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National Guard will be deployed across Kentucky to help overwhelmed hospitals. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear here speaks during a media briefing in Frankfort

National Guard will be deployed across Kentucky to help overwhelmed hospitals. Health care workers high-fived when they heard the news

By Madeline Holcombe and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Kentucky hospital officials high-fived one another during a news conference Monday as they learned multiple National Guard teams would be deployed to hospitals across the state dealing with rising Covid-19 cases and hospital staffing shortages. Between 21 and 25 of the state’s regional hospitals are at a critical

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The Bakersfield Police Department is making a number of changes after a state investigation into its policies and practices.

State investigation finds a California police department violated constitutional rights of residents

By Douglas S. Wood, CNN The Bakersfield Police Department in California will revise its policies after a four-year state investigation found that the department violated the constitutional rights of residents by using unreasonable deadly force and conducting unnecessary arrests, searches, and other practices. The changes include a ban of the use of electronic control weapons

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Jesse Jackson Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of civil rights activist and clergyman Jesse Jackson. Personal Birth date: October 8, 1941 Birth place: Greenville, South Carolina Birth name: Jesse Louis Burns Father: Noah Robinson, cotton grader Mother: Helen (Burns) Jackson, hairdresser Marriage: Jacqueline Lavinia (Brown) Jackson (December 31, 1962-present) Children: with Karin Stanford:

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The Mississippi poison control hotline has been receiving increasing calls about people taking a formulation of the anti-parasitic drug invermectin to treat Covid-19.

Health officials warn people not to take a drug meant for livestock to ward off or treat Covid-19

By Chris Boyette, CNN Mississippi health officials are warning residents not to take an anti-parasitic drug — in most cases, a formulation purchased at livestock supply centers — to treat or prevent Covid-19. The Mississippi State Department of Health issued an alert on Friday that the Mississippi Poison Control Center has received an increasing number

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