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Written by The Skanner News

Published: 16 January 2022

 

The nonprofit AGE+, which works to improve life for Oregon’s elders, is recommending ways to celebrate Martin Luther King Day through educational and cultural activities that explore equity, inclusion

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Written by By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer

Published: 14 January 2022

 

President Joe Biden on Friday announced the nominations of three people for the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, including Sarah Bloom Raskin and Lisa Cook

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Written by By ADAM BEAM Associated Press

Published: 11 January 2022

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With state revenues at an all-time high, California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a budget that would cut taxes and pay the health care expenses of all of the state's low-income adults who are living in the country illegally.

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Written by By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer

Published: 11 January 2022

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In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital that he's doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery.

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Written by By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor

Published: 10 January 2022

 

After a third violation regarding COVID-19 misinformation, officials at the social media platform Twitter have banned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from their platform.

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Written by By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press

Published: 07 January 2022

Ahmaud Arbery's father Marcus Arbery reacts his son’s killers are sentenced, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, in Brunswick, Ga. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, Pool) 

The prosecutor said all three on trial deserved Georgia's mandatory life sentence for murder for showing “no empathy for the trapped and terrified Ahmaud Arbery.”

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Written by By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press

Published: 06 January 2022

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Rep. Cori Bush is no stranger to protests. She spent years marching the streets of St. Louis and Ferguson, Missouri, rising to public office on the strength of her activism.

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Written by Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

Published: 06 January 2022

President Joe Biden speaks at the U.S. Capitol to mark the one year anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) 

In his most passionate and direct blitz against Trump, President Biden accused the former President of orchestrating the deadly attack that left five officers dead in its wake.

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Written by By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press

Published: 05 January 2022

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Long after most other lawmakers had been rushed to safety, they were on the hard marble floor, ducking for cover.

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Written by By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press

Published: 03 January 2022

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ew York City welcomed the new year — and bid good riddance to 2021 — as confetti and cheers spread across Times Square as a New Year's Eve tradition returned to a city beleaguered by a global pandemic.