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US inflation reached 7% in December as prices rise at rates unseen in decades
Jan 17, 2022 12:22The International Monetary Fund has warned higher US inflation could lead to a tougher than expected response from America’s central bank that would send tremors through financial markets and put vulnerable countries at risk.
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Is the US nearing its COVID peak? Experts warn against letting guard down
Jan 17, 2022 12:15According to the Department of Health and Human Services, hospitals in nearly half of US states are nearing capacity, as the Omicron variant has triggered a record number of cases across the country.
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After year of vaccine profiteering, Pfizer hikes prices on 125 drugs
Jan 16, 2022 06:57After raking in enormous profits from its coronavirus vaccine in 2021, the U.S.-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has kicked off the New Year by hiking the prices of more than 120 of its drugs, resulting in significantly higher costs for patients amid a deadly pandemic.
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Republicans in 5 states forged Electoral College documents, MSNBC host says
Jan 16, 2022 06:52Loyalists of former US President Donald Trump attempted to certify the Electoral College in favor of the defeated candidate with forged documents, according to new reporting by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.
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Americans are even more divided than we thought
Jan 14, 2022 14:17A new study reveals how the gap has widened between the two sides of politics in the United States.
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Guantanamo: Why Biden, just like Trump, cannot close this brutal prison
Jan 14, 2022 04:36For the last two decades, the most notorious prison in America has been Guantanamo. We know it today. And we knew it when the Senate judiciary committee held its first hearing on closing the detention center at Guantanamo in 2013.”
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US sanctions are causing a humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan
Jan 14, 2022 04:30In the years after 2001, the United States and its allies created the most aid-dependent state in the world. Upon withdrawal, almost all of this aid has been cut, and further sanctions limit almost all financial transactions with the country.
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Biden’s longtime defense of Senate rules withers under partisan rancor
Jan 13, 2022 12:11US President Joe Biden’s decision to call for changing the Senate’s rules to pass voting rights protections was a long time coming. Perhaps — in the view of his most disaffected supporters — too long.
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Study says COVID loses 90% of ability to infect within minutes in air
Jan 13, 2022 11:59The new findings by researchers re-emphasize the importance of short-range COVID transmission, with physical distancing and mask-wearing likely to be the most effective means of preventing infection. Ventilation, though still worthwhile, is likely to have a lesser impact.
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More than 400 weather stations beat heat records in 2021
Jan 13, 2022 11:53Maximiliano Herrera, watcher of extreme weather and a climatologist who has been compiling weather records for over 30 years, says last year likely to be in top five or six hottest in history.