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Month: September 2021

House Democrats scheduled a rare Saturday meeting to advance their proposed $3.5 trillion package

House panel slated to advance massive bill Saturday as liberals and moderates continue negotiating

By Alex Rogers and Manu Raju, CNN House Democrats scheduled a rare Saturday meeting to advance their proposed $3.5 trillion package, setting up a key procedural vote while they struggle to pass President Joe Biden’s economic agenda. The House Budget Committee is expected to vote on the individual components of the massive tax and spending

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Haiti’s leader: Migration won’t end unless inequality does

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Amid an outcry over the U.S. treatment of Haitian asylum-seekers, the beleaguered island country’s embattled prime minister is pointedly saying that inequalities drive migration. But Ariel Henry stopped short of directly criticizing Washington over the issue in a speech Saturday to the U.N. General Assembly’s annual

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Prince Andrew's lawyers acknowledge he has been served with legal papers in a civil sexual assault case against him

Prince Andrew’s attorneys acknowledge he has been served with US court papers in joint filing

By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN Prince Andrew‘s lawyers acknowledge he has been served with legal papers in a civil sexual assault case against him, as do lawyers for the woman accusing him of sexual abuse, according to documents filed Friday in New York federal court. The proposed stipulation, filed in agreement and electronically signed by attorneys

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Chancellor Angela Merkel and Armin Laschet

German national election too close to call, polls suggest, as key candidates hold final rallies

By Nadine Schmidt, CNN The race to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor remains wide open ahead of a national election on Sunday, according to the latest polls. Poll predictions on Saturday point to the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) holding a small but narrowing lead over Merkel’s party, the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Merkel

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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul initiated a formal investigation into the Joliet Police Department.

State AGs are ‘stepping into the police reform business’ to hold officers accountable

By Emma Tucker, Peter Nickeas and Christina Carrega, CNN In the past month, attorneys general in three states have sought a court-ordered overhaul of local police departments, increasingly filling the role the federal government has played for decades of holding accountable police departments that are deemed to be behaving badly. State officials have been initiating

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