Valerie Yurk from The Guardian reports: Forty states lack mandates to fully protect citizens from electricity, gas and water disconnections as leniency measures to pay bills expire, making Americans affected by the economic downturn vulnerable to one of the hottest summers on record and the continued spread of the coronavirus, …
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Donald Trump has cited Black Lives Matter’s protests against the police murder of George Floyd as one of the possible causes of the recent surge in coronavirus cases. The President of the United States did not directly blame the anti-racist protests, but suggested that it “presumably” led Americans to lower …
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Rod Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general, advised U.S. attorneys implementing the 2018 zero tolerance policy that there could be no blanket ban on prosecuting migrant parents who had children under the age of five, The Guardian has learned. Comments in a conference call in May 2018 privately shocked some …
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Trump accused of ‘tyrannical display of power’ Donald Trump’s use of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents to quell protests in Portland, and his threat to do the same elsewhere, has been condemned as “tyrannical.” The president has already deployed DHS agents in Portland, Oregon, with the aim of protecting …
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The Independent employs journalists from around the world to bring you truly independent journalism. To support us, consider a contribution. According to the test designer, Donald Trump’s boast that he “hit” a frequently used cognitive test is not exactly a worthwhile achievement. Dr. Ziad Nasreddine, who developed and recorded the …
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