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Month: February 2021

What the Supreme Court ruling means for Manhattan DA’s Trump criminal investigation

After 17 months and two trips to the US Supreme Court, the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s business has received a significant boost with investigators now able to pour over Trump’s tax returns and financial records. The district attorney’s office, led by Cyrus Vance, is expected to have access to

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Haaland expected to face contentious confirmation hearing over Interior nomination

President Joe Biden’s Interior Secretary nominee Deb Haaland is expected to face a contentious confirmation hearing Tuesday in front of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The Democratic congresswoman from New Mexico is a historic pick and would be the first Native American Cabinet secretary if confirmed by the Senate. But Democrats and White

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Merrick Garland draws sharp contrast with William Barr by saying ‘it is plain to me’ that systemic racism exists in US

Judge Merrick Garland was asked to define systemic racism, implicit bias and racism during the first day of his Senate confirmation hearing on Monday, and his answers laid out a stark contrast with the last Senate-confirmed attorney general from the Trump administration. “I think it is plain to me that there is discrimination and widespread

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Educators may be more central drivers of Covid-19 in schools than students, CDC study finds

A study that found teachers — not students — were the probable source of several school-related Covid-19 outbreaks highlights the need to maintain mask and distancing guidelines and to prioritize teachers and school staff for vaccination, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Monday. The “concerning report,” published Monday, details

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House panel sets up floor vote on Covid relief bill later this week while Senate awaits minimum wage decision

The House Budget Committee voted Monday to advance President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package, setting up the legislation aimed at fighting the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic fallout to go to the House floor for a vote later this week. The package includes direct aid to small businesses, $1,400 direct checks to Americans making

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Trudeau, Biden to unveil ‘partnership roadmap’ following bilateral meeting: top U.S. officials

Click here for updates on this story     WASHINGTON, DC (CTV News) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden are expected to unveil a “partnership roadmap” following the first face-to-face virtual meeting between the two leaders on Tuesday. The roadmap is “a blueprint for our whole-of-government relationship, based on our shared values and

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Law enforcement officials to break silence about security failures during US Capitol attack

Americans could hear for the first time Tuesday why intelligence and operations failed dramatically on January 6 from the very people whose choices contributed to the crisis — information that will likely help shape the search for new leaders and possibly a new security management structure on Capitol Hill. The Senate Homeland Security and Government

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FDA advisers to consider EUA recommendation for single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine this week

Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration will meet Friday to discuss whether to recommend Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use authorization. The vaccine is the third under consideration for the US market, and would be the first single-dose COVID-19 shot available here. Like the earlier COVID-19 vaccines, it was developed

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Woody Allen Fast Facts

Here’s a look at the life of Oscar-winning filmmaker Woody Allen. Personal Birth date: December 1, 1935 Birth name: Allan Stewart Konigsberg Birth place: Brooklyn, New York Father: Martin Konigsberg, worked various jobs Mother: Nettie (Cherry) Konigsberg, bookkeeper Marriages: Soon-Yi Previn (December 22, 1997-present), Louise Lasser (divorced), Harlene Rosen (divorced) Children: daughters adopted with Soon-Yi

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Investigators release preliminary findings on the United Airlines flight engine failure. Here’s what we know

The investigation into the engine failure of a Boeing 777 could take more than a year, officials said, but already the picture is becoming clearer about what happened to the United Airlines flight on Saturday. According to investigators, the Pratt & Whitney engine failed minutes into United Airlines flight 328, headed from Colorado to Hawaii,

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Elijah McClain’s mother relieved he ‘is no longer labeled a suspect’ after investigation into officers’ actions

Sheneen McClain cried reading an independent investigative report Monday that said Colorado police officers involved her son’s death did not have the legal basis to stop, frisk or restrain Elijah McClain. “It was overwhelming knowing my son was innocent the entire time and just waiting on the facts and proof of it,” Sheneen McClain told

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Black History Month: Audre Lorde

“Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” That’s how Audre Lorde famously introduced herself. Her career as a teacher and a writer spanned decades and though she died almost 30 years ago, much of the work she left behind is still cherished and quoted today. Born to immigrant parents from Grenada, Lorde was raised in Manhattan and

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NHL star taking leave of absence after Russian media report left him ‘shaken and concerned’

New York Rangers forward Artemi Panarin is taking a leave of absence from the NHL team, the Rangers announced Monday. The Russian star is “shaken and concerned” following “unfounded allegations” made against him, according to a team statement posted to Twitter. The statement refers to a report from Russian tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda in which

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More child migrants are arriving alone in Spain’s holiday islands than ever before. This is what happens to them

Elementary school children don’t typically venture far from home on their own, but 11-year-old Abou managed to cross a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean, from Africa to Europe, in the hands of strangers. Abou, from West Africa’s Ivory Coast, boarded an inflatable dinghy alongside four other children, and a mother and her baby, all bound

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White House works to inject stateliness into a virtual visit from Justin Trudeau

When President Joe Biden welcomes his Canadian counterpart to the White House on Tuesday to “reinvigorate” a cross-border relationship strained under his predecessor, he will do so by addressing a large television monitor. In-person visits from foreign leaders are still off-limits as the novel coronavirus continues to rage. So Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will

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Wife of ‘El Chapo’ faces international drug trafficking charges, federal authorities say

The wife of drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera was arrested Monday in Virginia on charges related to her alleged involvement in international drug trafficking, the Justice Department announced. Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, was apprehended at Dulles International Airport and is facing charges of conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, five

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Baton Rouge police are investigating after a video shows an officer with his arm around teen’s neck during arrest

Police are investigating the arrest of a Baton Rouge teenager on Sunday after a video posted online shows an officer pinning the 13-year-old to the ground with his arm under the boy’s neck. No decision has been made yet on whether the officers involved in the incident would face disciplinary action, Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon

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Seattle Mariners president steps down after comments surface in which he disparaged baseball players

Seattle Mariners president and CEO Kevin Mather resigned from the Major League Baseball club after disparaging comments he made earlier this month were made public over the weekend, according to an announcement Monday by team chairman John Stanton. The Seattle Times was the first to report details of Mather’s comments, which were made February 5

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Tanden’s OMB confirmation on brink of collapse after four GOP senators say they won’t support her nomination

The confirmation of Neera Tanden to lead the Office of Management and Budget is on the brink of collapse after four key Republicans announced Monday that they will vote against her nomination, citing her past social media behavior. Tanden’s nomination in the evenly split Senate was jeopardized late last week when Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin

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Former AG Loretta Lynch issues report on Syracuse University’s campus police after student protests

Former US Attorney General Loretta Lynch released her final report Monday into Syracuse University’s Department of Public Safety, capping a nearly yearlong inquiry into the department. University Chancellor Kent Syverud announced Lynch’s independent review of campus public safety in February 2020, in the wake of student protests over the university’s handling of racist incidents on

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Huge demonstrations across Myanmar despite military’s warning that protesters could ‘suffer loss of life’

Huge crowds brought Myanmar’s towns and cities to a standstill Monday in a mass strike against the coup, despite a warning from the military junta that protesters will “suffer loss of life” if demonstrations confront security forces. Activists had called for a historic strike following the most violent weekend since protests against the February 1

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75-year-old protester pushed by Buffalo police files lawsuit against city, mayor and officers

Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old protester who was knocked to the ground by police officers last year in Buffalo, New York, filed a civil lawsuit against the city Monday, according to court documents. Gugino is also suing Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown; officers Robert McCabe, Aaron Torgalski and John Losi; Police Commissioner Byron Lockwood; and Deputy Police

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‘There is light in the darkness’: Biden honors the half million US lives lost to coronavirus

President Joe Biden honored the 500,000 American lives lost to coronavirus on Monday, speaking of the collective grief of a nation and in personal terms. “The people we lost were extraordinary. They spanned generations,” he said. “Just like that, they took their final breath alone, in America.” Biden spoke from experience when it came to

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Donald Trump’s other, tragic big lie

The January 6 attack on the United States Capitol was a vivid demonstration of the havoc that can result when a really big lie is repeatedly injected into the body politic. But there was another big lie in 2020, also propagated by former President Donald Trump, involving the coronavirus pandemic. It was a lie that

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San Francisco Unified School District Board pauses its plan to rename 44 of its schools to focus on reopening

The head of San Francisco’s public school system said the plan to rename dozens of its schools after controversial public figures will be pushed to the backburner as the district focuses solely on school reopening. “There have been many distracting public debates as we’ve been working to reopen our schools,” San Francisco Unified School District

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Garland vows at confirmation hearing to keep politics out of DOJ while drawing bipartisan praise

Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden’s attorney general nominee, vowed Monday to keep politics out of the Justice Department and to fully prosecute the “heinous” crimes committed in the attack on the US Capitol in the deadly riot on January 6. Garland was praised by Republicans and Democrats alike in his testimony before the Senate Judiciary

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