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Lawmakers in New Jersey have sent the state’s Democratic governor two election bills that together would expand voting rights for residents in the state, as GOP-led states move to restrict access to the ballot box elsewhere. The first bill, given final passage from the state Senate on Thursday in a 28-8 vote, would allow residents
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First there was the agonizing video, showing Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin grinding his knee into George Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes as three of his colleagues watched and didn’t intervene. Then came the protests, a national wave of outrage coursing through communities large and small. Now the nation is watching Chauvin’s trial, underway
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Major League Baseball announced Friday that this season’s All-Star Game and MLB Draft will not be held in Atlanta in response to Georgia’s recently passed laws that placed new restrictions on voting. The new host city for the July 13 game has yet to be announced, according to the league. “Over the last week, we
Continue ReadingThe White House says it no longer has custody of the documents House Democratic investigators sought to shed light on the inner workings of then President Donald Trump’s top aides in the lead up to, and on the day of, the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, according to a letter obtained by CNN.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story REXBURG, Idaho (eastidahonews.com) — With chalk in hand, gloves and kneepads on, Matt Allred is ready to work. The father of four will spend 13 hours over the next three days on his driveway meticulously drawing an Easter masterpiece. Allred is not a professional artist — he’s an
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden revoked a Trump executive order that authorized sanctions on International Criminal Court officials and lifted sanctions on two officials, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Friday. Blinken also said the State Department terminated another Trump-era policy to impose visa restrictions on certain ICC officials. “These decisions reflect our assessment
Continue ReadingAn estimated 25 million people will get a boost in their food stamp benefits starting this month, the Biden administration announced Thursday evening. These Americans, who are among the lowest-income food stamp recipients, were left out of a benefit increase last year because of how the Trump administration implemented an early federal coronavirus relief provision.
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Nota del editor: Jorge G. Castañeda es colaborador de CNN. Fue seretario de Relaciones Exteriores de México de 2000 a 2003. Actualmente es profesor de la Universidad de Nueva York y su libro más reciente, “America Through Foreign Eyes”, fue publicado por Oxford University Press en 2020. (CNN Español) — A principios de esta semana
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ELK CITY, Nebraska (WOWT) — Agriculture workers who come to the Heartland for the season need a place to stay. On Thursday night, people in Elk City attended an informational meeting to learn about a proposed housing project there. It is not clear yet where it would be,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (WOWT) — It’s hard to tell, but at one point this fall, walking for Jake Immink might as well have been climbing a mountain. In November, COVID-19 struck an entire family in southern Nebraska, and it nearly killed him. Four went to the hospital. Immink spent
Continue Reading (CNN) — Murió el sospechoso del ataque del viernes contra los policías del Capitolio de Estados Unidos, dijeron varias fuentes a CNN. Uno de los policías también falleció. Un asesor del Congreso y una fuente de la Policía del Capitolio de EE.UU. le dijeron a CNN que después de que el conductor del vehículo chocó
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DICKINSON, Texas (KTRK) — A man died early Thursday after he was shot during a confrontation outside a home in west Dickinson. Doorbell video showed a confrontation between the victim and the shooter, according to Dickinson police. Dispatchers received several calls about gunfire in the 1500 block of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A Harris County Sheriff’s deputy is on desk duty Wednesday night following a shocking video of him punching a teenager that was captured on video. The incident took place last Friday, March 26. Carlos, a high school sophomore living in northwest Harris County,
Continue Reading (CNN) — Murió el sospechoso del ataque del viernes contra los policías del Capitolio de Estados Unidos, dijeron varias fuentes a CNN. Uno de los policías también falleció. Un asesor del Congreso y una fuente de la Policía del Capitolio de EE.UU. le dijeron a CNN que después de que el conductor del vehículo chocó
Continue ReadingWhen the coronavirus pandemic began, the challenge for Pfizer and BioNTech wasn’t just developing a Covid-19 vaccine — they also had to make it, and by the hundreds of millions. This was no small feat. Until the very end of last year, no mRNA vaccine had ever been authorized and no such vaccine had ever
Continue Reading (CNN) — En la sede de la empresa de biotecnología Novavax, científicos están desarrollando lo que esperan que pronto sea otra vacuna contra el covid-19 para Estados Unidos y el mundo. Se esperan datos del ensayo clínico a gran escala de fase 3 de la vacuna que adelanta la compañía en Estados Unidos y México
Continue ReadingNew York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang said he was released from the hospital Friday after being treated for a kidney stone. “Have been discharged and will now proceed to drink lots of water for the rest of the day,” Yang said in a tweet Friday. Yang visited an emergency room earlier this morning after
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It’s been a week for Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz. First came the news that he was considering resigning from Congress for a job in the conservative media world. That was followed almost immediately by reporting that the Justice Department is investigating a possible sexual relationship between Gaetz and a 17-year-old girl. (Gaetz denied the
Continue Reading (CNN) — Murió sospechoso del ataque del viernes contra los policías del Capitolio de Estados Unidos, dijeron varias fuentes a CNN, y un agente fue apuñalado. Un asesor del Congreso y una fuente de la Policía del Capitolio de EE.UU. le dijeron a CNN que después de que el conductor del vehículo chocó con su
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The suspect in Friday’s attack on US Capitol Police officers outside the iconic Washington building has died, multiple sources told CNN, and two officers are injured, including one who was stabbed. A senior congressional aide and a US Capitol Police source told CNN that after the driver of the vehicle rammed his car into a
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