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Month: January 2021

Dallas axed plan to prioritize vaccinating Hispanic, Black neighborhoods after state of Texas threatened to slash doses

DALLAS, Texas — Faced with the threat that the state might slash its vaccine allocation, Dallas officials in late January reversed course on a plan that would have prioritized doses for people living in the county’s most vulnerable ZIP codes, primarily in communities of color. A divided Dallas County Commissioners Court had voted to prioritize vaccines at

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Aung San Suu Kyi’s party urges Myanmar people to oppose “coup” and any return to “military dictatorship”

NAYPYITAW, MYANMAR (AP) — Myanmar’s military staged a coup Monday and detained senior politicians including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi — a sharp reversal of the significant, if uneven, progress toward democracy the Southeast Asian nation has made following five decades of military rule. An announcement read on military-owned Myawaddy TV said Commander-in-Chief Senior Gen.

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Myanmar military seizes power in apparent coup after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and ruling party politicians

Myanmar’s powerful military has taken control of the country in an apparent coup, following the arrests of Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior government leaders in early morning raids Monday. In an address on military-owned television Myawaddy TV, Myanmar’s military said that it had detained key political leaders in response to what it termed

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January 31 coronavirus news

THE VIRUS OUTBREAK: — Thousands flout virus restrictions at Israel funerals — Anxiety grows as long-term facilities await COVID-19 vaccines — Fans who’ve been to every Super Bowl making plans again this year — Even if schools reopen by late April, millions of students, many of them minorities in urban areas, may be left out. — A World Health Organization team looking into the

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Myanmar military seizes power after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and ruling party politicians

Myanmar’s powerful military has taken control of the country in an apparent coup, following the arrests of the country’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior government leaders in early morning raids Monday. In an address on military-owned television Myawaddy TV, Myanmar’s military said that it had detained key political leaders in response

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White House open to negotiation on Covid relief, but rejects GOP counter offer as insufficient

WASHINGTON, DC — President Joe Biden is open to some negotiation on his $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package, a senior administration official told CNN, but the $600 billion counter-proposal announced by some Republican senators Sunday is “not going to scratch the itch.” The White House is specifically open to considering scaling down stimulus checks for

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Homeland Security gives TSA workers authority to enforce Biden’s mask mandate

The Department of Homeland Security said Sunday that Transportation Security Administration workers now have the authority to enforce President Joe Biden’s transportation mask mandate “at TSA screening checkpoints and throughout the commercial and public transportation system.” Acting Secretary David Pekoske on Sunday signed a Determination of National Emergency, which said the TSA can “take actions

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Republican campaign committees ask FEC to allow lawmakers to use campaign donations for bodyguards

Amid heightened concern about lawmaker safety, officials with the Republican congressional campaign arms have asked federal election regulators whether lawmakers can use campaign funds to pay for bodyguards. In a letter recently posted to the Federal Election Commission website, lawyers representing the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee asked the six-member

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Blake Lively says she felt ‘insecure’ about her body after the birth of her third child and struggled finding clothes that fit

Blake Lively wants you to know that being a celebrity does not necessarily make her immune to feeling insecure. In posts to her Instagram story on Friday, the actress shared an image from her television appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in 2020, not long after the birth of her third child. Though

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Texas Republicans want to keep transgender girls, women out of school sports teams

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Republicans are again trying to limit the ways transgender youth can participate in athletics. Lawmakers have filed legislation that would ban transgender girls and women who attend public K-12 schools, colleges and universities from playing on single-sex sports teams designated for girls and women. One bill filed by Rep. Valoree Swanson, R-Spring, is

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