People who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 can safely gather indoors without masks or social distancing, according to new guidelines released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday. During a White House coronavirus briefing, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky explained some of the new guidelines that may …
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The past year of Keisha Lance Bottoms’ life has been, to borrow one of the Atlanta mayor’s favorite euphemisms, interesting. When she’s got nothing nice to say about a situation, Bottoms, diplomatic Southerner that she is, reaches for this damningly anodyne descriptor. It’s all in the delivery. Consider, for example, …
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Even for a loyalist like Attorney General William Barr, there was only so far he would go to support Trump’s assault on the rule of law and reality. On Monday evening, as Trump’s doomed attempts to steal the 2020 election fizzle out, the president announced Barr would step down from …
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For those who are nervous because they think there’s too much uncertainty about who is going to be president once Donald Trump’s term in office ends on January 20th at noon, I can’t say this plainly enough: Joe Biden will become the 46th President of the United States of America. …
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Precisely one week before Thanksgiving, Orlando Hall became the eighth person incarcerated in federal prisons to be executed this year after Attorney General William Barr lifted a 17-year ban on the federal government’s implementation of the death penalty. When Hall, 49, was killed by lethal injection, he became the first …
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“My fellow Americans, we don’t have a final declaration of victory yet, but the numbers tell us it’s clear. Tell us a clear and convincing story. We are going to win this race,” Joe Biden said in a national address Friday night as he stood poised to capture the White …
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As the president continues to lie about the 2020 election being stolen from him, his aides are already discussing a Trump 2024 presidential run. During a Thursday report on CNN, White House Correspondent Jim Acosta said aides to the Trump campaign have already raised the topic of a “resurrection run …
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The president addressed a mostly maskless crowd in the White House early Wednesday morning where he spewed lies and disinformation about the results of the presidential election and announced his intent to invalidate millions of legally-cast votes. Trump falsely claimed that the Democrats and media were conspiring to defraud the …
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When it comes to cannabis, it’s hard to say just what a Trump presidency has meant to the industry. It’s not as clear-cut as his record on, say, immigration, LGBTQ rights, the environment, or public health. But one thing is certain: As president, he’s made it pretty damn hard for …
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The battle between Big Tech and the federal government is starting to get real. The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Google over its dominance of the online search and search advertising markets, alleging that the $1 trillion Big Tech behemoth has used a variety of anticompetitive practices to keep its …
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