Congress
House Transmits Article Of Impeachment Against Trump To Senate
Updated at 7:55 p.m. ET At about 7 p.m. ET Monday, House impeachment managers delivered to the Senate an article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump, a move that prompts preparations for a historic trial. The formal step comes just over a year after the House last transmitted an impeachment measure against Trump to the upper chamber. The latest rebuke alleges that the former president incited the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. On Tuesday, U.S. senators, who act as jurors...
Regional News
Some In New England Unhappy With End Of Emerald Ash Borer Quarantine
The U.S. government has lifted a quarantine on an invasive insect, the emerald ash borer, that's killed many trees in Massachusetts and Connecticut. But critics of the change have been more vocal outside those states.
Police Violence
Fatal Police Shootings Of Unarmed Black People Reveal Troubling Patterns
Ronell Foster was riding his bicycle through the hushed streets of Vallejo, Calif., one evening when a police officer noticed that the bike had no lights and that he was weaving in and out of traffic. The officer, Ryan McMahon, went after Foster with lights flashing, siren blaring and the car's spotlight pointed directly at him. Foster stopped. The pair exchanged words before Foster, who was on community supervision for a car theft conviction a month earlier, fled, eventually ditching the...
CENSUS 2020
Biden Administration Tables Trump's Citizenship Data Request For Redistricting
The U.S. Census Bureau has stopped working on a Trump administration-initiated project to produce citizenship data that could have politically benefited Republicans when voting districts are redrawn. Citing President Biden's executive order that revoked President Donald Trump's directive for federal agencies to share their citizenship records , the bureau updated its website Friday with a statement that says its work on anonymized data about the U.S. citizenship status of every adult living...
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When It Comes To School COVID Testing, Finding Asymptomatic Cases Doesn't Come Cheap
It’s a snowy afternoon in early January and the carpool lane at the Bromfield High School in Harvard, Mass. is packed with cars. But the families inside aren’t here to drop off their kids. They’re here for COVID-19 tests. Im going to just swab each side about four times around, says a healthcare worker to 13-year-old Emma Squire and her 16-year-old sister, Molly. The two girls look straight ahead as they got the test. Emma says while its very weird to see her school surrounded by people...
