Yes, the United States’ history of slavery and racial discrimination means that Americans in general have implicit biases, a civil rights lawyer and top Biden administration Justice Department nominee told a stunned Republican senator on Tuesday.
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As its investigation into the former president continues, the Manhattan district attorney’s office is eyeing the loan the Trump Organization received from a hedge fund and private equity company for its eponymous Chicago skyscraper.
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Vanita Gupta, the widely-praised civil rights attorney who President Biden has picked to serve as associate attorney general, fielded claims from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) Tuesday that she was an “extreme radical advocate” and an “ideologue” who had no business leading the department.”
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HOUSTON — Mauricio Marin felt his heart tighten when the power flicked off at his Richmond, Texas, home on the evening of Feb. 14, shutting down his plug-in breathing machine. Gasping, he rushed to connect himself to one of the portable oxygen tanks his doctors had sent home with him weeks earlier to help his lungs recover after his three-week stay in a COVID-19 intensive care unit.
Between the two portable tanks, he calculated, he had six hours of air.
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A day after Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds (R) signed a highly restrictive voting bill into law, a civil rights group has already filed a lawsuit, saying that the law puts an undue burden on Iowans’ constitutional right to vote.
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South Dakota House lawmakers passed a resolution to halt the impeachment proceedings against state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, whose criminal trial over his fatal car collision is set to begin this week.
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Less than two weeks after speaking at a conference organized by white nationalist Nick Fuentes, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) tweeted a meme on Monday that referenced Fuentes’ battle cry.
Official presidential portraits of former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have been returned to prominent hanging locations in the Biden White House after they were removed during the Trump administration last July, CNN reported on Monday night.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s publisher has said it stopped promoting his recent book on leadership during the coronavirus pandemic the title because of an inquiry into efforts by the governor’s office to withhold data on nursing home resident deaths.
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