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Elderly Asian Woman Sends Attacker to Hospital After Defending Herself With a Stick
Xiao Zhen Xie, 76, was waiting at the traffic light in San Francisco when a man punched her in the face by her left eye.
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Mitch McConnell Swipes at Kamala Harris’ Senate Role If Filibuster Ends in WSJ Op-Ed
“Imagine a world where every single task requires a physical quorum of 51 senators on the floor—and, by the way, the vice president doesn’t count,” the Senate Minority Leader wrote.
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Oklahoma’s Chickasaw Nation Now Vaccinating Non-Members, Including Those From Out of State
The Osage, Choctaw and Citizen Potawatomi nations have also expanded their coronavirus vaccine eligibility to the general public.
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John Sanders, Trump’s CBP Head, Calls Migrant Children’s Deaths the ‘Hardest Thing’ of His Tenure
“My greatest fear is children will die, and that’s what I think we have to make sure never happens,” Sanders said.
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Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick Claims Migrant Children Will End Up in Sex Trafficking
“Some of these children are going to end up in sex trafficking, when they take these kids and send them to Uncle Bob in New Jersey, wherever it may be,” Patrick said.
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Vladimir Putin Approved Operations to Damage Biden’s Campaign, Help Trump, Report Says
According to the report, Putin authorized “influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party, supporting former President Trump, undermining public confidence in the electoral process, and exacerbating socio-political divisions in the U.S.”
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Cuomo ‘Should Be Locked in Jail,’ Says Pub Owner About to Sue New York Over COVID Rules
“We’re still following the mandates and orders from a governor who should be locked in jail,” Daniel Presti, the co-owner of Staten Island pub Mac’s Public House. “Why is this happening?”
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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Says Residents Are ‘Sick and Tired’ of Destruction Occurring During Protests
“The community is sick and tired of people engaging in criminal destruction and violence and doing it under the guise of some noble cause,” Wheeler said during a Monday news conference with other local leaders.
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Alexei Navalny Compares Russian Penal Colony to a ‘Friendly Concentration Camp’
“Video cameras are everywhere, everyone is watched and at the slightest violation they make a report,” Navalny said in his Instagram post, according to google translate.
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One Third of People Reluctant to Take COVID Vaccine Got Their Information From Facebook
Among the respondents who said they primarily got their information from Facebook, 23 percent said they would get the vaccine “as soon as possible,” 29 percent said they would “wait and see” about the coronavirus shot, and 21 percent said they would get the vaccine “only if required.”
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Is Your Bank Holding Up Your Stimulus Payment?
Banks and credit unions have alerted customers that their stimulus payments will be available by March 17.
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Mitt Romney Urges Olympic Boycott Over China’s ‘Repression and Brutality’
“As the Beijing Olympic Games approach, it is increasingly clear that China, under the control of the Chinese Communist Party, does not deserve an Olympic showcase,” Romney said.
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Rashida Tlaib Calls Out GOP for Taking ‘Credit’ After Passage of Stimulus Plan
“You know how in a group project there is always a handful of students who didn’t contribute, but they still take credit at the end,” Tlaib tweeted Sunday. “That’s the GOP after the passage of the American Rescue Plan.”
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Corporate Heavyweights Come Out Against Voting-Restriction Measures by Georgia GOP
“Voting is a foundational right in America, and we will continue to work to advance voting rights and access in Georgia and across the country,” Coca-Cola said in a statement to CNBC.
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Bill Cassidy Blames Biden for Border Crisis, Nancy Pelosi Says Admin Inherited ‘Broken System’
“You can’t help but notice that the administration changes, and there’s a surge,” the Louisiana senator said.
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Mike Pompeo Says America Will Be Less Secure if It Returns to ‘Crappy Deal’ With Iran
The former secretary of state defended the work that the Trump administration did with Iran.
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Ron DeSantis Says Florida Penalized by Biden’s Stimulus Package: ‘It Stinks to High Heaven’
“Some of these lockdown states are getting an extra billion, $2 billion, $3 billion,” DeSantis said, referring to the stimulus package. “So, it’s effectively a transfer of money from states like Florida and Georgia to states like New York, Illinois and California.”
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Adam Kinzinger, 7 Other House Republicans Vote for Gun Background Checks Bill
“The vast majority of Americans believe in universal background checks,” Kinzinger wrote in a Thursday tweet. “As a gun owner myself, I firmly support the Second Amendment but I also believe we have to be willing to make some changes for the greater good.”
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Carl Heasti, N.Y. Assembly Speaker, Meeting Lawmakers to Determine ‘Paths Forward’ for Cuomo
More than 55 Democratic New York state legislators have signed a letter calling on the governor to resign.
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Texas Official Sees No Reason for State Removing Mask Mandate to Claim ‘Premature Victory’
“There’s no reason why to open ourselves up to unnecessary death, unnecessary hospitalization, just for the sake of wanting to claim a premature victory,” Judge Lina Hidalgo said.
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Florida Senator Rick Scott Urges States to Send ‘Wasteful’ COVID Relief Back to Congress
“By rejecting and returning any unneeded funds, as well as funds unrelated to COVID-19, you would be taking responsible action to avoid wasting scarce tax dollars,” Scott wrote in a letter to governors and mayors after the House approved the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill.
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