Wednesday, 31 March 2021

Georgia-based companies face boycott calls over voting bill

Opponents of a law that changed voting rules in Georgia are calling for boycotts of high-profile Georgia based companies, including Delta, Coca-Cola and Home Depot. The legislation's opponents say the companies didn't do enough to defeat the measure.


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Opinion: Will courts void Georgia voting law?

The new Georgia voting law, which includes a mix of onerous voter restrictions and a few mild expansions for voters, is bad enough. Courts' deference to state legislatures on election laws compounds the problem.


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Michigan voting rights battle looms as Republicans plan to side-step Whitmer veto

Michigan is emerging as the latest battleground in Republicans' nationwide push to restrict voting rights, with GOP officials planning to end-run Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's all-but-certain veto of proposed restrictions and progressives beginning to mobilize to stop them.


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'Are you outraged?': Don Lemon reacts to lawmaker's arrest

CNN's Don Lemon discusses the new voting law in Georgia that restricts ballot access and gives state officials more power over local elections. Georgia state representative Park Cannon was arrested and removed from the Georgia Capitol after the passage of the state's voting bill.


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Hong Kong court convicts Jimmy Lai and other pro-democracy activists over 2019 protest

A Hong Kong court has convicted pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai and eight other prominent opposition activists over their roles in an unauthorized assembly at the height of the 2019 protests.


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Take an exclusive look inside a busy Covid-19 vaccine facility

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta goes inside Pfizer's vaccine facility in Michigan to see how the company produces millions of Covid-19 vaccines.


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Multiple victims found at the scene of a deadly shooting in Orange, California, police say

Police found "multiple victims" at an office complex in Orange, California, after responding to a call of shots fired Wednesday night.


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Manufacturing moonshot: How Pfizer makes its millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses

When the coronavirus pandemic began, the challenge for Pfizer and BioNTech wasn't just developing a Covid-19 vaccine -- they also had to make it, and by the hundreds of millions.


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Dr. Fauci defends Dr. Birx: She was in a tough situation

Dr. Anthony Fauci discusses criticism he and Dr. Deborah Birx have faced for not speaking out against President Trump more during his administration.


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