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Sunday March 14th, 2021 morning edition

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(Reuters) - The United States has administered 105,703,501 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country and distributed 135,846,665 doses as of Saturday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

The tally is for Moderna, Pfizer/BioNTech, and Johnson & Johnson’s vaccines as of 6:00 a.m.

ET on Saturday, the agency said.

According to the tally posted on March 12, the agency had administered 101,128,005 doses of the vaccines and distributed 133,337,525 doses.

The agency said 68,884,011 people had received at least one dose, while 36,929,777 people were fully vaccinated.

A total of 7,538,985 vaccine doses have been administered in long-term care facilities, the agency said. »

Breonna Taylor's boyfriend Kenneth Walker files federal lawsuit against Louisville police

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Kenneth Walker, the boyfriend of Breonna Taylor, has filed a federal lawsuit against the Louisville Metro Police Department and the officers involved in the deadly shooting.

"This is a very important lawsuit to vindicate Kenneth Walker's constitutional rights under the U.S. Constitution," Cliff Sloan, a Georgetown University Law Center professor representing Walker in the suit, told ABC News.

"We are seeking to ensure that there is justice and accountability for the tragic and unjustified police assault on Kenneth Walker and killing of Breonna Taylor.". »

Pa. woman created ‘deepfake’ videos to force rivals off daughter’s cheerleading squad: police

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An investigation last year led officers to discover that Spone had sent harassing text messages directly to the teenagers as well, police said.

As the investigation continued, more teenagers came forward, who were all part of a traveling cheerleading group — Victory Vipers — based in the Doylestown area.

Raffeala Spone, 50, was arrested for harassing teenager cheerleaders, who she saw as rivals to her daughter. »

Morre de covid deputado de MT autor de lei contra obrigatoriedade de vacina

Authored by noticias.uol.com.br

Segundo a assessoria de imprensa, o quadro de saúde se agravou nesta madrugada e o deputado teve infecção generalizada.

Silvio Fávero apresentou em fevereiro deste ano um projeto de lei estadual "para assegurar o direto de o cidadão escolher ou não pela sua vacinação".

O governador Mauro Mendes (DEM) lamentou a morte do deputado e anunciou que irá decretar luto oficial de três dias. »

GOP Senators complained when Amazon refused to sell one anti-trans book. Now it won’t sell any.

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They wrote a letter to Amazon to complain, and so the company explained: they’re no longer selling books that claim being gay or transgender is a form of mental illness.

The book in question is entitled When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, written and published by Ryan T. Anderson in 2018.

A GLAAD spokesperson said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly that Anderson’s book is “dangerous and harmful to trans kids.” »