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Surge in hate crimes requires Justice Dept. coordinator, Attorney General Garland says
A Black National Guard gets justice
A Black soldier forced to wear a chain as discipline will be able to reenter officer candidate school after the Maryland National Guard announced Wednesday it would not challenge the finding that Sgt. Bruce Weaver was discriminated against.
In a decision for the National Guard Bureau last month, Bernard Doyle found that Weaver had substantiated his claims of discrimination and harassment based upon his race when he was in officer candidate school in 2015. The bureau called the discipline the most humiliating punishment imaginable for a Black soldier.
OnPolitics: Back-and-forth on infrastructure Mabinty Quarshie, USA TODAY
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President Joe Biden headed to Cleveland today looking to reassure Americans the economy is rebounding and sell his infrastructure plan as the White House remains in a stalemate with Senate Republicans over negotiations for a bipartisan deal.
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Congress still wrangling over the infrastructure plan
The plan relies heavily on unspent COVID-19 relief money intended for states and cities and remains far short of Biden s $1.7 trillion American Jobs Plan.
The Republican proposal is the latest in a weekslong back-and-forth between GOP moderates led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and the Biden administration, who are hustling to finalize a deal by July 4.
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