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Slap in the face for people suffering across the US: Critics slam watered-down COVID relief deal
Dec 24, 2020 16:21In the wake of Sunday night December 20th agreement on a roughly $900 billion COVID-19 relief package that is far smaller than economists say is necessary, progressives argued that the "slap-in-the-face" bill must be passed to help stem the suffering of working-class Americans but that much more will be needed to address the crisis that has claimed more than 300,000 lives and 20 million jobs in the United States so far.
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Is Canada’s ‘me first’ COVID vaccine policy hurting other nations?
Dec 23, 2020 06:51A recent report by the rights group stated that all of Moderna Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccines and 96 percent of Pfizer-BioNtech’s vaccine doses have been secured by rich countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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Barr sees ‘no reason’ for special counsels for Hunter Biden or the election
Dec 23, 2020 06:41Outgoing Attorney General William P. Barr distanced himself again from President Trump on Monday, saying he saw no reason to appoint special counsels to oversee the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, son of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., or to investigate Mr. Trump’s baseless claims of widespread voter fraud.
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One in every 5 US prisoners has tested positive for COVID-19
Dec 22, 2020 16:58Nearly every prison system in the US has seen infection rates significantly higher than the communities around them. In facilities run by the federal Bureau of Prisons, one of every five prisoners has had coronavirus. Twenty-four state prison systems have had even higher rates.
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Trump attempt to overturn election is 'nutty and loopy', Romney says
Dec 22, 2020 16:56Donald Trump’s flirtation with declaring martial law in battleground states and appointing a conspiracy theorist as special counsel to help his attempt to overturn defeat by Joe Biden are “really sad” and “nutty and loopy”, Republican senator Mitt Romney said on Sunday ( 20 Dec 2020).
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US population growth falls to lowest in a century amid pandemic fallout
Dec 22, 2020 16:47The United States is on pace for the slowest population growth in a century amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to analysts, and economists worry it will hamper economic recovery.
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New report details shocking growth of prison exploitation across US
Dec 22, 2020 06:18A new report from prison abolition group Worth Rises has exposed the extent to which corporate America profits from the desperation of the incarcerated.
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COVID cases in US prisons and ICE immigration jails surpass 250,000
Dec 21, 2020 12:42As new coronavirus cases and deaths surge in the US, the combined number of confirmed cases among people incarcerated in immigration jails and state and federal prisons has surpassed 250,000, according to federal data and the Marshall Project.
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Defying Trump, McConnell seeks to squelch bid to overturn the election
Dec 19, 2020 11:53Breaking with President Trump’s drive to overturn his election loss, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Tuesday (15 Dec) congratulated President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on his victory and began a campaign to keep fellow Republicans from joining a doomed last-ditch effort to reverse the outcome in Congress.
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US ICE mismanagement created coronavirus “hotbeds of infection” in and around detention centers
Dec 19, 2020 11:49U.S. IMMIGRATION AND Customs Enforcement’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been a horrifying — and avoidable — calamity.