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Year: 2021

Businesswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is apparent winner of Florida primary for late Alcee Hastings’ seat

By Steve Contorno, CNN By the narrowest of margins — just five votes — businesswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick appears to have won a South Florida Democratic primary to replace the late US Rep. Alcee Hastings in Washington, according to official results reported by the counties. The outcome in the November 2 election had been up in

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Pardon for Homer Plessy, of Plessy v. Ferguson’s ‘separate but equal’ ruling, heads to Louisiana governor’s desk

By Chris Boyette and Claudia Dominguez, CNN Homer Plessy, whose 19th century case Plessy v. Ferguson became a landmark civil rights Supreme Court ruling, is only a step away from a posthumous full pardon from the state of Louisiana. Plessy’s case led to the “separate but equal” doctrine and the Jim Crow laws regarding segregation

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Kinzinger says he hopes Bannon indictment for contempt of Congress ‘sends a chilling message’

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the House select committee investigating January 6, said Friday that he hopes a federal grand jury’s indictment of Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress “sends a chilling message” to anyone considering not cooperating with the panel. “I think it sends a really important

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Trabajos temporales en EE.UU.: ¿cómo encontrar las vacantes disponibles?

Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN Español) — En 2020, Estados Unidos emitió más de 200.000 visas H-2 a trabajadores extranjeros para ocupar posiciones temporales en empleos agrícolas y no agrícolas. Esta categoría de visado está disponible para trabajadores temporales con o sin experiencia (no profesionales y sin un título académico) originarios de varios países, como: México,

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República Dominicana detiene y deporta grupo de haitianas embarazadas y con bebés recién nacidos en las afueras de hospital

Ángela Reyes (CNN Español) — El director de Migración de República Dominicana, Enrique García, confirmó este viernes que un grupo de parturientas haitianas fueron detenidas y deportadas a su país bajo cargos de estar ilegalmente en suelo dominicano. El jueves, diversas organizaciones no gubernamentales habían denunciado la situación, que se presenta en medio de una

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