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    Last month, Chris Reynolds had $140 dollars in his PayPal account. On Saturday, he had a little more — $92 quadrillion, or $92,233,720,368,547,800, to be exact. The 56-year-old public relations executive from Media, Pa., says he was shocked to see…


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    Sarah K. Burris
    March 04, 2021

    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) reopened Texas this week "100 percent," he announced. But now the Republican is blaming immigrants for the high cases of COVID-19 in the state.

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    Common Dreams
    March 03, 2021

    Documents obtained from the United States Department of Agriculture by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen and published Wednesday reveal how leading players in the meatpacking industry—one of the hardest-hit by the coronavirus pandemic—fought the minimal efforts imposed by the Trump administration to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in meat processing plants last spring.

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