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6 Feb, 14 tweets, 8 min read

NBC News weekly wrap up for Jan. 31 - Feb. 5

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Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar's civilian government, and other officials were taken into custody during a military coup Monday morning. nbcnews.com/news/world/mya…

Suu Kyi has urged people across Myanmar to oppose the military takeover.
nbcnews.com/news/world/aun… (2/14)

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SpaceX announced plans Monday for the first all-civilian mission to space, a major milestone for the nascent space tourism industry.

"When you’ve got a brand new mode of transportation, you have to have pioneers,” CEO Elon Musk tells @NBCNews. nbcnews.com/science/space/…. (3/14)

Defense Sec. Austin dismissed every member of the Pentagon's advisory boards in a sweeping move fueled by concern that the Trump administration had rushed through a series of last-minute appointments, defense officials said Tuesday. nbcnews.com/news/military/… (4/14)

Two FBI agents were killed and three others were injured in a shooting Tuesday morning as authorities were executing a search warrant at a home of a suspect wanted on charges of violent crimes against children in Sunrise, Florida. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/s… (5/14)

Jeff Bezos said Tuesday that he will step down as CEO of Amazon, and transition to the role of executive chair in the third quarter of this year, the company says. Andy Jassy, the chief executive of Amazon Web Services will take over as Amazon CEO. nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news… (6/14)

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Investigators have determined the Capitol Police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt during the U.S. Capitol riot should not be charged with any crimes, a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation told @NBCNews. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/n… (7/14)

Lawmakers paid their respects on Wednesday to slain Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who was killed during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and was given the rare distinction of lying in honor in the building's Rotunda. nbcnews.com/politics/joe-b… (8/14)

Canada formally labeled the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group that has been gaining notoriety in the U.S., as a terrorist entity, Ottawa announced on Wednesday. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/c… (9/14)

Pres. Biden signed major executive orders this week aimed at reversing fmr. Pres. Trump's hard-line immigration practices, including one that will create a task force to reunite children separated from parents under Trump's "zero tolerance" policy. nbcnews.com/politics/immig… (10/14)

Senate Democrats reintroduced a resolution Thursday calling on the White House to forgive $50,000 in student debt for all borrowers.

While Biden has expressed hesitation to do so through executive action, he faces mounting pressure from Democrats. cnbc.com/2021/02/04/big… (11/14)

U.S. House voted 230-199 on Thursday to remove Rep. Greene from the Budget Cmte. and the Education and Labor Cmte. after her social media posts revealed her spreading dangerous and racist conspiracy theories. nbcnews.com/politics/congr… (12/14)

Smartmatic has sued Fox News, network personalities Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro, and attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, for more than $2.7B over false reports it was part of a conspiracy to steal the 2020 election. nbcnews.com/tech/security/… (13/14)

Democrats, in control of the presidency and Congress, pushed forward on Friday with efforts to approve a sweeping Covid-19 relief package that will include $1,400 checks, boosted jobless benefits and money to help vaccine distribution. nbcnews.com/politics/polit… (14/14)

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Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Myanmar's civilian government, urges people to oppose military takeover of the country.

Suu Kyi and leading officials were detained the day before legislators elected in Nov. were due to start a new term.

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"I urge people not to accept this, to respond and wholeheartedly to protest against the coup by the military," according to a statement that carried Suu Kyi's name but not her signature. "Only the people are important." (2/7)

Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party won 83% of the vote in the November election and the country's election commission has rejected allegations of impropriety. (3/7)

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