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By Parinaz Madan and Dinyar PatelMumbai image copyrightGetty Images image captionLam (left) was the sheriff of Bombay, the first female sheriff in India Amid the pandemic gloom, it is easy to forget that the year 2020 marks an important anniversary for women’s rights. In the US, it has been 100…
Joe Biden’s likely pick for education secretary helped create a mandated, statewide minority-studies course that “analyze[s] how race, power, and privilege influence group access to citizenship, civil rights, and economic power.” Miguel Cardona, the current Connecticut commissioner of education, played a key role in creating the curriculum for Connecticut’s required…
DNC will elect new chair at Jan. 21 virtual Winter Meeting WASHINGTON The Democratic National Committee will pick its new chair during its virtual Winter Meeting on Jan. 21, NBC News has learned, one day after President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated. The party informed committee-members today of the date of…
Amid last weeks jubilant news segments featuring frontline healthcare workers getting their first dose of Pfizers COVID-19 vaccine came reports that put a damper on the excitement: that some of the vaccine recipients experienced severe allergic reactions following their shot. These stories are (understandably) unsettlingparticularly for those who have allergies.…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has selected California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to fill Vice President-elect Kamala Harris US Senate seat. California has never before had a Latino senator, despite the fact that nearly 40 percent of its residents are Latino and Padilla will change that. The son of Mexican…
By Shayan SardarizadehBBC Monitoring US TV networks Fox News and Newsmax have aired segments highlighting the lack of evidence linking electronic voting machines to fraud in the US election. The networks had received legal threats from Smartmatic, a voting technology company targeted by fraud allegations. President Donald Trump’s team have…
