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US School and Mass Shootings Reaching All-Time Highs in 2022: Data and Maps
US gun violence — including school shootings, mass shootings and accidental gun deaths — reached all-time highs after the pandemic hit and show no sign of slowing down in 2022. We explored the factors causing the surge and break down America’s gun problem in graphics.
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Gov. Abbott Vowed to Build a Wall With Mexico. Texas Borderland Owners Say Not in My Backyard
Nayda Alvarez fought the Trump administration in court over an attempt to build on her property and if Texas Gov. Greg Abbott moves forward with his announced plan to try to accomplish what President Donald Trump did not, Alvarez said she will fight him too.
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States Raced to Pass Police Reform Bills After George Floyd's Murder. Advocates Say Not Enough
In the year since George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on his neck, more than 260 bills have been approved in state legislatures to ban potentially deadly law enforcement practices
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Pilot Hazel Ying Lee Blazed Trails During World War II
At a time when few women became pilots, the Federal Aviation Administration credits Hazel Ying Lee as the first Chinese-American woman to fly for the military, blazing her own trail
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Many Counties Face Challenges as US Seeks to Reach Herd Immunity
Many of the country’s most vaccine-hesitant communities are also facing a host of other factors that could hinder widespread vaccination, according to an NBC analysis
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For Intellectually Disabled Workers, Coronavirus Threatens Hard-Won Jobs
Even before the spreading coronavirus forced businesses to close their doors, 85% of Americans with disabilities did not work
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Black and Asian Americans Stand Together Against Hate Crimes
Asian and Black activists are talking solidarity, but they first need to know their common history and acknowledge tensions that have long existed.
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‘Stereotypes, Fetishes and Fantasies:' Asian American Women Link Sexualization and Racism
Even as the man accused of killing six women of Asian descent in the metro Atlanta area told authorities he was motivated by a sexual addiction not racism, Asian American women were describing on Twitter the ways that sexualization and racism were inextricably intertwined.
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Here's What You Can Do if You Are Injured by a COVID-19 Vaccine
Americans injured by the new COVID-19 vaccines will have to turn to a federal program that has paid out a scant $6 million since it began in 2010. The program, the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program, has compensated only 29 claims in that time, many as a result of the vaccine against the H1N1 flu during the pandemic a decade ago.
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With Anti-Semitic Attacks Surging, the Writing of a Fifth-Grader in Prewar Poland Teaches Tolerance
The writing of a 10-year-old girl in pre-World War II Poland is at the heart of the first interactive exhibit of an online museum dedicated to telling the stories of the Jewish communities in Eastern Europe and Russia
