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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I grew up in Rogers, AR and have recently moved back. I studied history at Yale University, where I graduated in 2018. After that, I worked at The Atlantic in Washington, D.C. and I am now a staff reporter with Facing South where my writing focuses on democracy, politics, and agriculture and rural communities. I
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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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Written by: Jabin Lewis The Marshallese leaders and pastors of Springdale, Arkansas gathered together at the Marshallese Pastors Conference held on September 29 at The Apollo on Emma. The event also included the FBI, the Springdale Police Chief, the Marshallese detective, and the hostess, State Representative Robin Lundstrum. While they were served their dinner, they
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Iakwe Aolep! Moktata ikōnaan kam̧oolol Anij kin mour im ejmour. Eta in Jasmine Muneca Botlang Henry. Jibūn late Botlang Loeak im late Nora Loeak. Nejin Claire Loeak im Harry Henry. Mama ej kōrā in Rālik en kab Maļoelap, Wōtje im Likiep. Baba ke likao in Puerto Rico. Jowi eo aō ej Jejed. My parents were
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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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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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Olivia Paschal, a journalist in Northwest Arkansas, has been reporting on poultry processing workers. Read the complete article first published by Facing South on August 20, 2020 and translated and republished with permission. This is Part 2 of 4. Part 1 available here. When factory workers began to become sick from COVID-19, poultry companies took
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