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America’s Pandemic Star Loses Some Luster

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Is Vermont the envy of America no more? The state long hailed for its pandemic response is experiencing one of the most intense COVID-19 surges in the country. Cases are twice as high as they’ve been at any other point. Hospitalizations are up sharply as well, confounding hopes that Vermont’s best-in-the-nation vaccination rate would protect its people from the Delta wave. The resurgence of the coronavirus—cases are rising again nationally after a sustained decline—has demoralized much of the country, but nowhere is that frustration more keenly felt than in the…

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Rural America’s False Sense of Security

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Every few months throughout the pandemic, Wesley Thompson, a communications consultant in Washington, D.C., has driven to Indiana with his wife and two kids to visit his parents. He wanted to escape COVID cabin fever and give his 4- and 2-year-old some room to run around, which they could do more easily in his parents’ small town. The trips have offered him a glimpse into how Americans who live between the coasts have been spending the pandemic. In the summer of 2020, some people around his parents’ hometown “would look…

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Colin Powell: the man who might have been America’s first Black president – The Guardian

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Colin Powell: the man who might have been America’s first Black president  The Guardian Joe Biden, ex-presidents remember Colin Powell’s integrity, courage  USA TODAY Colin Powell, first Black US secretary of state, dies of Covid-19 complications amid cancer battle  CNN US President Biden’s Colin Powell tribute: ‘Had highest qualities of warrior & diplomat’  Republic World Colin Powell death: Biden leads tributes to former US secretary of state, who ‘could drive his Corvette Stingray like nobody’s business’  Sky News View Full Coverage on Google News “us president” – Google News

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Analysis | Republicans, Don’t Skip Out on America’s Bills – The Washington Post

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Analysis | Republicans, Don’t Skip Out on America’s Bills  The Washington Post U.S. Senate’s Schumer mulls passing election reform without Republicans  Reuters John Cornyn eyes Senate GOP leadership role, says House will flip easier than Senate in midterms  The Texas Tribune U.S. House to test Republican roadblock in Tuesday debt-limit vote | amNewYork  AMNY Mitch McConnell and the debt limit: Why Republicans might let the US default.  Slate View Full Coverage on Google News “us republicans” – Google News

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