President Joe Biden’s nominee for the nation’s top health position Xavier Becerra will stress his upbringing as a son of a Mexican immigrant, his father’s recent passing and his history expanding health care access during his time as a longtime congressman and California’s attorney general, in a pitch to senators at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday, according to his prepared opening statement first obtained by CNN.
Switzerland narrowly votes to ban face covering in public
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Swiss voters have approved a ban on full facial coverings including niqab and burqa in nearly all public places in a closely contested referendum on Sunday. The result means facial covering will be banned in all pub...
Biden’s pick for top Pentagon policy job apologizes for past tweets at confirmation hearing
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President Joe Biden's nominee to become the top policy official at the Pentagon, Colin Kahl, apologized to Republican senators for using "sometimes disrespectful" language in tweets criticizing several Trump adminis...
Dr. Fauci is giving his personal 3D model of the coronavirus to the Smithsonian
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For the past year, Dr. Anthony Fauci's sidekick has been a blue and pink-spiked model of the Covid-19 virus. En nou, he's making sure his educational tool has a long life post-pandemic. Fauci has donated the 3D m...
Die Capitol-oproer is 'n skrikwekkende herhaling van hierdie gespanne era in die Amerikaanse geskiedenis
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Verhaalhoogtepunte Dit is die tweede kenmerk van CNN se nuwe reeks "Geskiedenis herfokus," verrassende en persoonlike verhale uit Amerika se verlede wat die konflik wat vandag nog woed, nuwe diepte kan gee. Op April ...
Smith College controversy highlights struggles schools face in making racially equitable campuses
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In die somer van 2018, Oumou Kanoute read a book and ate her lunch in a common room area of a residence hall that required keycard access at Smith College. Since she was in a program teaching high school students ov...
Kansas City officer will not face charges in the killing of an unarmed man in 2020
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The Jackson County prosecutor in Missouri will not charge the officer who shot and killed Donnie Sanders in March 2020, according to a statement from Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker. Sanders, who was unarmed, was sho...
Hoe een dokumentêr die geskiedenis van swart vroue weergee
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Swart vroue is die muile van die wêreld, Zora Neale Hurston het in geskryf 1937. Meer as 80 jare later, Hurston se woorde in "Hulle oë kyk na God" ring steeds waar, maar een filmmaker is op reis om albei bloot te stel ...
Chloé Zhao maak geskiedenis by Golden Globes
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Chloé Zhao het die geskiedenis van die Golden Globes gemaak. Zhao, wat die regie behartig het "Nomadland," is die eerste vrou van Asiatiese afkoms en die tweede vrou ooit wat die beste regisseurstoekenning in die Golden Globes-geskiedenis van 78 jaar verower het. "Dit wag ...
Bofballegendes vereer in MLB se Black History Month-kunsreeks
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Major League Baseball het vanjaar Black History Month gevier deur Amerika se gunsteling tydverdryf met kuns saam te voeg. Die MLB het opdrag gegee 10 kunstenaars om die loopbane van legendariese swart bofbalspelers te vier, in 'n effo ...
Murkowski to meet with Tanden on Monday as confirmation remains on the rocks
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Republikeinse sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska will meet on Monday with Neera Tanden, the Biden administration's pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN. Tanden's con...
'N Brandweerman van Wisconsin is geskiet nadat hitte van 'n brandende gebou vuurwapens binnegestuur het, sê die brandweer
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'N Brandweerman in Wisconsin is Dinsdag in 'n kritieke toestand nadat 'n gelaaide vuurwapen in 'n brandende gebou hom ontslaan en getref het, volgens die brandweer. Justin Frederickson, 'n brandweerman met die Corn ...