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Photo by Adam Chau The Senate passed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act Thursday with a bipartisan vote of 94-1, CNN reports. The bill was meant to denounce hate crimes against the Asian communities amidst the pandemic. It creates a new Justice Department position to coordinate the review of potential COVID-19 related hate crimes. The bill was sponsored by New York Democratic Rep. Grace Meng and Hawaii Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono in March, according to NBC News. It gained more support in the wake of the Atlanta shootings that killed six Asian women on March 16. Republicans were initially skeptical...

Photo-illustration by Jenny Rosenberg. Three members of Congress from Northern Virginia have asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to create a mass covid vaccination site in the Washington suburbs. Representatives Gerald Connolly, Don Beyer, and Jennifer Wexton, who are all Democrats, sent a joint letter Tuesday to Robert Fenton, FEMA’s acting administrator, requesting that Northern Virginia be selected as the location of one of the 100 community mass vaccination sites that the Biden administration has proposed creating throughout the country as part of its effort to combat the c...

Component and the folks at the u.n. help unify the international community. >> i think so. you look at the structure of the united nations in particular in the u.n. security council and representative beyer. china, russians coming u.k., france and the united states. we had strong security council sanctions on north korea. those particular sanctions have not really taken effect yet. additional measures, stronger measures could be taken in terms of the collect his counsel will throw u.n. security council resolution as well as individual measures taken economically a secretary of the treasury jus...