(Photo: President-elect Donald Trump walks to take his seat for the inaugural swearing-in ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)e in January 2021 as former Vice President Biden prepares to take over […]
New York (CNN Business)Just before the buzzer sounds on 2020, Washington has finally agreed on a $900 billion relief package that avoids driving the US economy off a cliff. But Uncle Sam’s work rescuing the economy from the worst pandemic in a century is not nearly done. Unemployed Americans, hurting […]
By Viviane Faver During the year 2020, the Trump administration was quick to put ten prisoners to death, more American civilians in a year than all states combined. The wave of executions surpassed historical norms and was contrary to the decline in the practice […]
(CNN)Eleven months after the earliest recorded case of coronavirus in the United States, medical workers are preparing to give the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, with deliveries set to arrive at administration sites from around 8 a.m. ET Monday. Thousands of vials of the […]
The Minneapolis City Council has decided to devote a small portion of the city’s police budget to alternative methods of policing including violence prevention specialists and mental health crisis teams, according to The Minneapolis Star Tribune and The Washington Post. In a budget that was approved on […]
By Viviane Faver Aurora, Colorado lawyers, police officers, and doctors involved in Elijah McClain’s death filed several motions with the US Colorado District Court last week to dismiss a lawsuit filed by McClain’s family in August. The lawsuit alleges that discriminatory […]
(CNN)The Department of Homeland Security will begin to accept new applications for the Obama-era program shielding undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation to comply with a recent court order, the department announced Monday. A federal judge ordered the Trump administration […]
(Photo: Getty Images) *(Via Politico) – President-elect Joe Biden has selected Rep. Marcia Fudge to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to two people with knowledge of the decision. The offer to lead the roughly $50 billion housing agency comes after weeks in which Fudge launched […]
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is searching for tutors in New York City to help with her new Homework Helpers Program. Late last month, New York City controversially closed public schools again because of the rising COVID-19 infection rate. Ocasio-Cortez decided to step in and create the Homework Helpers Program […]
By Viviane Faver The new administration must dismantle Trump’s deportation machine and end family detention and separation. Only in Pennsylvania, more than twenty-three black and Latino families, including 28 children, face hasty deportations. Due to the violence from which they fled, and are likely to […]
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