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Rioters have ripped an American flag off of a flagpole outside the United States Capitol building and replaced it with a Trump flag as thousands of pro-Trump agitators descended on the Capitol Wednesday protesting his loss in the 2020 election.
Huffington Post reporter Igor Bobic captured the moment a group of people climbed scaffolding to the second floor of the building where an American flag was hung. One of the men tore down the flag and threw it to to the ground, inciting cheers and applause from some watching. He then attempted to replace it with a Trump flag.
A Mexican lieutenant with his soldiers. (Courtesy of Morgan Smith)
We left Santa Fe at 8 a.m., my wife, Sherry, and I with our two tiny dogs huddled in blankets in the back seat and a bag of sandwiches, apples, nuts, brownies plus a cooler with drinks. The temperature was a bitter 11 degrees. It’s about 325 miles to the border wall west of El Paso and Juárez and between Sunland Park and Anapra, Mexico, where we hoped to interview and photograph the Mexican soldiers who have been stationed there to keep migrants from crossing. For a decade, I crossed the border at least once a month to document conditions in the Juárez area as well as tiny Palomas to the west, but I have only crossed once since the pandemic began. This border wall idea was to be a substitute.
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Gene Bracegirdle, a firefighter and EMT trainee from Yampa, receives his first dose of Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine from Roberta Smith (right), Routt County s director of public health. The county launched its mobile vaccine clinic in late December to help vaccinate rural front line workers.
On Christmas Eve, Roberta Smith decided to do something special at work. She put on a Santa costume, complete with bells and striped stockings, and got in her car.
In the back seat sat a toolbox. Inside, a small, blue Igloo cooler carried a chilled vial of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. Smith, Routt County’s director of public health, was on her way to vaccinate 10 people at the South Routt Medical Center in Oak Creek, a rural community roughly 25 miles southwest of Steamboat Springs.
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Strolling through downtown Birmingham in Michigan, visitors may notice unusual holiday decór: towering, cardboard Christmas trees line the storefronts, made of everything from champagne bottles to mirrors.
The festive trees are part of The Great Decorate, a citywide fundraiser collecting money for teenagers in Michigan’s foster care system. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
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Beth Hussey, co-owner of Birmingham’s Hazel, Ravines and Downtown restaurant, originally created the competition last year as a staff bonding activity.
Employees were divided into teams, Hussey, 51, tells PEOPLE, and tasked with decorating a lavish holiday tree to be displayed inside the restaurant. Patrons voted
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An Army veteran who was excitedly awaiting the arrival of his second child died of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the same hospital where his newborn son was recovering in the NICU, according to CNN.
Jeffery Michael Keene (who went by his middle name, Michael), 39, first complained to his wife Nicole, a respiratory therapist, that his throat itched in early October. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
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The pair decided to get tested for coronavirus at the first available appointment near their home in Lexington, Kentucky out of an abundance of caution, CNN reported. Their worst fears came true Michael tested positive. Nicole, however, tested negative.