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On ABC's This Week on Sunday, Pfizer's CEO Albert Bourla told George Stephanopoulos that booster shots can be provided to older Americans, as well as shots for those who have yet to be vaccinated. "I think it is also not the right thing to try to resolve it with an 'or' when you can resolve …
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Shasta County District Attorney Stephanie Brigette has charged the utility company PG&E with manslaughter and other crimes, in relation to the 2020 wildfire that allegedly killed four people. Thirty-one charges were filed Friday against the California utility company in connection with a northern California fire last year. Eleven charges were felonies, including manslaughter. "PG&E has …
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From the White House Tuesday, Joe Biden called the withdrawal of troops and personnel from Afghanistan, a success. The invasion of Afghanistan began twenty years ago. It was but one response to 9/11; the other was the invasion of Iraq. Both of which, amounted to nothing good, but countless lost lives. Twenty years later, the …
As the U.S. government continues its evacuations from Afghanistan before the August 31 deadline, about 1500 still remain. Since the Taliban were able to seize control of the country in mid-August, approximately 4500 U.S. citizens have been safely evacuated from the Kabul airport. As of Wednesday, approximately 19200 have been hurried out, with thousands more …
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A group of students at the University of Indiana recently filed a complaint over the school's oppressive, unconstitutional vaccine mandate. Justice Amy Coney-Barrett, who is the SC's justice who oversees that regions emergency petitions, received a request from eight students to block the mandate and on Thursday, rejected the plea. This past May, the university …
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Andrew Cuomo, the three-term governor of New York, announced Tuesday that he is resigning amid allegations of multiple counts of sexual misconduct. During the early days of the pandemic, he was seen by some as a hero for regular briefings on his administration's leadership during the crisis - something that was sore lacking from the …
Despite a surge with the delta variant, the U.S. has finally reached its 70% vaccination rate for adults who have received one dose of the vaccines. The Biden administration had hoped to reach it before the fourth of July holiday, but given the fact that disinformation about the vaccines have been the norm in right-wing …
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Through no fault of their own, millions of Americans lost their jobs during a pandemic that was poorly mismanaged by the government. Many of those Americans received some economic and other relief through the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Securities Act, and other federal programs. The Cares Act …
By the end of 2021 the U.S. will no longer have a combat role in Iraq. Biden met with Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi Monday at the White House, where he said,"Iraq has been a vital partner for the United States for some time now in the middle east and we've been engaged deeply in …
The brave warriors of the culture wars have found another reason to get triggered. Cleveland's professional baseball team known as the Indians since 1915, are soon to change the moniker, and conservatives are not happy about it. The name change was announced Friday via a video on Twitter, narrated by Tom Hanks. However, the change …
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