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Lawyers can't reunite 666 seized migrant children with parents – 121 more than previously believed
Nov 12, 2020 16:08It is revealed that the actual number of migrant children and infants separated from their parents is significantly higher than previously thought, according to an email obtained by NBC News. In the email, Steven Herzog, the lawyer leading the effort to locate the children's relatives and reunite the families, says that 666 children—about 20% of whom were under the age of 5 when they were ripped away from their parents—remain separated.
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Trump freezes wages of farmworkers following election day
Nov 12, 2020 15:44Just days after U.S. voters went to the polls, the Trump administration issued a little-noticed rule freezing the wages of farm laborers working under H-2A visas, a move that could severely harm low-wage guest workers who have already been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Pfizer claims experimental COVID-19 vaccine over 90% effective
Nov 12, 2020 06:03American multinational pharmaceutical corporation, Pfizer Inc, says its experimental COVID-19 vaccine has been more than 90% effective and claimed this is a major victory in the fight against a pandemic that has killed more than a million people, battered the world's economy and upended daily life.
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US far right monitors anxious about lingering possibility of post-election violence
Nov 11, 2020 11:13Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud have the potential to convince his base that Joe Biden’s election is illegitimate, and to energize Trumpists into further action.
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Trump faces growing fury over his refusal to concede defeat to Biden
Nov 10, 2020 17:14As Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris delivered acceptance speeches Saturday night, November 7th Trump bucked the tradition of congratulating the winners and instead spent the evening tweeting out claims that he “won the election” and making allegations of fraud.
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'I just couldn't be silent': How American women decided 2020 presidential race
Nov 10, 2020 06:36To capture a variety of opinions in the 2020 US presidential race, Reuters spoke to 42 women in 12 states — Arizona, Florida, Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Ohio, Nebraska and Indiana — where voters swung for and against Donald Trump.
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'This is a tsunami... pay attention': Experts horrified as COVID-19 hits new record in US
Nov 09, 2020 12:20On top of the surge in COVID cases across the US, coronavirus hospitalizations are also soaring in more than a dozen states. The latest record-shattering coronavirus figures came days after Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, warned in an internal report dated November 2 that the U.S. is "entering the most concerning and most deadly phase of this pandemic" and urged the Trump administration to take "much more aggressive action."
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Trump effort to steal election, sow national chaos is taking place in broad daylight
Nov 09, 2020 12:15In a series of unhinged tweets Saturday morning, November 7th—most of which were marked by the social media company as containing information that is "disputed" or "might be misleading about an election or other civic process"—Trump lied to the world, without providing a shred of evidence, that massive fraud has taken place since Election Day.
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COVID needs are urgent, but many US cities are prioritizing police funding instead
Nov 09, 2020 12:10World is in the midst of a global pandemic that has produced a massive economic crisis, in which millions are struggling to meet their basic needs. Meanwhile, in many American mid-sized cities – including Houston, San Diego and Pittsburgh — police funding continues unabated, even as funding for crucial programs is cut.
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Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided US, Iran urges next US administration to ‘learn’ from sanctions
Nov 09, 2020 12:04Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil.