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The White House on Monday blasted comments made by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about COVID-19 as “vile” amid broader condemnation of the Democratic presidential candidate’s claim that the virus was manipulated to target white and Black people. The firestorm began after The New York Post reported Kennedy Jr.’s comments, in which he said during an event last week that COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted” to attack those groups of people while avoiding Chinese people and Ashkenazi Jews.

Watch the video at the link. It’s not often that Ted Cruz struggles with his words. But during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, the GOP presidential candidate spoke about his half-sister’s struggle with addiction, and their family’s inability to save her.Cruz told Tapper that following her parents’ divorce, his sister Miriam became angry and turned to drugs: “Her whole life she lived basically as an angry teenager. She was sort of frozen emotionally as a rebellious teenager … She struggled her whole life with drug and alcohol addiction.” In the Texas Senator’s book, A Time for Truth, Cruz recalled...

Heavy machinery might become a common sight in some Harlingen neighborhoods. The Texas National Guard is demolishing some 42 homes and buildings as part of “Operation Crackdown.” Authorities are demolishing the condemned properties that have become “crack houses” or havens for criminal activity. Harlingen city officials have compiled a list of 42 homes and buildings for demolishing. The structures are being demolished at no cost to the owners.

LIMA, Ohio — Darla Jennings walked through the streets of south Lima last night sobbing as hundreds of people behind her called for justice after the shooting of her daughter, who was killed by police as she held her baby. Tarika Wilson, 26, was shot and her 1-year-old son was wounded when Lima police conducted a drug raid on their home Friday night, prompting members of the black community to organize a candlelight vigil and demand answers from police. "They shot my daughter and her baby," Ms. Jennings said through tears while being consoled by other family members.

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