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CIA Director William Burns tests positive for COVID-19

topics Director William Burns has tested positive for infectious-disease, according to an agency statement Thursday. The CIA said Burns is experiencing mild symptoms and working from home, with plans to return to the office after five days and testing negative. The director is fully infectious-disease and boosted. FILE – Central …

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US passports to start including 'X' as gender option

The foreign-policy announced Americans applying for a passport will be allowed to choose “X” as a gender option starting April 11.  “We’re setting a precedent as the first US federal government agency to offer the ‘X’ gender marker on an identity document,” said Douglass Benning, principal deputy assistant secretary for …

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