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‘The GOAT': Sailors Cheer Commander Dismissed After Raising Alarm About Coronavirus
...Applauding sailors chanting “Captain Cro-zier” gave their commanding officer a hero’s send-off from the USS Theodore Roosevelt Thursday after he was relieved of duty for warning about a coronavirus outbreak in a letter leaked to the press. Videos posted on Twitter showed hundreds of his supporters applauding Navy Capt. Brett Crozier as he waved to the crowd, walked down a...
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GOP Rep. Thomas Massie Risks Lawmakers' Health, Trump's Ire to Prove a Point
He has earned the label “Mr No” for his opposition to bills in Congress. He refused to self-quarantine when someone who had attended the Conservative Political Action Conference in February tested positive for the coronavirus though he had been there also. And on Friday, he was called a “third-rate Grandstander” by President Donald Trump. At the moment it is hard…
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Life Across America During the Coronavirus Pandemic: Stories About How You Are Coping
NBC Owned Television Stations across the country asked our viewers and readers about your lives since coronavirus struck the country. How has it affected you and your family, your job and your community? What are your concerns and how is your community coping? More than 2,000 of you responded.
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Coronavirus Fears: Nursing Homes Struggle With Infection Control
The coronavirus is more deadly for older people and with 27 of the deaths in Washington state linked to a nursing home there, controlling infections is key. But it is also a persistent problem. Twenty-four nursing homes in Miami were found to have violated infection control and prevention procedures during inspections since 2016, lapses that represented potential for harm, though...
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Biden Commits to Woman VP and Other Top Debate Moments
On a day when coronavirus dominated the news, with airports in chaos and the country’s largest school about to close, former Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders debated one-on-one for the first time in the Democratic primary and the pandemic monopolized their meeting too.
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Will New Hampshire Crown a Front-Runner in the First-in-the-Nation Primary?
New Hampshire votes on Tuesday and the country will be watching to see whether the state matches Iowa’s choice of a fresh face among its top picks or pivots to the party’s better-known candidates to take on President Donald Trump in November.
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Bill Clinton Expressed Remorse, Donald Trump Celebrates Impeachment Win
President Bill Clinton apologized. President Donald Trump said, “It was all bullshit.” Two modern-day presidents were impeached and acquitted and their reactions were polar opposites. Trump on Thursday, the morning after the U.S. Senate cleared him on two impeachment counts, was defiant and confrontational, praising the Republicans who voted to acquit and attacking Democrats as “vicious and mean.” Trump...
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Trump Touts Economy in ‘Great American Comeback' State of the Union Address
President Donald Trump touted “the great American comeback” as the theme of his State of the Union speech Tuesday night — and with unemployment low, the Dow Jones high and two new trade pacts to celebrate, the U.S. economy took a central spot in that vision of the country.
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‘We're Going to Win This': African Americans, Jews in Brooklyn Reject Return to 1990s Tensions
In the nearly 30 years since tensions between the African American and Jewish communities exploded in riots in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, Rabbi Eli Cohen and Geoffrey Davis have established a friendship that the recent spate of anti-Semitic attacks has not dinted. The African American, Caribbean American and Jewish communities that share Crown Heights are much closer today…
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Marianne Williamson's ‘Psychic Force' Will Be Missed
Marianne Williamson, the self-help book author and spiritual adviser who vowed to create a Cabinet-level Department of Peace, announced Friday that she had suspended her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Williamson often got more attention for her colorful moments during the Democratic debates than as a top-tier contender with a shot at winning the primary. Still, her memorable...