Nidhi Prakash
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Reporter covering politics and environment. Adjunct Prof. @nyu_journalism @nyu_ajo . Former @sajahq board member. Philly Sports Fan by marriage.
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11.30am in the House of Representatives
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SCOOP: Bernie Sanders just gained the endorsement of Nevada's largest teachers union.
Clark County is the 5th largest school district in the nation.
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Here's the result of several convos w/ medical professionals who went out on a limb to speak to us.
Under-counting is partly a lag in reporting data on COVID-19 tests and deaths, partly because a lot of ppl just aren't being tested.
With
@ellievhall
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I've now been sick, first with COVID then with post-COVID symptoms, since April. I wrote this mostly because, well, the pandemic won't end when there's a vaccine for many, many people like me.
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1. Again, Biden does not want to defund the police. Kinda the opposite.
2. Biden hasn't "signed a charter with Bernie Sanders" — they're policy recommendations for the Dem Party platform, recs which noone has "signed" onto yet
3. The recs do not include defunding the police
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Biden wants to defund the police.
CHRIS WALLACE; Sir, he does not.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Look, he signed a charter with Bernie Sanders
CHRIS WALLACE: It says nothing about defunding the police.
Full interview this
@FoxNewsSunday
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An ER doctor tells me they know of more COVID-19 related deaths in the hospitals they work in than the number included in the death count.
If you work in a hospital, morgue, or funeral home and you're seeing this, please reach out. DMs are open.
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Biden senior counsel Bob Bauer says we're seeing "noise, not really law" and "theatrics, not really lawsuits" from the Trump campaign. He adds that since Election Day, courts have dismissed 7 cases brought by the Trump campaign in different states.
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The women we spoke to told us they had been shackled around the stomach and denied medical care while they were pregnant. All three had miscarriages while they were in detention.
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Scoop w/
@Haleaziz
— Internal HUD documents show that officials absolutely changed their policy to exclude DACA recipients from federally-backed housing loans, the whole time Ben Carson was denying it to Congress
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An ER nurse treating COVID patients in South Dakota who don't believe COVID is real:
"They call you names and ask why you have to wear all that “stuff” because they don’t have COViD because it’s not real ... they stop yelling at you when they get intubated."
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Again, Puerto Rico has actually received about $11 billion of $41 billion total disaster relief funding approved by the federal govt, not $94 billion as Trump claimed again today.
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Think you're tense? Trying being a DACA recipient watching election night. I spoke to Luz throughout the evening as she watched the results anxiously with her family.
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Sanders is holding an event this afternoon in Detroit specifically to talk about the impacts of Coronavirus
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Young Sanders supporters brought their parents and grandparents to see
@AOC
speak in Spanish this weekend in Las Vegas.
How the Sanders campaign is trying to bridge the generation gap and win over older Latinos:
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"I have deep respect for a free and independent press in our democracy," says
@jrpsaki
. She plans to hold daily briefings(!) during the week. Every week.
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Thinking about the contrast between this calm, orderly, hard-working scene from elections workers to get us results and the attempts we've seen from the Trump campaign to spread mistrust and chaos
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Inbox: AOC will host a Spanish language only town hall in Las Vegas for the Sanders campaign on Sunday.
This is (I think) the first entirely Spanish language town hall any of the campaigns have hosted.
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NEW: Julián Castro is the first 2020 Dem to call on PR Gov. Rosselló to resign.
"I don’t think that Rosselló can be effective anymore ... I believe that he should resign," he said."Unfortunately just at a time when Puerto Rico needs very strong leadership it doesn’t have that."
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Some personal news: I'll be covering the Biden White House starting January. Looking fwd to reporting on this administration, and the multiple crises this county is facing right now.
Taking some time to rest between now and inauguration, see you all in 2021!
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A lot of rumors flying around tonight about Rosselló - but from talking to sources in the PR legislature, seems like they have the votes and the will to start the impeachment process tomorrow if he hasn't resigned by then
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"I didn't know him well, I only met him a couple of times but it makes you realize that ... you gotta make every single day count," Biden says in Des Moines about Kobe Bryant. He talks about grief, and losing his wife and daughter.
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Michigan Militant Pages Thrive On Facebook Even After Extremists Organized A Kidnap Plot Against The Governor On The Social Network via
@salhernandez
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Re. potential recounts: "These margins cannot be overcome with recounts. So the recounts are yet another piece of the political theatrics along with the lawsuits being dismissed " Bauer says.
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Julián Castro's climate plan out today says he wants to add a specific immigration category for climate refugees, going further than other candidates' plans for people forced to flee their home countries because of climate change.
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The UK's NHS is planning: they're opening 40 publicly funded clinics to serve people with these post-viral complications, investing £10 million into clinical services.
No such plans here so far from our CDC. Biden's plan doesn't deal with long COVID beyond protecting insurance.
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This $3.5 million Hunter Biden accusation that Trump is repeating again has been debunked. Read
@ChristopherJM
:
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And it's not clear that anyone's prepared for what that's going to mean, public health-wise, social security-wise, as individuals and as a society.
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The sanctions Biden announced today fall short of what Ukrainian authorities had hoped for in two ways:
1. excluding Russia from SWIFT
2. spelling out a plan to get aid to Ukrainians with airports and roads compromised
With
@ChristopherJM
in Ukraine:
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Meanwhile, from the candidate who first questioned the role of the Iowa caucus in 2020:
This is a total mess. I respect the people of Iowa, they’ve been great—but it’s become very clear that our democracy has been misserved by a broken system.
#IACaucus
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Asked
@PeteButtigieg
how Biden can convincingly make his pitch for unity given the Capitol attack. "There's a profound difference between having a president focused on bringing Americans together and a president doing the opposite. So right off the bat that that will be helpful."
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Feeling like you have to keep pushing through is, tbh, terrifying. No one so far can tell us what the trajectory of this post-viral illness is. It's possible that pushing too hard = getting sicker = serious consequences (hospital, death). That's what runs through my mind anyway.
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Biden doesn't address coronavirus this morning at the health center. "I'll be happy to talk about that later," he says as he walks out, when
@jeneps
asks him about it given increasing concerns about the virus.
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Heading to the
#PuertoRicanDayParade
today, the first one since Hurricane Maria. Organizers say they want it to be an acknowledgement of what Puerto Ricans have been through and people who have helped.
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I've been able to (reluctantly) take some time off work to rest. For so many others, that's not an option. People are scared of losing their jobs. Some are pushing through debilitating symptoms to work or apply for work because they have no other choice.
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The results of a good debate night:
@JulianCastro
has gained nearly 70,000 new followers on Twitter since the debate started yesterday.
In just the three hours after the debate started yesterday, he gained 27,000 new followers.
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The protest has arrived in Viejo San Juan, en route to La Fortaleza
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A study published by University of Michigan researchers over the weekend is the latest to find that federal resources lagged and fell short for Puerto Rico compared to Texas and Florida after their hurricanes in 2017.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Urged The US To "Do More" As Russia Devastates His Country
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Vigil in Sunset Park symbolizing those who died because of Hurricane Maria
#4645Boricuas
the number, even though it's an estimate, has come to signify the uncounted
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NEW: The ACLU of Puerto Rico is demanding that Puerto Rico's police chief Henry Escalera step down over police handling of protesters
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A reminder that FEMA received 2,431 applications from Puerto Ricans who lost loved ones after Maria for help with their funerals. As of the end of July, they had approved 75.
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"In this country we spend a lot of time tap dancing around race still. A lot of conversations don't happen because they're inconvenient, they don't want to get into them,"
@JulianCastro
says, in the context of reparations.
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"This is not what we mean by a moratorium, but we expect to have to push a Sanders presidency. We are picking our target, not our savior. We got him this far,"
@ConMijente
's Tania Unzueta told me.
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Biden comes on stage and hugs IBEW President Lonnie Stephenson.
"I just want you to know I had permission to hug Lonnie," Biden says, to uproarious applause from the (mostly male) crowd.
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Latest update from Clark County (last one expected today as of now): An additional 8,713 votes were counted today, 5454 were for Biden and 2934 were for Trump.
That leaves Biden with a 1.78% lead in NV or 22,657 votes statewide. Up from 1.7% earlier today.
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Moment of silence for the Parkland victims - a total hush over Central Park West.
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Prominent voting rights advocates won't attend Biden's speech in GA tomorrow
"What we're saying is we don't need another speech,”says
@BlackVotersMtr
's Cliff Albright.“What we need is for him to lean into the filibuster and ... give a clear call for it to be modified."
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Joe Biden Led The First National Mourning For COVID Victims. It’s Just The Start For Those Grieving.
From
@ambiej
and me.
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.
@ConMijente
and
@MaketheRoadAct
are still supporting Sanders and say he has the overall best immigration plan. But we're in a place now where Biden has a more progressive stance than Sanders on a deportation moratorium.
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New: Other candidates and factions of the Dem establishment are pushing the message that moderate Dem voters would be scared off by a Sanders candidacy.
Moderate Iowans at Biden events this week told me they'd absolutely vote for Sanders against Trump.
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NEW: Buttigieg's Spanish-language campaign website is mostly in English, except for the "donate" and caucus buttons.
The campaign says they're "in the middle of translating the rest of our policy plans into Spanish but haven't completed that task.”
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He says Sec of Justice Wanda Vazquez will take over. That's not something a lot of people are going to be happy about, based on convos at the protests.
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Joe Biden has won the presidency, with more PA votes breaking in his favor this AM. From myself and
@HenryJGomez
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Maddie Schumacher, 22, "Congratulations, you won because of Black voters ... my expectation for Joe Biden in the future is to continue to listen to people of color, the people who elected him and got him this victory and to listen to them and to deliver for them."
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Hello some ~personal news~ this morning - I'm very excited to be joining BuzzFeed News' politics team in DC this August
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"I'll be back on March 6 to finish up, there is more to discuss," Cohen said.
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Just in from WH: the US & allies are expanding the list of Russian oligarchs under sanctions
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On Trump's GSA blocking transition resources, Bauer didn't get into whether or not there's legal recourse there for the Biden team but said that based on all past examples that are comparable, the GSA's acknowledgment of the results "would have been done by now."
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Sen. Nina Turner, asked if she thinks the Warren/Sanders tension has been put to bed: "Not exactly. I mean we all saw what happened at the end of the debate. The Senator reached out his hand, to shake her hand, and she wouldn't do it,"
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The first and only guests so far to walk in and have a drink at Biden's NH primary night party: members of the American Political Items Collectors. Two of them are Biden supporters (one is feeling iffy about him now).
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Michael Cohen comes out of House Intel and says he'll be back March 6, says he is "committed to telling the truth."
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Biden was asked if he thinks he's benefited from white privilege: "Sure, I benefited just because I didn't have to go through what my Black brothers and sisters have had to go through."
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"No one can tell me if it had been a group of Black Lives Matters protesters yesterday they would not have been treated very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol,"
@JoeBiden
says in his address today, calling out a glaring disparity.
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Scoop: After
@Haleaziz
and I reported that internal HUD emails show they did secretly change policy to exclude DACA recipients from FHA loans, Dems are calling for an investigation by the HUD IG
In Congressional testimony, HUD officials denied the change
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Flint is still in crisis. During Biden's stop there yesterday, he barely acknowledged that, but gave his stump speech.
“When people who have power to elevate your story come and totally disregard your story, you’re re-traumatized" –
@DrKentDKey
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Raphael Warnock Has Won Georgia's Runoff Race. He Will Be The State's First Black Senator. via
@RyanBrooks
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Biden team statement on the GSA finally starting the transition process: "Today’s decision is a needed step to begin tackling the challenges facing our nation, including getting the pandemic under control and our economy back on track."
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At the San Juan/NYC joint center of command - where supplies are ready to send out and where San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz is based.
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For me, it's been ~5 1/2 months. I was actively sick with COVID for ~3 months. Since then I've had crazy fatigue, chest pains, still sometimes short of breath and headachey if I push too much.
Normally I'm an active, healthy 30-something. I'm terrified of catching this again.
Today marks 6 weeks since I came down with
#COVID19
, so here's an update (thread).
The good news is that I'm no longer actively sick or contagious (according to the pulmonologist I saw a couple days ago).
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Danielle Walton, 28, and Taliyah Green, 23.
D: "Welcome. I hope you do the right thing. We voted you in for a reason. So take care of the people because we took care of you."
T: "Hey, what's good. Welcome to the team. Please do what you got to do fix all the errors he's made."
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"With the exception of Florida 2000, which is a very bad example I think as you all know, certainly not at all analogous to this situation, the [GSA] ascertainment as it's called, would have been done by now," Bauer said re. Trump's GSA not cooperating w the Biden team.
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.
@ChristopherJM
has the latest from the ground. Biden expected to speak again at 12.30 given all the developments overnight.
Confirmed by Ukrainian authorities. A large air assault operation with Mi-8 helicopters on Antonov International Airport in Hostomel. Interior Ministry says Russia has seized control. Very dangerous; it’s just 15 minutes west of the capital ring road.
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The FBI's San Juan bureau is planning to make arrests "in the not too distant future" of contractors they believe misused federal funds in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria
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Between this and the Biden camp's back and forth this week,
@AnaMariaArchil2
explains why the idea of a moratorium carries so much weight, and why it's important to understand exactly what candidates mean by it:
"A moratorium would allow my community to breathe."
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I've been reporting since right after the hurricane that the death toll numbers were inaccurate in Puerto Rico. Several scientific studies and the Puerto Rican governor himself have since backed up that that was true.
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Alvarez's father died Wednesday because he lacked oxygen. We don't know how many others are still going through this
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Aisha Rodriguez, 18, is heading to the
#PuertoRicanDayParade
with friends. She said it's especially important to her after Hurricane Maria's destruction and to honor those who died and aren't counted in the official death toll
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SCOOP from
@SalHernandez
--->
As Hurricane Irma headed for Florida, CBP continued arresting undocumented immigrants, despite public assurances that they wouldn't in the interests of people seeking emergency help from authorities.
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I looked at Bernie Sanders' shift on immigration — how he's moved away from language that pitted immigrant workers against "American workers," and how he's embracing a more progressive plan to the point of earning
@MaketheRoadAct
's endorsement this week.
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Rosselló has finally resigned, effective August 2nd at 5pm.
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Tonight was Biden’s most explicit and detailed rebuttal yet of Trump’s claims of election fraud and election conspiracy theories
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About 20 minutes into the event, after running through some of his stump speech, Biden says about the water crisis in Flint: "We're not looking for a revolution. What we want to do is to be able to trust the water that comes out of the pipes," he says.
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The PCCC (
@BoldProgressive
), which backed Warren, sent an email to it's Michigan members today urging them to vote for Sanders "to stop the premature ending of this primary election," though they haven't endorsed him
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Passed a man with a MAGA flag shouting "We will be heard" on the corner of 13th & U. He seemed to be alone and just shouting at traffic.
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Biden used his first address as president-elect to pitch Americans on a vastly different vision: Step away from bitter resentments and partisanship. And at the same time, work to correct systemic racism and inequities.
A look at his speech:
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2,431 Puerto Rican families applied for FEMA assistance to give loved ones who died during and after Hurricane Maria a funeral. They have approved 75.
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Some ~personal news~ since we're all here: I'll be covering 2020 with our amazing campaigns team starting next week.
Send me tips/ideas/complaints about how 2020 is being covered! Tell my soon-to-be editor
@Mr_Berman
about all the Aussie slang he'll soon have to learn from me!
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.
@ElissaSlotkin
says on ABC that she has confirmation the National Guard is being activated.
"The only place this eventually goes is the clearing of the building and the easier that goes the less bloodshed we'll have," she says.
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Big pic of Biden's exec orders coming today is that the fed govt is taking immediate charge of pandemic response.
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"No wall should be financed with the pain and suffering of US citizens who have suffered tragedy and loss through a natural disaster. This includes citizens who live in California, Texas, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and other jurisdictions."
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In Las Vegas,
@AOC
is giving a speech in Spanish at a Sanders campaign town hall this afternoon
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Biden started out saying that most white parents don't have to have "the talk" with their kids about how to stay safe if they're stopped by police.
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“My soul aches that there are many pregnant women coming who could lose their babies like I did and that they will do nothing to help them,” she said.
E. was sobbing into the phone as she spoke to me from Otay Mesa. Days later, she accepted voluntary departure and was deported.
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"The American people are answering President Zelensky's call for more help, more weapons to Ukraine ... more tools to fight Russian aggression," Biden says.
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