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FBI Director Christopher Wray, seen here speaking at a news conference in November, accused Beijing of stealing American ideas and innovation and launching massive hacking operations.
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Supporters of single-payer health care march to the California capitol in 2017. On Monday, the author of a universal health care bill in the legislature didn't bring the measure up for a vote on the final day it couldn't be considered because he didn't think it would pass.
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Sandra Castro vaccinates first-grader Kristen Cruz, 6, at KIPP Believe Charter School in New Orleans last week ahead of Tuesday's deadline for all students in the city's school system to be vaccinated.
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Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Conroe, Texas, on Saturday.
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NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins waves at the audience during the astronaut graduation ceremony at Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas, on January 10, 2020.
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Howard University in Washington, D.C., is one of at least six historically Black colleges and universities that received bomb threats on Monday. It received a second threat on Tuesday.
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