April 13, 2021
He says Black men accused of minor crimes are treated worse by police than White mass murderers.
SHOW TRANSCRIPT Like Jacob Blake. Like Elijah McClain. Like so many other young Black men who are running from the police not putting them in violence or fear or threat, said civil rights attorney Ben Crump. They shoot first and ask questions later.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump says the killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, shot during a traffic stop, is a systemic issue.
He says Black men accused of minor crimes are treated worse by police than White mass murderers. The fact you have young White men like the man in Atlanta who shot up in Asian spas. You take them alive but yet, you always end up killing us, he said. When you had people like the young White man in Parkland, Florida who shot up the school, you took him alive but then you shoot us. Just like . who shot up the church in South Carolina, you took him alive, but you shoot this young man.
April 12, 2021
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says his state is close to reaching herd immunity, a threshold health experts haven t even determined.
The governor says it s simple math looking at the numbers of people who have been vaccinated in the state and the decrease in new cases popping up.
But scientists say those numbers don t add up.
Experts haven t pinpointed the exact amount of people vaccinated that would result in herd immunity but there are estimates from 70 to 90%.
19% of people in Texas have been vaccinated, a lower share than most states.
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are again up for debate on Capitol Hill. But our existing gun laws are irrationally limited, loophole ridden, and inadequate, said Robyn Thomas, the executive director of the Giffords Law Center. These gaps make it too easy for felons, and mentally unstable people to get their hands on guns and harm others, said Sen. Dick Durbin.
So what are these loopholes that currently exist in the country s background check system?
Gun show and internet loopholes are two of the most frequently mentioned. Federally licensed firearms dealers are required to run buyers through a background check for every sale, regardless of where that sale is completed. Private and unlicensed sellers don t face that same requirement. So they can sell firearms at gun shows or online without doing a background check, and even gun rights advocates recognize the rise of internet gun sales could be problematic.
April 1, 2021
In our series What s the Risk? experts weigh in on what risks different scenarios pose for transmitting COVID-19.
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As more people become vaccinated, you might be wondering about the risks of getting sick with COVID-19.
We asked the experts, what’s the risk of going to church after the vaccine?
Their take: The risk of contracting COVID-19 is medium. So church and really many other public places where you could gather crowds are still going to fall in the moderate to high risk categories, they are not recommended activities yet by the CDC, Dr. Kelly Cawcutt, associate medical director of infection control and epidemiology at Nebraska Medical Center, said.