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Is Biden overlooking Bureau of Prisons as reform target?
3 years, 5 months ago

Is Biden overlooking Bureau of Prisons as reform target?

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden took quick action after his inauguration to start shifting federal inmates out of privately run prisons, where complaints of abuses abound. While most criminal justice overhauls require action from local officials or legislation, reforming the federal prison system is something Biden and his Justice Department control. In his January speech on racial equity in which …

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Brazilians bang pots in protest as 2,500 more die of COVID-19
3 years, 7 months ago

Brazilians bang pots in protest as 2,500 more die of COVID-19

Al Jazeera  

Almost 100,000 Brazilians came down with the coronavirus and 2,507 died on Wednesday as President Jair Bolsonaro struggles to deal with pandemic. Pot-banging protests have erupted across several cities in Brazil as President Jair Bolsonaro addressed the nation, just days after protesters took to the streets over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has so far killed almost half …

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Column: Biden’s new inquiry into COVID-19’s origins strikes a blow for open-mindedness
3 years, 7 months ago

Column: Biden’s new inquiry into COVID-19’s origins strikes a blow for open-mindedness

LA Times  

Chinese President Xi Jinping talks with patients and medical workers at a hospital in Wuhan, the first place hit hard by the novel coronavirus of unknown origins. It wasn’t so much what he did — ordering U.S. intelligence agencies to take a new look at the origins of COVID-19, including whether the coronavirus that causes the disease escaped accidentally from …

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Tanzania’s new president says it’s ‘not proper’ to ignore COVID
3 years, 9 months ago

Tanzania’s new president says it’s ‘not proper’ to ignore COVID

Al Jazeera  

Samia Suluhu Hassan signals a shift in approach from the COVID-scepticism of her late predecessor John Magufuli. Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has said it is “not proper to ignore” the coronavirus pandemic, in comments suggesting a shift from her COVID-sceptic predecessor, who downplayed the disease. Hassan announced she would create an expert coronavirus task force to advise her government, …

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President Joe Biden has started work on his next big battle — stopping the coronavirus pandemic
3 years, 11 months ago

President Joe Biden has started work on his next big battle — stopping the coronavirus pandemic

ABC  

Joe Biden has taken office as President of the United States a year after the pandemic first came to the country's shores. While the Trump administration's "Operation Warp Speed" honed federal ambition on developing a vaccine, Biden knows there's more to disease control than inoculation. As a result, the early rollout of the vaccine was what Biden called a "dismal …

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After coronavirus, Trump aims to get campaign back on track
4 years, 2 months ago

After coronavirus, Trump aims to get campaign back on track

India TV News  

Looking to shove his campaign back on track, President Donald Trump and his team laid out an aggressive return to political activities, including a big White House event on Saturday and a rally in Florida on Monday, a week after his hospitalization for a virus that has killed more than 210,000 Americans. Two weeks after his Rose Garden event that …

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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un wishes Trump recovery from coronavirus
4 years, 3 months ago

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un wishes Trump recovery from coronavirus

Live Mint  

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday sent a message of sympathy to President Donald Trump and his wife Melania, wishing they would recover from the COVID-19 illness, state media reported. Trump had said he would rain “fire and fury” on North Korea and derided Kim as “little rocket man” on a suicide mission, while Kim responded he would …

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Trump says he and Melania tested positive for COVID-19
4 years, 3 months ago

Trump says he and Melania tested positive for COVID-19

Salon  

On early Friday morning, President Trump tweeted that he and the first lady, Melania Trump, have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The announcement followed news from Thursday that Hope Hicks, one of Trump's senior advisers and someone who traveled with him this week, had also tested positive. Trump's physician Sean Conley said Trump is doing "well" in a memo …

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China has no intention to fight either cold war or a hot one with any country: Xi Jinping at UNGA
4 years, 3 months ago

China has no intention to fight either cold war or a hot one with any country: Xi Jinping at UNGA

India TV News  

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday addressed the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly debate. Addressing via video conferencing, Jinping said China is the largest developing country in world-committed to peaceful, open, cooperative and common development. We've no intention to fight either cold war or a hot one with any country. "We will continue to narrow differences and …

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Ex-Trump staffer outlines how the president undermined his own task force's pandemic response
4 years, 3 months ago

Ex-Trump staffer outlines how the president undermined his own task force's pandemic response

Raw Story  

In a new interview with NBC News scheduled to air on Tuesday night, Mike Pence's former top Homeland Security aide Olivia Troye excoriated President Donald Trump and the administration for their failures to take the coronavirus pandemic seriously. Trump, claimed Troye, is "undermining" his own public health experts, especially with events like the rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma where masks were …

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September 15 coronavirus news
4 years, 3 months ago

September 15 coronavirus news

CNN  

US President Donald Trump continued to claim that coronavirus will “go away,” claiming it might disappear without a vaccine, while speaking at an ABC town hall on Tuesday Trump also claimed “herd development” can help the disease dissipate, and some doctors, including Scott Atlas, have argued for that strategy. It’s going to be herd developed and that’s going to happen, …

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Namastey Here to Stay? 6 Times the Desi Greeting Grabbed Headlines in 2020
4 years, 4 months ago

Namastey Here to Stay? 6 Times the Desi Greeting Grabbed Headlines in 2020

News 18  

Among all things that have been negatively impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, contact-based greetings are perhaps the worst hit. In February, ‘Kem Chho Trump’, the mega event for Donald Trump in Gujarat, was named ‘Namaste, President Trump’ as the Centre decided to switch in the regional theme for a national one. Indian rapper Baba Sehgal in one his recent raps, …

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Joe Biden and his VP pick Kamala Harris explain their plan for beating Donald Trump in 2020
4 years, 4 months ago

Joe Biden and his VP pick Kamala Harris explain their plan for beating Donald Trump in 2020

ABC  

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his vice-president pick, Kamala Harris, have made their first public appearance as running mates. We learned why Biden picked Harris As speculation dragged on in July, Biden said he wanted to be "simpatico" with his running mate. Biden mentioned Harris's immigrant parents in describing her as "the story of America". In describing Biden's track …

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Covid: Seven year old dies of coronavirus in Georgia, a day after Trump said children are ‘almost immune’
4 years, 5 months ago

Covid: Seven year old dies of coronavirus in Georgia, a day after Trump said children are ‘almost immune’

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A seven-year-old boy from …

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Trump claims bombshell demand to DELAY election was to get media 'talking' about voter fraud claim
4 years, 5 months ago

Trump claims bombshell demand to DELAY election was to get media 'talking' about voter fraud claim

Daily Mail  

President Donald Trump doubled down on his threat to delay November's election, citing concerns mail-in voting could lead to a 'rigged' and 'crooked' result as one of the Republican Party's most prominent conservative members said Trump should be impeached over the matter. President Donald Trump doubled down on his threat to delay November's election, citing concerns mail-in voting could lead …

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Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci's coronavirus narratives differ, but could the President really fire the top disease expert?
4 years, 5 months ago

Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci's coronavirus narratives differ, but could the President really fire the top disease expert?

ABC  

US President Donald Trump and the nation's top disease expert, Anthony Fauci, have long offered competing narratives around the US coronavirus response. Dr Fauci's official title is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, but most Americans know him as the top disease expert or the guy leading the National Coronavirus Task Force. On Thursday local …

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WHO: Coronavirus ‘public enemy number one’
4 years, 5 months ago

WHO: Coronavirus ‘public enemy number one’

Al Jazeera  

UN agency sounds alarm as coronavirus cases rise by one million in five days, pushing the total to 13 million globally. World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issued a stark warning on the spread of the coronavirus – calling the disease “public enemy number one” – as the number of cases around the world rose above 13 million. “Let …

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Trump wears mask in public for first time during pandemic
4 years, 5 months ago

Trump wears mask in public for first time during pandemic

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump wore a mask during a visit to a military hospital on Saturday, the first time the president has been seen in public with the type of facial covering recommended by health officials as a precaution against spreading or becoming infected by the novel coronavirus. I think it’s a great thing to wear a mask.” Trump …

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Trump wears mask in public for first time during pandemic
4 years, 5 months ago

Trump wears mask in public for first time during pandemic

The Hindu  

President Donald Trump wore a mask during a visit to a military hospital on Saturday, the first time the President has been seen in public with the type of facial covering recommended by health officials as a precaution against spreading or becoming infected by the novel coronavirus. Mr. Trump flew by helicopter to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in …

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Chinese embassy issues alert to citizens over pneumonia outbreak in Kazakhstan
4 years, 5 months ago

Chinese embassy issues alert to citizens over pneumonia outbreak in Kazakhstan

China Daily  

A medical worker wearing protective equipment collects a swab from a man at the coronavirus disease testing facility in Almaty, Kazakhstan, July 8, 2020. Chinese Embassy in Kazakhstan on Thursday issued an alert to its citizens in Kazakhstan over a pneumonia outbreak in the country. Pneumonia in Kazakhstan has killed 1,772 people as of June this year, and for June …

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US could hit 1 lakh new coronavirus cases a day, warns top health expert
4 years, 6 months ago

US could hit 1 lakh new coronavirus cases a day, warns top health expert

Live Mint  

A top US health expert warned Congress on Tuesday that new coronavirus cases could more than double to 100,000 per day if authorities and the public fail to take steps to suppress the pandemic. Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, a leading member of President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force, said the United States was headed in the "wrong direction" on …

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Coronavirus task force briefs — but not at White House
4 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus task force briefs — but not at White House

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — There was no presidential appearance and no White House backdrop Friday when the government’s coronavirus task force briefed the public for the first time since April — in keeping with an administration effort to show it is paying attention to the latest spike in cases but is not on a wartime footing that should keep the country from …

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Coronavirus US: Fauci disturbed by 'surge of infections'
4 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus US: Fauci disturbed by 'surge of infections'

Daily Mail  

Dr. Anthony Fauci told Congress Tuesday that he's seeing a 'disturbing surge of infections' of the coronavirus and said it's something he's 'quite concerned' about. Testifying before Congress Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci said he's seeing a 'disturbing surge of infections' of the coronavirus in states including Florida, Arizona and Texas Dr. Anthony Fauci arrives at a hearing Tuesday in front …

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White House Defends Trump's Use Of Racist Term To Describe Coronavirus
4 years, 6 months ago

White House Defends Trump's Use Of Racist Term To Describe Coronavirus

NPR  

White House Defends Trump's Use Of Racist Term To Describe Coronavirus Enlarge this image toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images The White House on Monday denied any malicious intent behind President Trump's use of the racist term "kung flu" this weekend to describe the deadly coronavirus pandemic, saying that the president had no "regrets …

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