WASHINGTON - The House voted Thursday to unlatch a gateway to citizenship for young Dreamers, migrant farm workers and immigrants who’ve fled war or natural disasters, giving Democrats wins in the year’s first votes on an issue that once again faces an uphill climb to make progress in the Senate.On a near party-line 228-197 vote, lawmakers approved one bill offering legal status to around 2 million Dreamers, brought to the U.S.

illegally as children, and hundreds of thousands of migrants admitted for humanitarian reasons from a dozen troubled countries.Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus during a press conference on Immigration on Capitol Hill on Thursday, March 18, 2021 in Washington,.

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Satellite images show how one ship stuck in Suez Canal is causing so much disruption

Suez Canal and some vessels began changing course as dredgers and tugboats worked to free a giant container ship that is stuck sideways in the waterway and disrupting global shipping.One salvage expert said freeing the cargo ship, the Ever Given, could take up to a week in the best-case scenario and warned of possible structural problems on the vessel as it remains wedged.The Ever Given, owned by the Japanese firm Shoei Kisen KK, got wedged Tuesday in a single-lane stretch of the canal, about 6 kilometres (3.7 miles) north of the southern entrance, near the city of Suez.Dredgers have stopped removing sand around the bow of the vessel and tugboats were preparing another towing attempt, said Lt. Gen.

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Woman rescued after house collapses in North Philadelphia

Video from the scene showed the home reduced to rubble. NORTH PHILADELPHIA - A house collapsed in North Philadelphia Friday afternoon.It happened the 3100 block of Stillman Street around 3 p.m. Officials say a 50-year-old woman was pulled from the rubble.

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New Brunswick reports 13 new COVID-19 cases, new rules for rotational workers

COVID-19 cases in Edmundston region on Friday.Of the new cases, six are still under investigation. The province said one case is travel-related and the other is a close contact of a previously reported case.As of Friday, there have been 1,559 confirmed cases in the province and 1,429 recoveries from COVID-19.There have also been 30 deaths, and the number of active cases is 99.

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ThredUp's shares pop in stock market debut

NEW YORK – Shares of ThredUp rose 30% in their stock market debut Friday, reflecting investor enthusiasm for the online seller of second-hand women's and children's clothing.

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Office Depot offers free lamination for COVID-19 vaccination cards

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B*Witched's Edele Lynch takes on admin job to pay bills after Covid halted gigs

One of the stars of B*Witched has found herself a regular, non-popstar job "to pay the bills" during the pandemic.

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‘Complex’ work to free massive ship stuck in Suez Canal enters 3rd day

Suez Canal for the past three days, blocking a crucial waterway for global shipping.The Ever Given, a Panama-flagged ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, ran aground in the narrow canal that runs between Africa and the Sinai Peninsula. It got stuck in a single-lane stretch of the canal, about six kilometres (3.7 miles) north of the southern entrance, near the city of Suez.The ship, owned by the Japanese firm Shoei Kisen KK, has blocked traffic in the canal, causing headaches for global trade.

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Florida city fires top IT manager over legal medical marijuana use

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A Florida city has fired a top information technology manager for smoking marijuana — even though he been authorized by his doctor to use it legally for medical reasons.

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In a leaky underwater rail tunnel, workers race against time

WEEHAWKEN, N.J. – Seven stories below street level on the edge of the Hudson River, a race against time is being waged, foot by painstaking foot.

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Undocumented workers in Canada fear deportation if they get COVID-19 vaccine: advocates

Undocumented workers in Canada fear that getting vaccinated could mean being arrested if someone reports them to police or immigration authorities because of their lack of proper identification, say advocates.Karen Cocq of the Toronto-based Migrant Workers Alliance for Change said undocumented and migrant workers should not be required to provide identification issued in Canada, including a health card, when they are booking appointments or attending clinics as part of a process to track vaccinations.Cocq said many of the workers already don’t use the health-care system because they’re afraid of losing their jobs if an employer discovers their immigration status so it’s not surprising they’re hesitant to get vaccinated.“People are very

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Instagram model offering $12K reward for return of French bulldog stolen in North Hollywood

LOS ANGELES - A family is devastated after they say their five-month-old French bulldog was stolen by two men who were possibly armed in broad daylight in North Hollywood over the weekend. The puppy, named Seven, quickly became part of the Valencia family. "I feel like they took my kid. They took my child.

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Cowie gets new rapid Covid testing hub in bid to drive down local rates

Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area.Dr Graham Foster, NHS Forth Valley’s director of public health, said: ““This new testing facility will make it easier and quicker for people who don’t have any symptoms of Covid-19, to get tested to ensure they are not able to spread the virus to friends, family or colleagues without realising it.”

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Freedom Ride, nonprofit that offers therapeutic horseback rides, now on the move

ORLANDO, Fla. – For many Central Florida nonprofits, location is everything.

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Massive cargo ship stuck in Suez Canal continues to harm global shipping

Dredgers, tugboats and even a backhoe failed to free a giant cargo ship wedged in Egypt’s Suez Canal on Thursday as the number of stacked-up vessels unable to pass through the vital waterway climbed to 150 and losses to global shipping mounted.

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Coronavirus: Ontario government considering vaccinating migrant farm workers on arrival

migrant farm workers vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as they arrive and is willing to take on the task if Ottawa doesn’t, a top provincial health official said Thursday.Dr. Barbara Yaffe, Ontario’s associate medical officer of health, said the province is in talks with the federal government to have the temporary foreign workers given a vaccine “when they come in, optimally at the airport.”“We’re working with the federal government on this, hopefully they will be OK to do it,” Yaffe told reporters.

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White House officially withdraws Neera Tanden nomination for budget chief from Senate

WASHINGTON - The White House on Thursday officially withdrew the nomination of Neera Tanden to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget from the Senate — capping off the first high-profile defeat of one of President Joe Biden's nominees.Earlier this month, Tanden withdrew her nomination after she faced opposition from key Democratic and Republican senators for controversial tweets."Unfortunately, it now seems clear that there is no path forward to gain confirmation, and I do not want continued consideration of my nomination to be a distraction from your other priorities," Tanden wrote in a letter to Biden at the time.The president, in a statement, said he has "utmost respect for her record of accomplishment, her experience

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Flagler County COVID-19 vaccine event offers shots for people with diabetes

FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – Any adult with type 1 or 2 diabetes can sign up for the coronavirus vaccine during a special event in Palm Coast happening April 8.

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Biden doubles COVID-19 vaccination goal, addresses border crisis in 1st White House press conference

WASHINGTON - After more than 60 days in the White House*,* President Joe Biden held his first news conference on Thursday — taking questions on a range of subjects from the East Room in a nationally televised event. It shouldn’t come as a surprise the president used that national audience to tout his administration’s accomplishments over the previous two months, and Biden for the first time said he plans to run for reelection in four years."That is my expectation," Biden said while shying away from a concrete commitment to seek re-election.He said Harris would remain on the ticket should he run again.RELATED: Biden set to give 1st White House news conference Thursday Despite inheriting the world’s most COVID-19 infections, deaths and

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Jacqueline Jossa admits stress of moving house and renovation work has derailed her health and fitness regime

Jacqueline Jossa and husband Dan Osborne have been celebrating the purchase of a £1.2 million home in Essex and have been showing off pictures. Former EastEnders star Jacqueline and husband Dan have been hands-on with the renovation process so far, from ripping out the garden to telling fans they’ll be transforming the kitchen.

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Adults 70+, remaining health-care workers can pre-register for COVID-19 vaccine in Simcoe Muskoka

COVID-19 vaccine appointment in Simcoe County and Muskoka.As Phase 2 of the region’s coronavirus vaccine rollout begins, adults who are age 70-plus will join health-care workers, essential caregivers of long-term care and retirement home residents, adult recipients of chronic homecare, Indigenous adults and faith leaders as those who are eligible to pre-register for an immunization. 44 new COVID-19, 53 additional variant cases confirmed in Simcoe Muskoka Once a person pre-registers for a vaccine on the local health unit’s website, they will be placed in the queue to receive an appointment.

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Unionized workers gather outside of the Ontario finance minister’s office to protest the budget

Members from CUPE, Unifor and SEIU Healthcare say the Ontario budget fails the healthcare system and its workers. Marianne Dimain reports.

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Massive ship stuck in Suez Canal continues to harm global shipping

Suez Canal further imperiled global shipping Thursday as at least 150 other vessels needing to pass through the crucial waterway idled waiting for the obstruction to clear, authorities said. Work to clear massive cargo ship blocking Suez Canal begins anew as tide rises The Ever Given, a Panama-flagged ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, ran aground Tuesday in the narrow, man-made canal dividing continental Africa from the Sinai Peninsula.

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House fire in Bristol Township that injured 1 was intentionally set, fire marshal says

Bristol Township Fire Marshal Kevin Dippolito said a house fire that sent at least one person to the hospital was intentionally started. BRISTOL TOWNSHIP, Pa. - A fire that torched a Bucks County residence with no working smoke alarms and sent at least one person to the hospital was intentionally started, according to fire investigators.Firefighters were called to a property on the 800 block of Main Avenue just before 1 a.m.

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Poet Amanda Gorman revisits inaugural triumph with Oprah

LOS ANGELES – Amanda Gorman revisits her inauguration day poetry reading that wowed observers, among them Oprah Winfrey, in the Apple TV+ series “The Oprah Conversation.”

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White House to spend $10 billion to bolster vaccine effort

WASHINGTON – The White House announced Thursday that it is dedicating another $10 billion to try to drive up vaccination rates in low-income, minority and rural enclaves throughout the country.

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COVID-19: GTA businessman’s campaign aims to feed thousands of long-term care workers

Burlington, Ont., the team is hard at work cooking hundreds of hot meals.The restaurant is closed to indoor dining to comply with COVID-19 guidelines so the tables are empty, but the workers are busy.There is chicken roasting, salad tossing, and baklava and water bottles being carefully placed in shiny black boxes. Soon, the lunches will be packed into several waiting vehicles and delivered to three long-term care homes in Hamilton and Burlington.

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Nicola Sturgeon Coronavirus update LIVE as Scots NHS workers given pay rise following pandemic

NHS workers have been offered a 'substantial' pay rise after an 'exceptionally challenging year'.First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced 'our NHS staff deserve more than applause and 1% is not enough' after putting a 4% raise on the table.If accepted by staff, would be the most generous National Health Service pay uplift anywhere in the UK.The pay rise will benefit 154,000 NHS employees including nurses, paramedics, allied health professionals, as well as domestic, healthcare support staff, porters and other front line health workers.To read the full article click here

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Housing sales overcome covid-19 blues, surge 29% in Q1: Survey

homes were sold in the top seven cities in Q1 compared with 45,200 units last year, Anarock data showed on Thursday.Also Read | Lessons from India’s tryst with lockdownMumbai Metropolitan Area (MMR) and Pune together accounted for 53% of housing sales in the quarter. MMR sales increased by 46% annually, and Pune by 47%.

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Huge container ship gets stuck in Suez Canal, blocking all traffic

Crews are working to clear a traffic jam at Egypt’s Suez Canal, the world’s busiest trade route, after the massive container ship “Ever Given” ran aground. Redmond Shannon explains what this could mean for oil prices.

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Work to clear massive cargo ship blocking Suez Canal slowed by low tide

Suez Canal and created the world’s largest shipping jam.The Ever Given vessel ran aground diagonally across the single-lane stretch of the southern canal on Tuesday morning after losing the ability to steer amid high winds and a dust storm, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said in a statement.

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COVID-19 hospital bills could cost $23,000 and up, expert says

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Stuck ship in Egypt's Suez Canal imperils shipping worldwide

ISMAILIA – A skyscraper-sized cargo ship wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal further imperiled global shipping Thursday as at least 150 other vessels needing to pass through the crucial waterway idled waiting for the obstruction to clear, authorities said.

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Goldman Sachs asks Indian employees to work from home as local Covid-19 cases surge

Goldman Sachs has asked all but the critical employees at its operation in Bengaluru to return to working from home on Wednesday, reversing moves to get staff back to one of its biggest global offices as Covid-19 cases in the Indian IT capital grew."This hasn't come as a surprise given how coronavirus cases have been rising in the city, specifically in the area where the office is located," news agency Reuters quoted an employee as saying."There's no word on how long the work-from-home will continue but my guess is that we won't be returning to office for the next three to four months."The Bengaluru office seats about 7,000 employees - the bulk of its Indian workforce - who are involved in a variety of functions including technology,

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DMart stock hit by rising covid-19 cases, but valuations remain pricey

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Biden's dogs back at White House after ruff start

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden's dogs — Champ and Major — are roaming the White House again, after having been sent to Delaware when Major, the younger dog, injured a Secret Service agent.

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New Brunswick expands vaccine rollout to rotational workers, truck drivers

New Brunswick is expanding its vaccine rollout. More people are now eligible to receive the shot in pharmacies, including people 75 and older, rotational workers and truck drivers.

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Risk of COVID very low in vaccinated medical workers: study

COVID-19 infection was very low in a cohort of vaccinated California healthcare workers (HCWs) amid a surge of new cases, according to a research letter yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Ontario premier Ford says restaurant workers can get vaccinated in Phase 2, will confirm on if taxi drivers can

Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Tuesday confirmed that restaurant workers would be able to get vaccinated in Phase 2 of the vaccine rollout as they cannot work from home, adding he would look into whether taxi drivers would also be able to receive a shot during this phase.

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Jill Duggar Hasn’t Been To Her Parents’ House In A ‘Couple Years’ For The Sake Of Her Mental Health

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White House officials, lawmakers to tour border facility

WASHINGTON – A delegation of White House officials and members of Congress was traveling to the southern border on Wednesday to tour a facility being used to house migrant children as increasing numbers of unaccompanied young people cross into the United States.

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Biden's dogs, Champ and Major, are back at the White House

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden’s dogs, Champ and Major, are back at the White House after spending time in Delaware amid a biting incident involving Major.Jill Biden's press secretary Michael LaRosa on Wednesday confirmed that the two German shepherds had returned to Washington, D.C.Earlier this month, Major caused a "minor injury" to a Secret Service agent.

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Jill Duggar Hasn't Been to Her Parents' House in a 'Couple Years' for the Sake of Her Mental Health

Jill Duggar is giving fans more insight into her relationship with her parents, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar. In a new YouTube Q&A, the 29-year-old former reality star and her husband, Derick Dillard, are asked how often they visit «The Big House.» «The Big House is my parents' house,» Jill explains, adding, «So not much, we haven't actually been over there in a while, probably like a couple years other than to grab some mail.» She goes on to add, «There's some restrictions, but also we just feel like this season of life we have to prioritize our mental, emotional health and all that.

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Drunk driver who struck 5 pedestrians including FOX 11 crew blew nearly double legal limit

LOS ANGELES - A drunk driver who struck five pedestrians last week in Hollywood including two FOX 11 crew members had a blood alcohol content of .15, nearly double the legal limit, authorities said.The FOX 11 crew members -- reporter Hal Eisner and photojournalist Joab Perez -- were working on a story about the reopening of El Capitan Theatre on West Hollywood Boulevard as Los Angeles County entered the less-restrictive red tier earlier in the week.The crash was reported around 3:15 p.m. Friday on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame in the 6800 block of W.

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Bidens’ German shepherds back at White House after Major spends time with trainer

The president’s youngest German shepherd is out of the dog house and back at the White House.

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Millions of Americans face past-due utility bills amid ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

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Impose local curbs during upcoming festivals amid Covid surge: Centre tells states

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House OKs bills offering pathway to legal status to Dreamers, farm workers, other immigrants

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