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Montana GOP congressman blasts Biden effort to resettle Afghan refugees in his state
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Washington A House Republican on Friday publicly pushed back against the Biden administration's plan to resettle Afghan nationals in his home state of Montana and suggested that the refugees are not properly vetted, ...
Anonymous Korean War veteran purchases hundreds of meals for local hunger relief effort
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What started as an average Monday morning last month at a grocery store in Raeford, North Carolina, turned into something extraordinary when a 91-year-old Korean War veteran walked in and headed straight for the cus...
Biden says Trump’s actions are ‘an embarrassment’ but won’t impede transition effort
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President-elect Joe Biden projected confidence about a transition effort that he said is "well underway" even as outgoing President Donald Trump and his administration attempt to impede it. Biden called Trump's ref...
How the effort to vaccine the elderly is going in some states
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As Covid-19 vaccines roll out across the US, some states are already offering shots to people other than health care workers and nursing home residents. West Virginia recently announced it would start vaccinating so...
Adelsons provide $75 million cash infusion to Trump’s reelection effort
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Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his physician wife, Miriam, poured a whopping $ 75 million into a super PAC launched in late August to aid President Donald Trump's reelection, new filings show. The cou...
Pennsylvania to ban alcohol sales at bars and restaurants on Thanksgiving eve in effort to stop coronavirus spread
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In an effort to curb the spread of Covid-19, Pennsylvania state officials announced Monday that residents will not be able to purchase alcohol at bars or restaurants the night before Thanksgiving. Gov. Tom Wolf and ...
Rudy Giuliani voted with an affidavit ballot, which he bashed in failed effort to overturn election
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President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani personally voted in the 2020 election using a voting method he publicly disparaged and bashed in his attempts to overthrow the presidential election results, a ...
Fighting anti-Semitism online requires a global effort
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The Inter-Parliamentary Task Force to Combat Online Anti-Semitism is made up of a multiparty group of lawmakers from Israel, the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK. The views expressed in this commentary belong to the...
Judge rejects effort to return MLB All-Star Game to Georgia
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U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Carponi ruled against a not-for-profit organization representing small businesses, saying a lawsuit had failed to provide proof that its members have suffered any injuries by the decisi...
Biden’s stimulus effort hits the runway
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The House is poised to vote on the biggest piece of legislative work in the Biden administration thus far, all ahead of the March 14 deadline when some pandemic-era unemployment benefits expire. The $ 1.9 trillion ...
‘I am here to help’: Medic recounts frantic effort to save victim of fatal Portland shooting
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Some images in this article may be disturbing to readers. Portland, Oregon The text message that pinged on Sierra Boyne's phone on May 29 was blunt: "Portland is on fire." Boyne had watched protests erupt in Minneapo...
$180,000 reward and billboard campaign part of effort to solve shootings of 3 children
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Minnesota officials are offering a reward of up to $ 180,000 for information that solves the shootings of three children. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) on Monday an...
No ‘coordinated national voter fraud effort’ in past elections, FBI director says
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FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday that there hasn't been a coordinated national voter fraud effort in past elections, regardless of the method of voting. "Now, we have not seen, historically, any kind of c...
The Trump ally in the Senate leading the President’s futile effort to challenge the Electoral College votes
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Washington Republican Sen. Josh Hawley threw a political grenade into Washington last week when he announced his intentions to object when Congress counts the Electoral College votes on Wednesday -- a move that pits ...
Pelosi rallies behind Newsom in California recall effort: ‘We will defeat it’
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Pelosi, D-Calif., said she's working at the grassroots level to turn out the vote in California ahead of the Sept. 14 election. PELOSI SAYS NEWSOM RECALL IS 'NOT GOOD FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER LIVING THINGS' "We respe...
Chicago uses stellar defensive effort to rout Phoenix 86-50
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Copper scored 20 of her 22 points in the first half and Chicago routed the Phoenix Mercury 86-50 on Friday night in Game 3 of the finals. Chicago will look to close out the best of five series on Sunday. "I was ...