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Month: May 2021

Long-awaited mural honoring women of Snowbird Cherokee community installed

Click here for updates on this story     ROBBINSVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — The first days of May in Robbinsville, Snowbird Cherokee artists and community members gathered to see the official installation of a 400-square-foot mural honoring women of the Snowbird Cherokee community. The long-awaited project was initially launched in 2019, when the Graham Revitalization Economic

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More than 1.2 million Americans will lose pandemic unemployment benefits early as more Republican states drop relief

More than 1.2 million jobless Americans are set to lose their pandemic unemployment benefits early, with Georgia becoming the latest Republican-led state to announce it would cease providing enhanced federal jobless payments. Citing workforce shortages, at least 14 states have announced since last week that they would terminate the $300 weekly federal boost to state

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La pandemia de covid-19 ha afectado significativamente a los adultos hispanos, según una investigación

(CNN) — La pandemia de covid-19 ha tenido un efecto enorme en los adultos hispanos en comparación con los adultos blancos y negros, según una investigación publicada el jueves por la Kaiser Family Foundation. Entre los encuestados, los adultos hispanos tenían más probabilidades que los adultos negros o blancos de decir que ellos o alguien

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Fact check: Ted Cruz falsely claims Democrats’ voting bill is intended to register millions of undocumented immigrants

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz claimed Tuesday that Democrats have intentionally “designed” their sweeping elections bill so that millions of undocumented immigrants would be registered to vote. Cruz said at a Senate Rules Committee meeting that the Democratic bill that proposes major changes to voting, campaign finance and government ethics rules, known as the For

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