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President Biden paused at the beginning of a speech Tuesday to make sure two young girls would get ice cream. During a speech in Tulsa, Okla., Biden stopped to attend to two young girls in the audience before returning to the podium to joke about the interaction. Biden delays the beginning of his speech to make sure young …

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South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace’s home was reportedly vandalized over the weekend, spray-painted with obscenities and anarchist emblems associated with Antifa, the domestic group infamous for engaging in political violence in major American cities. The Republican congresswoman arrived at her property Monday morning to find that her house, front steps, sidewalks, and street were covered with …

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a photo of her grandmother’s Puerto Rico home in a state of disrepair in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria to demonstrate how the U.S. had blocked relief to the territory, but some questioned why she hadn’t offered to help repair the home herself. “Just over a week ago, my abuela fell ill. I went …

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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) has spent more than $58,000 on security in the months following her vote to impeach former President Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, according to a Casper Star-Tribune review of Federal Election Commission data. The newspaper reported that Wyoming’s at-large representative paid $58,500 for security from late January to early March. Of that money, …

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President Joe Biden said Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris will lead the administration’s push to protect voting rights as federal election reform legislation faces steep hurdles in the closely divided Senate. In remarks commemorating the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma, Race Massacre, Biden said that with Harris in charge, voting reforms would “address what remains on …

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A man pleaded guilty Wednesday to crimes related to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the process of counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election. According to court documents, Paul Hodgkins, 38, of Tampa, Florida, entered the U.S. Capitol building …

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Amazon announced it will stop testing the majority of job seekers for marijuana. The change in policy means the company will treat marijuana similar to how they treat alcohol; while they will not include it in pre-employment screenings, they will “continue to do impairment checks on the job and will test for all drugs and …

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City cops are getting the community involved in their wage war by unveiling a billboard on Interstate 95 South and Interstate 64 East near Arthur Ashe Boulevard. The Richmond Coalition of Police calls it “informing the public,” but Mayor Levar Stoney says it’s “bush league.” That part of the highway will have hundreds of thousands …

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The City of Richmond  raised a Pride Flag over Richmond City Hall on Tuesday afternoon in honor of LGBTQ Pride Month. In addition to the flag-raising ceremony, Dominion Energy and the Hampton Inn will display rainbow lights in their downtown buildings. The lights at Main Street Station will also display rainbow colors later this month. …

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Baltimore County plans to spend up to $100,000 on a memorial for COVID-19 victims. Today the county, along with Baltimore County Arts Guild, announced an open call for artists to build a “highly creative and dynamic public arts concept” at Lake Roland Park in Mt. Washington, according to a press release. More than 1,500 Baltimore …

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