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Month: April 2021

Army disciplines officers and soldiers for handling of Vanessa Guillén’s murder at Fort Hood

More than a dozen Army officers and non-commissioned soldiers face disciplinary actions related to the response to Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén‘s disappearance and murder at Fort Hood, Texas, last year, according to the Army’s fact-finding investigation released Friday. The personnel face discipline for a variety of failures, and investigators found Guillén was also sexually harassed.

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UV lights, cars with Trump bumper stickers and a lack of transparency illustrate ongoing GOP-driven ballot review in Arizona

At the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix, workers line up in their cars to check in with uniformed security. As each car files into the fairgrounds, they park next to the “Crazy Times Carnival,” complete with the familiar sights of summer — a Ferris wheel, funnel cake and balloon games. But these workers are not

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Covid-19 vaccine myths: These reasons for not getting a shot don’t hold up. In fact, they’ll set the US back

Americans have an easy way to crush Covid-19 — one that would let businesses fully reopen safely, ditch the need for social distancing and restore a mask-free return to normalcy. But many Americans don’t want to get vaccinated as myths and misunderstandings spread. “Facebook runs a survey every day … and that’s shown that vaccine

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FBI and CIA are urged to boost intel gathering on foreign White supremacist groups

A former CIA analyst turned Democratic congresswoman is urging the country’s top national security officials to increase US intelligence gathering on foreign White supremacist groups so they can be designated as terrorist organizations. Applying that designation would expand US law enforcement’s ability to pursue Americans domestically who have contacts with foreign groups such as neo-Nazi

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DHS reviewing humanitarian protections for Haitians and others in the US

The Biden administration is reviewing whether to extend humanitarian protections to Haitians and other foreign nationals as part of the Temporary Protected Status program, according to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The acknowledgment comes amid growing pressure from lawmakers and advocates to redesignate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status, a form of humanitarian relief, which can

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