Tag: giving
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Harris attacks Trump for giving Putin Covid tests ‘when Black people were dying everyday by the hundreds’
As she steps up her appeals to Black voters, Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on a popular Black radio program Tuesday where she said she is still open to slavery reparations and slammed former President Donald Trump for allegedly sending Covid tests to Russia “when black people were dying” back home. In a wide-ranging live…
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Urgent care clinics reopen near Helene-ravaged Asheville, giving residents crucial lifeline
CANDLER, N.C. — Urgent care facilities have started to reopen providing a crucial lifeline for many people in western North Carolina who for the past week had little access to food, water, electricity and convenient health care in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Elena Gherasim, 42, of West Asheville, said it was a “huge blessing”…
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Dani’s Queer Bar opens in Boston, giving Beantown its first lesbian bar in decades
Dani’s Queer Bar opened its doors to Boston’s LGBTQ community last month, giving the city its first lesbian bar in decades. The venue joins a yearslong “lesbian bar renaissance” that has seen more than a dozen bars for queer women open across the country since the height of the Covid pandemic. Dani’s, which has branded…
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Woman gets 40 years for giving husband lethal dose of tranquilizer in attack captured on dash cam
An Ohio woman was sentenced to 40 years in prison this week for injecting her estranged husband with an animal tranquilizer — and then burying his body — during an attack that was partially captured on a vehicle dash camera. Amanda Hovanec, 37, of Wapakoneta, Ohio, pleaded guilty to multiple charges that included distributing a…
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Pentagon has recommended giving white phosphorus shells to Ukraine, but White House keeps saying no
Senior Pentagon officials have recommended that the U.S. provide Ukraine with white phosphorus munitions for use on the battlefield, but the White House has rejected the idea several times, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the planning. White phosphorus is a waxy substance that ignites instantly when exposed to oxygen. It burns at a…