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House Passes Bill to Make Washington DC State 51

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) greets Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser during a joint press conference ahead of Friday’s historic House vote on the District of Columbia bill at Capitol Hill in Washington, USA, June 25, 2020. Yuri Gripas | Reuters House Democrats passed a bill on Friday to make Washington, …

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Facebook will ban hate speech in its ads

Facebook President and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a hearing for the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee in Washington on October 23, 2019. Erin Scott | Reuters Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday that the company will change its policies to ban hate speech in its ads. Under its …

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Coronavirus contact tracing “not going well,” says Fauci

There are only a handful of proven interventions to slow the spread of the coronavirus. One of them is locating contacts and “it’s not going well,” White House health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday. Contact tracing occurs when trained personnel contact infected people to investigate where they might have …

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