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Sanders, Lee, and Murphy slam Biden administration's first drone strike in Somalia
Jul 27, 2021 04:50The Biden administration like its predecessors, has been accused of drastically undercounting civilian deaths in U.S. military operations.
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‘Heart-wrenching’: Inside a US hospital grappling with Delta and vaccine hesitancy
Jul 25, 2021 04:41COVID-19 hospitalizations in US State of Tennessee have more than doubled in the recent days, from 195 to 579. Data shared with the Guardian shows that officials in Memphis believe almost 80% of new cases are now tied to the highly transmissible Delta variant with the transmission rate, or R number, at 1.53 and climbing, close to the highest it has ever been in the city.
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Nearly one in five Americans are in collections for medical debt
Jul 25, 2021 04:38As COVID sweeps across America with a fourth wave, this time hitting the red states and counties hardest, medical bankruptcies are starting to explode.
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US sees steepest single-year decline in life expectancy since World War II
Jul 25, 2021 04:32The coronavirus pandemic cut US life expectancy by a year and a half in 2020, down to 77.3 years, according to CDC data released recently. The huge drop was also driven by increased deaths from overdoses, murders, diabetes, and alcohol-related liver disease.
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Republican governor says ‘time to start blaming unvaccinated’ for rise in cases
Jul 24, 2021 04:14More than 600,000 people in the US have died so far due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the worst death toll in the world, and Republican strategists have warned that the party may be blamed by its voters if this total keeps climbing with further COVID outbreaks.
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Trump says Americans 'refusing to take the vaccine' due to mistrust of Biden administration
Jul 23, 2021 15:37Former President Donald Trump has recently issued a statement saying that Americans are "refusing" to take the coronavirus vaccine due to mistrust of the Biden administration, the media and the 2020 presidential election results.
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Detroit’s prison population will soon be stuck living next to a toxic site
Jul 23, 2021 15:24The close ties between incarceration and pollution seen in Detroit are replicated across the United States. A recent Grist analysis found that the nation’s three largest jail systems — Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago — have facilities disproportionately located in areas where there are elevated risks for pollution-related cancer, respiratory hazards, diesel pollution exposure, and proximity to toxic wastewater and hazardous waste.
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At least seven Colombians in Haiti assassination received US training
Jul 23, 2021 14:58Eighteen former Colombian soldiers are currently being held in Haiti in connection with Jovenel Moïse’s assassination, including some who previously served in elite Colombian special operations units. New details on their involvement in the assassination continue to break by the day.
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Huge Oregon blaze grows as wildfires burn across western US
Jul 20, 2021 14:04The largest wildfire in the US torched more dry forest landscape in Oregon on Sunday (18 Jul 2021) , one of dozens of major blazes burning across the west as critically dangerous fire weather loomed in the coming days. The destructive Bootleg Fire just north of the California border grew to more than 476 sq miles (1,210 sq km), an area about the size of Los Angeles.
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US surgeon general says COVID misinformation ‘spreading like wildfire’ on social media
Jul 20, 2021 04:38Vivek Murthy, the US Surgeon General who has accused companies including Facebook of “poisoning information” about coronavirus vaccines, said they were not doing enough to check the online proliferation of false claims.