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The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee is about to get a new president and it looks like it will be a woman

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World: 2 Syrians held in Israel to be released in prisoner exchange

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Syria’s official news agency says Damascus, through Russian mediation, is securing the release of two Syrians held in Israel in exchange for releasing an Israeli woman that entered Syria by mistake

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FOX News: Another major winter storm is coming: Here's what to expect

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Another major winter storm will bring heavy snow, ice and dangerous cold air for millions across the country.

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World: Gunmen kill 1 pupil, abduct some 40 people in north Nigeria

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Gunmen have attacked a school in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State, killing at least one student and abducting more than 40 people including students and teachers, a local official and a teacher said

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FOX News: McConnell silent in aftermath of Trump broadside as ex-president threatens to get involved in GOP primaries

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was silent Tuesday night into Wednesday morning after former President Donald Trump lit into him in a lengthy statement calling on Republican senators to abandon McConnell and threatening primary challenges to incumbents.

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World – TIME: How We Chose the 2021 TIME100 Next

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As we assembled our second annual TIME100 Next list—an expansion of our flagship TIME100 franchise that highlights 100 emerging leaders who are shaping the future—what struck me most was how its members are coping with crisis.

Amid a global pandemic, deepening inequality, systemic injustice and existential questions about truth, democracy and the planet itself, the individuals on this year’s list provide “clear-eyed hope,” as actor, composer and director Lin-Manuel Miranda puts it in his tribute to poet and TIME100 Next honoree Amanda Gorman. They are doctors and scientists fighting COVID-19, advocates pushing for equality and justice, journalists standing up for truth, and artists sharing their visions of present and future.

As with Miranda and Gorman, many of the TIME100 Next profiles are written by TIME100 alumni—a testament to the ways that influence flows across generations. One example: Dr. Anthony Fauci, who recently turned 80, calls his fellow immunologist and National Institutes of Health colleague Kizzmekia Corbett, 35, “a rising star” whose work—which was key to the development of the Moderna vaccine for COVID-19—“will have a substantial impact on ending the worst respiratory-disease pandemic in more than 100 years.”

Equally powerful is the influence flowing between these emerging leaders themselves. Greta Thunberg, 18, TIME’s 2019 Person of the Year, writes about 24-year-old Uganda-based Vanessa Nakate, whose Rise Up movement focuses on the disproportionate impact of climate change on the African continent and the Global South. “In this moment of intersecting crises—from COVID-19 to racial injustice, from ecological problems to economic inequality—Vanessa continues to teach a most critical lesson,” Thunberg writes. “She reminds us that while we may all be in the same storm, we are not all in the same boat.”

Although recognizing the leaders of tomorrow lends itself to a younger group, we intentionally have no age cap, an acknowledgment that ascents can begin at any age. The youngest person on this list, for example, is 16-year-old entertainer Charli D’Amelio, who counts more than 100 million followers on TikTok. Among the eldest is 51-year-old Raphael Warnock, a Democratic Senator from Georgia, whose recent election represents “the dawn of a new South,” writes Rev. Bernice A. King, the CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change.

“Everyone on this list is poised to make history,” says Dan Macsai, editorial director of the TIME100. “And in fact, many already have.” Indeed, when we told Jessica Byrd, who has helped shape the movement for electoral justice, that she was going to be included on this year’s TIME100 Next, she shared that she was “very, very moved” to receive another recognition from TIME—the first being in 2015 when, at a challenging moment in her life, she was named to a list of rising Black leaders. Two months after that, “catapulted by the public visibility and support for my work through that list,” Byrd says she “felt the wind at my back” and started her firm Three Point Strategies, which went on to work with such clients as Stacey Abrams and the Movement for Black Lives. “And the rest, as they say, is history.”

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On This Day: 17 February 2011

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In 2011, an opera based on the life of Anna Nicole Smith opened in London. (Feb. 17)

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Thousands more kids to go back to school as Health Ministry eases criteria

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More kids in medium-infected areas to go back to classroom Sunday, along with grades 5-6, 11-12 in 'yellow' and 'green' localities; transmission rate drops to near key level of 0.8

Mbappé humiliates Barça and Liverpool all smiles again – Football Weekly

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PSG humiliated Barcelona at the Camp Nou, with Kylian Mbappé scoring a superb hat-trick.

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Ford to go all electric in Europe by 2030

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... in the Cologne plant, which employs just over 4,000 workers, comes after its European operations returned to a profit in the fourth quarter of 2020.

OC opens COVID-19 vaccination site at Santa Ana College to target hard-hit areas

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New Zealand ends lockdown after deciding outbreak contained

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Pandemic politicking: Israel’s election sprint echoes US’s – KPRC Click2Houston

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After 2020 Election ‘Failure,’ Oneida County Elections Commissioners Resign – WSKG.org

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FBI Arrests Orange County Suspect In US Capitol Insurrection

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Federal officials on Tuesday morning made an arrest in Costa Mesa of a man accused in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Michele Gile reports.

After Pork Giant Was Exposed for Cruel Killings, the FBI Pursued Its Critics

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Ford Will Transition to Solely Electric Cars in Europe

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The automaker said that by 2026, it will offer only electric and plug-in hybrid models. Read the latest business updates.

Covid-19 Live Updates: Biden Suggests Every American Could Be Offered Vaccine by August

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Biden: White supremacists are ‘the most dangerous people’ in America

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Biden says ‘domestic terror’ is greatest terrorist threat to the US, warns that white supremacists ‘are most dangerous people in the US’.