With a projected 306 electoral votes and more than 75 million votes, Joe Biden wins the election to take office as the next president and Kamala Harris as vice president of the United States. The U.S. election process is a complicated system that usually involves one-stop early voting and in-person voting on election day with […]
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The big surprise last election was the number of Midwestern states that flipped and voted for Trump after consistently voting for the Democratic candidate for six elections. Most of the Midwest voted for President Barack Obama, including North Caroline in 2008. It was nerve wracking waiting since many of those states took longer to count
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Between the president’s general disdain for mask wearing and the administration’s rush to nominate and confirm another conservative justice to the Supreme Court that more than 30 people directly got sick from the virus. After a week isolated in intensive care, former governor Chris Christie regrets letting his guard down and urges people to keep keep taking precautions.
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Last month, the United States Supreme Court announced that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died on September 18, 2020. She had died from complications of pancreatic cancer at age 87. Her legacy not only includes 27 years as a Supreme Court Justice but a lifetime of work systematically challenging laws that discriminated between men and
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I waited a very long time to meet the right person to get married. When my husband proposed to me last summer, he was eager to get married. We thought that last fall would have been too soon. If only we had known that nothing was going to be normal this year. He wanted to
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Iakwe, Eta in Selina Neirok Leem. Jet iaan aelon ko ij itok jen ie ej Namdrik, Ailuk, Mili, Ebon, im Utrik. Ikar lotak ilo November 12, 1997. Ijo ikar lotak im dik im ruttolok ie ej Majuro mokta jen ao kar emakut ilo iio eo 2014 nan kabilon ko nan jikuul. Etan jowi eo ao
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At the beginning of the year, the Marshall Islands had limited travel within the country because of an outbreak of dengue fever. They then extended the restrictions for international travel when the novel coronavirus broke out. The RMI government banned travel from China several weeks prior to the March 3, 2020 restrictions on international travel.
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In June there were 500-600 active cases and 33 deaths in the Marshallese community in Northwest Arkansas. There were 9 deaths in July. They made up the majority of Benton and Washington county’s COVID cases. The good news — there has not be a COVID-related death in the NWA Marshallese community since August 2. The
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On Sunday, September 13, 2020, we learned that Sepe Bolkiem had died of a heart attack. Her friends and family mourn her sudden loss. A friend and family member, whose youngest sister was adopted by Sepe Bolkiem’s family, and who had recommended her to her position at Parson Hills Elementary School, said that she was
On Wednesday, August 26, Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese in Springdale held their opening ceremony for the Enrã food pantry. Due to Covid-19, there was a limited number of guests, with fifty in total that were present while practicing social distancing. At two o’clock that afternoon, the guests had gathered and began with an opening prayer
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