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Nurses wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) attend to patients in a Covid-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Community Hospital on January 6, 2021 in the Willowbrook neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. - Deep within a South Los Angeles hospital, a row of elderly Hispanic men in induced comas lay hooked up to ventilators, while nurses clad in spacesuit-looking respirators checked their bleeping monitors in the eerie silence. The intensive care unit in one of the city's poorest districts is well accustomed to death, but with Los Angeles now at the heart of the United States' Covid pandemic, medics say they have never seen anything on this scale. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
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Left out of House stimulus, hospitals and nursing homes pin hopes on the Senate

By Tami Luhby, CNN Shut out of the stimulus package that passed the House last week, hospitals and nursing homes are hoping they can convince the Senate to give them an additional infusion of funding in its version of the $1.9 trillion relief bill. Congress last year created and poured $178 billion into the Provider

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Opal Lee stands in front of the Council Camber at City Hall to present a Juneteenth celebration on June 19, 2015 in Fort Worth, Texas. There is a new Texas license plate for Juneteenth, the 1865 “independence day” when America’s last slaves were liberated along with the Union Army landing at Galveston. State Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, wrote the plate into law with the help of state Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas. Gov. Greg Abbott signed it. (Paul Moseley/Star-Telegram via AP) MAGS OUT; (FORT WORTH WEEKLY, 360 WEST); INTERNET OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

Lawmakers reintroduce Juneteenth bill. This 94-year-old will do ‘whatever it takes’ to make it a national holiday

By Nicole Chavez, CNN Days after a winter storm put Texas at a standstill and her home’s water pipes burst, Opal Lee headed to the nation’s capital. Her years-long push to get Juneteenth recognized nationwide had to go on. “I refuse to let the efforts we’ve made down the vine,” said Lee, a 94-year-old activist

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Portland, OR, USA - Apr 9, 2020: AWS management console mobile app welcome page is seen on a smartphone. AWS is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs.

Amazon employee sues the company, alleging racial discrimination and unequal pay

By Chauncey Alcorn An Amazon employee filed a lawsuit Monday accusing the tech giant of deliberately paying her and other Black employees less than their White counterparts, becoming the latest on a growing list of current and former Amazon workers to accuse the company of systemic racism. Amazon said it was investigating the allegations in

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How one documentary reframes the history of Black women

By Leah Asmelash, CNN Black women are the mules of the world, Zora Neale Hurston wrote in 1937. More than 80 years later, Hurston’s words in “Their Eyes Were Watching God” still ring true, but one filmmaker is on a journey to both expose that truth and alleviate it. Oge Egbuonu’s new documentary, “(In)visible Portraits,”

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Which Covid-19 vaccine should I get? Dr. Wen weighs in.

By Katia Hetter, CNN And then there were three. There are now three Covid-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use by the US Food and Drug Administration, manufactured by Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson. All three will be distributed across the United States. Many people are wondering which Covid-19 vaccine they should get: Is one

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by John Angelillo/UPI/Shutterstock (11771268c) Pedestrian walk wearing face masks to protect from and to prevent the spread of the coronavirus on Wall Street in New York City on Monday February 22, 2021. COVID-19 deaths have now surpassed the 500,000 mark in the United States. Coronavirus outbreak, New York, USA - 22 Feb 2021

US needs to hold on for another 2 or 3 months without easing up on Covid-19 measures, expert says. Here’s what’s at stake

By Christina Maxouris, CNN Americans have received some good news lately about the coronavirus. But that doesn’t mean we’re in the clear yet, experts warn. A third Covid-19 vaccine –– Johnson & Johnson’s single shot — has been authorized for emergency use and is now on its way to states across the country. And for

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UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield: Congress’ work in wake of Capitol riot ‘shows that our democracy is resilient’

By Caroline Kelly, CNN US ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Monday that Congress’ work in the immediate wake of the US Capitol insurrection confirmed to her that American democracy had survived the January 6 attack. Asked by CNN’s Don Lemon how, as ambassador, she would calm allies’ potential concerns over what happened

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The US Capitol Building is seen at dusk in Washington, DC, February 6, 2018, as lawmakers work to avert a government shutdown later this week. Congressional leaders said Tuesday they were close to a budget deal that would keep the US government open -- despite President Donald Trump calling for a shutdown if he does not get his way on immigration. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Progressive House Democrats pressure Harris to invoke rarely employed move to ignore parliamentarian decision on wage hike

By Manu Raju, Chief Congressional Correspondent Liberal House Democrats are pleading with Vice President Kamala Harris to ignore the ruling of the Senate’s parliamentarian and decide that the $15 federal minimum wage can stay in the Covid relief package during Senate floor debate this week. Such a move has not been employed since 1975 —

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