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Sweden offers 3rd COVID shot to elderly, health care staff

October 27, 2021 GMT

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden, which has stood out among European nations for its comparatively hands-off response to the pandemic, announced Wednesday it will be offering a third vaccine shot to people 65 and over as well as to health care workers and nursing home staff.

The Constitution doesn’t have a problem with mask mandates

John E. FinnJanuary 23, 2021 GMT

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John E. Finn, Wesleyan University

Fewer Living-Wage Jobs in U.S. Economy for November, Ludwig Institute Analysis Finds

December 16, 2020 GMT

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- More than a quarter of Americans desiring full-time work found themselves without a living-wage job in November, with women losing substantial ground in the workforce, according to a report released by the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP).

Sweden to ban sale of alcohol after 10pm to curb COVID-19

November 11, 2020 GMT

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden's prime minister said Wednesday his government will present a law proposal that would ban nationwide the sale of alcohol after 10 p...

How QAnon uses satanic rhetoric to set up a narrative of ‘good vs. evil’

Paul ThomasOctober 20, 2020 GMT

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Trump’s law-and-order campaign relies on a historic American tradition of racist and anti-immigrant politics

Austin SaratSeptember 14, 2020 GMT

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What – or who – is antifa?

Stanislav VysotskySeptember 4, 2020 GMT

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Stanislav Vysotsky, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

San Francisco Bay Area officer charged with manslaughter in the April shooting death of Black man in a Walmart store

September 2, 2020 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Bay Area officer charged with manslaughter in the April shooting death of Black man in a Walmart store.

Jerry Falwell Jr. will leave behind a very different legacy from his influential father

Richard FloryAugust 26, 2020 GMT

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Latin American women are disappearing and dying under lockdown

Lynn Marie StephenAugust 24, 2020 GMT

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Poor, minority students at dilapidated schools face added risks amid talk of reopening classrooms

Hardy MurphyJuly 31, 2020 GMT

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The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European

Anna Swartwood HouseJuly 28, 2020 GMT

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Despite ltaly’s coronavirus lockdown, Pope Francis visits two Rome churches to pray for an end to the pandemic

March 15, 2020 GMT

ROME (AP) — Despite ltaly's coronavirus lockdown, Pope Francis visits two Rome churches to pray for an end to the pandemic.

With anti-Semitism on the rise again, there are steps everyone can take to counter it

Jamie Levine DanielOctober 25, 2019 GMT

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On Yom Kippur, remembering Mosul’s rich and diverse past

Stephennie MulderOctober 7, 2019 GMT

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UN says there are 258 million international migrants today

December 19, 2017 GMT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — An estimated 258 million people have left their birth countries and are now living in other nations — an increase of 49 percent since 2000, says a U...