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Month: November 2021

Aurora, Colorado, to pay $15 million to Elijah McClain’s family to settle lawsuit over his 2019 death at the hands of police

By Jeremy Harlan, Lucy Kafanov and Leslie Perrot, CNN The City of Aurora, Colorado, has agreed to pay $15 million to the family of Elijah McClain to settle the civil rights lawsuit filed against the city in the wake of the 23-year-old’s violent arrest and subsequent death in 2019. The settlement was first announced in

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The week in 14 headlines

By Lauren Dezenski, CNN This week, President Joe Biden and other Democrats in Washington celebrated two hard-won legislative achievements: Biden signing the infrastructure bill into law and the House passing his social safety net package. Plus, Biden participated in a classic pre-Thanksgiving White House tradition for the first time as president: the turkey pardon.  Monday

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