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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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NextGen America is launching a $32 million program to engage young voters across eight states.

‘The future belongs to us’: NextGen America launches $32 million program to turn out young voters in 2022

By Rachel Janfaza, CNN With just over a year until the 2022 midterm elections, NextGen America — the progressive youth voter engagement organization — is launching a $32 million program to engage young voters across eight states. NextGen will organize in Texas, Arizona, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada with a goal

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El Congreso de EE.UU. corre contra el reloj para evitar el cierre del gobierno antes de la medianoche

olivertapia (CNN) — La financiación del gobierno de Estados Unidos expira a la medianoche y el Congreso aún no ha aprobado un proyecto de ley de financiación provisional para evitar un cierre, aunque los líderes demócratas están en camino de hacerlo más tarde este jueves. Los legisladores están acelerando el proceso y se espera que

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Nicolas Sarkozy, expresidente de Francia, es declarado culpable de financiación ilegal de campañas electorales

olivertapia París (CNN) — El expresidente de Francia Nicolas Sarkozy fue declarado culpable el jueves de financiación ilegal de campañas en su fallida candidatura a la reelección en 2012. A principios de este año, Sarkozy recibió una sentencia de tres años de prisión, dos de los cuales fueron suspendidos, por corrupción y tráfico de influencias,

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