Angeles on March 31, 2021, with a sign from a recent rally she attended in Koreatown against anti-Asian hate crimes. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Jae C. Hong
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A patient in a car receives oxygen provided by a gurdwara, a Sikh place of worship, in New Delhi, India, on April 24, 2021. India's health system has been overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic, leaving patients desperate for oxygen and other supplies. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Altaf Qadri
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Displaced Tigrayan women, one wearing an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian cross, sit in a metal shack to eat food donated by local residents at a reception center for the internally displaced in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on May 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Ben Curtis
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A ballerina in the National Opera performs during the avant premiere staging of the 1870 comic ballet Coppelia in Bucharest, Romania, on May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Andreea Alexandru
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River herring, also known as alewives, swim in a stream on May 16, 2021, in Franklin, Maine. The fish were once headed for the endangered species list but have been making a comeback in some U.S. states. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Robert F. Bukaty
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A group of migrants mainly from Honduras and Nicaragua wait along a road after turning themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, in La Joya, Texas, on May 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Gregory Bull
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Lucy Mbewe, a traditional birth attendant, assists a pregnant woman at her home in Simika Village, Chiradzulu, southern Malawi, on May 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

Thoko Chikondi
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Daniel Turjman, 60, rests in a bomb shelter that is also used as a synagogue near his apartment building in Ashdod, Israel, on May 19, 2021, as fighting escalates between the Israeli military Hamas militants. (AP Photo/Heidi Levine)

Heidi Levine
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Taliban fighters ride in a boat in the Qargha dam outside Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Bernat Armangue
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Laila poses for a photo on Sept. 27, 2021, as she plays in a poor neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan, where hundreds of internally displaced people from the eastern part of the country have been living for years. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Felipe Dana
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Police beat a woman participating in a protest over the death in prison of Mushtaq Ahmed, a writer who was arrested on charges of violating a sweeping digital security law, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Feb. 26, 2021. Ahmed, 53, was arrested in May 2020 for making comments on social media that criticized how the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was handling the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Mahmud Hossain Opu
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Medical students grieve and some flash the three-fingered salute during the funeral of their fellow student Khant Ngar Hein in Yangon, Myanmar, on March 16, 2021. Khant Ngar Hein, 18, was shot in the chest two days earlier by security forces during a protest against the military takeover of the country. (AP Photo)

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