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Black Iowa police chief faces backlash after bringing change
Last year, Joel Fitzgerald took over a department that has long experienced tension with the city’s Black community.
The first Black police chief in Waterloo, Iowa, is facing intense opposition from some current and former officers as he works with city leaders to reform the department, including the removal of its longtime insignia that resembles a Ku Klux Klan dragon.
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Black Iowa police chief faces backlash after bringing change
Last year, Joel Fitzgerald took over a department that has long experienced tension with the city’s Black community.
The first Black police chief in Waterloo, Iowa, is facing intense opposition from some current and former officers as he works with city leaders to reform the department, including the removal of its longtime insignia that resembles a Ku Klux Klan dragon.
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The Woodlands native serves at Naval Air Station Jacksonville
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Florida governor says parents can send asymptomatic kids exposed to Covid-19 back to school
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced that the state has put out a revised rule which follows a "symptom-based approach" to quarantining students, meaning asymptomatic children exposed to Covid-19 in classrooms could be sent back to school by parents.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the new policy recognizes that quarantining healthy students is "incredibly damaging" for students' educational advancement and disruptive for families. Mandatory …
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More than 1,000 students, teachers & staff walkout of Parkway Central HS after racist messages
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House and Senate Democratic leaders say they've reached a deal with the Biden administration on options for paying for the Democrats' massive plan to expand the social safety net. But it quickly became clear that the deal lacked many specifics, needed to be sold to Congress and required ample negotiating to get broad consensus within their party.
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These families of missing Black people are frustrated with the lack of response to their cases
David Robinson has been in Arizona for the last three months searching for his 24-year-old son, Daniel Robinson, who went missing after leaving a work site in the desert in his Jeep Renegade on June 23.
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Soleo Health Selected by Houston Methodist as Exclusive In-Home Provider of Infused Monoclonal Antibodies for Treatment of COVID-19
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Soleo Health, an innovative leader and national provider of complex specialty pharmacy services, announced today it was selected by Houston Methodist to provide monoclonal antibody therapy (mAb) to COVID-19 patients in their homes.
