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Month: March 2021

Fact check: Republican congresswoman didn’t take credit for the relief bill she voted against

A Republican member of Congress, Rep. María Elvira Salazar of Florida, has faced withering attacks on Twitter for supposedly taking credit on Friday for a part of the American Rescue Plan, the pandemic relief bill she voted against. A Republican senator, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, had been accurately criticized on similar grounds two days prior.

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Navy probe finds contractor charged in Capitol insurrection was well-known Nazi sympathizer

An Army reservist charged with storming the US Capitol was a well-known White supremacist and Nazi sympathizer at the Navy base where he worked as a contractor, and was even rebuked for sporting a distinctive “Hitler mustache,” prosecutors said in new court filings. Federal prosecutors revealed Friday that the Navy conducted its own internal investigation

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Pennsylvania woman allegedly created deepfake images of cheerleading gym members to cyberbully them, according to criminal complaint

A Pennsylvania woman allegedly created deepfake images of multiple members of a cheerleading gym in order to cyberbully them, according to a Bucks County criminal complaint. Raffaela Spone has been charged with three counts of cyber harassment of a child and three counts of harassment, both misdemeanors, according to the complaint against her. Spone allegedly

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¿Por qué los inmigrantes hacen un viaje tan peligroso para llegar a Estados Unidos? CNN habló con ellos en la frontera

(CNN) — A orillas del Río Grande, cerca de la ciudad de Hildalgo, en el sur de Texas, decenas de inmigrantes indocumentados, en su mayoría mujeres y niños pequeños, descendieron una colina en el lado mexicano de la frontera en una procesión ordenada. Fue un atardecer sobre un retrato de desesperación demasiado familiar en el

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Microsoft says Teams and other services are returning to normal after earlier outage

Microsoft says its workplace communication platform, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services should be returning to normal after an earlier software update issue caused outages for many users. Microsoft said Monday afternoon that users may be unable to access Microsoft 365, Azure and Dynamics 365 services, including Microsoft Teams, Forms, Exchange Online email and others.

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Charles Booker ‘strongly considering’ 2022 Senate bid against Rand Paul

Former Kentucky state representative Charles Booker tweeted on Monday that he is “strongly considering” running for Senate in 2022 against Republican Sen. Rand Paul, after his longshot progressive bid for the Senate Democratic nomination last year came shockingly close. Booker announced his decision Sunday on Kentucky Educational Television, pitching his deep red state that they

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El Vaticano dice que la Iglesia católica no dará bendición a las uniones del mismo sexo

(CNN) — El Vaticano dijo el lunes que la Iglesia católica no bendeciría las uniones entre personas del mismo sexo. «La bendición de las uniones homosexuales no puede considerarse lícita», escribió la principal oficina doctrinal del Vaticano, la Congregación para la Doctrina de la Fe, en un comunicado publicado el lunes. La declaración fue aprobada

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Más naciones europeas detienen el uso de la vacuna AstraZeneca mientras se investigan los informes de coágulos de sangre en pacientes

(CNN) — Dinamarca, Islandia y Noruega suspendieron el uso de la vacuna Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 mientras el regulador de medicamentos de la Unión Europea investiga si la inyección podría estar relacionada con varios informes de coágulos sanguíneos. MIRA: Dinamarca suspende el uso de la vacuna de AstraZeneca ante informes de coágulos en pacientes Dinamarca anunció una suspensión

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España administró dosis de vacuna AstraZeneca de lotes investigados por posibles eventos trombóticos

(CNN Español) — España administró completo uno de los lotes de la vacuna contra el covid-19 de AstraZeneca que está siendo investigado por causar posibles eventos trombóticos. Así lo confirmó este viernes por la mañana la ministra de Sanidad española, Carolina Darias, quien aseguró en una entrevista concedida a Radio Nacional de España que “existe

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