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Month: May 2021

Arizona GOP election official defends office against Trump voting conspiracy theory: ‘We are humans, it has to stop.’

The Republican official who heads Maricopa County, Arizona’s election department offered a forceful defense of his office on Monday after former President Donald Trump falsely claimed that the county’s “entire Database” had been deleted. “At some point, we are humans, it has to stop,” Stephen Richer, the Maricopa County recorder, told CNN’s Erin Burnett on

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DA vows to pursue charges after case dismissed against former Philadelphia police officer who used pepper spray on protesters

A former Philadelphia police officer seen on video using pepper spray on Black Lives Matter protesters had his charges dismissed Monday, according to court documents. Municipal Court Judge William Austin Meehan Jr. dismissed the case after he determined Richard Paul Nicoletti had not committed a crime, Nicoletti’s attorney Fortunato Perri Jr. said, declining to comment

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

ANÁLISIS | La violencia más reciente entre Israel y los palestinos terminará cuando ambas partes puedan cantar victoria. Pero no será más que una tregua

(CNN) — La explosión de violencia actual entre palestinos y el Estado de Israel todavía no dejó tantas víctimas como el conflicto devastador en Gaza en 2014, pero en muchos sentidos es un episodio más sombrío y premonitorio. El enfrentamiento no se limita a bombardeos aéreos y al lanzamiento de cohetes sobre Gaza y el

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Texas and Indiana to drop $300 weekly federal boost to unemployment benefits during pandemic

Texas and Indiana will end early the $300 weekly federal boost to state unemployment payments, as well as two other pandemic jobless benefits programs, according to both states’ Republican governors — joining 17 other GOP-led states in dropping the federal expanded benefits over the past two weeks. The two states’ announcements on Monday mean that

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Los nuevos ‘Big 5’ son animales para ser capturados en cámara, no cazados con un arma

(CNN) — En el siglo XIX, cuando los deportes sangrientos eran socialmente más aceptables, se acuñó el término «Big Five» para referirse a los leones, rinocerontes, búfalos, elefantes y leopardos, los animales que los cazadores de trofeos en África consideraban los más peligrosos para cazar a pie. Pero el fotógrafo británico Graeme Green quiere dar

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New York won’t require masks or social distancing for fully vaccinated people starting Wednesday

New York will adopt the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines to not require masks or social distancing for vaccinated people beginning Wednesday, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday. Unvaccinated people should still wear masks, and masks will still be required of all people on public transit, in schools and some communal settings,

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