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Photo: Sit-in outside Congress led by Rep. Cori Bush
Bowing to mounting pressure and public outrage, the Biden administration through the Centers for Disease Control has just announced that the nationwide moratorium on evictions would be extended through October 3 in parts of the country with high rates of COVID-19 spread. Because the disease is spreading so rapidly, this will reportedly cover the vast majority of the country, home to approximately 90 percent of people.
This is a major victory for the growing movement to stop evictions and win the right to housing for all. When the Biden administration and the Democratic Party-controlled Congress refused to take action before the July 31st moratorium expiration, anger spread across the country at their cruel indifference. Representative Cori Bush of Missouri, a grassroots movement leader who personally experienced homelessness earlier in life, began a round-the-clock outdoor sit-in on the steps of Congress. She
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Trump’s right-wing Egyptian allies attack Biden administration and Dems February 17, 2021 10:30 AM CDT By Aboulfotouh Kandil
Then U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, Sept. 24, 2018, in New York. With Trump now gone, the Sisi government worries it may have lost its most important benefactor. | Evan Vucci / AP
Egypt’s miserable record on human rights has resulted in two Democrats launching a congressional group to deal with the situation.
On Jan. 25, Democratic Reps. Tom Malinowski of New Jersey and Don Beyer of Virginia announced the formation of the “Egypt Human Rights Caucus.” Egyptian human rights organizations and activists in the U.S. have responded by urging their House members and senators to join.
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By Jonathan Cheng BEIJING China s geopolitical rise over the past four decades has been fueled by sizzling economic growth that regularly featured years of double-digit percentage-point gains. In 2020, China advanced its aspirations by simply emerging with its growth intact from a brutal year when a pandemic shook the world economy. On Monday, Beijing said its gross domestic product rose 2.3% last year. While that is the weakest annual rate of growth since the Mao era, it was enough to make China the only major world economy to gain any ground at all last year, and accelerated its likely overtaking of the U.S. economy, economists say.