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This is bringing a measure of political unity just not what Biden envisioned.
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Mayhem on Wall Street after amateur investors take on billionaire hedge funds
The decision by RobinHood and other online brokerages to restrict trading in stocks like GameStop on Thursday has triggered a class action lawsuit and drawn bipartisan condemnation from Congress.Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images
Early in the Obama administration, with the economy still fragile from the financial crisis, former President Barack Obama famously told a group of bank CEOs that his White House was the only thing between you and the pitchforks.
The Impact of Teacher Deaths
They have shaken communities and upended the school reopening debate.
Jan. 29, 2021
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Erick Ortiz, center, with his family on his birthday. He died after contracting the coronavirus.Credit.Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times
The teacher death toll
No one knows how many educators have died from Covid-19. Our colleague Dan Levin reports that the American Federation of Teachers, one of the nation’s largest teachers’ unions, knows of at least 530.
Friday, January 29th 2021, 1:02 pm
By: CBS News
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday that new variants of the coronavirus that were initially found in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil and have since been identified in the United States are expected to persist, eventually outnumbering the original COVID-19 virus. We will continue to see the evolution of mutants, Fauci, the nation s leading infectious diseases expert, said Friday. He stressed that federal health officials and companies developing vaccines will need to be nimble in order to produce versions of the vaccine that are directed at whatever mutant is prevalent.
A variant initially identified in the U.K. has now been found in 29 U.S. states, according to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Variants first identified in South Africa and Brazils have also been found stateside.
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Florida civil rights attorney Ben Crump hired by family of body-slammed teen
Crump has previously represented the families of Trayvon Martin, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Jacob Blake.
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Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has been retained by the family of a Florida high school student who was body-slammed by a school resource officer and appeared to lose consciousness after her head hit the concrete in videos taken by other students. [ Twitter ]
Updated Jan. 29
KISSIMMEE â Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has been retained by the family of a Florida high school student who was body-slammed by a school resource officer and appeared to lose consciousness after her head hit the concrete in videos taken by other students.