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Month: January 2021

Parler sues Amazon for cutting off its services

Parler, the alternative social media platform favored by the far-right, sued Amazon on Monday in response to being deplatformed, alleging an antitrust violation, breach of contract and interference with the company’s business relationships with users. The complaint asks a federal court for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against Amazon and calls Amazon Web Services’ decision

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Chief Justice John Roberts has received both doses of Covid vaccine, court says

Chief Justice John Roberts has received his two doses of the coronavirus vaccine, the Supreme Court said Monday. “The Chief Justice has taken steps to protect against infection, including minimizing contact with staff, regular testing, and receiving both doses of the Pfizer vaccine,” public information officer Kathy Arberg wrote in an email, responding to questions

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

El entrenador de los Patriots, Bill Belichick, rechaza la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad de Trump

(CNN) — El entrenador de los Patriots de Nueva Inglaterra, Bill Belichick, anunció que declina la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad, que tenía previsto recibir por parte del presidente Donald Trump el jueves. Belichick citó los «trágicos acontecimientos de la semana pasada» como causa de su decisión. LEE: Estos son los arrestos clave hechos hasta

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GOP lawmaker ‘strongly considering’ impeachment: Trump is ‘no longer qualified to hold that office’

Michigan GOP Rep. Peter Meijer said Monday evening he is “strongly considering” voting to impeach President Donald Trump following last week’s riot at the US Capitol, assessing that the President is “no longer qualified to hold that office.” “I would prefer that we have a more fulsome investigation into what happened. Most of what I

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Pompeo accuses VOA of “demeaning America” in speech that whistleblowers blast as “political propaganda”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the Voice of America news service of “demeaning America” in a speech that a watchdog group criticized as “political propaganda” and a violation of the government-funded agency’s own rules. Pompeo delivered remarks in person to a command audience of VOA staff despite the Covid pandemic, urging them to report

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All-women Indian pilot crew make history by completing country’s longest commercial flight

An all-female Indian pilot team made history this week, after they completed the longest non-stop commercial flight ever operated by an Indian national airline. The team of four cockpit crew members from Air India completed the 17-hour-long flight on Monday according a statement released by the airline. “We are India’s daughters who were given the

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Members of the public mistakenly allowed to sign up for Covid-19 vaccination appointments in Kentucky

Members of the general public in Kentucky were mistakenly allowed to sign up for Covid-19 vaccine appointments meant for health care workers, according to Louisville-based health system Baptist Health. Baptist Health provided the Kentucky Department of Health with an online vaccine appointment scheduling tool that could be linked to the state’s vaccine website for health

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Trump administration names Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism, frustrating Biden’s efforts to boost relations

The Trump administration has designated Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday, reversing an Obama-era decision to remove the label and potentially hindering the efforts of incoming president Joe Biden to normalize relations with the country. Pompeo said the State Department gave Cuba the designation “for repeatedly providing support

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