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A bicyclist wearing a dark jacket and helmet is shown riding past the outside of drugmaker Moderna.

Moderna files for emergency use of COVID-19 vaccine; Protests in France over proposed security law; ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ brilliantly moves chess skills to center stage

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Moderna announced Monday it plans to submit its data to regulators in the US, Europe and UK for authorization for emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine. Also, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Paris and across France over the weekend to protest a proposed security law that would restrict the filming of police. And, more people died of suicide in Japan in October than of the coronavirus in all of 2020.

Anya Taylor-Joy stars as Beth Harmon, a child chess prodigy, in Netflix's 'The Queen's Gambit'.

Garry Kasparov on how ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ brilliantly moves chess skills to center stage

Culture
Garry Kasparov faced off against Deep Blue, IBM’s chess-playing computer in 1997. Deep Blue was able to imagine an average of 200,000,000 positions per second. Kasparov ended up losing the match.

Garry Kasparov and the game of artificial intelligence

Technology
A poster of chess player Garry Kasparov in Tromso, Norway, where the former world champion lost his bid to become the president of the World Chess Federation, or FIDE.

A chess legend fails in his bid to become the sport’s official king

Culture
A poster of chess player Garry Kasparov in Tromso, Norway, where the former world champion lost his bid to become the president of the World Chess Federation, or FIDE.

A chess legend fails in his bid to become the sport’s official king

Culture
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Russian band Pussy Riot, convicted of hooliganism, given two-year sentences

Global Politics

Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich will spend the next two years in prison after a Russian judge determined they had offended the sensibilities of religious people with an anti-Vladimir Putin protest performance in an Orthodox Cathedral.

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