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Month: October 2021

McAuliffe dismissed Northam yearbook photo as youthful mistake at 2019 event months after calling it racist ‘at any age’

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN After publicly condemning Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s decades-old racist yearbook photo in February 2019 as “racist, unacceptable and inexcusable at any age,” Terry McAuliffe, who is now running to succeed Northam, struck a different tone just a few months later, dismissing the photo as a youthful mistake —

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USC is apologizing and awarding honorary degrees to Japanese-American students whose education was disrupted after WWII

By David Williams, CNN The University of Southern California is apologizing and plans to award honorary degrees to dozens of Japanese-American students, who were not able to complete their studies in the 1940s after being sent to internment camps during World War II. USC President Carol Folt is planning to issue the diplomas and deliver

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Riverside County’s unemployment rate drops below 7%

RIVERSIDE (CNS) – With gains throughout most sectors of the regionaleconomy last month, Riverside County’s unemployment rate dropped below 7%,according to figures released today by the California Employment DevelopmentDepartment.   The jobless rate in September, based on preliminary EDD estimates, was6.6%, compared to 7.6% in August.   The September rate was exactly 4 percentage points lower than the year-ago

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Lev Parnas found guilty on campaign finance charges

CNN By Lauren del Valle Rudy Giuliani‘s former associate Lev Parnas was convicted on six counts related to “influence buying” campaign finance schemes. A jury of eight men and four women found Parnas guilty of scheming with co-conspirators to use a Russian backer’s money to fund political contributions they hoped to trade for political favor

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Lyft presenta datos sobre agresiones sexuales: 4.158 incidentes, incluidos 360 informes de violación en un período de tres años

Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La compañía de viajes compartidos Lyft publicó este jueves su primer informe de seguridad, revelando que recibió 4.158 informes de agresión sexual en su plataforma en 2017, 2018 y 2019. La revelación se produce más de tres años después de que Lyft y su rival Uber se comprometieran por primera vez

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