Where The US Is One Year After First COVID Case Confirmed
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The severity of the situation was routinely discounted
The global death toll is fast approaching the 2 million mark
Thursday marks one year since scientists confirmed the first case of COVID-19 in the United States. Described as a mysterious new virus at the time, the infection has led to a global pandemic that triggered an unprecedented breakthrough in vaccine development but left nearly 2 million people dead and pushed the global economy deep into recession.
“A male patient carrying the mysterious respiratory virus is currently at a medical center in Everett, Washington,” International Business Times noted on Jan. 21, 2020. “The virus, which was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, has killed six people and sickened 300 others in China.”
Alumna provides gift to create Public Interest Law Award
Penn State alumna Christie Tillapaugh made a gift to Penn State Law in University Park to create the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Public Interest Law Award.
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Alumna provides gift to create Public Interest Law Award
January 12, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – A Penn State alumna has recently made a gift to Penn State Law in University Park students who participate in the Public Interest Law Fund’s Summer Fellowship program. This program promotes the practice of law in the public interest arena.
Christie Tillapaugh earned her bachelor’s degree in international politics from Penn State, 1999 and her juris doctor from Dickinson School of Law, 2002, serves on the Penn State Law Board of Advisors and mentors law students including those pursuing public interest law. Her $25,000 gift will create an endowment known as the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Public Interest Law Award at Penn St
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Women s march circles are taking place across the country on Saturday. Women s March Rockford is participating, too. This year, because of the pandemic, they are hosting a gathering not a march at the Women s Suffrage Centennial Sculpture. The event is in support of women s rights. Organizer Mel Champion said women and those who support women are invited to attend the goal-setting event. They re just going to write on ribbons, or postcard, what their intentions are for this year to advocate for women, and how they plan on achieving that goal, said Champion.
Examples of goals include:
running for office
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Print this article Senate minority leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., left, and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, right, talk and watch election reports on television in a room before a Democratic rally, held at a hotel in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2006. (AP Photo/Nick Wass) (NICK WASS/AP) This isn t how Chuck Schumer imagined he d end up as majority leader, but he ll take it.
The New York Democrat, like most political pros, saw a path to the Senate majority through 2020 wins in Maine, North Carolina, and other competitive races. But their nominees flopped, with Maine s Sara Gideon proving no match for veteran GOP Sen. Susan Collins and the candidacy of North Carolina Democratic nominee Cal Cunningham s imploding in a sex scandal.