By Warren Trent It is a thrilling and fast paced sport. To ride, you certainly should be focused. And fearless… well that goes without saying. For the thousands of fans who gathered at the Arizona Black Rodeo, they witnessed something special, Cowgirls in the spotlight. “I’m barrel racing.” Thais Hathaway has been riding for more
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By Chloe Melas, Janet JacksonĀ has just released a teaser for her upcoming two-part documentary. The singer posted the short clip on her Instagram page with the caption, “Hey u guys. Excited to share the first teaser of my new documentary with u.” “This is my story told by me, not through someone else’s eyes,” she
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By Maeve Reston, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been doing everything he can to persuade women to vote “no” onĀ the Republican effort to oustĀ him in Tuesday’s recall election, and inĀ Vice President Kamala HarrisĀ on Wednesday he got his most high-profile surrogate to date to help deliver that message. The former California senator, who remains enormously popular
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis and Chandelis Duster, A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. LeeĀ was removed inĀ Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday, adding to a growing list of Confederate symbols that have been taken down across the country since George Floyd’s death sparked a nationwide reckoning with police brutality and racism. The removal of Lee —
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By Eric Bradner, Texas Gov. Greg AbbottĀ signed into lawĀ TuesdayĀ a bill that imposes a raft of new restrictions on voting in one of the nation’s fastest-growing and diversifying states. Abbott signed Senate Bill 1 after the Republican-led LegislatureĀ approved it during the second special sessionĀ that the second-term GOP governor had called this year. Democrats hadĀ blocked previous versionsĀ of
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By Dan Merica, Former President Barack Obama urges Californians to rejectĀ the recall effortĀ targeting Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom inĀ a television adĀ released on Wednesday, telling voters that the outcome of Tuesday’s recall election could be the difference “between protecting our kids and putting them at risk.” The ad is the latest example of high-profile national Democrats, from
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Analysis by Stephen Collinson, The thing Americans want most fromĀ Joe BidenĀ is beyond his power to deliver: an end toĀ the pandemic. But the President willĀ make a new attemptĀ on Thursday to chart a path out of a national nightmare that is beginning to feel like a dark, repeating, permanent reality — and to prove he is the
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By Steve Almasy and Christina Carrega, Two-time Pro Bowl running back Clinton Portis and two other former NFL players have pleaded guilty for their roles in aĀ nationwide health care benefit fraud schemeĀ to submit false claims for payouts totaling about $3 million, theĀ Justice DepartmentĀ said Tuesday. Portis, Tamarick Vanover and Robert McCune admitted to participating in a
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By Ella Nilsen, As Democratic lawmakers begin crafting a massiveĀ $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation packageĀ this week, a coalition of prominent environmental groups is asking them to include between $577 billion and $746 billion for key climate provisions. In a letter delivered to members of Congress on Tuesday and shared exclusively with CNN, groups including the League
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By Paul LeBlanc, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday slammed Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s “deep ignorance” on abortion after heĀ defended the state’s new six-week abortion banĀ earlier in the day. “He speaks from such a place of deep ignorance … and it’s not just ignorance, it’s ignorance that’s hurting people across this country,” the New York
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