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Nike Accused Of ‘Using Disability’ To Hype New Hands-Free Sneaker

The GO FlyEase is scheduled to be released on April 30. Some people with disabilities worry that they won’t be able to get a pair because of the company’s mass marketing strategy. (Image credit: Nike)

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Getting the Vaccine Isn’t Easy for Black Americans in the Rural South

In the face of limited transportation, patchy internet service and threadbare medical care, community leaders in Alabama and Mississippi are trying to shrink the racial disparities in vaccine access.

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Ten Months After George Floyd’s Death, Minneapolis Residents Are at War Over Policing

As the trial of a former officer accused of murdering Mr. Floyd kicks off, residents and community leaders have struggled to reach consensus on how to radically change public safety, and the role the police should play in that.

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Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia unveils campaign to tackle climate change

Crown prince announces plan to plant 10 billion trees in coming decades without elaborating how it work in largely desert landscape with extremely limited renewable water sources

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Concerns in UK over potential introduction of Israel-style vaccine Green Pass

PM Johnson says he’s ‘thinking very deeply’ about the matter; unsourced report says British ministers to consult with Israeli counterparts on matter

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Inside the Battle Over George Floyd Square

The trial over George Floyd’s death is underway in Minneapolis. What to do with his memorial site has become a controversy of its own.

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2 tugboats speed to Egypt’s Suez Canal as shippers avoid it – The Associated Press

2 tugboats speed to Egypt’s Suez Canal as shippers avoid it  The Associated Press Efforts to dislodge stranded Suez Canal container ship intensify as backlog grows  CNN Suez Canal blockage felt across the world as trade comes to a pause  CBS This Morning

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Genocide education push after anti-Semitic US high school football play calls

Massachusetts lawmakers renew calls for compulsory genocide studies after team used terms such as ‘Auschwitz,’ ‘rabbi’ and ‘dreidel’ to signal game tactics

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Here are the jurors who will decide if Derek Chauvin is guilty of murder or manslaughter in George Floyd’s death – USA TODAY

Here are the jurors who will decide if Derek Chauvin is guilty of murder or manslaughter in George Floyd’s death  USA TODAY What Derek Chauvin’s trial in the death of George Floyd means for America  The Washington Post The trial of Derek

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Here are the jurors who will decide if Derek Chauvin is guilty of murder or manslaughter in George Floyd’s death – USA TODAY

Here are the jurors who will decide if Derek Chauvin is guilty of murder or manslaughter in George Floyd’s death  USA TODAY What Derek Chauvin’s trial in the death of George Floyd means for America  The Washington Post The trial of Derek

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