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The flags fly at half-staff over the White House by order of President Joe Biden, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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COVID-19, shootings: Is mass death now tolerated in America?
By MICHELLE R. SMITH - Associated Press
Wed,05/25/22-5:05PM , 117 Reads
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — As the nation marked 1 million deaths from COVID-19 last week, the milestone was bookended by mass shootings that killed people simply living their lives: grocery shopping, going to church, or attending the fourth grade.
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A person pays his respects at a makeshift memorial outside the scene of a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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COVID-19, shootings: Is mass death now tolerated in America?
By MICHELLE R. SMITH - Associated Press
Sat,05/21/22-7:02AM , 360 Reads
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — After mass shootings killed and wounded people grocery shopping, going to church and simply living their lives last weekend, the nation marked a milestone of 1 million deaths from COVID-19.
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A person pays his respects at a makeshift memorial outside the scene of a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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COVID-19, shootings: Is mass death now tolerated in America?
By MICHELLE R. SMITH - Associated Press
Sat,05/21/22-7:00AM , 104 Reads
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — After mass shootings killed and wounded people grocery shopping, going to church and simply living their lives last weekend, the nation marked a milestone of 1 million deaths from COVID-19.
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks after a hearing challenging the constitutionality of the state legislature's repeal of the religious exemption to vaccination on behalf of New York state families who held lawful religious exemptions, during a rally outside the Albany County Courthouse, Aug. 14, 2019, in Albany, N.Y. Kennedy is apologizing for suggesting things are worse for people today than they were for Anne Frank, the teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp after hiding with her family in a secret annex for two years. Kennedy’s comments were made at a Washington rally on Sunday put on by his anti-vaccine nonprofit group. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

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RFK Jr. apologizes after condemnation for Anne Frank comment
By MICHELLE R. SMITH - Associated Press
Tue,01/25/22-11:25AM , 101 Reads
Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized Tuesday for suggesting things are worse for people today than they were for Anne Frank, the teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp after hiding with her family in a secret annex in an Amsterdam house for two years.
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