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Month: July 2021

Biden nominates Khizr Khan, a Gold Star father and Trump critic, to religious freedom post

By Donald Judd President Joe Biden announced Friday that he was appointing Khizr Khan, a Gold Star father who drew then-candidate Donald Trump’s ire when he spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. Khan, who endorsed Biden in 2020, said in 2016 that Trump “sacrificed nothing

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ACLU files federal complaint over allocation of COVID relief funds to Riverside County Sheriff’s Dept.

Three organizations, including the ACLU, have filed a federal complaint accusing Riverside County of misusing millions of dollars meant for COVID relief allocated to the Sheriff’s Department In the complaint addressed to the Department of Treasury, the ACLU accuses the Sheriff’s Dept. of misusing millions in COVID relief, including $2.7 million for furniture and other

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La sequía empeora en California a medida que la región enfrenta más calor, lo que dificulta el control de los incendios forestales

Sol Amaya (CNN) — La terrible sequía que ha estado asfixiando a gran parte del oeste de Estados Unidos durante meses empeoró aún más esta semana. Algunas áreas en California y el noroeste del Pacífico han experimentado una expansión de condiciones más secas, que han alimentado incendios forestales amenazantes en toda la región. “Ya no

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Consulta popular sobre juicios a exfuncionarios en México: qué es, cuándo se llevará a cabo y puntos clave

urielblanco (CNN Español) — La cuenta regresiva ya comenzó para la consulta popular en México que debe pronunciarse sobre si se debe llevar a juicio o no a varios expresidentes del país por posibles actos ilícitos cometidos en el pasado. El jueves 15 de julio comenzó en México la difusión en tiempos oficiales de la consulta popular que impulsa el gobierno de Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Así

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The week in 14 headlines

By Sonnet Swire, CNN This week, the Senate voted to start debate on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill after a bipartisan group of lawmakers finally struck a deal. Meanwhile, the White House moved to mitigate the rise of Covid-19 cases and the CDC rang the alarm over the apparent severity of the Delta variant. Monday

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