Headlines for February 16, 2021
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- Speaker Pelosi Authorizes Independent Commission to Investigate Jan. 6 Insurrection
- Deadly U.S. Cold Snap Leaves Millions Without Power
- New Orleans Cancels Mardi Gras Parade One Year After It Became Coronavirus Superspreader Event
- Gov. Cuomo Acknowledges Not Reporting Nursing Home Deaths But Stops Short of Apology
- New World Trade Organization Chief Warns Against Vaccine Nationalism
- One Killed, 9 Injured in Missile Attack on U.S. Military Base in Northern Iraq
- As Taliban Fighters Surround Afghan Cities, Biden Weighs U.S. Withdrawal Plans
- U.S. Removes Houthis from Terror List as Yemen's Humanitarian Crisis Worsens
- Western Sahara Independence Activist Sultana Khaya Assaulted by Moroccan Police
- Dozens Dead and Hundreds Missing After Overloaded Boat Capsizes in Congo River
- Palestinians Say Israel Has Halted Shipment of Vaccines to Gaza Strip
- Federal Court Overturns Arkansas Law Requiring Pledge Not to Boycott Israel
- St. Louis Reaches $5 Million Settlement with Black Undercover Cop Assaulted by White Officers
- L.A. Police Officers Circulated Racist Meme Mocking George Floyd's Killing
- New Jersey Attorney General to Investigate Cops Who Beat Arab American Teen
- Guatemalan Women and Girls Protest Skyrocketing Cases of Femicides