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"How does Dolly Parton not have a Presidential Medal of Freedom?" Stephen Colbert asked Obama. "That's a mistake — I'm shocked," Obama said. "That was a screw-up. I'm surprised. I think I assumed that she had already got one, and that was incorrect."https://cnn.it/36LjxOg 

A Jewish doctor who treated a patient with Nazi tattoos says the pandemic has tested his compassionhttps://cnn.it/33QnwXU 

Masks are "critical" to controlling the spread of coronavirus, and that includes at home sometimes, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sayshttps://cnn.it/37C54Ud 

"I do this day in and day out, and people are out there doing the wrong thing. ... in bars, restaurants, malls — it is crazy — it's like we work, work, work, work, work and people don't listen and then they end up in my ICU," Dr. Joseph Varon says.https://cnn.it/3opHtNa 

Singapore has granted San Francisco start-up Eat Just Inc. regulatory approval to sell its laboratory-grown chicken in the city-state -- the world's first government to allow the sale of cultured meat.https://cnn.it/2JUjiay 

A United Nations commission has voted to remove cannabis from a list that categorized it as one of the most dangerous drugs — a move that recognizes the plant as having medicinal valuehttps://cnn.it/2IgxMBd 

Joe Biden breaks the mold of recent US presidents in an important way: He's a Washington survivor. American voters usually want a disrupter. But Biden's long and winding Washington path proves that persistence, sometimes, pays off, writes Zachary B. Wolfhttps://cnn.it/3lOIpc6 

"The Lord of the Rings" cast is crowdfunding to buy J.R.R. Tolkien's home in Oxford, England, and turn it into a literary center.https://cnn.it/37D9HgO 

The vote to recommend long-term care residents be among the first to receive Covid-19 vaccinations was not unanimous.https://cnn.it/36MjmCh 

Vice President Mike Pence has struck a careful balance since the election. In rare public remarks, he has refrained from fully endorsing Trump's false claims the election was fraudulent, promising instead to fight to ensure "every legal vote is counted."https://cnn.it/33LlXum 

Five years of social reform driven by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have drastically loosened the conservative grip on Saudi society. CNN's Nic Robertson says it could yet prove to be a magnet for tourism.https://cnn.it/3qqUbgq 

The two largest planets in our solar system are coming closer together than they have been since the Middle Ageshttps://cnn.it/3ouTO2S 

Hawaii is offering free round trip tickets to Oahu to out-of-state remote workers who want to live and work there while contributing to the state's economy. The program is geared towards former Hawaii residents who want to return, but will accept others.https://cnn.it/2JVKMMZ 

"A psychologist told my parents I had a low IQ because I was born with Down syndrome. Seven years later, I graduated high school as class valedictorian." Brina Maxino writes about helping children with disabilities fulfill their potential. | @CNNOpinionhttps://cnn.it/2IlJ4V0 

The Trump administration prevented President-elect Joe Biden's transition team from meeting with its counterparts at Pentagon intelligence agencies this week, a source sayshttps://cnn.it/36JfYIv 

The world has been inching toward fully autonomous cars for years. In China, one company is closer to making it a reality. An Alibaba-backed startup announced this past week that it had rolled out fully driverless robotaxis on public roads in Shenzhen.https://cnn.it/3qzd6WD