After the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center, Kelly Guenther grabbed her camera gear and ran to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade that overlooks the New York Harbor and the skyline of Lower Manhattan. Then she saw the second plane coming. It was on her left, flying over the Statue of Liberty and heading …
Darlene Spot’s 8-year-old granddaughter, Treyce, was killed in a shooting on March 22. “Every month on the 22nd, it’s a reminder,” she said. “We just want justice.” (Edmund D. Fountain for CNN) HOUMA, LOUISIANA — Darlene Spot often sits on her front steps in this small city about an hour southwest of New Orleans. It’s …
The failure of the “Great Leap Forward” weakened Mao’s grip on power. So he launched a campaign to destroy his political rivals and create total loyalty within the party. Without warning, Mao claimed that groups opposed to communist ideology had infiltrated the party and needed to be cleansed. His calls to remove the “counterrevolutionaries” and …
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Asians around the world speak out on workplace discrimination By Michelle Toh, Moss Cohen and Lauren Cook, CNN Business Published June 7, 2021 It’s not just in the streets, and it’s not just in the United States. In Australia, 66.4% of Asian Australian respondents to a survey last October reported experiencing workplace discrimination, which represented …
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“A security guard tailed me on my walk home tonight. He demanded if I lived there because ‘you look suspicious.’ I showed my keys & buzzed myself into my building. He left, no apology,” Gorman wrote in a post on her verified Instagram account. “This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called …
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Federico Klein, who lives in the DC area and who goes by Freddie, is the first known Trump administration political appointee to be arrested for taking part in the siege. Federal authorities noted Klein, who is also a former Trump campaign aide, held a top secret-level security clearance at the time of the riot and …
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A February 2020 New York Supreme Court judge’s ruling found that the permit for the luxury residential tower should not have been issued. The developer was ordered to remove all floors that may have exceeded the zoning limit. But the appeals court on Tuesday said that won’t need to happen. The 52-story development, 200 Amsterdam, …
Meet the truthtellers Chen Mei was perhaps an unlikely hero of the coronavirus pandemic. Chen Mei Chen Mei What he did Archived and republished articles about the early days of the coronavirus on Terminus 2049, including interviews with Ai Fen and Li Wenliang, and a Caixin investigation into the early days of the outbreak. What …
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This report is provided by the ODNI. Questions should be directed to the NIO for Near East. We assess that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. There’s no waffling here: US intelligence implicates the crown prince in the murder of …
Lamar Alexander (TN) Not Guilty Not Guilty Tammy Baldwin (WI) Guilty Guilty John Barrasso (WY) Not Guilty Not Guilty Michael Bennet (CO) Guilty Guilty Marsha Blackburn (TN) Not Guilty Not Guilty Richard Blumenthal (CT) Guilty Guilty Roy Blunt (MO) Not Guilty Not Guilty Cory Booker (NJ) Guilty Guilty John Boozman (AR) Not Guilty Not Guilty …
Article I: Incitement of insurrection (Senate) guilty57 not guilty43 67 votes to convict 0 not voting, 0 voting “present” Richard Burr (NC) Guilty Bill Cassidy (LA) Guilty Susan Collins (ME) Guilty Lisa Murkowski (AK) Guilty Mitt Romney (UT) Guilty Ben Sasse (NE) Guilty Patrick Toomey (PA) Guilty Angus King (ME) Guilty Bernard Sanders (VT) Guilty …
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On the heels of a vote by the Wyoming Republican Party to censure her and call for her immediate resignation, Cheney — the third-ranking Republican in the House — told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” that not only will she not resign her seat, but that the Republican Party should “not be embracing the …
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January 28 health care Executive Order no Reopens enrollment on HealthCare.gov from Feb. 15 through May 15, and directs federal agencies to reexamine policies that may reduce or undermine access to the Affordable Care Act January 28 health care Memo yes Rescinds the “Mexico City Policy,” a ban on US government funding for foreign nonprofits …
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Biden will sign a flurry of executive orders, memoranda and directives to agencies, making his first moves to address the coronavirus pandemic and undo some of Donald Trump’s signature policies. With the stroke of a pen, he’ll halt construction of Trump’s border wall, reverse his travel ban targeting largely Muslim countries, and embrace progressive policies …
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President Jimmy Carter speaks at his inauguration ceremony at the East Portico of the US Capitol in 1977. His predecessor, Gerald Ford, is seated on the right. This was the last time a swearing-in ceremony was held on the Capitol’s east side. It was an uncomfortable ride. That’s how former President Jimmy Carter described the …
