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G-7 gathers to pledge 1B coronavirus vaccine shots for world
CARBIS BAY, England (AP) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson greeted world leaders on a wooden boardwalk atop the freshly raked sand of Carbis Bay to open the Group of Seven summit Friday, offering...
Syndicated Author Jun 11, 2021

DOJ seeks internal probe on seizure of Democrats’ data
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has asked for an internal investigation after revelations that former President Donald Trump's administration seized phone data from House Democrats in 2018 as...
Syndicated Author Jun 11, 2021

Florida bans ‘critical race theory’ from its classrooms
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida's state Board of Education banned "critical race theory" from public school classrooms Thursday, adopting new rules it said would shield schoolchildren from curricula ...
Syndicated Author Jun 10, 2021

Senators eye $579B in new infrastructure spending, $1T plan
WASHINGTON (AP) - A bipartisan group of senators is eyeing an infrastructure deal with $579 billion in new spending as part of a $1 trillion package. It could be rolled out as soon as Thursday as nego...
Syndicated Author Jun 10, 2021

Biden lays out US vax donations, urges world leaders to join
ST. IVES, England (AP) - President Joe Biden called on global leaders Thursday to join him in sharing coronavirus vaccines with struggling nations around the world after he promised the U.S. would don...
Syndicated Author Jun 10, 2021

N. Carolina ban on Down syndrome abortions goes to governor
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina senators approved a bill on Thursday to bar women from getting abortions on the basis of race, sex or a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.With the Senate's party-...
Syndicated Author Jun 10, 2021

Wife of drug kingpin ‘El Chapo’ pleads guilty to US charges
WASHINGTON (AP) - The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman pleaded guilty Thursday to charges in the U.S. and admitted that she helped her husband run his multibillion-dollar crimina...
Syndicated Author Jun 10, 2021

US officials extend expiration dates on J&J vaccine doses
WASHINGTON (AP) - Johnson & Johnson said Thursday that U.S. regulators extended the expiration date on millions of doses of its COVID-19 vaccine by an extra six weeks.The company said a Food and D...
Syndicated Author Jun 10, 2021

Boston schools chair resigns over racially charged texts
BOSTON (AP) - The chair of the Boston School Committee resigned Monday amid criticism of racially charged texts she shared with another member of the committee disparaging families of students, city o...
Syndicated Author Jun 10, 2021

Newspaper gunman weighed ‘Timothy McVeigh-style’ attack
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The man who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper told a state psychiatrist he wanted to destroy a building "Timothy McVeigh-style" and that there was "no defense" for the c...
Syndicated Author Jun 09, 2021
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