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Year: 2021

Lawmakers advance legislation to go further than Biden administration in punishing Saudi Arabia for Khashoggi murder

A House committee on Thursday two bills taking aim at Saudi Arabia in the wake of last month’s intelligence report implicating the country’s crown prince in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi following widespread criticism that the Biden administration didn’t punish the kingdom harshly enough. Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia — where Khashoggi was living

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What Jim Crow looks like in 2021

“It’s a redux of Jim Crow in a suit and tie.” That’s how Stacey Abrams, who spearheaded efforts to organize Black voters in Georgia for the 2020 election, recently described the deluge of new voter restriction laws proposed by Republicans in the Georgia state legislature in the wake of their defeat. Cliff Albright of the

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Speed read Biden’s news conference

President Joe Biden opened his first presidential news conference Thursday with a new promise to get 200 million Covid vaccine shots in American arms by the end of April — and then spent the rest of the hour defending his administration’s immigration policy and teasing openness to ending the Senate filibuster. The questions mostly focused

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