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Winfrey, Hearst have Black journalists tell elders” stories

9:52 pm June 15, 2021

New York: Oprah Winfrey and Hearst Magazines are teaming up for interviews that pair young Black journalists with elders who include civil rights activists, celebrities and others sharing some lessons learned in life. The project, “Lift Every Voice,” will be featured on Winfrey’s OprahDaily.com website and in magazines like ELLE, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Runner’s World and Winfrey’s own O Quarterly. Dionne Warwick, […]

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Out on bail, gangster shot dead in Bathinda

Texas set to allow unlicensed handgun carry despite outcry

10:49 am May 25, 2021

Austin: Texas is poised to remove one of its last major gun restrictions after lawmakers approved allowing people to carry handguns without a license, and the background check and training that go with it. The Republican-dominated Legislature approved the measure Monday, sending it to Governor Greg Abbott, who has said he will sign it despite the objections of […]

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CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

US pipeline company halts some operations after cyberattack

11:25 pm May 8, 2021

Washington: A company that operates a major US energy pipeline says it was forced to temporarily halt all pipeline operations following a cybersecurity attack. In a statement, Colonial Pipeline said the attack took place Friday and also affected some of its information technology systems. The company describes itself as the largest refined products pipeline in the United States and […]

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Biden to visit Mich. vaccine plant as winter throws a curve

8:30 pm February 19, 2021

Washington: Extreme winter weather is dealing the first major setback to the Biden administration’s planned swift rollout of coronavirus vaccines just as the national vaccination campaign was hitting its stride. The disruptions caused by frigid temperatures, snow and ice left the White House scrambling to work with states to make up “lost ground” even as President Joe Biden was set to […]

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Biden faces pressure as US sets new course on immigration

11:17 pm February 15, 2021

Washington: After a weeklong bus ride from Honduras, Isabel Osorio Medina arrived in northern Mexico with the hope President Joe Biden would make it easier for people like him to get into the United States. “It seems the new president wants to help migrants,” Osorio said as he got ready to check in to a cheap hotel in downtown Tijuana before heading to the U.S. “They’re […]

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