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Jun 2022
Murphy rejects assault weapons ban and new background checks in Senate's proposal

WASHINGTON -- Senator Chris Murphy, who is leading Senate talks on gun control said that while they don't intend to bring to the floor any bill that would ban assault weapons and include comprehensive background checks but that lawmakers are actively...

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05
Jun 2022
Ex-Judge of Wisconsin killed in a 'targeted attack'; suspect was on a hit list that included Mitch McConnell and Gov. Whitmer

Senior law enforcement officials said that a gunman with a hit list that included three prominent politicians was responsible for shooting and killing a retired Wisconsin judge in his Wisconsin home. John Roemer was a former judge at Juneau County Circuit...

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05
Jun 2022
GOP lawmaker quits following being 'annihilated for supporting gun control

Two years ago, a New York Republican was endorsed by The National Rife Association. Friday's announcement said that he will not seek re-election. He stated that his support for gun control has effectively ended any chance of him winning the GOP primary....

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04
Jun 2022
Fetterman issues a letter from a cardiologist addressing stroke: "I almost died"

John Fetterman, the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee, said Friday that he should have taken more care of his health in the wake of a stroke last month. This has led many to wonder if he will be able campaign adequately in an closely watched race. Fetterman...

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04
Jun 2022
Proud Boy pleads guilty and admits that he almost reached Schumer during the Capitol siege

WASHINGTON -- Friday's plea to a felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding was made by a former D.C. bartender and Proud Boys member. Joshua Pruitt (40), appeared from prison for a virtual hearing with U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly....

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04
Jun 2022
Biden stated that more children are dying from guns than from cars. Here are the facts.

The shooting massacre at Robb Elementary School, Uvalde, Texas in which 19 children and two teachers were killed by an 18-year old gunman using an AR-15-style rifle has brought America's attention once more to the tragic number of children who have been...

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04
Jun 2022
Report says that almost all asylum seekers in L.A. do not have legal counsel and face deportation

A majority of asylum seekers in Los Angeles have received an order deportation under the Biden administration program to expedite asylum hearings. The Immigrants' Rights Policy Clinic conducted a study and found that 91.9 percent of 449 cases under the...

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04
Jun 2022
Roe is not a surprise to Black leaders, but they are prepared for the aftermath

Marcela Howell, founder and executive director for a national reproductive justice advocacy organization in Washington, D.C., was the first to begin to think about ways to defend Roe v. Wade if it were to be attacked after Donald Trump was elected President....

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04
Jun 2022
A group of prominent Latinos make a $60M cash deal for 18 radio stations

A group of Latinos including prominent Democrats have agreed to purchase 18 radio stations in 10 major cities for $60 million. TelevisaUnivision owns the AM and FM stations included in the deal. Latino Media Network is the new media group that purchased the...

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04
Jun 2022
White House delays Biden's trips to Saudi Arabia, Israel

NBC News received Friday's confirmation from several officials that President Joe Biden's scheduled visits to Saudi Arabian and Israeli later in the month were postponed to July. Sources claim that the White House plans to take a larger trip to...

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04
Jun 2022
Retired officer was arrested with fake Interpol badge, ammunition and body armor outside the U.S. Capitol

On Friday morning, a retired New York Police Officer was taken into custody outside the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. He was found with a fake ID, body armor, and ammunition, including high-capacity magazines, and was arrested. According to a...

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04
Jun 2022
Covid relief PPP funds were awarded to real estate agents for $3.9 billion. The housing market boomed but not many repaid the loans.

While Covid was destroying the U.S. economic system, Gary Goldberg appears to have done well. According to Zillow data, Santa Barbara's real estate agent, sold luxury homes worth more than $27million in 2020, which was the first year of the pandemic....

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04
Jun 2022
Biden, the first lady, moved from Delaware's beach house to temporarily after a small plane entered restricted airspace

REHOBOTH BEACH (Del. According to a White House official, President Joe Biden was temporarily removed from his beach house in Delaware by Jill Biden, the first lady. "Precautionary steps were taken. The official stated that there was no threat to President...

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15
May 2022
America's Black Guinea Pigs

About 800 black men from Tuskegee, in the racist state of Alabama, participated between 1932 and 1972 in the so-called "Tuskegee experiment of untreated syphilis in black men" to study the natural history of the then incurable disease. Mostly illiterate and...

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15
May 2022
And the broth in the fridge?

Ukraine is in the middle of a war and Europe shows him a supportive side of tambourine, goat and trumpet by letting him win Eurovision with a tiny song called Stefania with the band Kalush Orchestra.In no case has it been a political victory, it has won because...

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15
May 2022
An evening with Chateaubriand

It is night. On the balcony, the air contains the mixture of freshness and warmth of the month of May, the prologue of summer. I water my little pots and watch the snail that my grandson Lluc hunted. He feeds on flowers. He lives on this balcony more comfortably...

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15
May 2022
life in a black hole

What we know today about black holes in space is thanks to three geniuses with significant handicaps. Albert Einstein (with Asperger's syndrome), Stephen Hawking (victim of an ALS detected at the age of 21 which, against all odds, allowed him to live...

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15
May 2022
Europe in feminine

On May 6, the Cercle d'Economia awarded the prize for European Construction to Ursula von der Leyen. As a member of this institution I felt a healthy pride and I could not help but remember the rudeness inflicted on the president of the Commission by...

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15
May 2022
Come, accumulated youth

Memòries d'un filòleg norantí (Lleonard Muntaner, 2022) of the Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes Joan Veny i Clar (Campos, 1932) is a precious sample of what it means to take life with philology. Each page is a catalog of verbal riches,...

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15
May 2022
a fictional world

I agree at a meal with two editors, a woman and a man. I have friends with novels in the drawer, so I throw in a question. Do you think there are great books that we will never know? Some masterpiece, misunderstood by today's publishing world, despite...

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15
May 2022
Patience

What a feeling. That soft, thin red line that shows up where it shouldn't on the antigen test. It was my turn, I think to myself. Two years avoiding her and with three vaccines in her body. That nasty cough, a kind of jerk that keeps me half-stunned...

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15
May 2022
Ovaries in the hemicycle

The rule has reached Parliament, finally converted into a political subject. Few topics are as universal and unknown as the menstrual cycle, so much so that science cannot yet certify what is considered "a normal period". Half of the population has lived...

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15
May 2022
The Korean company Iljin will manufacture a key component of batteries in Catalonia

The South Korean group Iljin Materials will open a new factory for one of the basic and most advanced battery components for electric cars in Mont-roig del Camp (Baix Camp, Tarragona). The investment will be around 600 million euros and will be the largest...

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15
May 2022
money and design

Pay for a coffee, books, the blue zone or a parking lot. All without money. In the bar of the faculty they no longer make a face when you pay the 0.90 of the coffee with the watch and for the first time I have seen a sign in a parking lot that said: "We only...

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