Fulton County officials on Wednesday passed a resolution that will allow Georgia’s most populous county to explore legal challenges to the state’s controversial voting law that was rushed into law last month. The Board of Commissioners passed the “Stop Voter Suppression” resolution, 4-2, on party lines. The resolution directs the Fulton County attorney to research
Continue Reading President Joe Biden is carrying out some of Donald Trump’s biggest campaign promises by leaving America’s longest war, targeting economic aid at forgotten Americans and building an infrastructure plan that may actually happen. The current White House is, of course, a sharp political and behavioral reaction to the previous one. And Biden is never going
Continue Reading President Joe Biden’s promise to remove US troops from Afghanistan by September 11 is his effort — each of the last four presidents has had one — to end America’s longest war. The deadline for Biden’s withdrawal is significant — September 11, 2021, is 20 years after the 9/11 terror attacks in New York, Washington,
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(CNN) — Momentos antes de morir, Daunte Wright llamó a su madre y le dijo que lo habían detenido. No sabía que sería la última vez que hablaría con su hijo. El joven de 20 años necesitaba obtener información sobre el seguro, dijo su madre Katie Wright. Daunte Wright murió poco después de hablar con
Continue Reading The inspector general overseeing a probe into the United States Capitol Police’s preparation for and response to the January 6 insurrection is set to detail critical lapses in planning, policies and procedures resulting in the catastrophic failure that killed five people, including one of their own, Officer Brian Sicknick. Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton’s
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The mystique of Mars is one that humans can’t seem to resist. The red planet has easily captured our interest for centuries, heavily featured in science fiction books and films and the subject of robotic exploration since the 1960s. In February, three spacecraft arrived at Mars after departing from different launch points on Earth in
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It’s Tax Day in the US, but don’t freak out! You still have a month to file your 2020 return. There are other changes to this tax season you should know about, too. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health announced six new coronavirus-related deatsh and 147 new cases on Thursday morning. The latest deaths included a man and a woman in their 50s, 2 men and a woman in their 60s, and a man in his 80s. El Paso County’s pandemic death
Continue Reading At Pastor Tony Spell’s Sunday sermon this week, he preached a different kind of message than usual to his congregants: Don’t trust Covid-19 vaccines. “I’ll just tell you today, if being anti-mask and anti-vaccine is anti-government, then I’m proud to be anti-government,” Spell, who has made a national name for himself protesting Covid-19 rules in
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Early in President Barack Obama’s second term, while fellow Democrats still controlled the Senate, the President asked Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to a private lunch at the White House. At the time, some liberals were calling for Ginsburg to step down to allow Obama to name a younger liberal, just as some Democrats today are
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, says the recommended pause on the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine is just that: a pause — and not a cancellation — and will likely last days to weeks. “I doubt very seriously if we’re talking about weeks to months,” he told CNN on Wednesday. And
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, está llevando a cabo algunas de las mayores promesas de campaña de Donald Trump al abandonar la guerra más larga del país, dirigir la ayuda económica a los estadounidenses olvidados y construir un plan de infraestructura que realmente puede funcionar. La Casa Blanca actual es, por
Continue Reading Congressional Republicans have criticized President Joe Biden‘s roughly $2 trillion proposal focused on infrastructure and the climate crisis as a far-reaching wish list of liberal priorities and have taken issue with how the plan would be paid for. At the same time, however, they have made clear they do believe there is room for bipartisan
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– Desafíos de la crisis climática, la pandemia de covid-19 y las amenazas a la democracia, los derechos humanos y la seguridad son los temas que discutirán Julie Chung, subsecretaria interina para Asuntos del Hemisferio Occidental de Estados Unidos, y Juan S. González, asistente especial del presidente Joe Biden, en su visita este
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“How you like me now?” say eight sassy golf whiz kids into the camera, accompanied by the catchy tune of the same name in the Netflix documentary, “The Short Game.” The year is 2012 and the stars of the show are 1,500 seven and eight-year-old golf prodigies representing 60 different countries, all vying for a
Continue Reading Whether it be baying fans, a particularly colorful outfit or even a pitch invader, it’s not unheard of for football players to suffer distractions. The latest apparent distraction are empty seats. When asked about its poor home form, Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said the color of the seat coverings had been a problem
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The pause on the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine will allow researchers to investigate a potential link to severe blood clotting events, particularly whether certain types of people are more susceptible, National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins said Wednesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and FDA recommended a pause on use
Continue Reading While protesters gathered for the fourth night in a row in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center to protest the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, there was a palpable easing of tension, according to law enforcement officials, hours after a former police officer was arrested and charged in his death. The former officer, Kim Potter,
Continue Reading The body of missing Louisiana State University student Kori Gauthier has been recovered, according to a joint press release from Baton Rouge Police and LSU Police. “Since Kori was first reported missing, the LSU Police Department, Baton Rouge Police Department and other law enforcement agencies and volunteers have taken exhaustive measures to locate her and,
Continue Reading (CNN) — El senador Eduardo Enríquez Maya, del Partido Conservador Colombiano, falleció este miércoles, según informó esa agrupación política en un comunicado publicado en Twitter. «Hoy decimos adiós a un gran conservador, defensor como ninguno de la doctrina y pensamiento de nuestra colectividad», escribió la agrupación en la red social, agradeciendo al senador por su
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente del gobierno de España, Pedro Sánchez, comenzó el proceso de apertura de una fosa común que contiene los restos de más de 33.000 víctimas de la Guerra Civil de 1936 a 1939. Los funcionarios han solicitado un permiso que les permitirá empezar a exhumar los cuerpos del Valle de los Caídos,
Continue Reading (CNN) — Tantos estadounidenses han estado tan concentrados durante tanto tiempo en vacunarse, alcanzar la inmunidad colectiva y avanzar más allá de la pandemia de covid-19 que la noticia de este martes de que las agencias de salud estadounidenses recomendaban pausar el uso de una vacuna fue un verdadero golpe bajo. Eso es especialmente cierto
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Las autoridades de salud de Estados Unidos han recomendado una pausa en el uso de la vacuna contra el covid de Johnson & Johnson debido a seis casos reportados en el país de un tipo de coágulo sanguíneo «raro y severo». La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA) y los Centros para
Continue Reading A Black police officer in Buffalo, New York, who was fired in 2008 for intervening when a White colleague employed a chokehold will be given back pay and a pension, a New York judge ruled. The officer, Cariol Horne, was fired following a 2006 incident in which she tried to stop an officer from using
Continue Reading (CNN) — En dos años, Japón va a empezar a verter al mar más de un millón de toneladas métricas de agua radiactiva tratada de su planta nuclear de Fukushima, dijo el Gobierno el martes. Este plan enfrenta oposición a nivel interno y generó una «preocupación grave» en países vecinos. La decisión de descargar las
Continue Reading Maryland’s former chief medical examiner testified for Derek Chauvin’s defense on Wednesday that George Floyd died due to his underlying heart disease — not the police restraint. “In my opinion, Mr. Floyd had a sudden cardiac arrhythmia, or cardiac arrhythmia, due to his atherosclerosis and hypertensive heart disease … during his restraint and subdual by
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A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Being the president of a broadcast TV news division: Is it a dream job or a dreadful job? A president is expected to make the right editorial calls in real time, beat the competition, juggle
Continue Reading The Biden administration is expected to announce sanctions as soon as Thursday targeting Russian individuals and entities, in addition to new financial restrictions and the expulsion of as many as a dozen Russian diplomats from the US, in response to the hack of SolarWinds and election interference, according to two sources familiar with the plans.
Continue Reading Moments before he was killed, Daunte Wright called his mother and told her he got pulled over. She had no idea it would be the last time she would speak with her son. The 20-year-old needed to get insurance information, his mother Katie Wright said. “I said OK, when the police officer comes back to
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