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Year: 2021

Trump administration leaves Biden with ‘confusing’ Covid-19 vaccine numbers and states in limbo

States across the country say they’re running low on coronavirus vaccine supply, with many officials insisting the vaccine delivery numbers reported by the Trump administration don’t align with what they are seeing on the ground. From New York to Tennessee to West Virginia, officials are clamoring for more doses of coronavirus vaccine. And officials in

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Biden calls for remembrance of lives lost at Covid-19 memorial on his inauguration eve

WASHINGTON, DC — President-elect Joe Biden appeared at a memorial for Covid-19 victims at the Lincoln Memorial on Tuesday evening. He will spend the night at Blair House, the president’s official guesthouse, and will be inaugurated as the nation’s 46th president on Wednesday. At the memorial, Biden called on Americans to remember those lost to

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Biden transition finds culture of coronavirus denial throughout Trump’s federal government

Joe Biden’s transition team found a culture of coronavirus skepticism within Donald Trump’s federal government as they prepared to take office, sources close to the Biden transition told CNN, with political appointees loyal to the President reflecting his dismissiveness of public health guidelines and sometimes mocking career employees for wearing masks. The findings from Biden’s

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Biden announces Rachel Levine as pick for assistant secretary at HHS, would be first transgender Senate-confirmed federal official

President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Dr. Rachel Levine to serve as assistant health secretary, and she would make history as the first out, transgender federal official to be confirmed by the United States Senate, according to a statement Tuesday. Levine is currently the Pennsylvania health secretary and a pediatrics and psychiatry professor at Penn State

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Avril Haines, Biden’s DNI pick, pledges to keep politics out of intelligence after Trump’s wars with intelligence community

Avril Haines, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to be director of national intelligence, pledged Tuesday to turn the corner after President Donald Trump’s warring with the intelligence community. “To be effective, the DNI must never shy away from speaking truth to power — even, especially, when doing so may be inconvenient or difficult,” Haines said at

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ASU is investigating fraternity after holding massive weekend party amid surging COVID cases

Click here for updates on this story     TEMPE, Arizona (KPHO/KTVK) — A massive off-campus Arizona State University fraternity party is now under investigation. Pictures and videos of the party reportedly thrown by Lambda Chi Alpha have surfaced on social media, showing most weren’t wearing a mask. Both ASU and the ASU Police Department said they’re

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Fellow commissioners call for ouster of Cowboys for Trump leader; feds call him ‘danger’ to community

ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico — An Otero County commissioner and founder of the group Cowboys for Trump, who was arrested on charges stemming from the U.S. Capitol riot, is now the target of a recall effort as his fellow commissioners on Tuesday demanded his resignation and federal prosecutors sought to hold him without bond as a “danger.”

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Bed Bath & Beyond stops selling MyPillow after CEO’s Capitol siege comments

Bed Bath & Beyond has stopped selling MyPillow products following CEO Mike Lindell’s support of the January 6 insurrection and his continued false statements questioning the validity of the US presidential election. The retailer said in a statement Tuesday that it’s discontinuing the sales of a “number of underperforming items and brands,” which includes MyPillow.

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