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Kenosha echoes divide over race and police after officer who shot Jacob Blake wont face charges CNN 1/7/2021 By Nicole Chavez, CNN © Daniel Acker/Reuters Justin Blake, uncle of Jacob Blake a black man left paralyzed after being shot by a Kenosha Police officer on August 23, 2020, center, leads a march after it was announced no charges will be filed in the case in Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S. January 5, 2021. REUTERS/Daniel Acker Months after flames and unrest gripped Kenosha, W...

Fords switch to new F-150 spurs double-digit sales drop Keith Naughton, Bloomberg FacebookTwitterEmail 2020 Ford F-150 trucks sit on display at a car dealership in Peoria, Ill., on May 14, 2020.Bloomberg photo by Daniel Acker. Ford Motor Co.s U.S. sales fell 10% in the final three months of the year, dragged down by low inventory of a redesigned F-150 pickup as the automaker carried out a complex factory changeover. The fourth-quarter decline was less than a 12% drop analysts expected, as a 15...

Signage hangs on entry doors to a hospital wing housing coronavirus patients at UW Health University Hospital in Madison, Wis., Nov. 18, 2020. COVID-19 took the lives of eight women religious living at Notre Dame of Elm Grove in suburban Milwaukee. The first death reportedly happened Dec. 9, but the deadliest date came Dec. 14 when four nuns died. (CNS photo/Daniel Acker, Reuters) Dec. 18,2020 Catholic News Service Four women religious died on the same day, adding to the sum of eight nuns wh...

Unemployed in America: Theres No Foundation at All Right Now. Were on Gravel. Jamie Pratt has become an unemployment autodidact to keep herself and her community from drowning in the era of Covid-19. Daniel Acker It is not Jamie Pratt’s first encounter with the American edge. She knows well what it feels like to teeter on it. She’s lived much of her life one paycheck away from a plunge into true poverty—the kind that can prove hard to escape in this, the richest country in the history of...

A poll worker reviews a ballot at the Miami-Dade County Elections Department during the presidential election in Miami Nov. 3. (CNS/Reuters/Marco Bello) President Donald Trumps effort to try and overturn the election results is pathetic, as I discussed on Monday. He has lost every lawsuit that even got a hearing. The post-election mess, however, points beyond this election to the need to terminate the Electoral College. Biden received 7 million more votes than the president. I...