03-02-2021
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Biden’s immigration bill faces an uphill battle in Congress, but these parts could find bipartisan support
Immigration advocates and experts across the political spectrum do not expect the comprehensive immigration bill backed by President Joe Biden to pass in Congress as is — but the areas where their priorities align highlight opportunities.
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03-01-2021
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NYTimes Peru N-Word, Part One: Introduction
On February 5 this year, one week after an article about me appeared in the Daily Beast, The New York Times announced that I would be leaving. At my departure, I was the paper’s lead reporter on the Covid-19 pandemic. I had been at the Times since starting as a copy boy in 1976.
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02-26-2021
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Tester outlines defense budget strategy
Nearly three dozen House Democrats on Monday called on Biden to relinquish his sole authority to launch nuclear weapons, in the latest appeal to reform the command-and-control structure so that no single person can initiate a nuclear war.
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02-25-2021
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Inside a Battle Over Race, Class and Power at Smith College
In midsummer of 2018, Oumou Kanoute, a Black student at Smith College, recounted a distressing American tale: She was eating lunch in a dorm lounge when a janitor and a campus police officer walked over and asked her what she was doing there.
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- Student was not victim of racism for 'eating while black' at $80k Smith College and made up details that ruined the lives of four campus workers and led to controversial anti-bias training that employee resigned over
- The Equality Act Makes Women Unequal
- Privacy, immigrant rights groups slam Biden's 'smart wall' proposal
02-24-2021
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‘Exceedingly deep convictions’: Inside Xavier Becerra’s quest for health care for immigrants
When President Barack Obama headed to the Capitol in 2009 to make a late-stage push for the Affordable Care Act, leading to a joint session of Congress that the “season for action” had arrived, it wasn’t only Republicans who became affronted.
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- AOC demands ICE and the Department of Homeland Security are abolished and the U.S. lets in 'climate refugees' in radical plan set to anger centrist Democrats
- James Comey's wife tried to convince him not to make his surprise October announcement about Hillary Clinton's emails in 2016
- Stevie Wonder Tells Oprah He Is Permanently Moving to Ghana to Protect Grandchildren from Injustice
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02-23-2021
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Biden administration suggests it will add 'X' gender markers to federal documents
After years of lobbying and lawsuits, nonbinary and intersex people may finally be getting passports that reflect who they are: LGBTQ advocates have been in talks with the Biden administration about executive action.
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02-22-2021
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Biden declares major disaster in Texas as residents struggle in aftermath of severe winter storm
President Joe Biden has declared that Texas is experiencing a major disaster, as residents continue to grapple with the aftermath of a catastrophic winter storm that hit the central and southern U.S. earlier this week.
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02-19-2021
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The lighter days of CNN’s Cuomo Brothers show are long gone
Some television shows age much better than others. For CNN, last spring’s prime-time banter between Chris Cuomo and his older brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, looks worse in hindsight as the governor’s administration is questioned about its role in failing to disclose the true number of COVID-19 nursing home deaths.
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