WHO no longer considers Zika a global health emergency and other top stories.

• WHO no longer considers Zika a global health emergency

  

  Margaret Chan, general director of the World Health Organization, gave an update in March on the organization's recent work on the Zika virus. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/EPA) The Zika virus that has spread to more than 50 countries is no longer considered an international public health emergency, the World Health Organization declared Friday. But the change in designation does not represent a downgrading of Zika's importance, officials said. The WHO labeled Zika an international emergency in Februa..

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• Trump chooses Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Rep. Mike ...

  

  President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he plans to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as attorney general and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) as CIA director, a pair of hard-line conservatives who offer early signs of the shape of Trump’s Cabinet. Trump also confirmed the news reported a day earlier that he has selected retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn as his national security adviser, a position that, unlike the other two, does not need to be confirmed by the Senate. “The president-el..

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• As College Football Playoff approaches, can Washington cry East ...

  

  No. 5 Louisville’s thorough loss at Houston on Thursday night has sharpened the likelihood that, in the coming weeks, an old college football goblin could loom. That would be “East Coast bias” or maybe “Eastern and Central time zones bias,” the phenomenon in which the American West gets waved off by haughty, myopic Easterners or Central-ers who can’t see past their own fields or, in late night, their eyelids. [Jackson is still the Heisman favorite, but Louisville’s playoff hopes are shot] Ea..

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• The relationship between Aaron Rodgers and his family may be ...

  

  Aaron Rodgers is in the midst of a mediocre season, at least by his standards. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) The world got a glimpse into the private life of Aaron Rodgers when his brother, Jordan, revealed on the hit TV show “The Bachelorette” that the five-time Pro Bowler no longer has a relationship with his family. Now, thanks to a Bleacher Report story profiling the star quarterback’s personality on and off the field, fans can peek even further behind the curtain and judge for themselv..

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• Economy of deceit: How North Korea funds its nuclear weapons ...

  

  - Kim Jong Un has tested nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles at an unprecedented rate since he came into power. Yet, the country is under some of the toughest sanctions ever. This is how the regime is able to funnel billions of dollars into its nuclear program. ()

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• Trump has made some dangerous appointments

  

  Retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) AMERICANS WHO hope that incoming President Donald Trump will not upend long-standing U.S. alliances or embrace counterterrorism policies that violate civil liberties and human rights have reason to be disturbed by his first national security appointments. The choices of retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn as national security adviser and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) as director of the CIA could presage a harsh and counterproductive U.S..

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• Protesters try to confront white nationalists in DC for conference

  

  A white nationalist organization that has come under fire for promoting racism will host a conference Saturday at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in downtown Washington — a gathering of more than 250 that will celebrate Donald Trump’s presidential victory. “The past 12 months might be remembered as the year of Donald Trump . . . and the year of the Alt Right,” according to the website for the National Policy Institute, which is hosting the event. “It was a time when mo..

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• Trump agrees to $25 million settlement in Trump University fraud ...

  

  "My job was to sell, sell sell," says former Trump University instructor James Harris, who explains the inner workings of the company, detailing high pressure sales tactics and the battle for profit. (Dalton Bennett/The Washington Post) President-elect Donald Trump, who has repeatedly bragged that he never settles lawsuits despite a long history of doing so, has agreed to a $25 million settlement to end the fraud cases pending against his defunct real estate seminar program, Trump Univers..

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• Congressional phones jammed by calls for Trump conflict-of-interest ...

  

  President-elect Donald Trump. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) If you’re trying to call the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, you might find yourself on hold for … the afternoon. The committee’s phones became jammed most of Friday after several Facebook posts calling for an investigation into President-elect Donald Trump’s finances started to go viral. The messages urged readers to call the panel to “support the call for a bipartisan review of Trump’s financials and apparent conflicts ..

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• Bob Woodson says he is being considered by Trump for housing post

  

  Robert L. Woodson Sr., who heads the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise in Washington and advises House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) on poverty issues, said late Friday that he is under consideration to be secretary of housing and urban development in President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet. If selected, Woodson, who is black, would add diversity to Trump’s team. And he would be responsible for leading education and social reforms in predominantly African American areas, which Trump repeatedly ..

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