‘I was wrong’: Liz Cheney announces support for same-sex marriage, reversing a longstanding position.

Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, said in an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday night that she was “wrong” to oppose same-sex marriage, reversing a longstanding position. “I was wrong,” Ms. Cheney said. “I was wrong.” Ms. Cheney famously came out against same-sex marriage in a television interview in 2013, while running for Senate in Wyoming, saying she […]

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U.S. special envoy to Haiti resigns over 'inhumane' deportations, calls Biden policy 'deeply flawed'

The Biden administration's special envoy to Haiti has resigned, protesting "inhumane" large-scale expulsions of Haitian migrants to their homeland wracked by civil strife and natural disaster, U.S. officials said Thursday. Daniel Foote was appointed to the position only in July, following the assassination of Haiti's president. Foote's sudden departure leaves a void in U.S. policy toward Haiti and adds another […]

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Netflix miniseries sparks new outcry over 'Central Park Five'

New York (CNN Business)A federal judge ruled on Monday that Linda Fairstein — a former prosecutor who was part of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office when it tried the criminal case against the young men who became known as the “Central Park Five” — can sue Netflix, producer and director Ava DuVernay and writer Attica Locke, for her portrayal in […]

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Moderna CEO Predicts End Of COVID-19 Pandemic Within A Year

The chief executive of Moderna said Thursday he thinks the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic could be over within a year as vaccine production ramps up and doses are delivered around the globe, even as many lower-income nations wait for inoculations. The pharmaceutical company’s CEO, Stéphane Bancel, told the Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung he believed there would soon be enough vaccines […]

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