WASHINGTON – Emboldened by their majorities in the House and Senate, Democrats are making a new push to enact the first major new gun control laws in more than two decades -- starting with stricter background checks.

The House is poised to pass two bills on Thursday that would require background checks on all firearms sales and transfers and also allow an expanded 10-day review for gun purchases.

Similar bills were passed by the House in 2019, shortly after Democrats won the majority, but languished in the GOP-controlled Senate for the next two years.

Democrats now hold the Senate, as well, giving the party hope that the legislation will at least be considered. But the bills would need significant bipartisan support to pass.

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Horse killed, 2 men injured when car strikes carriage on Florida road

PASCO COUNTY, Fla. – Two men were injured and a horse was killed Wednesday night when a car struck a carriage on a Florida road, according to troopers.

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White House won’t say if Canada’s vaccine request will be granted, no timeline for response

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Wednesday that both Canada and Mexico have requested vaccine help from the U.S. but provided no answer on whether those requests will be granted and when.

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Pick Six: Unusual teams hallmark of NCAA Tournament

INDIANAPOLIS – One of the beauties of the NCAA Tournament is that every team has a story.

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150% Covid surge in 70 districts: PM Modi calls for steps to stop 'second peak'

second peak" of Covid-19. Taking stock of the Covid situation in the states during a video interaction with chief ministers, PM Modi warned that a 'nationwide outbreak' may emerge again, and asked them to seriously follow the "Test, Track and Treat" approach.Also Read | Why India needs to look east at TaiwanPM Modi said states like Maharashtra and Punjab have been seeing a rise in cases while the positivity rate has shot up in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.

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Here’s how vulnerable populations can receive their stimulus checks

ORLANDO, Fla. – As stimulus checks start to roll out, local shelters are making sure every American receives help, including those in vulnerable populations like the homeless community.

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'Last Man Standing' 'Flashes Back' to COVID: Mandy Reveals Home Birth Plans in Sneak Peek (Exclusive)

a significant time jump post-COVID in the premiere — to the time when Mandy (Molly McCook) was still pregnant and about to give birth.In ET's exclusive clip, Mandy and Kyle (Christoph Sanders) decide to have a home birth, and when she breaks the news to her parents, Mike (Tim Allen) and Vanessa (Nancy Travis), they're a little less than pleased with the development.«I'm sure the hospital will do everything they can to make you feel comfortable,» Vanessa assures.«Well, I'm not going to have the baby in the hospital.

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Canada has asked U.S. for COVID-19 vaccine help, White House confirms

White House is confirming that Canada has indeed asked the United States for help in procuring COVID-19 vaccine doses.But press secretary Jen Psaki would only say they are considering the request, not whether the Biden administration has agreed to it. Separating noise from signals: How ‘adverse reactions’ to COVID-19 vaccines are investigated Psaki is repeating what she’s been saying for weeks: that President Joe Biden’s priority is to ensure every American is vaccinated first.She says the U.S.

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Not NCAA Property: Players push for reform on social media

Isaiah Livers of Michigan, Geo Baker of Rutgers and Jordan Bohannon of Iowa were among the college basketball players pushing for NCAA reforms on social media Wednesday, the day before the tournament tips off.

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Officials: Violent extremists pose 'elevated threat' to US

WASHINGTON – Violent extremists motivated by political grievances and racial biases pose an “elevated threat” to the U.S. homeland, officials said Wednesday in a unclassified intelligence report released more than two months after a violent mob of insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol.

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House Republicans opt to restore earmarks after lengthy ban

WASHINGTON – House Republicans narrowly voted Wednesday to allow their members to seek earmarks under certain conditions, making a clean break from a decade-long ban against seeking money for specific projects back home.

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Florida House backs ban for transgender female athletes

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Despite impassioned pleas from LGBT advocates, a Florida House panel on Wednesday approved a controversial proposal that would ban transgender girls and women from competing in women’s high-school and college sports.

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White House fountains dyed green for St. Patrick’s Day, dancers line up at Irish embassy

WASHINGTON - In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, the White House featured a display of green water in the fountains on the north and south lawns.

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City ‘can push back’ third COVID-19 wave with vigilance and vaccination, Montreal’s top doctor says

COVID-19 pandemic.Dr. Mylène Drouin, director of the local public health department, explained that the region has struck a “high plateau” with an average of 325 new cases per day.

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90 million stimulus checks totaling $242 billion have been disbursed

The first batch of stimulus payments has gone out.

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House expected to pass two bills aimed at bolstering women

WASHINGTON – With a nod to Women’s History Month, the Democratic-led House is expected to pass two measures Wednesday, one designed to protect women from domestic violence, the other to remove the deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

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Over 10.75 lakh houses constructed under PMAY-U during Covid-19 pandemic: Puri

NEW DELHI : The government on Wednesday informed Parliament that over 10.75 lakh houses have been constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) during the Covid-19 pandemic so far.

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A good boy again: Biden's dog will return to the White House

WILMINGTON, Del. – There is Major breaking news: President Joe Biden’s wayward pup is no longer in the doghouse.

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US housing construction tumbled 10.3% in February

WASHINGTON – Severe winter weather in much of the country pushed home construction down a sharp 10.3% in February while applications for new construction fell by 10.8%.

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Millions of $1,400 stimulus checks to hit bank accounts Wednesday

ORLANDO, Fla. - Millions of Americans will not have to wait anymore: a vast majority of stimulus checks are hitting bank accounts on Wednesday."The IRS recently sent an initial wave of tens of millions of economic impact payments via the Automated Clearing House (ACH) system," according to a statement issued by nine banking and credit union industry groups. "The actual funds will be sent to the banks and credit unions on March 17, at which time funds will be made available to customers."People should check their bank accounts in the morning because the IRS is expected to deposit the majority of the third round of stimulus money.

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Airline industry initiates trial of Covid travel pass for international travel

IATA) on Monday started the trial of a travel pass designed for the pandemic era, reported Asia Times.The IATA initiated a two-week pilot trial of the digital travel pass on Singapore Airlines' Singapore-London route.The app, developed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), will store information on passengers' health, including whether they have had virus tests or vaccines, to streamline travel as borders reopen.Singapore's flag carrier said it would offer travellers heading from the city-state to London between March 15 and 28 the chance to participate in the pilot if they have a phone operating on the iOS system."Our partnership with Singapore Airlines for the first full deployment of the IATA Travel Pass will help get

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Need to stop second COVID-19 peak; 70% RT-PCR test must for states: PM Modi

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Ayushman Bharat picks up pace amid pandemic

Also Read | Inside the mad scramble to comply with the new labour codesThe record turnouts for registration could be significant for India’s covid-19 vaccination drive, as the beneficiaries will not only enjoy easy access to free treatment, including covid care, but can also get vaccinated for free across all the hospitals empanelled under the scheme.NHA, the apex agency responsible for the design, roll-out, implementation and management of AB-PMJAY, said 835,089 beneficiaries were verified and issued identity cards in a single day.

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Junior hockey player dies after taking puck to the head in Russia

hockey player has died from an injury sustained in a recent junior game, when he was struck in the head by a puck.Timur Faizutdinov suffered the injury while playing defence for Dynamo St. Petersburg’s junior team in a playoff game last Friday, according to the hockey club.

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White House sets low expectations for China talks in Alaska

The White House is setting low expectations ahead of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan’s first face-to-face meeting with their Chinese counterparts in Anchorage, Alaska.

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Match will start offering background checks to users of its dating apps as added safety measure

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Hinshaw says Phase 2 COVID-19 vaccination eligibility is not about people’s ‘value to society’

Alberta’s Dr. Deena Hinshaw responds to questions regarding who was not included in Phase 2 of the province’s COVID-19 vaccination program.

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$1,000 checks for first responders and other ways Florida’s governor wants to spend federal stimulus money

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida hasn’t yet received its chunk of cash from the federal coronavirus stimulus bill that recently passed but Gov. Ron DeSantis already has ideas on how to spend the money.

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Sophia’s Law passes Florida House subcommittee vote, moving closer to becoming law

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Legislation proposed after a 12-year-old Satellite Beach girl was killed as she used a crosswalk passed another vote Tuesday in Tallahassee, taking one step closer to becoming law.

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IRS agrees to protect some stimulus checks from debt reductions

IRS has agreed to not seize some Americans' stimulus check to offset outstanding federal tax debts, according to an agency watchdog.The issue is a change that Congress made in late December affecting how people with unpaid government debt would be treated if they claimed the first two stimulus payments — worth a respective $1,200 and $600 — on their 2020 tax return rather than receiving a direct payment like most Americans.Those who claimed a Recovery Rebate Credit would see it factored into their overall tax return, including liabilities.

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Kumbh Mela: 12 & 14 April peak days, will be more careful amid Covid, say police

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Pick Six: Veterans to watch as NCAA Tournament begins

INDIANAPOLIS – There has never been a better time to have senior leadership in the NCAA Tournament than this season.

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Advocates seek Biden push on gun bills, but prospects iffy

WASHINGTON – After President Joe Biden’s giant COVID-19 relief bill passed Congress, he made a prime-time address to the nation and presided over a Rose Garden ceremony.

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Alberta reveals who’s eligible for Phase 2B and 2C of COVID-19 vaccine rollout

COVID-19 vaccine in the next two phases of its rollout.At a news conference in Edmonton, Dr.

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Alberta identifies health conditions eligible for COVID-19 vaccination in Phase 2B

Alberta’s Dr. Deena Hinshaw announces some of the health conditions eligible for COVID-19 vaccination in Phase 2B of the program rollout. A full list can be found on the Alberta Health Services website.

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Hinshaw clarifies eligibility for Phase 2C of Alberta’s COVID-19 vaccination plan

Dr. Deena Hinshaw clarifies who will be eligible in Phase 2C of Alberta’s COVID-19 vaccination plan.

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Pennsylvania to drop some dining restrictions, expand capacities next month

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Police called to more house parties this weekend as hundreds of people continue to flout Covid-19 restrictions

direct to your inboxPolice have issued over one hundred fines this weekend as people continue to break lockdown restrictions.The force said 135 fines had been handed out between Friday and Sunday to people attending house parties, meeting in large groups indoors and outoors, and for leaving the house without a valid reason.Officers also fined a number of people who travelled to Manchester Airport to wave a passenger off, and for failing to isolate after international travel.Last week, step one of the easing of Covid-19 restrictions took place, which saw the reopening of schools and two people from different households being able to meet outdoors.Although restrictions have begun to ease, a large number of rules are still in place.Despite

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Cities, groups aim to stop Ohio's push for early census data

A coalition of cities, counties and civil rights groups sued the U.S. Census Bureau last year to stop it from ending the 2020 census early out of fear a premature finish would undercount minority communities. Now, that coalition is attempting to block the state of Ohio from trying to force the statistical agency, under a new administration, into releasing data used for drawing congressional and legislative districts earlier than planned.

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Deb Haaland: Biden's pick for interior secretary faces final historic vote

WASHINGTON - The Senate is set to vote Monday on the likely confirmation of Deb Haaland, President Joe Biden’s pick as interior secretary. The historic move would make her the first Native American to lead a Cabinet agency.Earlier this month, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved Haaland's nomination, 11-9, sending it to the Senate floor.

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Alberta begins phase 2A of COVID-19 immunization rollout

Alberta begins phase 2A of its COVID-19 vaccine rollout plan on March 15. Sarah Offin has details on how to book your appointment.

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Alberta begins Phase 2A of COVID-19 vaccine rollout Monday

COVID-19 vaccine rollout plan on Monday.Phase 2A targets Albertans born between 1947 and 1956 and First Nations, Inuit and Métis born in 1971 or earlier.Appointments can be booked online through Alberta Health Service’s booking tool on the AHS.ca website or by calling 811 if you require booking assistance.

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Regular booster vaccines are the future in battle with coronavirus: Peacock

CAMBRIDGE : Regular booster vaccines against the novel coronavirus will be needed because of mutations that make it more transmissible and better able to evade human immunity, the head of Britain's effort to sequence the virus's genomes told Reuters.The novel coronavirus, which has killed 2.65 million people globally since it emerged in China in late 2019, mutates around once every two weeks, slower than influenza or HIV, but enough to require tweaks to vaccines.Sharon Peacock, who heads COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) which has sequenced half of all the novel coronavirus genomes so far mapped globally, said international cooperation was needed in the "cat and mouse" battle with the virus"We have to appreciate that we were always going to

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White House: US reaches world record in daily COVID-19 vaccinations

Haitian immigrant Anaida Jean-Pierre, 92, receives a COVID-19 vaccine on March 14, 2021 in Stamford, Connecticut. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - The White House said the U.S.

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First cases of Brazil COVID-19 variant detected in Alberta Sunday, next vaccine rollout phase begins Monday

COVID-19 Sunday, including two of the first confirmed Brazil variant cases, officials are preparing to expand the provincial vaccination program to Phase 2A starting Monday.The two Brazil variant cases, also known as the P.1 variant, were detected in travellers.We have identified the first confirmed cases of the P.1 variant (the variant first identified in Brazil) in Alberta. These are both travel related and were detected thanks to the aggressive screening processes in place.

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COVID-19 cases rise across Canada as provinces expand vaccine rollouts

COVID-19 vaccine rollouts on Sunday, amid what Canada’s chief public health officer described as a recent increase in the number of new cases across the country.Dr. Theresa Tam said health officials are observing a rise in new infections after several weeks of levelling off.

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As Florida gets ready to expand Vaccine eligibility state sees 3,699 new COVID-19 cases

ORLANDO, Fla. – More people will be eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccination in Florida on Monday.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

House renews push to expand background checks

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