Nestlé Prepared Foods is recalling certain pepperoni Hot Pockets over concerns they may be contaminated with pieces of glass and hard plastic, the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Friday. https://www.cnn.com/2021/

Donald Trump may be leaving the White House in a few days, but the umbrella of conspiracy theories he inspired are only just arriving in Washington. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/16/politics/qanon-gop-trump-congress-future/index.html

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will introduce key members of their White House science team on Saturday afternoon at an event in Wilmington, Delaware, according to the transition team. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/16/politi

Law enforcement and state officials are on high alert for potentially violent protests this weekend in the lead-up to Inauguration Day, with some state capitols boarded up and others temporarily closed ahead of Wednesday's ceremony. https://www.cnn.com/202

Rescue workers on Indonesia's Sulawesi island continued the grim search for survivors trapped in rubble on Saturday, after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake flattened buildings -- including a hospital -- and left at least 46 people dead. https://www.cnn.com/2021/

States are racing to get Covid-19 vaccine supplies and distribution in order as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Friday of more contagious variants of coronavirus potentially exacerbating the spread. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/16/h

Thomas Balcerski writes both Abraham Lincoln and Rutherford B. Hayes faced threats of insurrection at their inaugurations, but they persisted in holding their ceremonies anyway. In doing so, they refused to let threats of violence stop the democratic proces

The arrival of new, more contagious variants of the coronavirus means the US must double down on efforts to protect people until a large number can be vaccinated, the CDC said Friday. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/15/health/covid-variant-cdc-spread-us/index.

Dustin Diamond, who played the role of Screech on the popular 1990s high school comedy "Saved by the Bell," is hospitalized with cancer, his manager told CNN Friday. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/15/entertainment/dustin-diamond-cancer-trnd/index.html

The Dutch government has resigned amid a scandal that saw thousands of families wrongly accused of child welfare fraud. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/15/europe/netherlands-government-resigns-scandal-intl/index.html