Bloomberg View
By Mark Gilbert
- Earlier this month, 50 global asset management firms overseeing more than $4.5 trillion pledged to press the companies they invest in to ensure facial recognition technology is developed “in an ethical way, with the right regulation and oversight.”
- The fund management alliance is taking on some of the world’s biggest companies developing face scanning software, such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Apple Inc., Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Alibaba Group Holding Inc. The zeitgeist over privacy is in the group’s favor.
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Boston Globe
What is great (and exhausting) about teaching the course is that the curriculum expands at an astonishingly rapid rate. […]
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Albuquerque Journal
By James Hamill / For the Journal
- The credit is available if you missed some days of self-employment because you required COVID-related care or because you had to provide such care to someone else.
- An act called The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”), provides smaller employers refundable tax credits to reimburse the cost of providing paid sick and family leave to their employees for COVID-related leave.
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Books | The Guardian
By Anthony Quinn
- Andrusier’s book puts a singular spin on the cult of celebrity and its allure for a suburban boy in the 1980s
- A hard lesson for the fledgling collector, but he learns from it and by the time he’s trading autographs professionally he has an eye for spotting fakes (“if the writing was too slow, if it looked flat or lifeless”).
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Albuquerque Journal
By Ellen Marks / For The Journal
- The same Four Hills home has been her headquarters for the past 30 years, despite career moves and the job she started in January – director of Innovation Commercialization at New Mexico State University’s Arrowhead Center.
- I really thought the idea of making money was important – to a large degree, just because I was a teenager who wanted that kind of shoes and my father would look at me like, ‘No, I’m not paying that kind of money for that shoe.’ It was the life of living on a constrained single-family income, and it was very funny.
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Albuquerque Journal
By Dale Dauten and Jeanine J.T. O'Donnell / Syndicated Columnists
- Instead, you should make a bucket list of companies that you would like to work for and start networking with their employees and their HR department to find out about available opportunities so you can stand out while focusing your efforts on finding a remote job that’s right for you.
- J.T.: That’s one reason that when you go online to look at job sites, you’re going to see plenty claiming to have job postings for remote work.
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The New Mexico Political Report
By Searchlight New Mexico
- On May 18, a judge overseeing the historic Yazzie-Martinez case ordered the New Mexico Public Education Department to take stock of the massive digital divide in the state and finally identify the roughly 76,000 students who lacked Internet connections they desperately needed for school.
- Nearly 70 percent of Zuni Public Schools’ students — more than 900 out of 1,378 students — did not have internet at home or access to broadband, essentially locking them out of school over the past year of remote learning, the plaintiff’s technology motion said.
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Books | The Guardian
By Tom Jeffreys
- From the vast steppe to wild forests, country estates to urban parks … Russia’s writers and artists have forged enduring links between nature and nation
- It was during the 19th century that Russian writers (Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev) and artists (such as Levitan, Nesterov, Savrasov and Shishkin) forged enduring links between nature and nation.
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New York Post
By Chuck Arnold
- With Grohl seemingly not wanting to waste a minute talking when he and his band could at long last be playing to a live audience, the Foo Fighters kept on swinging, going straight from “Times Like These” into “The Pretender.”
- And after the Sunday-chill sounds of The Commodores’ “Easy” set the mood for them to take the stage, the hard-rocking Foo Fighters didn’t waste any time launching into what is probably their best-known tune, “Times Like These,” which would typically have been saved for the end of the show.
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US news | The Guardian
By Zoe Williams
- Pfizer seems to be more effective after two doses than the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine (protection against hospitalisation is about 96% with Pfizer and 92% with AstraZeneca, and AstraZeneca fares worse after one shot), but this sense of prestige has nothing to do with effectiveness.
- There’s a view that, if you get side-effects that aren’t life-threatening, you shouldn’t mention them, as you just put off other people from being vaccinated – and besides, what are you, a baby?
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Albuquerque Journal
- Axie Navas, director of the state’s Outdoor Recreation Division, said she knows of four or five small manufacturers in the cycling industry that had moved to New Mexico or started companies here since the pandemic began.
- The pandemic has brought about a dramatic shift within the cycling industry, driving up demand for bikes and other outdoor gear while leaving large manufacturers facing supply-chain challenges, creating opportunities for smaller companies.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
- The RJ’s nine awards included first-, second- or third-place honors in project reporting, breaking news reporting, arts and entertainment writing, headline writing, editorial writing, informational graphics, page design and two awards for video storytelling.
- The Las Vegas Review-Journal won nearly a dozen regional and national awards for work published in 2020, including two high-profile honors for its investigation into the deadly Alpine Motel Apartments fire.
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette
By Lee Pickett, VMD
- Include a list of several locations that can house your cats, from pet-friendly evacuation shelters and motels to boarding kennels and animal hospitals.
- The most common heart condition is chronic valve disease, which is most prevalent in dogs under 45 pounds, like Misty.
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By LAURA JOHNSON South Dakota Public Broadcasting
- “The machine today is not set up to drive through rows, our standard row widths, but it does have the potential in the future to have that capability,” Bunde said.
- Bunde said the sensors ensure safety for the farmer and prevent damage to the equipment.
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Tulsa World
By Tim Stanley Tulsa World
- An Army veteran who served in the occupation of Japan after World War II, Oliver had come home from that never expecting to be in full-time military service again.
- He took some comfort, he said, in the thought that he’d be doing what he had in Japan: serving as a mess sergeant, cooking meals for officers.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Severe weather hit the Chicago area Sunday night, including a tornado that ripped through part of the western suburbs, including the Woodridge area. | Sun-Times file photo The National Weather Service confirmed the tornado at about 11:11 p.m., near Route 53 and 75th Street in Woodridge. A tornado touched down Sunday night in west suburban Woodridge, according to the National Weather Service. The tornado was confirmed about 11:11 p.m., near Route 53 and 75th Street, the weather service said. [11:11 PM CDT] Confirmed tornado (via tornado debris signature) near route 53/75th street in Woodridge. If you’re in the path of this storm, take […]
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Tulsa World
By Jennifer Palmer Oklahoma Watch
A request from Oklahoma Watch could find data on about 170 of the 996 students in 2019-20 only because they had previously gone to public schools. […]
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
President Joe Biden went to the Geneva summit hoping for a thaw in relations with Russia and instead received the cold shoulder.
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Toledo Blade
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, when huge swaths of the population pivoted from brick-and-mortar to online shopping, Amazon has brought in 50 million additional Prime members and boosted its profits. The company that sells everything saw a market opportunity and grabbed hold with both hands. But as business boomed, Amazon has not adequately policed a growing shadow: fake product reviews. […]
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Seattle Times
By Asia Fields
The Sheriff's Office, Kirkland Fire Department and search and rescue volunteers will continue their search until sunset and resume Monday morning if they are not successful. The search follows two others in the county in the past week. […]
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Financial Times
Freezing big groups out of EU Recovery Fund syndication will do nothing to narrow transatlantic investment banking gulf […]
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
- Progressives have decried a “race to the bottom” in which nations seek to attract jobs and investment by setting tax rates that don’t punish entrepreneurs and successful corporations.
- At the top of the agenda was a plan pushed by President Joe Biden and his brain trust to unilaterally disarm in the battle for global competitiveness by imposing a “minimum” corporate statutory tax rate of at least 15 percent across major Western economies.
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Toledo Blade
The story Tuesday “Elder-Beerman, Sears redevelopment unlikely for now” under-reported how Toledo City Council smartly saw through an out-of-state developer’s pitch. […]
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Fast Company
By Doug Aamoth
- Episodes run a very familiar, evening-news-like 30 minutes and, as the name might suggest, drop daily.
- It’s a rare thing for a company podcast to feel…well, less company-y, but the Postlight Podcast, from a company that helps other companies build software platforms, pulls it off in entertaining, informative, and well-produced episodes.
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Financial Times
The Nobel laureates call for better economic ‘plumbing’ after the pandemic and warn about inaction over climate change […]
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Wall Street Journal
- The CPJ notes that Mr. Lai “fights for the right of his Apple News organization to publish freely, even as China and its backers in Hong Kong use every tool to quash them.”
- In this spirit, the CPJ on Monday announced it is honoring Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai with its 2021 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award.
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Boston Globe
By LISA MASCARO
Until recently, the act of governing seemed to happen at the speed of presidential tweets. But now President Biden is settling in for what appears will be a long, summer slog of legislating. […]
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Toledo Blade
SAN FRANCISCO — Two brothers from San Francisco said they have set a record for the longest highline ever walked in both Yosemite National Park and California, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. […]
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Toledo Blade
After the tragic death of a Bowling Green State University student in March, students, parents, university officials, and student groups on campus ought to have the same agenda — finally putting an end to senseless, dangerous hazing rituals. […]
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Bloomberg View
By John Authers
- As I am writing this on a Sunday, with markets closed and a fixed target, I will go through everything that was remarkable about that reaction, and try to explain it with surveys of investor expectations carried out ahead of the FOMC.
- The stock market shifted sharply against inflation proxies last week:
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Minnesota - Twin Cities Pioneer Press
By Mara H. Gottfried
- After years of organizing free back-to-school haircuts, along with backpack and coat giveaways, Lewis-Frost said he wanted to do more by giving kids a safe place to go.
- Step inside the new Truce Center in St. Paul and you’ll see framed photos on the walls — there’s Sadeya Hall, 16, Kacey Feiner, 22, and Andre Crenshaw, 17 — and more whose lives were cut short by gun violence over the years.
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Chicago Sun-Times
- A sever thunderstorm warning has been issued and will remain in effect until 12:15 a.m., the weather service said.
- The tornado warning will remain in effect until 11:45 p.m., the weather service said.
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Austin, Texas | KXAN News
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Every year, around 1,000 cities across the world take part in Make Music Day. This year, it’s being celebrated Monday in Austin — the live music capital of the world. The day is designated to celebrate and promote the natural music maker in everyone with both virtual and in-person, live music performances. "We’ve got some amazing partners nationally — worldwide actually that are going to be providing a lot of instruction free," said Tiffany Stalker of Make Music Austin. The group is planning performances in the Capitol rotunda from noon to 1 p.m. and some performances on the lawn during the day if […]
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Boston Globe
By Tiffany May
Some independent shops flout the new limits on free expression. Others try to come to terms with them. For readers, they offer a sense of connection in a changed city. […]
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Portland Oregon | KOIN News
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The U.S. Coast Guard Sector Columbia River performed a medical evacuation of an injured hiker near the top of Saddle Mountain Saturday. Seaside Police dispatch informed the Coast Guard of the injured hiker and a helicopter crew arrived at around 5:45 p.m. The Coast Guard said a Hamlet Fire and Rescue team was at the scene with the hiker, but determined it wasn’t safe to reach the woman on foot and requested the Coast Guard’s assistance. A rescue swimmer deployed from the helicopter and helped hoist the woman to safety at around 6:40 p.m. The woman was transferred to awaiting emergency medical personnel at […]
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New Hampshire | Concord Monitor
CONCORD, N.H. — Disciplinary hearings for New Hampshire police officers accused of misconduct serious enough for decertification should not be automatically held behind closed doors, a judge ruled.The judge’s decision came as the Legislature voted to make disciplinary proceedings public. A Sununu sp […]
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Boston Globe
By Emily Schmall
The deadly disease has sickened former coronavirus patients across the country. Doctors believe that hospitals desperate to keep COVID-19 patients alive made choices that left them vulnerable. […]
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Bloomberg View
By Andy Mukherjee
- After two years and two waves of a pandemic, the stuck savers finally have a resolution: BharatPe and a unit of Bindra’s Centrum Capital Ltd. will put their financial businesses into a newly licensed bank tasked with making small-ticket loans to unbanked segments of the population.
- BharatPe, a barely three-year-old payments startup, is going to be the half-owner of a bank in India — a prize that has eluded many of the country’s pedigreed tycoons.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
By Jim Buchta
- With demand for rentals in the Twin Cities on the upswing this summer, the escalating cost of building apartments is delaying projects and forcing developers to put others on hold.
- Doran said the cost of the additional phases of his Triple Crown project in Shakopee and the Reserve at Arbor Lakes in Maple Grove, have risen $8 million from initial phases primarily because of lumber prices.
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Orange County Register
By Art Wilson
- Warren’s Showtime came charging home from next-to-last in the eight-horse lineup of older fillies and mares under Juan Hernandez, beating pacesetter Leggs Galore by 1 1/4 lengths as the 2-1 favorite.
- Perhaps none more so than Warren’s Showtime, the in-the-money machine who won the $100,000 Grade III Wilshire Stakes on closing day of Santa Anita’s winter-spring meet Sunday.
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Des Moines, Iowa | KCCI News
- This is K C C I eight News close up Iowa took new steps to back the blue legally the governor signed a law that fulfills her and other republicans campaign promise to protect police officers while keeping Iowans safe from violent protests.
- And that is something that we owe the officers in my opinion, in many respects, is because what I don't want to have is an officer that's afraid to do or or a female issue, that's afraid to do what they've been called to do because they're worried about getting sued, um that they don't intervene, that they just stay in their car um as opposed to going out and engaging with the public or protecting um an individual or taking a dangerous individual off the street.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
By Jenny Berg
- But before Sartell officials can transform some of the 45-acre Sauk River Regional Park into trails fit for fat tires and mountain bikes, they're hoping to swap land with St. Cloud to create a contiguous area on the western side of the river.
- In May, Sartell City Council approved an agreement with Colorado-based International Mountain Bicycling Association to design the bike trail, which is aimed at beginner- to intermediate-level bikers and will include a practice area near the trailhead.
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New Hampshire | Concord Monitor
For Valyria Lewis, the music didn’t go away when she wasn’t able to perform in public during the pandemic. She’s always sat at her piano to sing, practice and play.“Being on stage is great and having the light and the energy from the audience is awesome,” said Lewis, who goes by Miss Vee when she’s […]
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
By Joe Carlson
- Following a closely watched legal battle over a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for staff at a Houston health system — a battle that the hospital won — no hospital or nursing home in Minnesota has imposed a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on its workers, people in the industry say.
- At Hennepin Healthcare, about 85% of employees had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine as of June 7, while 81% of staff at Mayo Clinic's facilities in the Midwest have had at least one shot, health system spokeswomen said.
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Des Moines, Iowa | KCCI News
- "People who are into it, they know how much fun it is and want to have a playmate for their pet when they go back to work."While an increase in pet adoptions is generally a good thing, it also means that veterinarians and vet techs have to see more patients, field more calls from pet owners, which sometimes result in delayed visits and care.
- So that's where I think every crisis like (the pandemic) drives innovation." Cushing says that veterinary medicine is a conservative field and that, on the whole, vets "don't welcome change." He says the field is about 25 years behind human medicine in terms of delegation of tasks and proper use of staff.Some schools, such as Lincoln Memorial University, are starting to institute a middle ground master's degree, akin to a nurse practitioner, that would allow for positive movement up the ladder.
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New Hampshire | Concord Monitor
Discrimination would be prohibited against jurors in federal courts on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity under a bill reintroduced by U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Susan Collins of Maine. “It’s a stain on our judicial system that federal law doesn’t protect LGBT jur […]
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Colorado Sentinel
- AURORA | Nearly a month after Children’s Hospital Colorado sounded alarms on the number of young people seeking mental health help, a new law has been signed by Gov. Jared Polis that will connect young people to services and provide them with up to three free sessions with a mental health care provider.
- The legislation provides $9 million in order to create a temporary youth mental health services program in the Office of Behavioral Health in the state’s Department of Human Services.
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New Hampshire | Concord Monitor
From the dirt path, pedestrians and bicyclists can easily catch the scent of flowers or early summer fruits and vegetables, telling them the growing season is here. From the sky, a different message emerges. Here, a couple takes a walk along the community gardens on Birch Street in Concord between […]
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New Hampshire | Concord Monitor
- — Jarrod Dyson capped a 10-pitch at-bat with a tiebreaking, two-run double in a three-run third inning off Nathan Eovaldi, and the Kansas City Royals rallied to beat the Boston Red Sox 7-3 Sunday for their first series win in nearly three weeks.
- Mike Minor (6-4) allowed two runs and nine hits over 6⅔ innings for the Royals, who had lost 12 of their previous 14 games.
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WUSA - News
The Transportation Security Administration said a Virginia woman was caught carrying a loaded handgun onto a flight from Richmond Int. Airport. […]
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Portland Oregon | KOIN News
By Jordyn Siemens
- Now, organizations like the Alzheimer’s Association in Oregon and the University of Washington have teamed up for a first-of-its-kind survey, funded by the state of Oregon, to better understand the needs of seniors in the LGBTQ+ community.
- It’s something Stanton said can work against this group in getting the care they need.
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New York Post
- That opens the door for writer/director Michael Bonfiglio to recount Schulz’s (and, by extension, Charlie Brown’s) story, starting with Schulz’s childhood as a painfully shy boy in Minnesota nicknamed “Sparky” — after a comic-strip character called “Sparkplug.”
- Bonfiglio does a nice job recounting that history through the use of archival interviews with Schulz, and new interviews with his wife, Jean — which are interspersed with excerpts of the many “Peanuts” TV specials that began airing in the mid-’60s, in color, as it continued to evolve with the changing times.
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Boston Globe
The victim, who was not identified, was hit near 18 Wilcock St., just off Blue Hill Avenue, Boston police Officer Kim Tavares, a department spokeswoman, said. […]
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Los Angeles Times
By Sonaiya Kelley
- Smith revealed the book’s cover art in an Instagram post and mentioned artist Brandan “B-mike” Odums’ process of making the layered portrait.
- The notoriously private star announced Sunday that he would release “Will,” a new memoir co-written by Mark Manson (“The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck”), on Nov. 9.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
- In true Station fashion, the company is also featuring such locals-targeted acts “The Ultimate Frankie Valli Tribute: Let’s Hang On,” on July 31; 4NR (yep, a Foreigner tribute band) on Sept.
- Red Rock Resort and Green Valley Ranch follow with their own shows on July 4.
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Boston Globe
By Michael Levenson
The Eastland Cove Homeowners Association in Broward County, Fla., said it was not on a list of approved flags. The couple face an initial fine of up to $50. […]
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Orange County Register
By Debbie L. Sklar
- But Village resident Annie Zipkin, 68, has much more than a green thumb, and she’s been lending it to those who need help getting their gardens in top shape.
- Zipkin said she’s still amazed at how gardening and landscaping became a big part of her life — despite growing up in Brooklyn, New York.
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Bloomberg View
By Tyler Cowen
- At some point the market will figure out the value of crypto and incorporate that information into a high level of price for those assets.
- Fiat currency won’t just go away, so over the long run crypto could actually boost the value of the dollar by stifling the rise of potential competitors.
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Boston Globe
By John Hilliard
“We need to pull out all the stops this summer and aim for at least 80 percent coverage of the entire state,” said Samuel Scarpino, a Northeastern University epidemiologist. […]
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CBS Baltimore
- Nell, who is known as Famer Nell, owns a Health & Wellness store in the heart of West Baltimore called “BeMore Green.”
- Also, a free grocery model store and we’re on the corner of North and Pulaski, right in the heart of West Baltimore,” said Nell.
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Kansas | The Witchita Eagle
State and local public health officials have confirmed an investigation into multiple diarrheal illness connected to Tanganyika Wildlife Park. The investigation into sicknesses among visitors to the Goddard zoo is
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Boston Globe
By Anton Troianovski
YEKATERINBURG, Russia — Patients with unexplained pneumonias started showing up at hospitals; within days, dozens were dead. The secret police seized doctors’ records and ordered them to keep silent. US spies picked up clues about a lab leak, but local authorities had a more mundane explanation: contaminated meat. It took more than a decade for the truth to come out. […]
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Boston Herald
By Adam Kurkjian
- Pentucket led second-place North Reading, but the latter had the top seed in the 4×100 meter relay, and the former was not participating in the 4×400.
- With two events left at the Div. 2 North girls track and field meet, the outcome for the team title was still undecided.
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Vanity Fair
By Vanity Fair
This season is all about hitting “refresh”: Refreshing our homes, our wardrobes, our gadgets, our lives. And the Prime Day deals are here to help. […]
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Alabama News Network
By Riley Blackwell
As Tropical Storm Claudette moves out of our area, general clearing is expected throughout the day, with a passing shower or two possible in the afternoon due to remnants of Claudette. Temperatures will stay slightly below average, hovering in the mid to upper 80s for the weekend, with lows in the low to mid 70s. However, rain chances begin to trend upwards to start the week, as a front is expected to pass through and give us a fairly good chance for rain and storms; some which could be on the heavier side. A cloudy start to Monday is also expected, with those clouds persisting throughout the day. A similar story for Tuesday is anticipated […]
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Arizona Daily Star
- Ramp assists students with service dogs pursue STEM majors, a passion that developed due to her own negative experiences in higher education.
- Joey Ramp’s proposed study was dismissed three times, and her service dog Sampson was the problem.
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Boston Globe
The money will go to the Mount Ascutney Regional Commission, the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development, and the Northwest Regional Planning Commission. […]
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
By Liz Sawyer
- Public defenders like Sarah Ellsworth grimace as juvenile clients, some as young as 10, are escorted into Minnesota courtrooms while shackled.
- Criminal justice reformers and child welfare advocates have long sought to bar the indiscriminate shackling of youth — a common but unevenly enforced practice across Minnesota.
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Vanity Fair
By Laura Regensdorf
Here is your guide to streamlined essentials, from sleek coffee tools and appliances to chic ways to kit out the backyard. […]
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Portland Oregon | KOIN News
By Amanda Arden
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — It was an exciting weekend at Providence Park as both the Timbers and Thorns played at home with the most fans they’ve had in the stands in almost a year and a half. Providence Park is now up to 80% capacity. Fans at the stadium Sunday were thrilled to be back, but still getting used to the large crowd size. “I think they’ve done a great job with safety protocols and keeping everyone safe,” said Tracy Sebben. “The excitement’s there. The players are reacting to it. It just feels really good,” said Nicole Marshall. Sunday was also a crowd-pleaser. The Thorns came away with a 1-0 win over Kansas […]
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New Hampshire | Concord Monitor
- The vaccination rate is getting close to stalling out in New Hampshire: only about 4% of the state population has become fully vaccinated so far this month by the state’s reckoning and barely 1% got their first shot.
- The CDC is also pointing to a small but worrisome increase in COVID-19 hospitalization rates for teenagers, a group with low vaccination rates because they have only been eligible for shots for a few weeks.
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Seattle Times
By Asia Fields
Pacific Northwest officials say they don't expect an ongoing chlorine shortage to affect water quality, although some residents, including those in Anacortes and parts of Oregon, have been asked to limit water use. […]
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
By the drive, | Tim Harlow
- Trail usage was up 39% while the number of cyclists riding on the side of the road or in bike lanes fell 13% last year when compared with counts collected in 2019, according to new unpublished research from the University of Minnesota's Center for Transportation Studies (CTS).
- Bicyclists took more rides on trails and used shoulders and bike lanes a lot less as the COVID-19 pandemic led to a shift in when, where and why cyclists rode.
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Boston Globe
By Nick Stoico
Three people went into the water to assist the girl on the north side of Conimicut Point, near the entrance to the Providence River. […]
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Greensboro, NC | Fox 8 News
By Ashley Michels/KDVR
- When temperatures reach into the 90s, more people seek medical attention for heat-related illnesses, said Dr. Vik Bebarta, emergency medicine physician and toxicologist at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital.
- He said some cause dehydration, some can raise a person’s internal body temperature, and some prevent sweating, which is the body’s natural cooling system.
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Washington Post
By Jasmine Hilton
- Holding “Black Fathers Matter” signs and watching the boys as they played next to him, Smith spoke of creating memories with his sons and the need for recognizing Black men in the community.
- At the second annual D.C. Black Fathers Matter event on Father’s Day, attendees gathered Sunday morning at the African American Civil War Museum to begin a celebration of Black fathers before a motorcade procession through the District.
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Boston Herald
By Boston Herald Wire Services
- A senior Republican senator said a $579 billion bipartisan accord on infrastructure is on the table and he challenged President Biden to decide whether he wants to pursue it.
- The White House on Friday reiterated Biden’s opposition to indexing the gasoline tax to inflation to help pay for an infrastructure plan, raising questions about the viability of the bipartisan compromise emerging in the Senate.
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Boston Globe
By Camille Caldera
The app’s launch at a time when COVID-19 cases have declined dramatically and life is edging back to normal has some experts scratching their heads. […]
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Boston Globe
By Brian MacQuarrie
At the Atkinson Resort and Country Club, disabled veterans gather to learn the game, shed some stress, and enjoy the camaraderie of others who empathize with their struggles. […]
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WBIR - News
According to Kamara himself, his job will be to "get people that don’t look like the typical NASCAR fan to watch NASCAR." […]
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Boston.com
By Washington Post
- The transmission of the more contagious Delta variant in the United States could spur a fall surge in coronavirus infections if only 75% of the country’s eligible population is vaccinated, former Food and Drug Administration chief Scott Gottlieb said Sunday.
- Former FDA chief Scott Gottlieb said states with low vaccination rates are already showing a concerning rise in cases of the Delta variant.
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Portland Oregon | KOIN News
By Jennifer Dowling
- Clackamas Fire tweeted some safety tips to beat the heat including staying hydrated, wearing light-colored or lightweight clothing, avoiding midday sun, and exercising early or late in the day.
- Some people spent the day outside enjoying the weather, while others took cover in the shade or found a place with air conditioning.
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Bloomberg View
By Shuli Ren
- Apart from prettying up the balance sheet and passing Beijing’s three red lines, this joint-venture structure allows companies to rely on capital contributions from its partners to finance its expansion, instead of seeking debt funding from the broader marketplace.
- In the last year, companies have used their connections in Hong Kong to issue sizable off-balance-sheet dollar bonds, and deployed convoluted corporate structures to hide debt in order to meet Beijing’s new financing rules.
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Boston Herald
By Joe Reardon
- Just an eighth-grader, the Weymouth runner pulled away from Boston College-bound Kate Connolly of Natick to win the 2-mile (11:25.21) in hot, humid conditions.
- There was an early team battle between Natick and Wellesley, but the Red Hawks rallied behind a sweep of the pole vault by Noa Weinhaus (10-0), Hannah Takasaki (9-6) and Alyssa Peasley (8-0) on the way to first with 95 points.
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Boston Globe
By PHILIPP JENNE
VIENNA — Top diplomats said Sunday that further progress had been made at talks between Iran and global powers to try to restore a landmark 2015 agreement to contain Iranian nuclear development that was abandoned by the Trump administration. They said it was now up to the governments involved in the negotiations to make political decisions. […]
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
By Mara Klecker
- The Twin Cities received a bit of much-needed rain on Sunday but not enough to bring the month closer to normal rainfall totals.
- About .4 inch of rain was recorded at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Sunday, bringing the total rainfall for June to .72 inch, or about 20% of normal for the month.
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Portland Oregon | KOIN News
- “I’m running for governor because I’m sick and tired of all of this political garbage just like you are,” Bundy said in a nearly three-minute video on his campaign website .
- Anti-government activist Ammon Bundy on Saturday came out with his first videos announcing his campaign to become governor of Idaho.
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Boston Herald
By Joe Dwinell
Peacemakers are being urged to gather at the Ella J. Baker House at 3 p.m. Sunday to curb violence as the summer approaches. The Rev. Eugene Rivers, clergy and area Black fathers will join in issuing a national Father’s Day call for 1,000 churches across the country to put boots on the ground for a Summer of Peace. “We’re challenging Black fathers and men to teach our children how to keep away from violence,” Rivers said, “and the importance of working with the police.” Rivers called the Boston Police Department “one of the best in the country,” adding there’s always room for improvement, but curbing violence must be the focus. It starts, […]
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Austin, Texas | KXAN News
By Kelsey Thompson
- But an added layer of nuance are the discrepancies in how men of different age ranges and racial and ethnic groups discuss mental health issues and access treatment.
- When it comes to public conversations surrounding mental health, social stigmas and taboos can still make the topic a difficult one to talk about — even more so for men.
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Boston Globe
By ILAN BEN ZION
JERUSALEM — Israel’s new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett opened his first Cabinet meeting on Sunday by slamming Iran’s newly-elected president and calling on world powers to “wake up” to the perils of returning to a nuclear agreement with Tehran. […]
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Boston Globe
By Gal Tziperman Lotan
In New England, strawberry season typically stretches from June to early July, a harbinger of early summer days. […]
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Wall Street Journal
- That would put Arizona back into contention: Excluding the states without income taxes, 4.5% is the fifth-lowest top rate in the country.
- Arizona used to be a relatively low-tax state, with a top rate on personal income of 4.5%.
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Axios
By Zachary Basu
- But Khan has been totally silent about China's detention of more than 1 million Muslim minorities just across his border.
- Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan repeatedly refused to acknowledge China's repression of Uyghur Muslims during an interview with "Axios on HBO," deflecting to other global human rights issues and citing China's denial of the crackdown in Xinjiang.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
- A social media post by event organizers had stated that the decision to disinvite Moshava “came from listening to the concerns of the community that we love and serve.
- But a post on Moshava’s Facebook page Sunday afternoon said the festival organizers and Moshava were trying to reach an understanding.
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Wall Street Journal
- President Clinton asked us in 1994 to chair the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform to study the future of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and recommend measures to assure their long-term viability.
- In 1994 the budget deficit was $203 billion (2.8% of gross domestic product), and the national debt was $3.4 trillion (47.8% of GDP).
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Wall Street Journal
- To begin, the Biden budget would compromise the federal government’s ability to provide public goods and social insurance, handle crises like pandemics or financial panics, and address gaps in economic opportunity—all while handing a hefty debt-service bill to future generations that will benefit very little from today’s spending blitz.
- Permanent new social spending should be financed by incremental tax revenue so it doesn’t add to already elevated deficit and debt levels.
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Orange County Register
By Bill Plunkett
- “But I think the playoff structure is good in the sense that if you don’t win your division, if you are a wild card, you have to play that one game and it gives that division winner an advantage.
- The Giants, Dodgers and Padres have three of the four best records in baseball.
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Wall Street Journal
- The China card that Mr. Castillo is expected to play is one reason Peruvians, along with the U.S. and other democracies, have an interest in a transparent review of contested votes from the June 6 runoff presidential election.
- It isn’t hyperbole to say that he believes that 50.1% of the vote entitles the winner to steamroll the rights of the other 49.9%.
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Denver Post
By Shelly Bradbury
- The bomb squad used a water cannon to destroy the device, which they said appeared to be a homemade Taser or stun gun, not a bomb.
- A suspicious-looking homemade stun gun attached to an abandoned motorcycle prompted authorities to shut down the ramp from Interstate 25 to U.S. 36 westbound Sunday.
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Axios
By Stef W. Kight
- The White House is considering ending — as early as July 31 — the use of a Trump-era public health order that's let U.S. border officials quickly turn back migrant families to Mexico, Axios has learned.
- Why it matters: The policy known as Title 42 has resulted in tens of thousands of migrant family members, including asylum seekers, being sent away — as well as thousands of kids then separating from their families to cross into the United States alone.
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Washington Post
By Letters to the Editor
- In the past year, I have run more than 315 miles and biked more than 100 miles on Beach Drive alone; I have spent more than 75 hours sweating, walking and occasionally crying on those four closed-off miles.
- Regarding the June 13 Metro article “ Part of Beach Drive will stay closed to cars as permanent plan is studied ”:
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Boston Globe
By Adrian Walker
Virtually everyone agrees that Boston’s “Methadone Mile” is an eyesore at best and a serious threat to public health and safety at worst. […]
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Over the course of nine days, a core group of eight to 10 marchers affiliated with Voces de la Frontera is marching from Milwaukee to Madison to pressure the Biden administration to add a pathway to citizenship in the American Jobs Plan, a $1.9 trillion infrastructure proposal, and the state legislature to allow undocumented immigrants to get driver’s licenses.
- Elections won’t matter if Democrats don’t deliver on their promises for major reforms,” Christine Neumann-Ortiz, executive director of Voces de la Frontera, said of the need to use budget reconciliation for immigration measures.
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Boston Herald
By Rick Sobey
- The seven-day average number of COVID patients in the hospital — 119 patients — is also at a record low.
- More than 8.4 million total vaccine doses have been administered, according to the daily vaccine report on Sunday.
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Boston Globe
By Sabrina Shankman
The stunning numbers highlight an alarming phenomenon at work as climate change makes periods of extreme heat more common and prolonged: The warming climate is leading us into a dangerous vicious cycle. […]
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Orange County Register
By Susan Christian Goulding
- Steve Ranney, pastor at Tustin Presbyterian Church, quit cutting his hair in Dec. 2019 as a sign of “lament” that his congregation was not able to meet in person.
- Steve Ranney, pastor at Tustin Presbyterian Church, quit cutting his hair as a “sign of lament” that his congregation could not meet in person due to coronavirus restrictions.
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Washington Post
By Letters to the Editor
- The June 14 editorial “ Haiti’s ‘descent into hell,’ ” which urged that elections go forward in Haiti despite the chaotic situation there, seemed to put ritual democracy ahead of real democracy.
- Decades ago, U.S. policymakers developed a healthy respect for the utility of having an elected Haitian president to counter claims for political asylum.
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Boston Globe
By Janelle Nanos
Insulate your home well. Depend on Energy Star guidelines. And, oh yeah, turn down the unit when you’re not at home. […]
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Washington Post
By Letters to the Editor
- The FLSA led to lower, not higher, standards of living for Black and Brown people, who entered domestic service and farming because they were excluded from other jobs as “unemployables.”
- In his June 14 Federal Insider column, “ Democrats push to undo New Deal’s racist aspects,” Joe Davidson wrote that by setting a federal minimum wage, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 “was a major step toward improving the lives of American workers.”
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
By JEFF AMY and AMY FORLITI
- The crash happened Saturday about 35 miles (55 kilometers) south of Montgomery on Interstate 65 after vehicles likely hydroplaned on wet roads, said Butler County Coroner Wayne Garlock.
- "This is the worst tragedy I've been a part of in my life," said Smith, who drove Sunday to the ranch to talk to the remaining residents, who had returned from Gulf Shores in a separate van and did not see the wreck.
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Arizona Daily Star
- Ultimately, Avery recommended any differential rate adopted undergo a cost-of-service study before final adoption in order to withstand any legal challenges to the reasonability of the rates.
- Before mayor and council voted unanimously to begin the process of raising water rates for unincorporated customers on April 6, the Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to publicly oppose differential water rates.
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Toledo Blade
A gas line project will close part of a main route to the Stellantis Toledo Assembly plant for about six weeks starting Monday, the city transportation division said. […]
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Greensboro, NC | Fox 8 News
By KTVE/KARD
- Another parent said just knowing swimming safety measurements can make a difference.
- And also, just be sure someone knows where you are at all times especially when it comes to water," Laboy said.
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Denver Post
By Lucy Peterson
- Truewerk, a startup founded in 2015 that makes and sells high-performing apparel for blue-collar workers, is using the money raised from internal investors to increase production and inventory.
- “A lot of apparel brands that have seasonality to them, especially at the back end of the year, there’s a big surge of inventory that has to be filled for fall delivery,” Ciciora said.
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Toledo Blade
Toledo’s NAACP branch is hostng its first community job fair from noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of Mott Branch Library, 1010 Dorr St. […]
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Books : NPR
NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with comedian Kevin Hart about his new children’s book, Marcus Makes a Movie. […]
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Seattle Times
By Katie Camero
Research shows both coronavirus infection and vaccination offers immunity that can protect people from getting sick again. But by how much and for how long remains unclear — a scientific gap that only time could fill. Regardless of how immunity is acquired, there’s no telling whose bodies will or won’t create effective antibodies, and why […]
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Greensboro, NC | Fox 8 News
By Nichole Berlie
- "One of the things that is most impactful to me is how how many people have have DM me and just said we don't ever plan to use the buttons, but what I'm learning from you is that we need to take the time to listen to our animals.
- More than six million people have tuned in to see Bunny, a one-year-old sheepadoodle, learn to communicate using a custom series of buttons created by her owner Alexis Divine.
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Boston Herald
Massachusetts employers added 9,200 jobs in May and the statewide unemployment rate fell 0.3 percentage points to 6.1%, according to the state’s latest labor report. The pace of job gains slowed from the revised 10,200 positions businesses added in April, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics figures cited by the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. That continues a deceleration, from from 37,900 jobs added in January to 19,700 in February, 14,800 in March, 10,200 in April and now 9,200 in May. The unemployment rate dropped from a revised April 2021 rate of 6.4% to 6.1% in May. The jobless rate stood at 16.4% in April […]
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Boston Globe
By Jasper Goodman
The fall municipal elections will usher in another major change at City Hall: the biggest election year makeover to the Boston City Council in over two decades. […]
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US news | The Guardian
By Edward Helmore
- On a number of key fronts such as pushing election reform and voting rights, efforts to curb gun control and to moving forwards on LGBTQ civil rights, there has been an effective push back by Republicans – and a handful of conservative Democrats – that is forcing Biden and the wider Democratic party on to the back foot.
- On Sunday, Ohio Republican senator Rob Portman shot down amendments proposed by West Virginia’s conservative Democrat Joe Manchin, whose rejection of the initial bill all-but scuttled the Democrats’ project.
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WUSA - News
Lumber prices have recently started dropping. But the commodity still remains significantly more expensive than it did before the pandemic. […]
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East Idaho News
- That’s why it’s called their home,” said Palina Louangketh, founder and executive director of a nonprofit that plans to open a museum in Boise dedicated to telling the stories of people forced out of their homelands.
- When the Idaho Capital Sun asked three local refugees why they or their families chose to leave their original home countries, their answers were the same: Staying would have meant death, danger or misery.
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Boston Herald
By Joe Reardon
- Like his teammate, Ryan Fennelly also came up big in the final as he methodically pulled away from a strong field for the victory in the 110 hurdles in 14.48.
- “I felt pretty good,” said Bleus of his 200 win.
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New York Post
By Lauren Sarner
- “That first image came to me with a woman in her sitcom living room with her husband … She walks into the kitchen and suddenly we see her up close and it looks very different.
- “To me, the format switch [jumping between sitcom and drama] is a metaphor for the benefit of the doubt that we’ve given Kevins forever,” creator Valerie Armstrong told The Post.
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Vox
By Cameron Peters
- More than four months after the military seized power in Myanmar, the United Nations General Assembly took the rare step on Friday of voting to formally condemn the February 1 coup and called for an end to arms dealing with the country.
- With the support of 119 countries, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution that calls on Myanmar’s military junta to restore the democratic transition and calls on all member states “to prevent the flow of arms into Myanmar.”
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Boston Globe
By John Hilliard
Millions in the state have gotten shots, and experts and public officials say the protection offered by the vaccines is making a difference in the fight against COVID-19. […]
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KSN-TV
By Dan Gray/KTVI
- "A number of our ER visits include patients with common respiratory viruses that we only see during winter months," said Dr. Kurt Sobush, a pulmonologist at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis.
- Cardinal Glennon is seeing a 20% increase in winter-like viruses, including RSV in children up to age 2.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
By Ed Blazina / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Port Authority will have no more restrictions on the number of riders on its vehicles due to the pandemic and will install new air systems. […]
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The Salt Lake Tribune
By Kate Groetziner | KUER-FM
- She said a reservation system, sometimes called timed-entry, would spread visitors out over the course of the day during the high season, so the park isn’t swamped.
- She said the park could reserve some tickets to sell the day before, to locals and those who aren’t able to get reservations ahead of time.
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Boston Globe
By Lauren Booker
As summer continues to heat up Manchester, Vermont, The Wilburton Inn will be welcoming vacationers to a weekend recreating some elements of the popular Netflix show from July 16 to 18. […]
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Toledo Blade
The following is a list of food distributions offered by the Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank and the Ohio National Guard this week: […]
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WUSA - News
Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough made the announcement Saturday at a Pride Month event in Orlando, Florida. […]
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Washington Post
By John Kelly
- Digital natives know that liking a person’s three-year-old Instagram post means you’ve been obsessively scrolling through their photos, creepily stalking them.
- Before the Internet, if you really wanted to embarrass yourself accidentally, you had to attend a swanky soiree with toilet paper stuck to the bottom of your shoe or bad-mouth your boss’s wife without knowing she was standing right behind you.
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Seattle Times
By Hannah Furfaro
A heatwave sizzling across the Western U.S. has reached the Puget Sound area. Temperatures may shoot past 90 degrees on Monday, which would break a record last set in 1992. Cool weather is expected to return Tuesday before another warm front arrives later in the week. […]
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Orange County Register
By Fiona Kelliher
- This news organization requested specific workplace outbreak data — including worksites, dates, locations and numbers of cases — from all 58 California counties and the three cities with their own public health departments.
- The material collected by this news organization, incomplete as it is, shows the value of workplace transparency: Contra Costa County said for the first time that 171 cases occurred at a HelloFresh food delivery warehouse last summer, a revelation to workers there.
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Orange County Register
By Jon Coupal
- Some bills that would otherwise require a two-thirds vote can suddenly become an “amendment” into a budget bill, and then they can be passed with only a simple majority.
- Since the passage of Proposition 25 more than a decade ago, the California Legislature has passed what can only be described as fake budgets.
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Vanity Fair
By Charlotte Klein
- “Members of at least 10 county election boards have been removed, had their position eliminated or are likely to be kicked off through local ordinances or new laws passed by the state legislature,” the Times reports .
- Their efforts result from new voting laws that have allowed the GOP to wrest election power from these authorities and give state Republicans heightened control over the voting process.
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Alaska Dispatch News
By Geran Tarr
- The things I know a lot about from my background are abuse, neglect, cops, courts, jails, divorce, domestic violence, substance abuse, mental illness, suicide and financial insecurity.
- I have a vision of an entirely different Alaska; one where we don’t lead the nation in rates of domestic violence, sexual assault, suicide or child abuse.
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Orange County Register
By Mirjam Swanson
- Lue said he doesn’t feel burdened as a representative of the Black coaching fraternity, insisting that by just doing a good job – see: the Cleveland Cavaliers’ first NBA title and three consecutive NBA Finals and, now, a first conference finals berth for the Clippers – he’ll help inspire progress.
- “I think a lot of openings this summer, hopefully a lot of GMs and owners will see that Black coaches are good coaches and hope they give an opportunity for the young coaches coming up today.”
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Toledo Blade
Rex and Fennec, two 12-week-old black labrador retriever puppies, fight as only siblings can: chasing, biting, and tackling each other between rainbow baby gates. […]
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The Hill
By ooshin@thehill.com (Olafimihan Oshin)
- “It doesn't necessarily appear more pathogenic, meaning more dangerous, but it's infecting people more easily and it's starting to become very prevalent in the UK in communities that are unvaccinated,” Gottlieb told Dickerson.”
- During an appearance on CBS’s “Face The Nation”, Gottlieb told host John Dickerson that the delta variant, a more infectious strain of the virus that has surged in the U.S. since spring, doesn’t appear to be more dangerous than other variants of the virus, but he noted it is infecting more members of unvaccinated communities, especially children.
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Raleigh, NC | WRAL News
On Saturday afternoon, Raleigh will honor Juneteenth, now a federal holiday and the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. […]
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East Idaho News
By Kalama Hines
- Drag Queen Shezzy Springs performs at the Priddaho Pride Festival in Pocatello.
- When they weren’t visiting one of dozens of vendors attendees were dancing, singing and celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride at the annual Priddaho Festival.
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Arizona Daily Star
- With the proceeds from the sale of her Phoenix houses, Ethel’s Tucson home included an excess of bedrooms, plenty of space for boarders, but only one bathroom.
- Now with two boardinghouses to run, and the births of daughter Rosemary and son Philip, Ethel hired a maid to help with the laundry but preferred to do the cooking herself.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
- Lake Mead: Hoover Dam is 726 feet tall, 1,244 feet across at the top
- Lake Las Vegas: Kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding, electric boats, Flyboard Water Jetpack, Aqua Park floating obstacle course
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East Idaho News
- To shed light on how Stone Age artists might have worked in these dark, hard-to-access spaces, archaeologists in Spain have scoured the archaeological record to look for evidence of how early humans used wood and other substances to make torches and lamps that could have illuminated their stone canvas.
- Based on archaeological evidence found in Stone Age caves, researchers made their own versions of prehistoric torches and grease lamps that would have been used by early humans to illuminate caves.
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Albany Times Union
By Massarah Mikati
More than 300 Union College alumni who graduated in 2020 returned to campus Sunday for a belated in-person ceremony.
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Boston Herald
By Rick Sobey
- “A temporary no-swimming order has been issued by CCNS Lifeguards at Head of the Meadow beach,” the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app alert reads.
- The same shark alert was issued at Truro’s Head of the Meadow Beach late Saturday morning.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Voces de la Frontera is kicked off a 9-day march from Milwaukee to Madison to support citizenship for undocumented immigrants. […]
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Albany Times Union
By Robert Gavin
A bill awaiting action from Gov. Andrew Cuomo would change just one word in the approval process for state Supreme Court justices who want to stay on the bench past the mandatory retirement age of 70.But that change would be ill-conceived, costly and possibly unconstitutional, according to a top state court official who will be urging the governor to veto the legislation when it reaches his desk.“This is a really bad bill,” Lawrence K. Marks, the chief administrative judge for the Unified Court System, told Law Beat.
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KSN-TV
By Rich DeMuro
- Voila AI Artist is a photo editing app for iOS and Android that uses artificial intelligence to turn your pictures into a Renaissance-era painting, Pixar-inspired cartoon and more.
- The app is free to use on both platforms but there are ads, along with a subscription to get rid of them and access "faster processing." I found that processing my picture was relatively fast, even without a subscription.
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Arizona Daily Star
- In total, $33.5 million has been dedicated to bring city employees’ pay up to market rates while employees not impacted by market adjustments will see a 2% pay increase.
- The county is dedicating about $7.2 million to raise county employees’ minimum wage to $15 an hour, impacting the pay of nearly 2,000 workers once compression adjustments are made.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
- Currently, Berman and Adley are developing their own online streaming network, planning the next version of their two-day Ocean Aid benefit music festival in Hawaii, and working on their most ambitious project yet, Hotel Indigo/Central Las Vegas, a $100 million boutique hotel to be erected on the property behind the Fremont Country Club.
- It’s telling that they spend so much time downtown these days: With their Fremont Country Club, Berman and Adley have become synonymous with the renewal of the Fremont East District, which in the last decade, has gone from dime-store dead zone to hipster hot spot.
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Alaska Dispatch News
By Joelle Hall
- Or at least that’s the way it’s supposed to work, and will work when the Protecting the Right to Organize, or PRO, Act becomes law.
- With the PRO Act in place, more working people in Alaska will share in the wealth we help create and keep Alaskan families strong.
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New York Times
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Noah Weiland
Speaking at the White House, the president did not mention his goal of getting 70 percent of adults partly vaccinated by July 4 but trumpeted a different milestone: 300 million shots in his first 150 days in office. […]
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Boston Globe
By Jeanne Whalen
The more contagious Delta variant in the United States could spur a fall surge in coronavirus infections if only 75% of the country’s eligible population is vaccinated, former Food and Drug Administration chief Scott Gottlieb said Sunday. […]
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Boston Globe
By Meredith Goldstein
"I’m not sure I can stay in this relationship if he won’t step up, let alone consider having kids with him." […]
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New Hampshire | Concord Monitor
- Much of the new spending is due to wage increases and benefits for municipal employees, including a rise in the city’s required contribution to the state retirement system that will add more than $1 million.
- For the second year in a row, the Concord City Council is expected to pull from its savings and hopes to use federal aid to pay for new spending and avoid a spike in taxes.
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New York Times
By Carl Zimmer and James Gorman
Talk of ‘gain-of-function’ research, a muddy category at best, brings up deep questions about how scientists should study viruses and other pathogens. […]
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Albany Times Union
By Abigail Rubel
Two readers ask if CDTA will change service and reopen park and rides as state employees return to work and demand for buses goes up.
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The Hill
By ooshin@thehill.com (Olafimihan Oshin)
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday that recent comments made by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in which he urged for the preparation of "both dialogue and confrontation" werean “interesting signal.”According to a Reuters […]
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Orange County Register
By Peter Smith
- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops overwhelmingly approved the drafting of a document “on the meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the Church” that some bishops hope will be a rebuke for politicians who support abortion rights but continue to receive Communion.
- They added that the “weaponizing” of Communion for those who support abortion rights is inconsistent, since bishops haven’t targeted Catholic politicians who back other policies that contradict church teachings, such as the death penalty or hard-line immigration and asylum stances.
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New York Times
By Apoorva Mandavilli
Scientists generally recommend against antibody testing after vaccination. But for some people, it makes sense. […]
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Toledo Blade
After I wrote last week about my recent drive to Florida, I was asked if I had gone through Cincinnati on my way south, and if so if I went straight through on I-75 or used the I-275 bypass. […]
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Toledo Blade
When Kate Gladieux and Curtis Jazwiecki said they were planning to set sail around the world, their families thought it was a pipe dream. […]
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Tulsa World
By Michael Dekker Tulsa World
- The front is expected to pass through the Tulsa area on Monday morning, with temperatures gradually falling into the mid-60s, forecasters said.
- "Widespread showers and thunderstorms will develop along and north of the cold front," the National Weather Service in Tulsa said.
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Boston Globe
By Mike DeBonis
The long march toward equal rights for gay, lesbian and transgender Americans – whose advocates have eyed major advances with complete Democratic control in Washington – has run into a wall of opposition in the US Senate. […]
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Orange County Register
By Richard Boddie
- 1967 was a good year at Syracuse Law, with moot court and Moot Court (Honors) Board, social gatherings, where Joe and I were generally the only two or three voices in any debate regarding what is now called “social justice.”
- But most of all I hope that Joe Biden does not repeat the typical neocon “policing the world for democracy” policy that President Barack Obama continued.
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Seattle Times
By Greg Mason
More than 1,400 accredited colleges and universities will make the SAT and ACT optional by fall 2022. Here's how that's affecting admissions in Washington. […]
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Seattle Times
By SHIRA RUBIN
The announcement and abrupt cancellation of the deal has given rise to conspiracy theories and further damaged the low standing of the Palestinian Authority among its people. […]
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The Hill
By jchoi@thehill.com (Joseph Choi)
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) on Sunday said the Republicans who helped craft the bipartisan infrastructureproposal unveiled earlier this month are still "absolutely committed" to it, despite pushback from both sides of the aisle.While appearing […]
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Raleigh, NC | WRAL News
A crowd of around 50 people gathered for a walking tour of the rolling green hills of Mt. Hope Cemetery, where the skyline of Raleigh casts a vivid backdrop over the headstones and trees. […]
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Toledo Blade
Toledoans might have noticed when they go out to buy gas, cigarettes, or energy drinks that suddenly, they can buy Bitcoin as well. […]
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Indianapolis Star
Indiana Conservation Officers said 17-year-old Tyrell D. Bowers of Columbus went underwater Saturday night and did not resurface. […]
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Raleigh, NC | WRAL News
The body of a fourth tuber has been found in a North Carolina river following a deadly accident in which a family on a recreational float went over a dam, local officials said Sunday. […]
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- The DNR also says to never approach the bear — especially not a mother with cubs — and to avoid attempting to break up a fight with a pet and a bear for one's own safety.
- While bears are normally solitary animals that avoid human contact, run-ins with humans can occur when they smell food.
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The Hill
By cvakil@thehill.com (Caroline Vakil )
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Sunday that Iran’s presidential election on Saturday was “predetermined,” noting that the country had a low voter turnout.“The outcome was predetermined, but what struck me was the fact that this was I think the […]
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Washington Post
By Editorial Board
- Now lawmakers are looking at a more aggressive response: taxing “virgin plastics” — that is, new material created from oil rather than from recycled stuff.
- Enter a group of House Democrats, who propose to levy a tax on virgin plastics in single-use products and to invest the proceeds into ocean conservation efforts.
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US politics | The Guardian
By Emma Brockes
- Meanwhile, it is hard not to love the storyline still playing out around Eric Adams, Brooklyn borough president and current frontrunner in the primary and therefore the election: that he secretly lives in New Jersey.
- I t is hard to pick a favourite moment from the New York mayor’s race, entering its final stage of the primaries this week.
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Denver Post
By Sam Tabachnik
- But last month, nearly 12 years to the day after they were arrested the first time, Deng and his wife Kelly Chuong were accused by federal investigators of participating in a similar black market marijuana scheme — an operation the now-former U.S. attorney for the District of Colorado in 2019 called the largest marijuana bust in state history.
- Federal prosecutors have divulged little about their case against the couple beyond the just-filed charges, but local drug investigators in 2019 pegged Deng and Chuong as leaders of the drug trafficking organization, according to arrest warrant affidavits for other suspects filed at the time in Arapahoe and Adams county district courts.
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Vanity Fair
By Jordan Hoffman
- (The 2020 track features lyrical references to Smith and his 1997 album Big Willie Style .) Another video shows Smith telling a small gathering that he didn’t want a typical book cover before lightly ribbing conventional author photos.
- Smith said he’s been working on his book “for the last two years, and it is finally ready.”
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Denver Post
By Jon Murray
- A political analyst who studies third parties said the intensifying polarization of recent years offers an opportunity for the Libertarians to appeal to disaffected Republicans who aren’t on board with where former President Donald Trump has taken the party.
- Now based in Alexandria, Virginia, it’s the most successful minor party in the modern era, with nearly 700,000 registered voters in the 30 or so states and the District of Columbia that allow Libertarian as an option.
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The Hill
By jchoi@thehill.com (Joseph Choi)
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday said that while he believed that what was included in the proposed bipartisan infrastructure bill was "mostly good," he did not support raising the gas tax, issuing fees on electric vehicles or privatizing […]
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Boston Globe
By Laura Litvan
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said a $579 billion bipartisan accord on infrastructure is on the table and he challenged President Joe Biden to decide whether he wants to pursue it. […]
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
By Neal Justin
- Mirian Davey, who has served as news director for KMSP-Fox 9 News for the past eight years, has been promoted.
- Bill Dallman, who served as news director before Davey, has returned to the Twin Cities market to be KARE's general manager.
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New York Times
Some like the idea, while others prefer alternatives like unionization and a federal jobs program. Also: The role of uncles; understanding touch. […]
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New Hampshire | Concord Monitor
- But for a year she’ll be receiving $500 per month in no-strings-attached payments as part of an experimental universal basic income program in upstate New York.
- Steele, a special education school aide, is getting her payments through a program in Ulster County, which covers parts of the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson River Valley.
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Iowa Capital Dispatch
By Kevin Shafer
- Many of the benefits of fathering for children come from dads being nurturing, loving and engaged in all aspects of parenting.
- Contemporary social norms set broad expectations for fathers : rule enforcement and economically supporting the family while also providing for children’s physical and emotional needs.
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The Hill
Voting rights and infrastructure dominated the Sunday morning political shows, with multiple guests weighing in on both topics.Republican lawmakers criticized asweeping, Democratic-backed election reform bill while Sen. Bernie Sanders (I […]
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The Hill
By jchoi@thehill.com (Joseph Choi)
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) on Sunday called Sen. Joe Manchin's (D-W.Va.) voting reformcompromise proposal a "federal takeover of the election system."Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," host Chuck Todd asked Portman what he thought ofa […]
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The Hill
By jchoi@thehill.com (Joseph Choi)
Fiona Hill said on Sunday that last week's summit with President Biden was a "very important win" For Russian President Vladimir Putin in terms of symbolism.NBC's "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd asked Hill,a formerNational Security […]
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Seattle Times
By BRENNEN KAUFFMAN
Resolutions with nearly identical language about vaccine segregation limits have begun to appear before other city councils in Washington. […]
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Boston Globe
By Andrew Stanton
Six projects aimed at restoring the population of common loons affected by a 2003 oil spill in Buzzard’s Bay are receiving $3.7 million, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. […]
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Denver Post
By Elise Schmelzer
- In their first full legislative session since mass protests over police brutality, Colorado lawmakers passed bills to regulate use of force, expand alternatives to policing and make police actions and discipline more transparent to the public.
- Under HB21-1030, Colorado law enforcement, public health agencies and social service providers will have access to $2 million for alternatives to police responses.
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Miami Herald
Special Juneteenth Commencement Celebration at M.E.Y.G.A. (Multi-Ethnic Youth Group Association) Learning Center in Liberty City, Florida, on Saturday, June 19, 2021.
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Orange County Register
By Kelli Skye Fadroski
- Boots in the Park — with Chris Young, Scotty McCreery, Dylan Scott, Tenille Townes, Leaving Austin and Tim Hurley — is the first major in-person festival to happen in Southern California after the COVID-19 mandates lifted in the state on June 15.
- Country artist Tim Hurley poses for pictures with music fans following his set at Boots in the Park at Silverlakes in Norco on Saturday, June 19, 2021.
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The Hill
By cvakil@thehill.com (Caroline Vakil )
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said on Sunday that “not much was accomplished but no damage was done” during President Biden’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.Christie said on ABC's“This Week” that while […]
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Denver Post
By Alex Burness
- Compared to previous decades, state lawmakers today are more willing to sponsor and pass bills without the blessing of district attorneys, the most potent group in the law enforcement lobby.
- It had legs this year, but sponsors also saw firsthand how fierce opposition from law enforcement can go a long way and that no big criminal justice reform is a layup in Colorado, even with Democrats in charge.
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Orange County Register
By Kevin Smith
- After more than 14 months of working from home with no on-site management to filter or rein in comments or behaviors that could be considered workplace harassment, employees and bosses are facing an adjustment period.
- Those snide insults, inappropriate comments, racist remarks and sexual innuendos that used to make us cringe are rearing their heads again as more people return to the workplace amid a fast-recovering — and seemingly looser — COVID-19 world.
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