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US Jesuit priests to raise $100 million for descendants of slaves
The Jesuit priests' foundation is named Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation and is a partnership among descendants of both the enslaved and enslavers
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Democrats, pushing stimulus, admit to regrets on Obama’s 2009 response
The pointed assessments of Obama’s handling of the 2009 stimulus effort are the closest Democrats have come to grappling with a highly delicate matter in the party: the shortcomings in the legacy…
'Lemon' or not, Trump is stuck with Phase 1 China trade deal
The US-China trade negotiations took more than two years, heaped tariffs on $370 billion of Chinese products, whipsawed financial markets and dimmed global growth prospects well before the…
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Brazilian mayor asks Bolsonaro to 'resign, shut up, and stay at home' as death toll mounts
The mayor of a city that houses 2 million people accused the president of being “co-responsible” for the increasing death count
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Brazil records second highest COVID-19 cases as Bolsonaro downplays it as 'little flu'
Brazil is now increasingly becoming the primary hotspot of coronavirus, as President Jair Bolsonaro continues to downplay it as a “little flu”
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Indigenous tribals in Brazil are dying twice as much as the national average due to COVID-19
According to Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), the mortality rate among the native population is twice as much as the the rest of the country’s population
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This small American country witnessed 22 prison homicides in one day!
The maximum emergency lockdown has been put in place to ensure that the police investigation may be conducted freely
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Did former United States President Barack Obama predict the seriousness of a coronavirus-like pandemic in 2014?
Obama warned in 2014, that we must be ready to deal with an epidemic
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A teenager belonging to an isolated Amazonian tribe dies of coronavirus
This is the third indigenous death related to COVID-19
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Trump administration to enforce visa sanctions on countries not accepting deportees
The revelation came to light in a memorandum addressed to the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
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US death toll could jump to 200,000 if restrictions are eased too quickly
The estimated death toll would further jump to 200,000 in case the lockdown measures are withdrawn
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Nearly 2,000 coronavirus deaths in US in the last 24 hours: Report
The record daily figure of 1,939 brings the total number of deaths in the United States to 12,722.
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'Not going to let Satan win': Churches in US defy stay-at-home orders to hold services amid coronavirus pandemic
Currently, the US has over 300,000 active cases of the virus, with over 8,000 reported deaths
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Trump claims scarves offer better protection than masks, but is that true?
Surgical masks, which are mostly produced in China, have run out of stock globally
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New York has enough ventilators for only six more days
Governor Andrew Cuomo claimed that the state has enough ventilators to last six days
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