Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to the crowd during a demonstration supporting the voting rights, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. The Rev. Jesse Jackson and his wife, Jacqueline, have been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19 according to a statement Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021. He is vaccinated against the virus and publicly received his…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Leandra Walker, center, helps her daughter Mila Walker, 5, with her mask before she enters school with her siblings Olivia, 7, left, and her twin Max for the first day of classes in Richardson, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. Despite Texas Gov Greg Abbott’s executive order banning mask mandates by local officials, the…

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ABOVE PHOTO: California Gov. Gavin Newsom surveys damage to Greenville, which suffered extensive structure loss during the Dixie Fire, on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021, in Plumas County, Calif. Accompanying him is Cal Fire Assistant Region Chief Curtis Brown. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) By Eugene Garcia and Christopher Weber ASSOCIATED  PRESS  QUINCY, Calif. — Thousands of homes…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Taliban fighters take control of Afghan presidential palace after the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Zabi Karimi) By Joseph Krauss ASSOCIATED  PRESS  The Taliban have seized power in Afghanistan two weeks before the U.S. was set to complete its troop withdrawal after a…

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ABOVE PHOTO: FILE – In this Nov. 15, 2001 file photo, at sundown, a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier stands guard near a helicopter, not pictured, as Afghan civilians and militia members loyal to the northern alliance look on, in Khwaja Bahuaddin, Afghanistan, 350 kilometers (220 miles) northeast of Kabul. For 10 years, ever since…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo speaks during a news conference accompanied by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey in Minneapolis. Activists in Minneapolis are making a second attempt to get rid of the city’s police department, more than a year after George Floyd’s death at the hands of officers. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP, Pool,…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Census Bureau Director nominee Robert Santos, left, and nominee for Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Ed Gonzalez, of Texas, listen to instructions as they arrive for a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing on their nominations, Thursday, July 15, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. If confirmed, Santos, a third-generation Mexican…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference in New York on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021. Cuomo has resigned over a barrage of sexual harassment allegations in a fall from grace a year after he was widely hailed nationally for his detailed daily briefings and leadership during the darkest days of COVID-19. (Office…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Brianne Epps of Jackson, Miss., 28, is a single mother with son Nolan Epps, 11 months, photographed Wednesday, July 21, 2021, an older son 4 years old and daughters who are 8 and 6 years old. Epps earns $9 an hour working with infants and toddlers in a childcare center, but she has…

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ABOVE PHOTO: New York State Attorney General Letitia James, at a press conference in New York on Tuesday, August 3, 2021, announces investigators have concluded that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple current and former state government employees. Behind James are attorneys Joon Kim and Anne L. Clark, lead investigators. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)…

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