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In her first 100 days, Kamala Harris has put a heavy emphasis on issues of race and inequity. “The truth is inequity has become the norm,” she says.
People in Philadelphia protest the police killing of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, just miles from Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered last May by policeman Derek Chauvin, convicted last week of murder. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty A package of policing-reform measures pushed by the Florida Legislative Black Caucus in response to police killings of unarmed Black people was approved Thursday in the Florida Senate and now goes to Gov. Ron DeSantis for final review. The state House approved the bill Monday. On the Senate floor Thursday, Black senators said the reforms fall short of what...
© Mark Makela Sputnik/Alexey Druzhinin/KJN Russian President Putin • US President BidenThe big news of the day is that Biden decided to call Putin. Here is : At the initiative of the American side, a telephone conversation took place between President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and President of the United States of America Joseph Biden. The current state of Russian-American relations and some relevant aspects of the international agenda were discussed in detail. Joseph Biden confirmed his earlier invitation to the Russian President to take part in the Climate Summit, which...
Lost jobs and lockdowns forced almost everyone to change their spending habits. How many of those changes will stick?
Lost jobs and lockdowns forced almost everyone to change their spending habits. How many of those changes will stick?