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Month: June 2021

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No new virus deaths, 26 cases in El Paso

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health reported did not report any new coronavirus-related deaths Thursday morning. El Paso County’s pandemic death toll remained at 2,620. There are also 12 additional suspected Covid-19 deaths currently being investigated by the health department. Health officials also announced 26 new cases. El Paso

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These locally elected officials posted or openly supported QAnon conspiracy theories. Here’s what happened after they took office

A normally orderly school board meeting in this small city began with an unusual warning that there should be no clapping or shouting. But things soon became so contentious that the meeting was brought to a halt for a 10-minute cooling-off period. The tension had been building for weeks. Hours before the meeting, a group

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La Casa Blanca se prepara para anunciar los próximos pasos de su esfuerzo global de vacunación después de meses de debate

(CNN) — El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, ha completado su plan para distribuir millones de vacunas contra el coronavirus en todo el mundo después de meses de deliberación, según múltiples fuentes familiarizadas con los planes. El secretario de Estado Antony Blinken insinuó anteriormente que un anuncio era inminente, y las fuentes familiarizadas con

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Georgia governor suspends county sheriff indicted on federal civil rights charges

A Georgia county sheriff has been suspended following a review of his indictment on federal civil rights charges, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s office announced Wednesday. Kemp suspended Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill after a commission found Hill’s indictment adversely affects the administration of the sheriff’s office, according to an executive order released from Kemp’s office.

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La «memoria» de los anticuerpos contra el covid-19 podría durar meses en el cuerpo, según un estudio

(CNN) — Los anticuerpos contra el covid-19 que producen aquellas personas con una infección leve pueden seguir siendo detectables durante al menos 11 meses después de la infección, de acuerdo a una investigación publicada esta semana. En el estudio publicado en la revista Nature, los investigadores tomaron muestras de sangre de 77 personas que habían

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Oakland police officers disciplined over excessive use of tear gas during George Floyd protests last year

Some Oakland police officers have been disciplined in response to the excessive use of tear gas during last year’s protests over the death of George Floyd, the city’s police chief said. Oakland police officers “were not authorized to deploy tear gas in the manner they did” during the height of protests, Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong

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Indiana state trooper allegedly fractured his K-9’s leg during a training session

An Indiana state trooper allegedly used “unreasonable discipline” and fractured his police K-9’s leg during a March training session, authorities said Wednesday. Dustan Rubenacker, 29, was charged with striking a law enforcement animal, which is a Class A misdemeanor, the Indiana State Police said in a news release. He is on paid administrative leave, it

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Family of California man who died after he was restrained by police officers in April have filed a wrongful death claim

The family of Mario Gonzalez Arenales, a Northern California man who died after he was restrained by police officers in April, has filed a wrongful death claim against the city of Alameda alleging the officers detained Gonzalez without reasonable suspicion and caused him to die of asphyxia. On April 19, Alameda Police Department officers responded

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Officer injured in Capitol riot warns Michael Flynn’s coup comments could ‘absolutely’ lead to more violence

A DC Metropolitan Police officer who was brutally assaulted while defending the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection said Wednesday evening that Michael Flynn’s recent comments about a Myanmar-style coup in the US could “absolutely” lead to more violence. Michael Fanone, who was stun-gunned several times and beaten with a flagpole during the attack,

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New York Times reports Trump administration secretly obtained its reporters’ phone records

The Trump administration’s Justice Department secretly seized months of phone records from four New York Times reporters as part of a leak investigation, the newspaper reported Wednesday. The Biden administration disclosed to the newspaper that the Trump administration’s Justice Department had seized nearly four months of phone records in 2017 from reporters Matt Apuzzo, Adam

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A high school senior was accused of violating his graduation’s dress code with his shoes — so a teacher switched with him

With minutes to spare, a Hahnville High School teacher in Boutte, Louisiana, traded shoes with a senior so he could walk at his graduation after allegedly violating the dress code. Daverius Peters told CNN he showed up to his high school graduation in a pair of black leather Alexander McQueen shoes, ready to walk across

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