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Year: 2021

Supreme Court’s liberal justices lash out at unprecedented ‘rush’ of executions as Trump leaves office

As the country focused on the aftermath of riots in the US Capitol and the unprecedented second impeachment of President Donald Trump, the liberal justices of the Supreme Court spent Trump’s last full week in office battling his administration’s long-term objective to execute 13 federal death row inmates in six months. Late Friday night, over

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Microsoft, Oracle and and other tech giants team up Covid-19 vaccine ‘passports’

With coronavirus vaccines now rolling out across the United States, businesses and schools are considering how, and what it will take, to safely resume in-person operations. Some of the country’s biggest tech firms and health care organizations have joined together to help facilitate that return to “normal.” The group, called the Vaccine Credential Initiative, wants

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NRA files for bankruptcy

The National Rifle Association of America, the nation’s foremost gun lobby, has filed for bankruptcy, according to court documents filed Friday in the Northern District of Texas. The group said it plans to leave New York State, where it was founded in 1871, and reincorporate as a Texas nonprofit in a move it is calling

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Uganda says President Yoweri Museveni wins a 6th term, as top opposition challenger Bobi Wine alleges rigging

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s electoral commission says longtime President Yoweri Museveni has won a sixth term, while top opposition challenger Bobi Wine alleges rigging and officials struggle to explain how polling results were compiled amid an internet blackout. In a generational clash widely watched across the African continent, the young singer-turned-lawmaker Wine posed arguably

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Being heard is more important to some people than following Covid-19 regulations, psychologist and activists say

Fighting institutions of power is as American as it gets. Throughout the history of this country, many have taken action in the form of demonstration to fight real and/or perceived injustice. However, until 2020, no demonstrator ever had to take to the streets with Covid-19 threatening them. Covid-19 has changed everything — and despite stay-at-home

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party has chosen Armin Laschet as its new leader

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party has elected the pragmatic governor of Germany’s most populous state, as its new leader. The decision by Christian Democratic Union delegates on Saturday sends a signal of continuity months before an election in which voters will decide who becomes the country’s new chancellor. Armin Laschet defeated the

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A former White supremacist store and Ku Klux Klan meeting space is being turned into a community center to promote healing

A South Carolina preacher and local resident are turning what once was a Ku Klux Klan meeting place into a community center dedicated to educating and fighting against racial injustice. Deep in Laurens stands the historic Echo Theater, perched in between diners and cafes bustling with customers and ’50s music that can be heard from

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Los datos claves de la vida de Joe Bien

(CNN Español) –– Aquí te dejamos un vistazo a la vida del presidente electo de EE.UU. Joe Biden. Datos personales de Joe Biden Fecha de nacimiento: 20 de noviembre de 1942. Lugar de nacimiento: Scranton, Pensilvania. Nombre de nacimiento: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. Padre: Joseph Robinette Biden Sr., vendedor de autos. Madre: Catherine Eugenia (Finnegan)

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La nueva variante contagiosa de covid-19 podría empeorar la pandemia, advierten los CDC

(CNN) –– Las variantes nuevas y más contagiosas del covid-19 probablemente acelerarán la propagación del virus. Eso significa que Estados Unidos debe redoblar sus esfuerzos para proteger a las personas. Así lo advirtieron este viernes los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés). Una variante de covid-19

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States adding Covid-19 vaccination sites, but governors complain the feds need to give them more doses

States are ramping up their Covid-19 vaccination programs so more people can be protected against the virus, but some governors are confused and angry because they don’t know how much vaccine the federal government will send them. Though the Trump administration announced this week that it would release all available Covid-19 vaccine doses instead of

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U.S. carries out 13th and final execution during Trump administration, most for any presidency in more than 120 years

TERRE HAUTE, Indiana — The Trump administration has carried out its 13th and final federal execution, five days before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in. The execution early Saturday of Dustin Higgs concludes an unprecedented run of executions since July, when Trump resumed the federal death penalty after a 17-year hiatus. Biden has signaled he’ll

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Washington Post: Capitol Police intelligence report warned of violence targeting ‘Congress itself’ three days before attack

An internal Capitol Police intelligence report produced three days before rioters breached the US Capitol cautioned that violent supporters of President Donald Trump could zero in on “Congress itself,” the Washington Post reported Friday, citing obtained portions of the 12-page memo. “Supporters of the current president see January 6, 2021, as the last opportunity to

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