The national Mi Familia Vota organization has long been involved in voting rights issues and other matters of civic engagement, but this year it’s added a new initiative: Recruiting bilingual poll workers. The Phoenix-based group is joining advocacy organizations, nonprofits, and even businesses across the U.S. is trying to persuade […]
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Saturday posted a photo to his Instagram account in which he is walking down a flight of stairs as part of his recovery after he was poisoned last month. In the photo’s caption, Navalny, one of Russia’s most prominent Kremlin critics, wrote that he […]
The chief of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard threatened Saturday to go after everyone who had a role in a top general’s January killing in Iraq
Oktoberfest celebrations got underway Saturday in Munich with the traditional tapping of a keg and the cry of “O’zapft is!” — “It’s tapped!” — but this year’s festival is very non-traditional and highly regulated due to coronavirus concerns. The official Oktoberfest has been canceled, so there are no huge tents […]
Global Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical Services Outsourcing Market to Reach $90. 9 Billion by 2027. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical Services Outsourcing estimated at US$54.New York, Sept. 19, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report “Global Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical Services Outsourcing Industry” – https://www.reportlinker.com/p05960580/?utm_source=GNW 8 Billion in […]
Police in London clashed with protesters Saturday at a rally against coronavirus restrictions, even as the mayor warned that it was “increasingly likely” that the British capital would soon need to introduce tighter rules to curb a sharp rise in infections. Scuffles broke out as police moved in to disperse […]
Alexei Navalny, Russia’s leading opposition figure, revealed on Saturday that he is now able to walk following his suspected poisoning with Novichok nerve agent. The Putin critic posted a photograph to Instagram of himself walking down the stairs, captioning it that he could now walk with a “tremble”. “Quite recently, […]
A stretch of a Minneapolis street that includes the place where George Floyd was killed will soon be named in his honor. Although the street will still be called Chicago Avenue, the city will refer to the blocks between 37th and 39th streets as George Perry Floyd Jr. Place, the […]
A statue of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be built in her native Brooklyn, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday. Ginsburg died Friday of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87.
A Michigan resident’s apparent joke showing disdain for voting by mail is no laughing matter for one election official. The resident put a toilet on their lawn with a sign that says, “Place mail-in ballots here.” Barb Byrum, the Democratic clerk of Ingham County, filed a complaint with police over […]