In September 2020, a powerful tech executive named Pat Gelsinger says he was slapped in the face by reality. Sheltering at home in California with his family, Gelsinger watched a nearby wildfire spew smoke and ash and turn the sky orange. Never before had society experienced crises at this scale, …
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A Portland cop who chased down and beat a protest medic, in one of the most harrowing incidents of police violence from the city’s Black Lives Matter protests last year, will not face criminal charges. The decision — announced in a news dump last Friday, prior to the three-day Labor …
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There were still 27 patients left in the waiting room at Whole Woman’s Health, an independent abortion provider in Fort Worth, at 10 p.m. on Augut 31 — two hours before most abortions would effectively be banned in the state of Texas. Marva Sadler, director of clinical services for the …
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When thousands of Florida seniors were waiting in long lines for a Covid-19 vaccine this past January, Fox News and Gov. Ron DeSantis were plotting to broadcast a public vaccination event exclusively on the network in order to boost the governor’s image. And according to an exposé by the Tampa …
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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said he is “deeply concerned” about unvaccinated people, including children, as some communities are seeing rising Covid-19 rates. During a Sunday appearance on ABC’s This Week,Murthy first praised the progress the country has made in vaccinating millions of Americans. He also warned that we will see …
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On the fifth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting, President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass gun reform and announced that he will designate the club as a national memorial. “Five years ago today in Orlando in the middle of pride month, our nation suffered the deadliest attack affecting …
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The Biden administration will act to strengthen U.S. supply chains on critical goods, remedying disruptions resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic and making supply chains more secure. In February, Biden issued an executive order for a 100-day review, directing cabinet members to have their departments identify vulnerabilities in key sectors: semiconductor …
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CNN has fired former Republican Senator Rick Santorum over racist and false remarks he made weeks ago about Native Americans. The Huffington Post broke the news Saturday, citing a senior executive at the network. CNN has since confirmed the report. While speaking at an event organized by Young America’s Foundation …
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On Thursday, lawmakers passed two gun bills aimed at strengthening laws on background checks. But neither is expected to get past the Senate, where they will need 60 votes to get to the president to sign. The first bill, called The Bipartisan Background Checks Act (H.R. 8) would require universal …
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UPDATE: The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday granted emergency use authorization to a single-shot vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson. “We are ready to roll it out!” White House Covid adviser Andy Slavitt tweeted after the authorization was official. The authorization comes days after the FDA released a report …
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