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Kamala Harris' best ratings come from African-Americans and liberal Democrats, but she remains unknown to many

As Sen. Kamala Harris of California kicks her 2020 Democratic presidential run into a higher gear with a massive campaign announcement in Oakland, a trip to Iowa and a CNN town hall Monday night, her positive favorability numbers with some core Democratic groups could elevate her from just an up-and-coming candidate to the main contender.

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Michael Jackson's family calls documentary a 'public lynching'

One of the most talked-about documentaries of the year hasn't even released yet.

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Beyond the Rhetoric: From a Digital Desert to an Entrepreneurial Hub

The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) has launched a prototype project that, if successful, will transform minority, low-income and rural communities from forgotten places into entrepreneurial hubs of economic innovation. Our goal is to create communities with access to 5G technology, integrated into low-income housing, job training and access to telemedicine and social services. It will all be done with private sector resources.

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Ridiculously cold temps in the Northeast break records

Even by New England standards, this winter cold is brutal. The storm that killed several people in the Midwest -- including a 12-year-old girl who died when a snow fort collapsed -- left a trail of dangerously cold weather in the Northeast.

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Prairie View A&M University Professor awarded 5.3 million grant to tackle food insecurities

The University spearheads the effort to find a cure for hunger and poverty

Prairie View A&M University answers the call to find a cure for a real-world problem: food insecurity. World Food Day at PVAMU will feature Dr. Deland J. Myers Sr. Endowed Professor of Food Systems at PV. Dr. Myers was awarded a 5.3 million dollar grant from the Texas A&M Chancellors Research Initiative to found the Integrated Food Security Research Center (IFSRC) for the purpose of establishing a center with a focused research, academic, and outreach effort to study the causes of food insecurity, the impacts of this issue, and finding ways to alleviate food insecurity in communities.

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It's time for Netflix to prove it's still the king

Netflix failed to deliver last quarter and was raked over the coals by Wall Street.

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True Scandal In Puerto Rican Recovery Effort Is Trump's Dereliction

The scandals around in Puerto Rico's agonies are far greater than the bizarre contract to pay Whitefish Energy, a tiny Montana company from U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's hometown, $300 million to restore electric lines.

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White Graphene Makes Ceramics Multifunctional

Rice University study shows 2-D layers of boron nitride could aid strength, toughness and thermal conductivity of ceramics

A little hBN in ceramics could give them outstanding properties, according to a Rice University scientist.

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What's Next for the Republican Tax Plan: All Eyes Move to the Senate

Senate Republicans are poised to return after the Thanksgiving break and begin debating their tax bill on the floor, but don't expect the body to move forward without a bit more controversy.

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Biden administration says it will enforce federal transgender health care protections, undoing controversial Trump-era reversal

The Biden administration will work to protect transgender Americans from discrimination in health care, undoing a controversial Trump-era decision to nix federal protections for members of the community, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday.

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Taxpayers who already filed returns will automatically get stimulus break on unemployment benefits, IRS says

Americans who lost their jobs last year and have already filed their tax returns will have one less headache to deal with.

California's Democratic politicians can't seem to follow their own coronavirus advice

California is in the midst of a major coronavirus surge. According to the Los Angeles Times, the state has averaged more than 14,000 cases a day for the last week, a 55.6% increase. Hospitalizations are at a record high, up 100% from just 14 day ago.

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Madison Cawthorn, self-described 'big history buff,' keeps getting historical facts wrong

Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a freshman Republican from North Carolina, has called himself a "big history buff" and a "lover of history."

Don’t Get Scammed: Protect Yourself from Contractor Fraud

State and federal recovery officials urge disaster survivors to watch for and report any suspicious activity or potential fraud.

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Trump-era sentencing reform law doesn't apply to low-level crack cocaine offenders, Supreme Court says

The Supreme Court held Monday that a low-level crack-cocaine offender is ineligible to seek a reduced sentence under the Trump-era First Step Act sentencing reform law.

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What's open and closed on Friday now that Juneteenth is a federal holiday

Most federal government employees across the country will have Friday off after President Joe Biden signed legislation establishing Juneteenth as a US federal holiday.

Ron Johnson learned the hard way this weekend that actions have consequences

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson has been an outlier in his swing state for much of the last several years.

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Georgia's Long History of Voter Suppression

Now that Donald Trump's baseless lies about voter fraud have been summarily dismissed by the courts, perhaps some attention can be paid to the true threat to free and fair elections: not voter fraud but systemic and massive voter suppression. Voter suppression, not voter fraud, could have critically important effects in Senate runoff elections in Georgia that will determine which party controls the majority in the U.S. Senate.

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DHS chief 'horrified' by images of US Border Patrol confronting migrants

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday said he was "horrified" by images that appear to show US Border Patrol agents on horseback confronting Haitian refugees at the US border.

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Democratic Rep. Stephanie Murphy considers Senate bid against Marco Rubio

Florida Democratic Rep. Stephanie Murphy is seriously considering a run against Republican Sen. Marco Rubio in 2022, launching a listening tour on issues including the pandemic, "managing misinformation," fighting climate change and for social justice.