The Daily Populous

Sunday March 7th, 2021 night edition

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The White House told Gustafson that she was being fired effective 5 p.m. Friday after she refused to resign willingly.

Gautam Raghavan, the White House deputy director of the Office of Presidential Personnel, responded in an email that she was being fired as of Friday evening.

Neither the White House nor the EEOC immediately responded to requests for comment from The Hill.

Andrea Lucas, a Republican-appointed commissioner to the EEOC, described the firing as a violation of Biden’s calls for unity.

In his inaugural address, the President said, “The right to dissent peaceably, within the guardrails of our Republic, is perhaps our nation’s greatest strength.”

"President Biden should take a note from General Counsel Gustafson, who stuck to her commitment and refused to cave to partisan pressure.

This unprecedented firing of an honorable public official which occurred just hours after she was asked to resign is unwarranted and should be immediately rescinded," Foxx said. »

Mexico moves closer to becoming the world's largest legal cannabis market

Authored by nbcnews.com

Mexico is inching closer to becoming the world's largest legal cannabis market as lawmakers prepare to debate a proposal to legalize recreational marijuana.

Mexico has been steadily marching toward creating a cannabis market since 2015, when a federal judge ruled in favor of importing cannabidiol, more commonly known as CBD, for medical reasons.

Elizalde eventually reached out to a Mexican lawmaker who publicly supported adopting cannabis legislation in Mexico after Washington state and Colorado legalized recreational marijuana. »

Republicans Are Gaslighting The Country About The Capitol Riot

Authored by huffpost.com

Sure, the attack on the Capitol was bad, but did you hear about the attack on the White House last year?.

ROBERTO SCHMIDT via Getty Images Riot police push back a crowd of Trump supporters after they stormed the Capitol.

Many Republicans who condemned the violence at the Capitol broadened their condemnation to include violence against police officers in 2020. »

US experts warn new Covid variants and states reopening may lead to fourth wave

Authored by theguardian.com

The warnings come the same week Texas and Mississippi flung open the doors to normal social life in their states.

Coronavirus cases have declined across much of the United States since mid-January, a point when the peak of the third wave saw upwards of 4,000 Covid-19 deaths a day.

Nevertheless, intense pressure to reopen businesses has also led many Democratic-led cities and states to begin tiptoeing toward reopening. »