President Biden’s inauguration was unusual because of the ongoing pandemic, but in Boston, there was ample optimism about the new administration. (Herald video by Meghan Ottolini)
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Bike Week, prison PR, somber anniversaries: News from around our 50 states
City officials announced the changes Thursday, saying retailers, bars, restaurants and other businesses will have their capacity restrictions eliminated, the Anchorage Daily News reports. Requirements ...
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‘We will get through this, together,’ R.I. Governor McKee says in inaugural speech
During his inauguration ceremony on Sunday, Governor Daniel J. McKee called on Rhode Islanders to stay hopeful as they face the public health and economic crises created by the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
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Amanda Gorman says she was racially profiled near her home
"I showed my keys & buzzed myself into my building,” she tweeted of the incident Friday night. “He left, no apology. This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a ...
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Biden becomes 1st executive in 4 decades to not have formal question-and-answer session
No news conference. No Oval Office address. No primetime speech to a joint session of Congress. President Joe Biden is the first executive in four decades to reach this point in ...
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‘One day an icon, the next a threat’: Poet Amanda Gorman said she was targeted by security guard
Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, described on Twitter Friday how a security guard “tailed” her on her walk home. “He demanded if I lived there because ‘you look suspicious,' ...
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FBI investigate if Lady Gaga's dognapping was political because she sang at Biden's inauguration
The FBI is reportedly investigating whether the dognapping of Lady Gaga's bulldogs was politically motivated because she sang at President Joe Biden's inauguration last month ... this young man ...
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Watch: President Biden Delivers Emotional Remembrance Of 500,000 COVID-19 Victims
President Biden and Vice President Harris held a ceremony Monday night marking the grim milestone of 500,000 American deaths from COVID-19.
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President Biden mourns 500,000 dead, balancing nation's grief and hope
President Joe Biden has offered a head-on acknowledgement of the country's once-unimaginable loss — half a million Americans in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Biden mourns 500,000 dead, balancing nation’s grief and hope
The president, who lost his first wife and baby daughter in a car collision and later an adult son to brain cancer, leavened the grief with a message of hope ... That somber moment on the eve of Biden ...
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Cities May Be Our Greatest Hope in the Face of Climate Change and the Pandemic
Thirty days after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, we celebrate the United States’ re-entry into the Paris Agreement, an important victory for the country and the world. As mayors united in our ...