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Month: July 2021

US Capitol rioter who captured Babbitt’s death on video is the 20th person to plead guilty in insurrection

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A Capitol rioter who captured Ashli Babbitt’s death on video became the 20th person to plead guilty for his involvement in the deadly January 6 insurrection. Andrew Bennett of Maryland pleaded guilty Thursday in DC District Court to illegally demonstrating inside the US Capitol. He got the same deal as other

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Biden administration targeting rural communities with funding for vaccine education and outreach, beefing up testing

By Betsy Klein, CNN The Biden administration is taking additional steps to stem the spread of Covid-19 with additional resources aimed particularly at helping rural communities slow the spread and vaccinate more people as cases rise nationwide, White House Covid-19 senior adviser Jeff Zients announced Thursday. “Today we are announcing that we are sending $100

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Daughter of detained man behind ‘Hotel Rwanda’ says she was spied on by Israeli software

By Stephanie Busari and Nimi Princewill, CNN The daughter of Paul Rusesabagina, a former hotelier who inspired the movie “Hotel Rwanda,” has hit out at Rwandan authorities after a report emerged that she was on a list of people targeted by Pegasus, a military-grade spyware licensed by an Israeli company to governments. Carine Kanimba’s phone number was

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Bentz introduces bill to let Forest Service use Environmental Policy Act exemptions

-Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.) on Thursday introduced the Commonsense Coordination Act. The bill allows the U.S. Forest Service to utilize the same exemptions from the National Environmental Policy Act as other federal agencies when working to implement joint projects that can range from wildfire preparedness and response to certain land management and infrastructure activities.

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St. Louis mayor responds to judge dismissing murder case after circuit attorney’s office no-shows hearings

By KIM ST. ONGE Click here for updates on this story     ST LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones is responding after a judge dismissed a murder case because prosecutors with the circuit attorney’s office repeatedly did not show up to court hearings. “Well, the circuit attorney is an independently elected official and

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