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Year: 2021

Pelosi introduces legislation to grant Congress’ highest honor to police who protected Capitol during insurrection

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced legislation on Thursday to grant the Congressional Gold Medal to US Capitol Police officers and law enforcement personnel who protected the Capitol during the violent insurrection on January 6, the highest honor that Congress can bestow. “The outstanding heroism and patriotism of our heroes deserve and demand our deepest appreciation,”

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Trump is already shaping the 2022 Senate battle

The 2022 election cycle could extend the Republican Party’s embrace of former President Donald Trump, despite the fears of some Republicans who hope to return to a party organized around conservative principles rather than his personality. Senate Republican candidates across the country are already portraying themselves as the next generation leaders of his movement, strongly

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Biden decree brings end to Trump ’emergency’ to build border wall

WASHINGTON, DC — President Joe Biden has officially ended the “national emergency” that President Donald Trump declared in order to take money from the Pentagon to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The White House released a letter Thursday from Biden to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi notifying Congress that he had rescinded his predecessor’s February 2019 proclamation. It

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White House meeting with airline execs as it considers testing domestic travelers for Covid

The White House is holding a meeting with major airline executives on Friday amid industry uproar over the possibility of testing domestic travelers for coronavirus, multiple sources tell CNN. The virtual meeting is among the first the new administration has held with airlines, financially crippled by the pandemic and wary of new travel restrictions that

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Study finds police officers of color make fewer stops and arrests and use less force than White officers

At a time of national reckoning and outcry over systemic racism, prominent proposals for addressing police brutality call for law enforcement agencies to more closely reflect the demographics of communities they serve. Now, one of the first studies of its kind — published Thursday in the journal Science — finds that deploying officers of color

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Rheumatoid arthritis drug reduces risk of death for severely ill hospitalized Covid-19 patients, researchers say

Tocilizumab, an intravenous anti-inflammatory drug used for rheumatoid arthritis, has been shown to reduce the risk of death for patients hospitalized with severe Covid-19, as well as reducing the risk of ventilation and the amount of time until discharged from hospital. The preliminary results came from the RECOVERY trial, which has been testing potential Covid-19

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