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‘I’m past angry’: Police shooting victims’ families, civil rights leaders condemn failed police reform talks

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Bridgett Floyd said she could barely find the words to describe her disappointment in lawmakers for failing to pass sweeping police reform legislation that bears her brother George Floyd’s name. “I’m past upset, I’m past angry,” she told CNN this week. The Floyd family, she said, waited more than a

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More Americans are dying from drug overdoses. Pictured is the prescription painkiller Oxycodon.

Biden administration grapples with American addiction as overdose deaths hit a record high

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN With a growing number of Americans dying from drug overdoses and concerns over addiction rising, the Biden administration has found itself facing a nationwide crisis that keeps escalating as the Covid-19 pandemic drags on. On the campaign trail, Biden presented a comprehensive plan to address the opioid epidemic, but his public

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Judge Charles Breyer sits in his chambers at the federal courthouse in San Francisco in 2016.  Breyer is a member of the sentencing commission.

Compassionate release became a life-or-death lottery for thousands of federal inmates during the pandemic

By Casey Tolan, CNN The assessment was dire: Horacio Estrada-Elias had “less than 18 months” left to live, his prison doctor wrote last year in a document submitted with the 90-year-old inmate’s request for compassionate release. Estrada-Elias, who is serving a life sentence in federal prison for a nonviolent marijuana trafficking crime, suffers from congestive

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