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Jonathan Jones and his wife, Maura Ryan, opened one of the few Black-owned restaurants in downtown Salem, Oregon, in 2019. (Maranie R. Staab for The Post)
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Picks to lead the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security are expected to encounter some delays.
The president has been consumed with the question of whether to issue preemptive pardons to his children, top aides and himself, but it remains unclear whether he will do so.
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Registered nurse Mary Ellen Day sheds tears Dec. 16 as she prepares to receive the coronavirus vaccine at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. (Rachel Wisniewski for The Post)
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Lawyer Roberta Kaplan at her New York vacation home. She has three cases pending against President Trump. (Jackie Molloy for The Post)
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A century after the Tulsa massacre, Black entrepreneurs in the city’s Greenwood district feel threatened with erasure yet again.
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A depot used to store pipes for TransCanada Corp.'s planned Keystone XL oil pipeline in Gascoyne, N.D., on Jan. 25, 2017. (Terray Sylvester/Reuters)
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