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The county attorney for a largely Black community in Georgia was pushing to limit voting access in the state. Residents there protested — and now he’s out

A state lawmaker leading an effort to restrict voting rights in Georgia has been asked to resign from his role as attorney for a majority-Black county where residents as recently as 2015 accused other local officials of “making Black votes disappear.” State Rep. Barry Fleming, R-Harlem, is cosponsoring a bill that’s among more than 250

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EU regulator declares AstraZeneca vaccine safe, but experts fear damage has been done

The European Union’s medicines regulator has concluded that the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is safe to use after several EU countries suspended their rollouts following reports that it could be linked to blood clots. The European Medicines Agency (EMA)’s executive director Emer Cooke said the agency had “come to a clear scientific conclusion: this is a

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