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  • FILE - In this July 10, 2018 file photo, former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn leaves federal courthouse in Washington, following a status hearing. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

    Trump pardons Flynn, taking direct aim at Russia probe

  • Travelers wearing protective masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 arrive in Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020, in the Queens borough of New York. Millions of Americans are taking to the skies and hitting the road ahead of Thanksgiving at the risk of pouring gasoline on the coronavirus fire. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

    Americans risk travelling over Thanksgiving despite warnings

  • President Donald Trump walking out to speak in the Brady Briefing Room in the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020, in Washington. Walking behind Trump is Vice President Mike Pence. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

    Trump refuses to accept Biden's win as transition proceeds

  • Women take part in a demonstration on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in Rome, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

    Global push to end domestic violence, which has worsened amid COVID-19

  • President-elect Joe Biden speaks Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    Biden seeks unity as Trump stokes fading embers of campaign

  • Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks via video link, during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons in London, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. (Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament via AP)

    UK cuts overseas aid after worst recession in over 300 years

  • Seagulls fly over the Red Sea port city of Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

    Mine explodes, damaging oil tanker off Saudi Arabia

  • This March 13, 2003 file photo shows an exterior view of the German media giant Bertelsmann in Guetersloh, Germany. German media giant Bertelsmann said Wednesday that it is buying publisher Simon & Schuster from ViacomCBS for $2.17 billion in cash. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file)

    Penguin parent Bertelsmann snaps up publisher Simon & Schuster in $2.17B deal

  • A protester wearing a headgear designed as a yellow duck, which has become a good-humored symbol of resistance during anti-government rallies, sits in front of police standing guard outside the Siam Commercial Bank Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai authorities have escalated their legal battle against the students leading pro-democracy protests, charging 12 of them with violating a harsh law against defaming the monarchy. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

    Thai protesters push on despite charges of royal defamation

  • Tigray refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region, wait to receive aid at Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

    Ethiopian PM refuses 'unwelcome' international offers to end war in Tigray

  • In this photo provided on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020, by the Azerbaijan's Presidential Press Office, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev gestures as he addresses the nation in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani army has entered the Kalbajar region, one more territory ceded by Armenian forces in a truce that ended deadly fighting over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. (Azerbaijani Presidential Press Office via AP)

    Azerbaijani leader vows to revive region ceded by Armenia

  • A car stands in front of the chancellery after it crashed into the front gate of the building housing German Chancellor Angela Merkel's offices in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. Slogan reads 'stop the globalization policies'. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

    Car strikes gate outside German Chancellery in Berlin; no injuries