Leonardo Blair

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  Jul 28, 2020

  25% of Americans believe there is at least some truth that COVID-19 was planned: poll

  Some 25% of Americans believe that there is at least some truth to the conspiracy theory that powerful people intentionally planned the new coronavirus outbreak, and conservative Republicans, blacks and Hispanics are more likely to fall into this group, according to results of a survey recently released by the Pew Research Center.

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  Jul 27, 2020

  Hours after urging black voters to support Trump, Milwaukee businessman is shot dead

  Republican Sen. Ron Johnson from Wisconsin is among several voices calling for “justice” after Bernell Trammell, a black Milwaukee business owner, was shot dead last Thursday just hours after he urged black Americans to vote for President Donald Trump.

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  Jul 27, 2020

  Christian charity asks Rep. Ted Yoho to resign over alleged profanity against AOC

  Bread for the World, a bipartisan Christian organization committed to alleviating hunger and poverty, announced Saturday that it asked Florida Congressman Ted Yoho to resign from its board after New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez alleged that he called her a dangerous, disgusting, crazy, “f*****g b***h.” He has denied the claim.

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  Jul 25, 2020

  13 Catholic sisters killed after coronavirus sweeps through Mich. convent ‘like wildfire’

  An outbreak of the new coronavirus swept through a Michigan convent “like wildfire” and killed 13 religious sisters who lived, prayed and worked together in a matter of weeks a Global Sisters Report said Monday.

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  Jul 24, 2020

  Radio host Charlamagne Tha God slams Joe Biden for claiming Trump is ‘first’ racist president

  Prominent black New York City radio host Charlamagne Tha God slammed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden Thursday for claiming President Donald Trump is America’s “first” racist president.

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  Jul 24, 2020

  President Trump reverses course on Republican National Convention in Fla. due to coronavirus

  Against prodding from his aides who argued that he could still hold the event safely, President Donald Trump reversed course on a plan to hold a portion of the Republican National Convention in Florida, noting that the “timing for this event is not right” with the state experiencing a surge of coronavirus cases.

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  Jul 23, 2020

  Houston brothers from Christian family lose both parents weeks apart after battles with COVID-19

  Two young Houston brothers are grieving the loss of both parents who died two weeks apart after battling COVID-19.

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  Jul 23, 2020

  More Americans see coronavirus as a bigger threat to the economy than health: poll

  While nearly 90% of all Americans see the new coronavirus as a major threat to the U.S. economy, far fewer, 67%, see the virus as a major threat to public health. And among Republicans, major concern about the disease drops to less than 50% according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center.

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  Jul 23, 2020

  US is only country you can ‘go from slave to senator in 4 generations,’ Christian Senate hopeful John James says

  John James, an “unapologetic Christian” businessman, Army veteran and second-time Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan has waded into the debate on social mobility in America by declaring America is the “only country where you can go from slave to Senator in four generations and poverty to prosperity in one.”

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  Jul 22, 2020

  Pandemic will ‘get worse before it gets better,’ Trump says as he urges Americans to wear masks

  Acknowledging a worrying increase in COVID-19 cases across the South, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. will likely “get worse before it gets better.”