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‘It’s frustrating’: Thousands of migrants sit in Mexico desperate for answers from the Biden administration
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Within the span of a year and a half, a Cuban couple living on the US-Mexico border were repeatedly threatened, attacked and lost a baby after being assaulted, as they waited for their next immigration court date in...
Task force warns against small gatherings as Trump rallies with thousands
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The White House coronavirus task force expressed concern about virus spread stemming from small household gatherings as coronavirus cases rise across the country and colder months approach. The warnings come as Pres...
Denmark to dig up thousands of dead mink after carcasses emerge from mass graves
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Denmark plans to dig up thousands of dead mink culled to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, after the animals started to rise out of their mass graves. Hundreds of dead mink emerged from their burial sites, acco...
Texas bakery gives away thousands of dollars in groceries to help those hardest hit by storms
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The owners of a local bakery in Austin, Texas, are helping their community dig out from the devastating winter storms that struck last week by donating thousands of dollars' worth of food to those in need. The stor...
Feed the Polls organizing thousands of meals for 2020 voters in food-insecure areas
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For voters worried about their next meal, taking the time to stand in line for hours is a nearly impossible ask. While many Americans are opting to mail in or drop off their ballots this year, election officials ar...
Looking for a job? This university shared its database with thousands of remote job openings
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California State University, East Bay published a public database of remote job vacancies across the country to help people struggling to find employment due to the pandemic. In a press release last week, the unive...
Army confirms thousands of National Guard troops will remain in Washington into March
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More than 5,000 National Guard troops will remain in Washington through mid-March to provide security amid concerns over potential unrest in the coming weeks, acting Secretary of the Army John Whitley said in a pres...
Tens of thousands of farmers swarm India’s capital to protest deregulation rules
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New Delhi Tens of thousands of farmers have swarmed India's capital where they intend to camp out for weeks to protest new agricultural laws that they say could destroy their livelihoods. Farmers from the nearby sta...
Thousands of people march in Nepal in bid to dissolve parliament
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Thousands of opponents of Nepal's Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli marched through the streets of Kathmandu on Tuesday urging him to reverse his decision to dissolve parliament and call for early elections. The protes...
Tens of thousands of fires are pushing the Amazon to a tipping point
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Fires continue to rage at high levels through the Amazon in Brazil for the second consecutive year, raising concerns among scientists that the rainforest's destruction could eventually reach a point of no return. S...
Trump absent as vaccine distribution lags and thousands continue to die
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A closing indignity on the final day of this horrendous year is that nobody actually seems to expect Donald Trump, who is still the President, to be paying much or any attention to the actual nightmare underway in t...
Bacterial outbreak infects thousands after factory leak in China
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Several thousand people in northwest China have tested positive for a bacterial disease, authorities said on Tuesday, in an outbreak caused by a leak at a biopharmaceutical company last year. The Health Commission ...
Wildfires in three states leave one dead and destroy thousands of acres
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Wildfires have scorched more than 8.7 million acres across the country this year, but the season is still not over. Right now, there are three new wildfires burning in the West: the Mountain View Fire, the Pinehaven...
California prosecutors say thousands of people, including inmates, fraudulently applied for stimulus money and may have cost the state $1 billion
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Thousands of inmates throughout California -- including death row inmates -- may have bilked the state's unemployment benefits system of up to a billion dollars in what prosecutors called "the largest ever taxpayer ...
ICE detentions plunge under Biden, leaving thousands of empty beds
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The administration currently has in custody some 19,000 unaccompanied children and it released almost 60% of migrant families encountered at the border in February. Yet Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) pays ...
Hundreds of thousands of migratory birds have been found dead in New Mexico
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Biologists at New Mexico State University are trying to find out why hundreds of thousands of migratory birds have been found dead across the state. The mystery started August 20 with the discovery of a large number...