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Month: August 2021

Britney Spears’s conservator says the singer’s father misrepresented a conversation about mental health concerns in a recent filing

By Chloe Melas and Cheri Mossburg, CNN Britney Spears’s father, Jamie Spears, rejected the assertion that he should be removed as conservator of his daughter’s estate and cited a recent “plea for help” regarding his daughter’s mental health, according to a new court filing obtained by CNN. The singer’s newly hired attorney, Mathew Rosengart, filed

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Unvaccinated dad records days of regret in hospital — and makes heartbreaking request for daughter’s wedding in case he dies

By Jason Hanna, CNN Between difficult breaths of supplemental oxygen, Travis Campbell is fighting to relay a message about his battle with Covid-19 in a Virginia hospital. He really regrets not getting vaccinated. And while he hopes he’s turned a corner, for a very scary stretch, he thought he needed to make arrangements in case

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The week in 16 headlines

By Lauren Dezenski, CNN This week, advocates for the recently expired nationwide eviction moratorium scored a victory as the CDC rolled out a new, yet more limited, moratorium following pressure and protest by some Democrats. Meanwhile, concerns over the nation’s debt limit bubbled up among Republicans on Capitol Hill as negotiations over the bipartisan infrastructure

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Nasdaq’s plan to boost diversity on corporate boards gets SEC approval

By Jazmin Goodwin, CNN Business The Securities and Exchange Commission approved Nasdaq’s proposal to increase diversity on the boards of companies listed on its exchange. The rule requires all Nasdaq-listed companies to have at least two diverse directors, including one woman and one member of an “underrepresented” minority group, including Black people, Latinos or members

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How a Trump environmental lawyer tried to weaponize the Justice Department to help the President

By Katelyn Polantz, Zachary Cohen and Evan Perez, CNN Jeffrey Clark, a Donald Trump-appointed environment law chief at the Justice Department at the center of the former President’s efforts to overturn the election, received a high-level intelligence briefing around New Year’s 2021 that did little to stop his efforts to prove foreign interference had cost

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How a Trump environmental lawyer tried to weaponize the Justice Department to help the President

A draft letter circulated late last year by Donald Trump-loyalist Jeffrey Clark at the Justice Department shows the lengths his allies were willing to go to overturn the presidential election. The draft, published by ABC News, urged top Georgia officials to convene the state legislature in a special session to evaluate supposed “irregularities” in the 2020 election.

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Bolsonaro is sowing doubt in Brazil’s electoral system. His claims could endanger his own candidacy.

By Marcia Reverdosa and Juliana Koch, CNN As Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro falls further and further behind in the polls, his unsupported claim that the 2022 elections could be rigged have only increased in fervor and frequency. But those freewheeling statements have now sparked investigations that could threaten his very eligibility to run as a

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