Raleigh, NC | WRAL News

A bill that passed the state Senate unanimously on Thursday would allow repeat drunk drivers to get back behind the wheel more quickly - as long as they have an ignition interlock system on their vehicle. […]
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Tulsa World
By Randy Krehbiel Tulsa World
- The designation for a stretch of U.S. 287 from Boise City in the western end of the Panhandle southeast to the Texas line was included in the annual road-and-bridge-naming bill passed by the Oklahoma House of Representatives on Thursday — although Rep. Regina Goodwin, D-Tulsa, did try to throw up a roadblock.
- A nearly 23-mile stretch of U.S. 287 from Boise City in the western end of the Panhandle to the Texas line could become the state's President Donald J.
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Chicago Sun-Times
By CST Editorial Board
- Biden’s bold and inspirational plan is good for Illinois, and it is our responsibility as a state to help the president make it work.
- He said the United States by 2024 will double the amount of money made available to developing countries to address climate change.
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Seattle Times
By PAM BELLUCK

Survivors of mild or moderate COVID-19 experienced a vast array of long-term medical problems that they never had before — not just lung issues but symptoms that could affect virtually any part of the body, a Veterans Affairs study has found. […]
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Austin, Texas | KXAN News
By Jennifer Sanders
- GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) — It was a call Martine and Amos Keith never thought they would get from their fifth-grade daughter about a class assignment.
- The Keiths said the teacher told them their daughter had a choice whether to do the assignment, and she (the teacher) was just teaching the lessons provided by the district.
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Financial Times
GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming says Britain is a ‘big animal’ in the digital world but must adapt its sovereign capabilities […]
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Bloomberg Politics
By Leslie Kaufman, Eric Roston
- Indonesia, for instance, faces devastating flooding, particularly in its capital city ; its president, Joko Widodo, said that developing nations could consider tightening their emissions targets only if wealthy countries committed to more aid.
- President Joe Biden convened world leaders for a two-day virtual climate summit on Thursday to send a message that the U.S. is back and ready to lead.
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WUSA - News
Wednesday’s payments mark the sixth batch of checks to go out since the COVID relief bill was signed by President Joe Biden last month. […]
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New York Post
By Johnny Oleksinski
- With their new reboot of “Mortal Kombat,” the studio has given audiences the anti-Oscars.
- Chosen fighters from each realm compete in a tournament, called Mortal Kombat, to stave off the annihilation of Earth by the Outworlders.
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Indianapolis Star
Yvonne Stokes starts on July 1 and is currently an assistant superintendent for the School Town of Munster. She will be HSE’s first Black superintendent […]
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San Jose news | The Mercury News
By Letters To The Editor
- When you need to change out your appliances, go electric.
- In honor of Earth Day, remember oil and gas – it served its purpose – for a time.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
By Brooks Johnson
- Essentia Health has also opened its Miller Hill Mall vaccination site in Duluth for walk-in appointments available to anyone seeking a first dose of the vaccine.
- DULUTH – St. Luke's has an ample supply of COVID-19 vaccines, and the Duluth-based health system is encouraging anyone who wants to make an appointment, no matter where they live, to drive up for the shot.
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Miami Herald
Persuaded by testimony from the leaders in the Glades agriculture community that sugar burning is not harming their residents, the Florida House on Thursday sent to the governor a bill
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Tulsa World
By Kelsy Schlotthauer Tulsa World
- She’s where I got my fight from,” said Tiffany Crutcher, adding that everything changed for her mother after the loss of her son, Terence, in 2016.
- Having witnessed her mother’s unlikely transformation into activist after her son was killed by police, Tiffany was not surprised to see that same fighting spirit come out again recently when facing COVID-19.
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Dallas | WFAA News
A study referred to in a New York Post article looks at six cases in Israel where people developed herpes zoster (or shingles) after receiving the Pfizer vaccine. […]
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WUSA - News
In general, if you can’t get the second dose within the recommended 21 or 28-day timeline, should you start the process over again, meaning two more shots? […]
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Boston Herald
By Erin Tiernan
- Dozens of rural counties in Midwest states are turning away coronavirus vaccines — doses Gov. Charlie Baker said he’d be “happy” to take off their hands and get them into eager Bay Staters’ arms.
- The hesitancy that exists in more rural, Republican areas of the United States is less of an issue in Massachusetts, Baker said, where vaccine demand still outpaces supply.
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Toledo Blade
Sewer work will require lane closings on part of Hawley Street on Friday and Monday, but all lanes will be open during the weekend, the city transportation division announced. […]
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New York Post
- The special follows the iconic singer/actress’ efforts to rescue Kaavan, a 37-year-old elephant kept chained to a wall, alone, in an Islamabad zoo in squalid conditions.
- “I had to make a decision whether I was going to go to Islamabad in a pandemic and not knowing what the people there were going to think of me, or even if they knew who I was,” Cher said.
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Boston Herald
By Meghan Ottolini
- As the state budget showdown looms on Beacon Hill, state Rep. Kimberly Ferguson is fighting to help fund NEADS — a nonprofit that places service dogs with veterans nationwide.
- The nonprofit is a premier service dog provider for people with disabilities and veterans across the country, but the pandemic upended its operations in 2020.
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Boston Herald
By Alexi Cohan
- Dr. Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, infectious disease physician at Tufts Medical Center, said if no new blood clot cases or other issues have been reported since the original pause, it is likely the committee will recommend using the vaccine again.
- The CDC and Food and Drug Administration recommended a pause on administration of the vaccine on April 13 following a possible link to six rare blood clot cases.
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Alabama News Network
By Ja Nai Wright
The Alabama Tourism Department announced that Alabama’s Travel Industry survived the pandemic better than the other 45 states. Despite the pandemic, Alabama ranks top 5 in the nation for the smallest percentage drop in travel expenditures. They estimated more than 22.5 million people visited the state of Alabama last year. The amount of tourism dollars spent in Alabama dropped 20% compared to previous years. This still beats out the national average which is at 42% according to Travel Economics. Alabama had a large growth in travel search activity since 2019. the state rose 24 spots up to number 6 nationwide. Categories: Montgomery, News […]
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Florida Sun Sentinel
By Scott Travis, Rafael Olmeda
A majority of the School Board could fire Superintendent Robert Runcie and Chief Counsel Barbara Myrick under the terms of their contracts. But if board members want to avoid paying hefty severance packages, they’d have to fire them for good cause, which would require more than an arrest. […]
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Los Angeles Times
By Maxine Waters
- I traveled to Minnesota to be with other members of Congress, civil rights leaders and other local officials to give support to the families affected by police violence, and to stand in solidarity with the young people protesting — many of whom are understandably traumatized by the killings that are taking place at the hands of police officers in this country.
- In a 1993 essay, ahead of the verdict in the federal civil rights trial of the officers who brutally beat Rodney King, I wrote to our community and I implored our young people to be responsible.
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Portland Oregon | KOIN News
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A vigil is planned Thursday evening in downtown Portland. for the Columbus teen shot to death earlier this week by a police officer. The vigil for Ma’Khia Bryant is expected to begin at 6 p.m. at Pioneer Courthouse Square. The fatal police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black teenager seen on video charging at two people with a knife, came within minutes of the verdict in George Floyd’s killing — causing unrest by some over the continued use of lethal force by Columbus police. Officials with the Columbus Division of Police released footage of the shooting just hours after it happened, a departure from the […]
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Minnesota - Twin Cities Pioneer Press
By Scott Bauer
- State health leaders said Thursday that while the gap between supply and demand is closing, there is an increasing emphasis on reaching those who may have difficulty getting vaccinated or who have been hesitant to receive the shot to date.
- About 1.5 million more people need to be fully vaccinated to reach 80% of the total population, the target for herd immunity, Willems Van Dijk said.
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Orange County Register
By Hayley Munguia
- But the same children won’t be there the whole time; federal officials are aiming to transition kids from the shelter to living with family members or sponsors within seven-to-10 days of arriving at the Convention Center, though some cases may be more complex and take longer.
- The Long Beach Convention Center became a temporary migrant shelter on Thursday, April 22, for children who were found at the border without a parent.
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Orange County Register
By Veronique De Rugy
- Think of the number of hours that schools, restaurants and other businesses spend wiping down surfaces to prevent COVID-19 transmission even though we’ve known since last July that this wiping isn’t necessary.
- That isn’t the only form of hygiene theater some schools perform.
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Dallas | WFAA News
By law, there is no way to reduce the font size to fit all of the names on one ballot, the county administrator said. […]
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Tulsa World
- Several Tulsa organizations are joining together Saturday to help properly dispose of unused and expired prescription medication.
- A prescription drug take-back event is scheduled for Saturday several locations across the Tulsa area to keep expired and unused drugs from getting into the wrong hands or causing accidents.
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Chicago Sun-Times
By Mitchell Armentrout
- Suburban gambling kingpin Rick Heidner and his Gold Rush Amusements Inc. will keep operating his slot machines “in good standing” at more than 600 establishments across the state under the deal approved Wednesday by the Illinois Gaming Board.
- After a year and a half of scrutiny — and after a foiled attempt to open a new racetrack and casino in the southwest suburbs — Gold Rush Amusements founder Rick Heidner is “in good standing” with the Illinois Gaming Board.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
By Tina Smith
- On July 14, 1948, a young senator from Minnesota stood on the floor of the Democratic National Convention and challenged his party to commit itself to the cause of civil rights, "the issue of the 20th century."
- But in the summer of 1967, another young senator from Minnesota — chosen to fill Humphrey's seat — invited a young navy lieutenant named Carlos Campbell to testify before the Senate Banking Committee's subcommittee on housing.
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Albany Times Union
A Saratoga Springs man faces at least three years in prison after admitting he was drunk when he collided with a 72-year-old pedestrian as he drove during his ride-sharing job. He then fled - with a fare-paying passenger still in the back seat.
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Wall Street Journal
- Ten years ago in these columns, we hailed Indiana for its leadership in establishing one of America’s most ambitious school voucher programs.
- On Thursday the Indiana Legislature built on that achievement by approving a budget that will take the program to 48,000 students a year from about 37,000.
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WBIR - News
“We’re talking months since January of trauma, after trauma after trauma, and they haven’t had a chance even to exhale or even think about what is going on." […]
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
- The announcement that the U.S. Department of Justice will be conducting a "pattern and practice" investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department gives me hope for future implementation of systemic changes in the MPD ( "Justice probe is a critical next step," editorial, April 22).
- Some imagine that the conviction, and presumably harsh sentencing, of Derek Chauvin will send a message to Minneapolis cops, and perhaps cops everywhere, but I doubt it.
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Dallas | WFAA News
Darrin Klice could see pain in his oldest daughter after several months of virtual school and the loss of a friend in a car crash. […]
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Wall Street Journal
- Roosevelt’s first vice president, John Nance Garner, is said to have likened the office to bucket of warm spit.
- Walter Mondale created the modern vice presidency out of a position that was an afterthought at the Constitutional Convention.
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Indianapolis Star
Yvonne Stokes is announced as the next superintendent of Hamilton Southeastern Schools during a board meeting Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Fishers. […]
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Wall Street Journal
- So it was again on Thursday as Biden officials leaked that they will soon propose raising the federal tax on capital gains to 43.4% from a top rate of 23.8% today.
- The leakers told Bloomberg that Mr. Biden will tax capital gains for taxpayers who earn more than $1 million at the personal income tax rate, which he also wants to raise to 39.6% from 37%.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
By Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune (TNS)
- "They stopped and raised their voices, and they even challenged authority because they saw [Floyd's] humanity," Ellison said.
- Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of "Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption," uses the phrase to describe people who stand up and intervene when someone's humanity is being robbed.
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Wall Street Journal
- That Democrat is Bill Gardner, New Hampshire’s secretary of state.
- Behind the Democrats’ push for their federal takeover of congressional elections is their insistence that it will sweep away “racist” voting laws and increase voter turnout.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
By Veena Iyer
- In 1979, a few months after my birth, Mondale spoke to the United Nations and called on the world to come to the aid of refugees from Vietnam.
- In 1969, my father immigrated from India for postgraduate study at the University of Minnesota thanks to the Immigration and Nationality Act supported by Mondale during his first year in the Senate.
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Bloomberg View
By Anjani Trivedi
No healthcare system was ready for Covid-19, butyears of neglect and the government’s belief in private sector solutions has left the South Asian giant in a catastrophic shambles.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is part of the DOT, said Thursday it is proposing to withdraw a rule rule meant to stop states from setting their own requirements for greenhouse gases, zero emissions vehicles and fuel economy.
- DETROIT — The U.S. Transportation Department is moving to reverse former President Donald Trump's bid to end California's ability to set its own automobile tailpipe pollution standards.
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Greensboro, NC | Fox 8 News
By Joedy McCreary
- “The good news is that whatever was done in North Carolina, the cumulative effect of what was done — both on the business side and the medical side — was that we can hold our heads high and say we really came through this relative to other states,” Walden said.
- (WNCN) — Gov. Roy Cooper leaned on a couple of numbers to back up his claim that North Carolina is getting through the pandemic better than most states.
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Florida Sun Sentinel
By Marc Freeman, Scott Travis
A timeline of the statewide grand jury that indicted Broward County Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie and General Counsel Barbara Myrick. […]
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Wall Street Journal
- It was a lot for a country, a people, to take in and process.
- There is no question in my mind that the jury reached the right verdict.”
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Bloomberg View
By Daniel Moss
- James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, recently told Bloomberg Television's Kathleen Hays that getting three-quarters of Americans vaccinated would signal that the pandemic is ending, a necessary condition to consider tapering bond purchases.
- Given the vast sums central banks have pumped into the global economy since the pandemic began, it’s only prudent to look beyond traditional metrics when considering whether to dial back.
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Wall Street Journal
- Traffic laws didn’t kill Daunte Wright, but critics of the police are using his death to call for an end to their enforcement.
- Officers then discovered that Mr. Wright had an open warrant for failing to appear in court on charges of illegal gun possession and fleeing from arrest.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
- In a well-choreographed confab with NATO leaders, Blinken traveled to Brussels last week along with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who announced that the U.S. was not only canceling the troop drawdown in Europe announced by former President Donald Trump, it was adding about 500 personnel to Germany in a move that gives credence to President Joe Biden's pledge to strengthen the Western alliance.
- That message was echoed by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, who said last week, "Russia must end this military buildup in and around Ukraine, stop its provocations and de-escalate immediately."
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WUSA - News
Previous efforts to stop panhandling have been derailed by concerns about homeless rights. One council member says permits are the solution. […]
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Minnesota - Twin Cities Pioneer Press
By Shannon Geisen
- According to Guinness World Record rules, nothing may support the mohawk other than hair-styling products.
- A bonafide expert at record-setting mohawks, Jettman quickly transformed Grisamore’s lengthy locks into a 50.9-inch spike.
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WBIR - News
Beyond misrepresenting the author’s affiliation, the paper published to a journal for “radical new ideas and speculation” misrepresents its citations. […]
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Vanity Fair
By Kia D. Goosby
- “I think that styling is just like such an incredible platform and it’s changed so much,” Welch says.
- With a client roster that also includes Tracee Ellis Ross, Sarah Paulson, Olivia Wilde, Kristen Wiig, and many more, Welch is still plenty busy as a stylist.
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Boston Herald
By Lisa Kashinsky
- Leaders across communities hard hit by COVID-19 are urging residents to remain vigilant and roll up their sleeves to get vaccinated even as the number of cities and towns at high risk for transmission dropped for the second consecutive week.
- “Right now we are in this tug-of-war between virus and variants, versus vaccine and vigilance,” Dr. Richard Herman, Brockton’s pandemic consultant, said.
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Maine - Portland Press Herald
By Bob Keyes
- Amanda Huotari, the longtime executive artistic director at the Celebration Barn Theater in South Paris, plans to leave her post at the end of this year, following a season of open-air performances.
- Amanda Huotari will leaving her role as executive artistic director of Celebration Barn Theater at the end of the year.
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Iowa Capital Dispatch
By Perry Beeman
- Arbuckle, drawing largely from ISU’s Farm and Rural Life Poll, said farmers have become more open to conversations about carbon emissions and climate change.
- Farmers continue to question whether climate change is driven by humans, the consensus of scientists worldwide, an Iowa State University researcher said Wednesday.
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Chicago Sun-Times
By Sam Kelly
- Days after Chicago’s cardinal lashed out at “intimidating tactics” by supporters of the Rev. Michael Pfleger, the current pastor at St. Sabina’s church said he has instructed parishioners to express themselves “respectfully.”
- “I totally understand when this stuff hits close to home, when it’s someone who you think you know and is creating that negative effect,” Hiner said at a news conference Thursday.
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
By J. Scott Trubey
Georgia’s vaccination rates look better than the CDC’s because Georgia officials use smaller state population estimates than the CDC, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis found. […]
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Boston Herald
By Rick Sobey
- The state’s weekly vaccine report showed that 526,662 total doses have been administered since last week — a dip of 46,707 doses from the prior week’s record high mark of 573,369 shots.
- More than 526,000 coronavirus vaccine doses were given across Massachusetts during the past week, down a bit from the previous week’s record as close to 100,000 shots were administered in the most recent day of data.
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San Antonio Current
By Colin Wolf, Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

On Monday, COVID-denier and NRA-mouthpiece Ted Nugent admitted that he
tested positive for coronavirus, telling followers: “I have had flu symptoms for the last 10 days. I thought I was dying. […]
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- And I thought it’s going to be another 20 years before they do that again, if ever.
- Was Dumpert aware so many people were supporting him from afar — watching via live streaming well into the night?
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Dallas | WFAA News
The bills put more responsibility on officers in use-of-force cases to keep other officers in check and to help if a person is injured. […]
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San Jose news | The Mercury News
By Linda Zavoral
- The nation’s largest Asian grocery chain — 99 Ranch Market — will soon join Macy’s, Target and Century Theatres as an anchor tenant at South San Jose’s Westfield Oakridge Mall.
- This 99 Ranch will be the chain’s first location inside a mall and its first new-concept store in California.
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Boston Herald
By Bob Weber
- The tollway will bill you and send you an invoice (which you can pay online) if you set up a Pay-By-Plate account.
- A: The tollway system does accept credit cards, but not at toll booths, which are history.
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Alabama News Network
By Shane Butler
- We head towards the weekend with another frontal system approaching the state.We expect rain and storms move through the area early Saturday morning.
- We’re on the back side of the storm system Saturday night and that puts us in a good position for some nice weather Sunday.
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Washington Post
By Michael Gerson
- White people in America tend to assume, at a deep level, that America’s economic, governmental and legal systems are roughly fair.
- Eighteen days after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “ I Have a Dream ” speech, four young girls were killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. Days later, King delivered their eulogy, and demonstrated why America would have been lost without the civil rights movement.
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Washington Post
By Erin Cunningham, Brittany Shammas, Hannah Knowles and Carolyn Y. Johnson
- Federal health authorities are leaning toward recommending that use of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine resume, possibly as soon as this weekend — a move that would include a new warning about a rare complication involving blood clots but probably would not call for age restrictions.
- Federal health authorities are leaning toward recommending that use of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine resume, possibly as soon as this weekend — a move that would include a new warning about a rare complication involving blood clots but probably not call for age restrictions.
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Alabama News Network
By Jerome Jones
- On Thursday the Alabama Senate debated a package of bills supported and authored by Secretary of State John Merrill.
- Supporters of the package say the bills strengthen ballot security.
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Washington Post
Joe Biden won the White House by appealing for calm and unity. But he has inherited a fractured and volatile nation. As Biden tries to keep his own promises, these are the issues that confront him and continue to divide America. […]
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Washington Post
By Alyssa Rosenberg
- Then, the New York Times followed up with a report that a female publishing executive wrote to W.W. Norton’s president in 2018 to say that in 2015, Bailey assaulted her while they were both guests at a friend’s home.
- What happened at W.W. Norton this week was instead a clever effort at corporate image management disguised as social responsibility, and a missed opportunity to demonstrate how making recompense and continuing dialogue can go hand in hand.
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Washington Post
By Kim Bellware
- Sharpton decried mentions of Wright’s record and said the real questions must be reserved for Kim Potter, the 26-year veteran Brooklyn Center police officer who shot Wright with her service weapon .
- MINNEAPOLIS — Friends and family of Daunte Wright will gather here Thursday afternoon to say goodbye to the 20-year-old Black man who was killed earlier this month by police during a traffic stop.
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Cincinnati | WLWT News
- Instead, we're playing catch-up and trying to put bandaids on issues that perhaps could have been avoided if initial design and launch placed kids and teens at the center."As Zigazoo grows through word of mouth, it has also fallen into the hands of celebrity parents -- including Rutler and his partner, singer Christina Aguilera -- whose 6-year-old daughter consumes videos on the app.
- With a background as tech entrepreneurs -- the Ringelsteins launched and sold Dropbox-for-education platform UClass to Renaissance Learning, a Google Capital Company, for an undisclosed sum in 2015 -- they folded these exercises into an app and made the traditionally passive experience of viewing videos into something creative and social.The app's challenges fall into various categories -- art, math, health and fitness, and more -- and come from its content partners.
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Washington Post
By Lori Aratani
- DeFazio (D-Ore.), the committee’s chairman, and Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Wash.), the aviation subcommittee chairman — also makes clear that the Federal Aviation Administration has the authority to impose requirements to protect passengers and airline workers during public health emergencies.
- In addition, it would require that people wear masks on airplanes and in airports, and that airline employees and some FAA personnel be given personal protective equipment during public health emergencies linked to respiratory diseases.
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Washington Post
By Catherine Rampell
- Fortunately, tons of Democrats (and at least one prominent Republican ) have expressed support for making a monthly child allowance permanent.
- My own reporting suggests Biden settled on a four-year extension of the child allowance for fiscal reasons.
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East Idaho News
By Kalama Hines
- Because Zerra did not return, Zausch said, he has a chance to be the show’s first participant to complete two 60-day challenges.
- POCATELLO — If he is able to complete his latest challenge, Bannock County native Jeff Zausch will have spent more time ‘Naked and Afraid’ than any other contestant on the popular Discovery Channel show.
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Washington Post
By Sydney Page
- “There’s an amazing amount of information you can get from satellites,” said Kuo, who is also a hiker, though he has never visited the area where Compean was lost.
- Ben Kuo was working at his home about 60 miles away in Ventura County, Calif., when he stumbled upon a tweet from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, along with the photo of Compean’s legs.
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Iowa Capital Dispatch
By Katie Akin
- The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa filed a lawsuit Thursday against a state law that exempts Medicaid and other public insurance plans from funding transition-related surgeries for transgender individuals.
- The Iowa Court of Appeals dismissed the case because Vasquez and fellow plaintiff Mika Covington had not been denied coverage by the Iowa Department of Human Services.
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Washington Post
By Fareed Zakaria
- In other words, even if all the blood clots proved fatal — and most have not been — the virus would still be thousands of times more dangerous than the vaccine.
- Consider the decision from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration to recommend pausing distribution of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after six cases of severe blood clots were reported in the United States (now nine ).
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Washington Post
By David Ignatius
- He didn’t live to see the emotional moment that’s likely to come Saturday, when President Biden is expected to become the first U.S. president to formally affirm the fact of the Armenian genocide .
- On Saturday, the annual day of remembrance for the 1.5 million victims of the genocide, Gregorian would probably have asked the same question that he posed in the March 2018 interview : “What is our duty as Armenians .
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Wall Street Journal
- Snap chat parent Snap Inc. kicked off social media’s first quarter earnings season on Thursday with a bright filter, reporting users and sales above Wall Street’s estimates.
- Continuing to surprise investors to the upside is an impressive feat for a company whose share price has more than tripled over the last year.
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Orange County Register
By Ian Wheeler
Health care provider Providence is adding new coronavirus vaccination sites at the Orange County Great Park in Irvine and at an Edwards Lifesciences building in Santa Ana. The Santa Ana location, off the 55 freeway at 3009 Daimler St., opened Wednesday, April 21, the company said. The drive-thru Irvine location is set to launch Monday, April 26, using one of the Great Park’s parking lots near 8000 Great Park Blvd. Providence already has a vaccine center at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton and recently started several weekly clinics in north Orange County at local community centers. Appointments for Providence sites can be made onMy […]
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Boston Globe
By Noah Weiland
Federal health officials appear to be leaning toward lifting their recommended pause on the use of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine after finding only a limited number of additional cases of a rare blood clotting disorder among recipients. […]
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Minnesota - Twin Cities Pioneer Press
By Amy Forliti
- For example, if a defendant is convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman — two crimes against one victim — a judge would issue a sentence on each count, and could rule that they be served at the same time or consecutively, said former Hennepin County chief public defender Mary Moriarty.
- For second-degree unintentional murder, guidelines say the presumptive sentence for someone with no criminal record like Chauvin would be 12 1/2 years.
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Miami Herald
Black and Hispanic communities aren’t strangers to being marginalized in South Florida, and the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated that cultural stigma. A majority of Black residents have yet to receive
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Miami Herald
Parents of severely brain-damaged children covered by a controversial state program accused of “nickel-and-diming” struggling families would receive an extra $150,000 — and an array of additional benefits — under
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Boston Globe
By Tracy Jan and Lisa Rein
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration put up bureaucratic obstacles that stalled approximately $20 billion in hurricane relief for Puerto Rico and then obstructed an investigation into the holdup, according to an inspector general report. […]
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Seattle Times
By Joseph O’Sullivan

"We now are seeing the beginnings of a fourth surge in Washington," Gov. Jay Inslee said Thursday. That comes as new variants of the coronavirus — some of which are more contagious and deadly — expand in the state. […]
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Alabama News Network
By George McDonald
- The COVID recovery effort continues to move forward across the state — but many people in Selma and Dallas County still need help feeding their families.
- Griffin was one of hundreds of people — who lined up for food Thursday morning — at the Christian Outreach Alliance Food Pantry in Selma.
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Axios
By Andrew Freedman
- The White House is slated to name Rick Spinrad, an oceanographer at Oregon State University, to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to two sources familiar with the matter.
- The agency, located within the Commerce Department, houses the National Weather Service and conducts much of the nation's climate science research.
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WBIR - News
Lisa and D’Brian Varnado went from home bakers to business owners after appearing on a popular baking competition show. […]
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Washington Post
By Letters to the Editor
- Kathleen Parker’s assertion that “nothing has changed since Biden’s 1983 assessment — oh, except that the court today leans conservative — and liberals don’t like it” was laughable and a good example of the right’s attempts to rewrite history to suit its own purposes.
- But I disagree with the unqualified assertion in her April 18 op-ed, “ Biden should remember his own words,” that “the court today leans conservative — and liberals don’t like it.”
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Washington Post
By Jaclyn Peiser
- As of Wednesday, his dream is officially coming true — at least for a few days — thanks in part to a fierce push from fans to get him a spot as one of the celebrity guests who have lead the show since its revered host, Alex Trebek, died in November.
- “Between hosting 21 seasons of the educational Reading Rainbow, playing the brainiac engineer Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: the Next Generation, and filling the roll of Kunta Kinte in the ever important mini-series Roots, LeVar Burton has inspired and shaped the minds of several generations of trivia-loving nerds,” wrote Joshua Sanders, who created the petition.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Aside from the slot machines and poker tables, there are plenty of restaurants, nightlife, shopping, and attractions that make A.C. a great place to spend a weekend. […]
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Miami Herald
On Earth Day, the greater Miami area shared the same message as President Joe Biden: a pledge to slash greenhouse gas emissions dramatically in the coming decades. With Miami Beach
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WUSA - News
DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson wants to know how long D.C. buildings must remain blighted before a district agency takes action. […]
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Austin, Texas | KXAN News
By Jaclyn Ramkissoon
AUSTIN (KXAN) — While two newly-constructed flyovers are opening Sunday at the I-35/U.S. 183 interchange, one existing flyover will be closing for at least a few months for reconstruction. The Texas Department of Transportation said the existing northbound I-35 to northbound U.S. 183 flyover will shut down for about four months, beginning 10 p.m. Sunday. Crews will demolish and reconstruct one portion of the flyover. A long-term detour will be put in place. Drivers looking to use that flyover will instead be directed to the Rundberg Lane exit (#241) to take a U-turn at Rundberg Lane and transfer onto the new southbound I-35 to northbound […]
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Minnesota - Twin Cities Pioneer Press
By Dave Orrick
- In separate statements and interviews, state health and education officials, testing sites and local hospital officials sketched out a current COVID landscape that is both optimistic and troubling as they emphasized the dual-pronged strategy amid a tug of war between an increasing — but far from fully — immune public and the more-dangerous variant that is dominating infections and increasingly sending unvaccinated, middle-aged patients to the hospital.
- Minnesota health officials Thursday urged everyone over 16 to get vaccinated and youth and teens to get tested more frequently if the state is to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic faster.
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Raleigh, NC | WRAL News

Senate leader says not to expect tax legislation to move for a couple of weeks, despite the looming income tax deadline. […]
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WBIR - News
To help pay for their plan, the Republicans would instead rely on user fees, including for electric vehicles, and on redirecting unspent federal dollars. […]
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Vanity Fair
By Katey Rich, Erin Vanderhoof
- “The weather has been lovely so I imagine they will be out in the garden playing games and having lots of fun,” a family friend told Vanity Fair at the time about Louis’s birthday plans.
- Even when George and Charlotte returned to school last September, Louis remained at home, but Vanity Fair understands that Louis began attending Willcocks Nursery School in London this week, the same day that the new photograph was taken at Kensington Palace.
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Iowa Capital Dispatch
By Perry Beeman
- “There’s a growing sense of urgency,” said Kerry, a former U.S. senator and former secretary of state who holds the newly created position of presidential envoy for climate in the Biden administration.
- Moments before he closed a White House international climate summit on Earth Day, U.S. special envoy John Kerry urged Iowans to push Congress to approve new cuts in carbon emissions.
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WBIR - News
The home will be offered for sale at below market price to a low-to-moderate income family in the Lonsdale community, according to officials. […]
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Toledo Blade
Utility work begun Thursday that closed part of one downtown Toledo street and closed lanes on another is scheduled to continue through Saturday, the city transportation division announced. […]
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Minnesota - Twin Cities Pioneer Press
By Frederick Melo
If you’re interested in picking up trash on Earth Day weekend, there’s an app for that. St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter will initiate the 35th annual citywide spring cleanup on Saturday morning by helping to launch a multi-state effort to combat plastic pollution along the Mississippi River. The “Mississippi River Plastic Pollution” initiative asks volunteers to track the items they remove from along the river using the Marine Debris Tracker, a new open source smartphone app available at DebrisTracker.org. Carter will place a GPS-tagged bottle into the Mississippi River at 9 a.m. Saturday, which will provide the initiative with data about the […]
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Boston Globe
By Andrew E. Kramer
The order signals a possible deescalation in a military standoff that had raised alarm that a new war in Europe could be looming. […]
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Raleigh, NC | WRAL News

Senate leader says not to expect tax legislation to move for a couple of weeks, despite looming income tax deadline. […]
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Boston Globe
By Matthew Gilbert
The dystopian drama has exceeded the natural lifespan of its story, as it plows forward with nothing new to say. […]
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Seattle Times
By Brad Plumer

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s new pledge to slash America’s greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decade is long on ambition and short on specifics, but experts say that success would require rapid and sweeping changes to virtually every corner of the nation’s economy, transforming the way Americans drive to work, heat their homes and […]
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Seattle Times
By CARLA K. JOHNSON and MATTHEW PERRONE

COVID-19 hospitalizations among older Americans have plunged more than 70% since the start of the year, and deaths among them appear to have tumbled as well, dramatic evidence the vaccination campaign is working. […]
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Maine - Portland Press Herald
By Hannah LaClaire
- Providers, known in the industry as caregivers, as well as medical cannabis consumers, are pushing back against a series of program changes proposed both from the Maine Office of Marijuana Policy and the Maine Legislature.
- Dawson Julia, a medical cannabis provider in Unity, head of the Maine Cannabis Coalition and one of the first in the state to open a medical cannabis “caregiver” store, is “fighting for his life” in a Miami hospital, according to a GoFundMe fundraiser started by his sister-in-law, Jennifer Nyman-Julia.
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Orange County Register
By Emily DeRuy
- “Prior to the implementation of any changes to the CSU’s existing immunization requirements, the CSU will engage the California State Student Association, the CSU Academic Senate and labor unions,” the system said in a statement, adding that exemptions would be allowed for medical and religious reasons.
- Stanford on Thursday also said it plans to require all students coming to campus in the fall to be fully vaccinated.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
By Jim Souhan
- Torii Hunter provided similar thrills and power to Buxton, but wasn't as fast, didn't cover as much ground and peaked at 31 home runs and 23 steals in different seasons.
- There is another way to look at Buxton now that he is producing like the star the Twins always thought he would be.
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Long Reads
- As we go about our daily lives, the carbon-rich soils of the boreal forest and lush rainforests of the tropics are hard at work sucking up carbon dioxide, forming what are known as terrestrial carbon sinks.
- But as conditions become warmer and drier, wildfires are happening more frequently and burning over greater areas, threatening the vast reserves of carbon stored in the soils of the boreal region and potentially transforming the forest into grassland or tundra.
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Arizona Daily Star
By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services
- "What this bill is about is giving a child the right to live,'' said Sen. Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert.
- Rep. Kelli Butler, D-Paradise Valley, said the measure is not backed by any organization that lobbies on behalf of the disabled.
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Dallas | WFAA News
"Really, any illness on Kendall is way worse than it is for most people," one parent said of their immunocompromised child, explaining why they’ve been so isolated. […]
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Orange County Register
By Brooke Becher
- Third Mutual passed a resolution that would set a special election schedule regarding a ballot initiative to restate and amend the mutual’s insurance policies as outlined in the Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions (CC&Rs) and bylaws.
- Citywide, coronavirus cases within Laguna Woods have slowed to a crawl, with only four new cases reported in April, Village Management Services CEO Jeff Parker said during a regular meeting of the Third Mutual board on Tuesday, April 20.
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Axios
By Russell Contreras
- Hispanic U.S. House members are pushing for an aggressive, multiyear "Marshall Plan" for Central America to tackle regional violence, corruption and economic devastation.
- The big picture: The call for a Central American plan, similar to a U.S. program that rebuilt Western Europe following World War II, comes as both political parties and the Biden administration struggle to find short-term solutions to the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
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Miami Herald
Florida lawmakers on Thursday reached a deal on a sweeping $200 million school-choice proposal that would combine and significantly expand the state’s voucher programs that help families pay for private
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Orange County Register
By Jeff Gritchen
- Neighborhood kids greet residential trash truck driver Alfonso Arroyo in Huntington Beach, CA, on Thursday, April 22, 2021.
- Otis Lapides, 2, and his mother, Kimberly Lapides, wave goodbye to residential trash truck driver Alfonso Arroyo in Huntington Beach, CA, on Thursday, April 22, 2021.
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New Hampshire | Concord Monitor
- Tuesday morning state and federal officials announced that Schablitsky, guided in part by the coin, believes she has found the site where Tubman lived with her parents and several siblings during formative teenage years before she escaped enslavement.
- Officials said bricks, datable pieces of 19th-century pottery, a button, a drawer pull, a pipe stem, old records, and the location all pointed to the spot being the likely site of the Ben Ross cabin.
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East Idaho News
The following is a news release from the Idaho State Board of Education. The Idaho State Board of Education asked Idaho’s college and university presidents to study their student fee structures with the intent of potentially making some fees optional. “We want to understand how an optional student fee structure can be developed to the benefit of students and if so, what would it mean for the institutions financially and how such a program would be implemented,” State Board President Debbie Critchfield said. Student fees cover institution costs in three areas: facilities, technology, and student activities. The presidents will focus on […]
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Miami Herald
When millions of Floridians were desperate to receive unemployment benefits from the state’s broken jobless agency last year, they turned to their lawmakers for help. Legislators and their staffs from
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Vanity Fair
By Caleb Ecarma
- “The Facebook Oversight Board’s decision on the Trump case—expected in late April—will show whether that expulsion can be justified by something other than an impulse to appease angry users and butter up a new administration.”
- As the tech world waits to see whether Facebook kicks Donald Trump out for good or lets him back in, lawmakers are following along, seeing the case as a milestone in the fraught relationship between Big Tech and free speech.
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The Salt Lake Tribune
By Eric C. Ewert | Special to The Tribune
- Utah added nearly a half a million people (474,466) in a decade and grew at an astonishing 17.1% (though we won’t gain a representative in Congress this time).
- They routinely embrace every strip mall, housing development, freeway lane, methane well, coal mine, water diversion, golf course, RV park, truck stop and business park with open arms (and taxpayer money) in their growth-addicted worldview.
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Washington Post
By Josh Rogin
- China has abused its power at every stage of the covid-19 pandemic to bully countries and advance its interests — and Beijing is now using vaccine supplies to pressure governments across the Western Hemisphere.
- “The Chinese are trying to show Western Hemisphere states that they can be a good economic, public health and diplomatic partner,” Coons said.
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Boston Globe
By Alexa Gagosz
The state’s health director, Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott, will also receive an honorary degree from Roger Williams University. […]
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WUSA - News
Starting May 15, indoor and outdoor venues can open their doors to more people and social gathering limits will increase. […]
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Boston Globe
By Robert Barnes
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a recent trend of leniency for minors convicted of serious crimes and said judges need not specifically find “permanent incorrigibility” before sentencing juvenile murderers to life in prison without the possibility of parole. […]
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Orlando Sentinel
By Gray Rohrer
Florida lawmakers seeking to wrap up their session on time next week have an unprecedented problem: A $10.2 billion windfall coming from Washington that they haven’t yet figured out how to spend. […]
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Miami Herald
Low vaccine demand has led another hospital to suspend COVID-19 first doses. Broward Health, the county’s public hospital, will transition to solely offering second doses by the end of the
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Toledo Blade
Lindsay Dernier’s home on Colburn Street badly needed a new roof, but as the single mother of four children, she couldn’t afford it. […]
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Boston Herald
By Steve Conroy
- “He’s skating and he’s working out every day and he seems to be progressing in that area — or not regressing, I guess is a better way to put it,” said Cassidy.
- But at the end of the day, he seems in good spirits when you do pass him in the hallway when he’s finished his skate and we’re going out for ours,” said Cassidy.
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New Hampshire | Concord Monitor
- Kingston police said they received reports of a loud explosion Tuesday that could be heard in several towns and as far away as Massachusetts.
- They responded to Torromeo quarry where they found people who acknowledged holding a gender reveal party involving explosives and thought this would be the safest spot to hold it.
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Lexington, Kentucky | Herald Leader
Dr. Steven Stack, Kentucky's public health commissioner, responds to the report of a COVID-19 outbreak in a long term care facility in Kentucky caused by an unvaccinated worker.
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Kansas | The Witchita Eagle
Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed two Republican-backed education bills on Thursday, including one that would have required high school students to pass a civics test to graduate and another that would
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Boston Globe
By David M. Shribman
It’s not often that a book appears that upends all the guiding historical views of an era. Jon Grinspan’s “The Age of Acrimony” is that rare disturbance in the waters of the historiography of 19th-century America. It is an engaging story of what happened between the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the sinking of the Lusitania. […]
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Philadelphia Inquirer
The bill exempts many jobs from the proposed ban on preemployment marijuana testing, including law enforcement, employees who need a commercial driver’s license, and many healthcare workers. […]
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Boston Globe
By M. J. Andersen
The best-selling writer’s most recent book is “Dirt: Adventures in Lyons as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the History of French Cooking.” […]
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Toledo Blade
At least two local churches plan to host worship services Saturday for participants in the next day’s Glass City Marathon. […]
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
By JEFFREY COLLINS
- But the public tasting rooms request has caused the measure to grind slowly through the Legislature in a state where quirky alcohol laws protect small retailers, harkening back to the days of saloons and booze only in private clubs and bartenders making drinks with minibottles typically found on airplanes..
- Wholesalers and liquor stores are against the bill because they don't want Gallo to be able to sell the wine directly after the tastings.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- The seven-day average of 641 cases was reported on Thursday, still up from a month ago by 236, but trending in the right direction.
- More than 4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered throughout Wisconsin, but vaccinations are trending downward after peaking in early April.
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Vanity Fair
By Charlotte Klein
- He has the right to share his point of view,” Greenblatt said of Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host whom he recently urged the network to fire.
- Greenblatt said the goal of his speech at this week’s conference was to encourage companies either directly advertising on Tucker Carlson Tonight or spending money across other Fox properties to use their leverage to send a message about the host, whether through pulling back spending or making their views known to executives.
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Radio Iowa
By Dar Danielson
- The ACLU of Iowa has filed a third lawsuit seeking to strike down the state’s denial of Medicaid coverage for transition-related surgery for transgender Iowans.
- She says Aiden Vasquez sought coverage and has been denied, and they are now taking the state to court again.
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Boston Globe
A feature on the growing embrace of chaplains and Miss Conduct’s reflections on the pandemic have readers sharing their reactions. […]
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Boston Herald
By Jason Mastrodonato
- It wasn’t Alex Cora’s decision alone to use Matt Barnes as the closer of the Red Sox this season.
- Cora still hasn’t officially said the words, “Matt Barnes is my closer,” but has pretty much winked, nodded and pointed to Barnes as he’s used him as the ninth-inning guy all year.
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Boston Herald
By Sean Philip Cotter
- Boston’s seven-day average positive test rate is now 4%, as of the most recent complete data on April 15.
- Janey said the city’s mobile vaccination units would head to Mattapan, Dorchester and South Boston in the coming days to bring more shots to people.
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Boston Globe
By Tiffany May
In Taiwan, one of the few places in the world to offer marriage leave to couples heading to the altar, a bank employee married his partner four times, all in a plot to take advantage of the self-governing island’s time-off policy for newlyweds. […]
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Boston Globe
By Steve Donoghue
The Cuban Missile Crisis broke upon the world in October 1962 when a US spy plane revealed the construction of Soviet ballistic missile installations about 50 miles away from Havana. The ensuing month of escalating tension is the subject of Harvard history professor Serhii Plokhy’s gripping new book. […]
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
By Don Hopey / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Executive order mandates changes to city policies and procedures aimed at reducing emissions of climate changing green house gases […]
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Chicago Tribune
By Stacy St. Clair, Christy Gutowski
Pet stores in Chicago can no longer pass off high-priced purebred and designer dogs from puppy mills as rescue animals under new restrictions that close a long-standing loophole in the city’s anti-puppy mill ordinance, a furtive practice exposed by a Tribune investigation. […]
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Maine - Portland Press Herald
By Kevin Miller
- MONTVILLE — The state will create a $500,000 competitive grant program that will help to fund at least two clean energy start-up companies in Maine, Gov. Janet Mills announced Thursday.
- Mills unveiled the new program on the same day that President Joe Biden announced he was committing the United States to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 52 percent over 2005 levels by the end of this decade.
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Boston Globe
By Jacob Bogage
President Biden’s three nominees to the US Postal Service’s governing board faced their first big test Thursday on Capitol Hill, where a Senate panel pressed them to maintain service levels and rein in parts of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-year plan for the agency. […]
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Tucson Weekly
WASHINGTON — Voting rights advocates and Arizona Democrats on Wednesday denounced a bill that would remove voters from the Permanent Early Voting List, calling it an attempt to disenfranchise up to 150,000 voters, particularly those of color. […]Read more >Similar articles >
Miami Herald
Hours after a Minnesota jury convicted police officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd, a group of Miami organizers and activists who advocate against police brutality and anti-Blackness
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Washington Post
By Petula Dvorak
- And for Alston, who works at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, one of the biggest gut punches of the job is not what she faces, but what the patients she cares for do.
- Over the past year, nurses who haven’t felt their protective gear was ample at work have lived separately from their families, some in RVs, Burger said.
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Raleigh, NC | WRAL News

After months of lockdown to limit the spread of coronavirus, hospitals and nursing homes across North Carolina are once again allowing people to visit patients and residents. State lawmakers want to make sure visits will continue in the next public health emergency. […]
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Four members of Congress from dairy producing states again introduced legislation Thursday to prevent the labeling of products from nuts, seeds and plants as milk, saying it's misleading to consumers. […]
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Miami Herald
Florida lawmakers continued to water down an elections bill in the state Senate on Thursday, stripping out some of the more controversial measures that provoked outrage by Democrats and voting
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Nebraska | Lincoln Journal-Star
The letter to Biden from the coalition of attorneys general says adding seats to the Supreme Court would be "a naked political power grab." […]
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Philadelphia Inquirer
ATLANTIC CITY - Drinking at the Shore is always a different sort of proposition. In places like Sea Isle or Wildwood, it's all about quantity over quality. I almost never drink, say, Red Stripe beer at home (or listen to much reggae), but dammit if every summer I don't find myself somewhere listening to a middling rendition of "Legalize It" and drinking $3 Red Stripe on special. […]
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Boston Globe
By Matthew Gilbert
Hulu has ordered 10 episodes of the spinoff, first commissioned by CBS in 2014 as a pilot, starring Greta Gerwig and titled "How I Met Your Dad," but now with Hilary Duff in the lead role. […]
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Alabama News Network
The Montgomery County Commission once again invites Montgomery County students, ages 16-22 years old, to come work for the county. The 2021 Montgomery County Student Apprenticeship program begins Monday, June 7 and runs until Friday, July 30. Students have the opportunity to work for offices throughout the county including the County Commission, Sheriff, District Attorney, Probate, Engineering, Parks and Recreation, Community Corrections and more. Application can be found on the homepage of the county website,www.mc-ala.org. Applications are due to the City-County Personnel Office by 5:00 p.m. Friday, May 14, 2021. Students must be […]
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TIME
By Victor Williams
- But in a testament to how tenuous this moment of joy and resolution is, Hillz delivered the final artwork from an airport in Minneapolis while en route to the funeral of Daunte Wright, another unarmed Black man recently killed by a police officer (and whose death occurred while Chauvin’s trial was in session).
- Houston-based artist Ange Hillz, meanwhile, went to work: in 24 hours, he created this week’s TIME cover portrait of Floyd, to accompany a story from TIME’s Janell Ross .
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The Washington Times
By TALI ARBEL
- The Federal Communications Commission last summer voted to require a new “988” number for people to call to reach a suicide-prevention hotline.
- “So it’s time to make the suicide prevention hotline text accessible with 988.”
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New Hampshire | Concord Monitor
- City councilors put off action on Keene’s mask ordinance Wednesday, saying they need more local COVID-19 data to determine the mandate’s end date.
- The Elm City’s ordinance — which the council adopted in August — requires most people 10 and older to wear face coverings in all indoor public places and outdoor spaces where business is conducted.
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Albany Times Union
By Steve Barnes
The Dave Matthews Band on Thursday listed two SPAC shows for September. What's unclear, however, is how Live Nation intends to handle seating. Online charts for some shows offer 15 or more contiguous seats for sale in consecutive rows, which cannot be accommodated under current state pandemic restrictions.
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TIME
By Janell Ross/Minneapolis
- Guilty, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill said, as he read the jury’s April 20 verdict on the first of three charges leveled against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Perry Floyd Jr. That’s when I heard those involuntary sounds come up and out.
- They had, for the first time in Minnesota history, convicted a white police officer of murdering a Black man while on duty.
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Iowa Capital Dispatch
By Laura Olson
- WASHINGTON — For the second time, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a measure to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, sending the historic bill to the Senate on a party-line vote.
- “If Democrats were serious about statehood, they would pursue it through a constitutional amendment — requiring two-thirds of the House of Representatives and Senate to approve and three-quarters of states to ratify,” said Rep. Jim Hagedorn, R-Minn., in a statement after the vote.
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Alabama News Network
By Ben Lang
- Another round of strong to severe storms could develop during the afternoon along a cold front which sweeps through our area Saturday night.
- Expect Saturday night lows in the mid 50s, with Sunday afternoon highs in the mid 70s.
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Vanity Fair
By Joanna Robinson
- Ravka is at war with its neighbor to the north, Fjerda—a nation based on the Nordic countries.
- Bardugo's Grishaverse is, however, a bit closer to our world than, say, Westeros.
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WBIR - News
The confirmation hearing marked the first step that could reshape the board as Postmaster General Louis DeJoy pursues a controversial overhaul of mail operations. […]
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New Hampshire | Concord Monitor
- A new order from President Joe Biden banning federal immigration agencies from using terms such as “illegal alien” is a step in the right direction, say some immigration activists in the Upper Valley.
- Erin Jacobsen, an immigration lawyer and professor at Vermont Law School, called Biden’s order a good first step.
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KVUE - Local
The lawsuit alleges a pre-school teacher "roughly grabbed" a boy, walked while holding him up, and then "in an admittedly frustrated state" tossed him into a wall. […]
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
- Lamarre outlined that process, and the company’s reopening strategy, in a wide-ranging interview this week as Cirque announced the return of those shows, along with Blue Man Group at Luxor on June 24.
- Cirque du Soleil CEO Daniel Lamarre says Treasure Island owner Phil Ruffin’s passion for returning “Mystere” to the stage was a determining factor in the show’s June 28 restart.
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Denver Post
By Erica Hunzinger
- This week, The Spot is narrowing in on the main issues in front of lawmakers and leaders — gun laws, changes to policing and the top educators in the metro area — as well as calling your attention to things you may have missed.
- Colorado Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg says this could be the week his fellow Democrats lawmakers roll out their slate of legislation in response to the King Soopers shooting.
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Kansas City Star
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said he crunched the numbers recently and determined that since he was born 36 years ago, 5,000 people have been murdered in Kansas City. Most
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Indianapolis Star
Hear the statement: Indy FOP President Rick Snyder says Marion County Prosecutor "failed to do his part" with red flag law in regards to FedEx shooter […]
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Miami Herald
Episode 5: The Surge As COVID cases rise and deaths climb, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis insists he isn’t worried because those infected are younger and experiencing fewer symptoms. Meanwhile, Andrew’s
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Boston Globe
Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound. […]
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The Salt Lake Tribune
By Kaitlin Eskelson | Special to The Tribune
- Being held May 2-8, this year’s NTTW is the 38th annual celebration of the U.S. travel industry’s contributions and an opportunity to remind visitors and residents alike of the incredible value the travel industry holds not just for our local economy and workforce but also for our community’s identity and culture, while reminding our leaders and policymakers of the travel industry’s ability to help power recovery efforts from the crippling effects of COVID-19.
- However, the travel industry’s ability to bounce back after periods of economic hardship — and inject much-needed revenue directly into Salt Lake County’s visitor economy and that of the state — is why the theme of this year’s National Travel and Tourism Week (NTTW) is the “Power of Travel.”
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Seattle Times
By Antonia Noori Farzan

When Nepal welcomed foreign climbers back to Mount Everest for the spring climbing season, many feared it was only a matter of time before the coronavirus made its way to the world’s highest peak. Sure enough, just weeks into the season, symptoms of the virus have been found at Everest’s base camp, sparking a renewed […]
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Lexington, Kentucky | Herald Leader
There are more than half a million unclaimed COVID-19 vaccines across Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday, as he announced 628 new cases and eight virus-related deaths. On getting a
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Portland Oregon | KOIN News
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — 993 new COVID cases were reported in Oregon on Thursday, as cases continue to climb. One new death was reported, bringing the state death toll to 2,467. 283 Oregonians remain hospitalized due to the virus, with 69 of them in ICU beds. Oregon’s 2,467th COVID-19 death is a 67-year-old man from Linn County who tested positive on April 21 and died on April 21 at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. He had underlying conditions. Doc talks new OHSU study on COVID-19 variants The new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases reported today are in the following counties: Baker (14), Benton (24), Clackamas (116), […]
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
By SCOTT BAUER
- State health leaders said Thursday that while the gap between supply and demand is closing, there is an increasing emphasis on reaching those who may have difficulty getting vaccinated or who have been hesitant to receive the shot to date.
- As an example of the closing gap, this week 250,000 doses were requested from vaccinators, down from 400,000 the week before, said Julie Willems Van Dijk, deputy secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
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New Hampshire | Concord Monitor
- “This is a wonderful opportunity for those of you who are interested in getting your kids vaccinated,” Reardon said in the video message.
- Like state vaccination clinics, there will be a 15-minute observation period where students will be monitored for any adverse side effects after getting the shot.
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Washington Post
By Editorial Board
- AS OFFICIALS tell it, President Biden has not yet raised his predecessor’s historically low ceiling on resettlements — despite having promised to do just that — because of concerns that it would overburden the government’s resources.
- The U.S. refugee program, which has thrived with bipartisan support for decades to legally resettle carefully vetted people fleeing the world’s most desperate places, has nothing to do with the current surge of asylum seekers crossing the southern border.
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Vox
By Ella Nilsen
- Though it’s a fraction of Biden’s proposal, the Republican plan is actually larger than the last $305 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill Congress passed in 2015 that was signed into law by President Barack Obama.
- Not only is the cost much smaller; the Republican plan deals more narrowly with fixing America’s roads and bridges and other forms of transportation infrastructure, while Biden’s does that and more, doubling as a sweeping climate plan and a substantial investment to make long-term care more affordable.
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The Hill
By rklar@thehill.com (Rebecca Klar)
Acting Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter criticized the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision Thursday to limit the agency’s ability to secure monetary relief for consumers from companies found to engage in deceptive […]
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Washington Post
By Lola Fadulu, Jenna Portnoy
- Maryland had worked through its 800,000-person pre-registration list as of earlier this week, officials said, although not all have scheduled appointments yet and about 5,000 new people register each day.
- “We believe that the best way to reach those who are people of color, and those with English as a second language, and those who may be underserved, is to actually come out into the community,” said Shelly McDonald-Pinkett, the chief medical officer at Howard University and manager of the vaccination site.
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Portland Oregon | KOIN News
By Courtney Vaughn, The Portland Tribune
- Now, the museum board is refusing to provide any information to the public regarding how the Portland Children's Museum arrived at this point, what financial contribution they would need to remain open, and what, if anything, can be done to prevent these closures."
- "Over the last year, the Board remained publicly silent while the museum floundered," Elisabeth Utas, part of an informal group rallying to try to restore funding for the museum and school, said in a statement released to media.
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New Hampshire | Concord Monitor
ChichesterMan arrested on drug chargesA man from Chichester has been sentenced this week for the distribution of fentanyl, 20 months after he and two co-defendants from Bow were arrested during an undercover operation focused on fighting drug overdoses.Travis Dunn, 31, of Chichester was ordered to […]
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Books : NPR
By Ari Shapiro
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Michelle Zauner, a musician who performs under the name Japanese Breakfast, about her memoir, Crying in H Mart. It’s an exploration of grief, food and identity. […]
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Connecticut Post
By Peter Yankowski
In a tweet, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority said the agency “is aware of incidents where scammers are posing as utilities asking customers to pay utility bills via an app, gift card or pre-paid credit card.”
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Washington Post
By Frida Ghitis
- Russians in huge numbers took to the streets again on Wednesday to protest their government’s treatment of Alexei Navalny, a man they fear may soon die because he dared to criticize President Vladimir Putin.
- Today, Putin’s Russia stands for rampant corruption, stark income inequality, aggression toward its neighbors and state-sponsored assassinations of those who dare to criticize the system.
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Chicago Sun-Times
By Fran Spielman
- Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx on Thursday pointed to stress-induced drug abuse during the pandemic as the impetus to get moving on her plan to wipe clean the record of convicted marijuana dealers and expunge offenses for heroin and cocaine possession.
- Foxx called Illinois’ groundbreaking decision to legalize marijuana a “gateway conversation to deeper conversations around treating addiction as a public health issue and looking at the drug economy that has flourished in these neighborhoods while every other bit of economy has abandoned” those communities.
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Seattle Times
By Lena H. Sun and Laurie Mcginley

Federal health authorities are leaning toward recommending that use of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine resume, possibly as soon as this weekend – a move that would include a new warning about a rare complication involving blood clots but probably not call for age restrictions. The position would be similar to one taken by […]
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New Hampshire | Concord Monitor
- Via zoom, Houle, in an understated yet pointed manner, told Selectmen Jason Weir that his refusal to wear a mask at the Select Board meeting on April 6, which forced a week’s postponement, was selfish.
- At the April 13 meeting, before Houle had his say and longtime resident Bette Bogdan had her say and Town Administrator Jodi Pinard had her say, Select Board Chair Richard Bouchard addressed a complaint concerning Weir, totally separate from Mask-Gate.
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Washington Post
By Greg Sargent
- In the quest for a deal on the makeup of a commission to examine the Jan. 6 insurrection, Democrats have offered Republicans some new concessions.
- The latest idea Democrats floated suggests two ways the commission can issue a subpoena.
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