“I’m here to tell you, Nevada, that tuning out is not an option. Moping and feeling cynical is not an option. The only way to make this economy fair is if we – all of us – fight for it,” Obama said.

In this economic climate, Cortez Masto’s race against former state Attorney General Adam Laxalt is one of the GOP’s best opportunities to pick up a Democratic seat and gain control of the chamber. Republicans need a net gain of just one seat to flip the evenly divided legislative body, where Vice President Kamala Harris has the tie-breaking vote. The economy has also created headwinds for Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak and three vulnerable Democratic House members.

Many Nevadans are angry about an inflation rate that is among the highest in the nation and gas prices that are still averaging nearly $5 a gallon in a state where workers often drive long distances as part of their daily commute. Those issues are driving the dynamics of the race and giving Democrats very little margin for error as they try to hold onto their narrow majority.

Even though President Joe Biden narrowly won Nevada in 2020, he’s not on the trail for Cortez Masto in this race, which has become the third-most expensive Senate contest this fall.

Instead, allies of the first Latina elected to the Senate looked to Obama to help fire up younger voters and Latino voters who might not otherwise turn out in a midterm election. Though working-class voters and Latino voters have helped power previous Democratic wins in the Silver State – particularly when the party was led by former Democratic Sen. Harry Reid – those groups have been disproportionately affected by the double hit of pandemic-era closures and high inflation.

Employment has recovered to pre-pandemic levels in the tourism-dependent state, but voters remain nervous about the current economic climate – still rattled by how hard their state was hit during the pandemic. The unemployment rate in Nevada topped 28% in April of 2020 – about twice the national average at that point.

“Inflation is a real problem right now,” Obama said, addressing the economic pain that many are feeling, particularly in Nevada, and pointing to the legacy of the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine. “So you see, gas prices going up, grocery prices going up – that takes a bite out of your paycheck. It’s no joke. It hurts. The question, though, you should be asking is – who’s going to actually try to do something about it?”

The former President noted that Cortez Masto is a third-generation Nevadan, whose father started out parking cars at the former hotel and casino known as The Dunes.

“She hasn’t forgotten where she came from. Which is why she’s gone after big oil for high gas prices. Why she takes on pharmaceutical companies to lower prescription drug costs,” Obama said. “She’s fought harder than just about anybody in Congress to make housing more affordable. Because she wants to give every family the same opportunities that her family had.”

He argued that Republicans’ answer to everything has been tax cuts. “But what’s their answer exactly? What is their economic policy? … They want to cut Social Security and Medicare and then give their wealthy friends and big corporations more tax cuts.”

Cortez Masto has also tried to deflect Republican finger-pointing for high gas prices, criticizing Laxalt on Tuesday as an ally of “big oil.”

“I’ll tell you what, I am leading the fight to hold big oil accountable for price gouging our families at the gas pump,” she said. “Listen, they’re raising prices on our families while making record profits. Just last week, one big oil company posted $9 billion in profits – that’s outrageous. Outrageous!”

The race between Cortez Masto and Laxalt has been deadlocked for months. The Democratic senator has tried to broaden the conversation beyond the economy by painting Laxalt as an extreme right-winger who would endanger abortion rights in a state where they are protected up to 24 weeks in a 1990 voter referendum. She has also pointed to Laxalt’s efforts to try to overturn Nevada’s 2020 presidential election results on behalf of former President Donald Trump. Laxalt served as Trump’s campaign co-chairman in the state and has his endorsement in the Senate race.

Obama suggested that Laxalt would take issue with the November election if he doesn’t win. “He has no actual evidence of election fraud – because there’s actually no widespread election fraud – but he’s not gonna let that stop him. He’s gonna look under every rock in the desert to try to find an excuse,” Obama said. “Although if he wins, I’m guessing he’ll be less concerned.”

Biden’s unpopularity amid economic concerns

But in a CNN poll conducted by SSRS that showed no clear leader between the candidates, 44% of registered voters cited the economy and inflation as their top issue. Only 14% named abortion.

With the economy ranking as the top concern among voters, Laxalt has gone to great lengths to tie Cortez Masto to Biden, whose approval ratings were underwater, with 38% of likely voters approving of his performance and 58% disapproving in a New York Times/Siena College poll released this week.

When asked by CNN’s Manu Raju Tuesday whether she wanted Biden to join her on the campaign trail, Cortez Masto demurred, saying, “Anybody’s welcome here.”

That answer was similar to one the state’s endangered Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak, who also appeared with Obama on Tuesday, offered when he was asked whether he had invited Biden to campaign with him during a debate with his Republican opponent Joe Lombardo, who is the sheriff of Clark County.

“A lot of people have offered to come here and there’s gonna be a lot of people coming through here to help get out the vote,” Cortez Masto told Raju, as she also dodged a question about whether she wanted Biden to run for president in 2024. “My focus will be talking to Nevadans about the importance of voting and the distinction between what I have fought for for Nevada and where my opponent is.”

Laxalt has argued that the aid and stimulus packages advanced by Biden and Democrats in Congress have driven up inflation, even though that remains a point of contention among economists.

Democrats, including Cortez Masto and Obama, have pointed out that there are many economic forces at play in driving inflation. The senator has also emphasized the other ways in which Democrats have worked to lower costs, including for health care, prescription drugs and insulin. But that has not yet mitigated the sticker shock that many Nevadans continue to feel at the gas pump and the grocery store.

In a tacit acknowledgment of Obama’s popularity in Nevada, Laxalt directed most of his criticism Tuesday toward Biden and Cortez Masto, accusing the president of turning “an economic recovery into a recession” – even though economists have only warned that a recession might be coming next year – while arguing that Cortez Masto “rubber stamped his agenda every step of the way.”

“Cortez Masto bringing Obama to Nevada to campaign with her today won’t save her in this race,” Laxalt tweeted.

Cortez Masto, who succeeded Reid in 2016, has earned a reputation among her supporters as a hard-working lawmaker who helped steer extensive aid during the Covid-19 pandemic to the hospitality, convention and entertainment industries that are central to the state’s economy. But she has adopted a lower profile than many other senators in Washington, and back in Nevada, much of the population is transient. That has meant that many voters are not familiar with her record.

Laxalt’s campaign is also heavily targeting Latino voters, particularly on economic issues and concerns about rising crime. Cortez Masto’s support among Latino voters appears to have declined from the threshold she won in her first race. About 52% of registered Latino voters supported her, according to CNN’s most recent Nevada poll, compared with the 61% she won according to 2016 exit polls.

And Laxalt has pushed back on Cortez Masto’s attacks on abortion, writing in an op-ed for the Reno Gazette Journal that he would not support a federal ban on abortion and that Nevada voters determined in 1990 “that Nevada is and will remain a pro-choice state.”

Spending in Nevada’s Senate race will reach nearly $109 million between Labor Day and Election Day, including future reservations over the final week of the race, according to AdImpact. Democrats have maintained a slight edge over Republicans – $56.7 million to $51.8 million. The contest is rated as a “Toss-up” by Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales.

Silver State spending trailed that of Pennsylvania ($146 million), where Democrats view the seat of retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey as their top pick-up opportunity, and Georgia ($144 million), where Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock is fending off a challenge from Republican Herschel Walker.

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Jones is not alone.

As recently as last year, the vast majority of incarcerated trans people in America are still housed in facilities based on the sex they were assigned at birth, according to a 2020 investigation by NBC News.

Jasmine Rose Jones

This is despite robust evidence that trans women are at a significantly higher risk of abuse and assault than the general prison population, according to academic research and surveys of incarcerated trans people. And that is still the case nearly 30 years after a landmark Supreme Court decision in Farmer v Brennan that found deliberately failing to protect incarcerated trans people from abuse or violence behind bars qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment.

Activists say not much has changed. Now, they are working to change policies on both the federal and state level to allow trans prisoners to decide for themselves where they would feel safest being housed — or at least have their voice heard, even if prisons or independent decision-making boards still get to make the final call.

A 2007 study from the University of California, Irvine, found that incarcerated transgender people were 13 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than a random sample of incarcerated men. Fifty-nine percent of transgender prisoners reported having been sexually assaulted within a California correctional facility compared to just 4.4% of the incarcerated population as a whole.

“Transgender women are not safe behind bars, period,” says Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, the incoming executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE). “Nobody should be in danger just because they are in government custody.”

In 1994, the US Supreme Court ruled on Eighth Amendment grounds that failing to protect trans people in custody is unconstitutional because it qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment. Farmer v Brennan centered on the alleged prison rape of a trans woman, Dee Farmer. She says only a few days after a transfer to FCI Terre Haute, a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, she was raped by a cellmate. Prior to her incarceration, she had been living as a transgender woman, and argued that that fact, coupled with what court documents called the “violent environment and a history of inmate assaults” at the Terre Haute facility, meant that officials deliberately failed to protect her from harm by placing her there.

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“He just kept repeatedly punching me all over,” she remembers, voice strong but still emotional more than 30 years later. “He started kicking me and I saw a knife in his tennis shoe. And it scared me so bad that I just stopped resisting. And he threw me on the bed and raped me.”

“A prison official’s ‘deliberate indifference’ to a substantial risk of serious harm to an inmate violates the Eighth Amendment,” wrote Justice David Souter in the court’s opinion. While a jury ultimately found for the defendants in her case, her win at the Supreme Court is still hailed as a victory.

Activists like Dee Farmer are still fighting to institute national and state-level policies that would require a facility to house transgender, nonbinary or intersex people in the facilities where they feel safest, which would often mean according to their gender identity.

“They should not feel that they have to settle for being assaulted or violence or being harassed or being abused,” she tells CNN. “Make it known that this is what is happening. Let your voice be heard.”

‘I never murdered anyone or anything like that’

Transgender people are disproportionately impacted by the criminal justice system to begin with, incarcerated at significantly higher rates than other groups.

According to the NTCE’s last national US Transgender Survey conducted in 2015, the rate of incarceration for transgender people was double that of the nation-wide rate of incarceration, and about 10 times higher for Black transgender women.

In many states, being transgender in public can lead to an arrest under so-called “Walking While Trans” laws: anti-loitering codes officially used to target sex workers, which in practice target primarily trans women of color regardless of whether they are sex workers, advocates say.

“I was certainly profiled” as a transgender woman on the street, says activist and transgender woman Bamby Salcedo. “It was always a thing. I would always be stopped for just walking to get groceries from the store.”

Salcedo says she was first incarcerated at age 19, shortly after she began her transition process, and spent the next 14 years in and out of prison and jail for a variety of drug charges and petty theft charges, which she says primarily entailed shoplifting makeup and food.

Activist Bamby Salcedo is seen at the AIDS Monument Groundbreaking earlier this month in West Hollywood, California.

“I never murdered anyone or anything like that,” Salcedo says. “Back in the ’80s there weren’t any services related to us. So anything we needed we got from the street, from our sisters. Participating in the street economy was the only way for us to live and survive.”

Salcedo says the “inhumane” and “disgraceful” treatment of trans women in custody often starts immediately upon the intake process, a sentiment echoed by Jones and others.

“We are told to get undressed in front of many men” including both corrections officers and other male prisoners, Salcedo describes, which “automatically creates this sense of fear for many of us and this sense… that it’s ok to sexually harass us and oftentimes sexually assault us.”

Jones similarly spent a lot of time on the street as a teen, after becoming homeless when she says her mother kicked her out of the house after coming out as gay.

“The streets were my best friend. That’s where I learned to become who I am today,” Jones says.

But soon, for Jones too, life on the street turned to life behind bars.

Violence on the Inside

Once they are incarcerated, trans people are at significantly higher risk of violence. Trans prisoners are over nine times more likely than the prison average to be assaulted or abused by fellow prisoners, and over five times more likely to be assaulted or abused by facility staff, according to a national survey conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality. According to the 2015 survey, within the year leading up to the survey, almost a quarter of transgender prisoners reported being physically assaulted by other people in custody or staff.

Salcedo describes being raped in custody by a man who held a razor blade against her neck. On other occasions, she says she was beaten by other prisoners, including one time being beaten with a four-by-four piece of wood.

“Every single day I was at least verbally attacked. Every single day,” she remembers.

Formerly incarcerated trans women say that abuse often comes at the hands of correctional officers.

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“They have this whole language they used toward the trans community,” Jones remembers. “They call us horrible names, they used to have us strip out in front of other inmates to embarrass us. They used to come and ransack our cells and take our make-up. They wouldn’t let us eat in chow halls if we were wearing any make-up at all.”

Opponents of housing people in custody according to gender identity argue that men could falsely claim to be transgender so they are housed with women they can then assault. There is no evidence to support that this happens, while there is overwhelming evidence that trans women in men’s prisons are being sexually assaulted at exponentially higher rates than the general incarcerated population.

“There is no evidence whatsoever to support this argument of false claims. It simply doesn’t happen,” Heng-Lehtinen says. “There are criteria for determining that someone really is transgender… It’s not as simple as simply declaring that you are transgender.”

There is limited data available on whether incarcerated transgender women in women’s facilities are at a lower rate of sexual assault because so few transgender women are currently being incarcerated in women’s facilities. However, formerly incarcerated trans women speaking to CNN shared that they would feel more comfortable being strip searched by guards who are women — standard practice in women’s facilities — and would feel safer with cellmates who are women.

Laws on the books

In 2003, President George W. Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, or PREA, into law. It required the Department of Justice to develop federal rules for prisons and jails aimed at preventing and eliminating sexual assault and rape of prisoners. The DOJ issued those PREA Standards in 2012, which still stand today.

Among them, the PREA Standards say that prison staff “must consider [housing assignments] on a case-by-case basis,” and not simply on the basis of a person’s “genital status.” The rules also say “serious consideration” should be given to an incarcerated person’s “own views regarding his or her own safety.”

In practice, activists say those standards rarely lead to trans women ever being incarcerated in a women’s facility, despite their requests to be housed as such.

“We’ve heard from so many trans women that prison officials will ask them if they have a penis during intake,” says Richard Saenz, a senior attorney with Lambda Legal. “And that’s how they decide where they should be housed.”

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Saenz says Lambda Legal gets hundreds of letters and phone calls every year from trans people in prison who say they are being assaulted, abused and otherwise are unsafe in their housing situation specifically because they are transgender. .

“[PREA is] still not enforced consistently enough,” Heng-Lehtinen says. “We need clearer and more detailed policy about exactly how to determine the housing assignment and it needs to be reevaluated periodically because circumstances change.”

“Best practice would be for a trans person’s housing to be re-evaluated every year. And if that’s not going to happen, it should be revisited every five years.”

The Department of Justice tells CNN that the Federal Bureau of Prisons “follows and enforces PREA standards and recognizes the importance of ensuring that inmates are and feel safe while in custody. Under current policy, a transgender or intersex inmate’s own views with respect to his or her own safety must be given serious consideration when BOP makes housing and programming assignments.”

Part of the problem, activists say, is that there is a “patchwork” of federal and state regulations that is often “exploited to ignore the transgender person who is unsafe,” explains Heng-Lehtinen.

This patchwork includes the federal government’s Transgender Offender Manual, which the Trump Administration revised in 2018 to roll back protections for trans people in custody. It required officials “use biological sex as the initial determination” for housing placement, but it did not define the term “biological sex” — a controversial term for which there is not one standard set of medical criteria.

Despite the Biden administration’s assurances that they want to improve the quality of life for transgender Americans, it has not yet revised these Trump-era regulations or issued a new Transgender Offender Manual.

“We do expect the Biden administration to update and fix the Transgender Offender Manual,” says Heng-Lehtinen, who says the NCTE has been working closely with the Biden administration and Department of Justice to make these changes.

Salcedo is now the CEO and President of Los Angeles-based TransLatin@ Coalition, an organization dedicated to improving the conditions of trans people in America. She says revising the Transgender Offender Manual is a good start, but not enough.

“More than that, it’s important that we understand the reasons why trans people are incarcerated: we are criminalized because of who we are. An alternative to that is to provide trans people with the resources and support that we need, rather than… having to resort to survival which gets us put in prison.”

State level action

Individual states are also working on legislation requiring their state corrections facilities to house transgender people in the place they feel safest. That includes SB 132 in California, which Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law in September of 2020, effective January 1. This law requires transgender, non-binary and intersex prisoners to be housed in “a correctional facility designated for men or women based on the individual’s preference,” according to the bill text. It also requires all carceral staff to address prisoners by their correct gender pronouns and to search prisoners in a way consistent with their gender identity.

But activists say this law is also unevenly implemented.

“Since I’ve been out, I’ve been hearing stories of trans people being assaulted …, being stripped out,” or strip searched, by male correctional officers says Jones, alleging that is happening because the trans women are still being housed in men’s facilities with officers who are men. “Even though SB 132 is now law, they are not implementing it right. They need to be held accountable for that. People are really under attack now.”

A transgender woman placed in a men’s prison after alleging abuse has been moved to a women’s facility

Jennifer Orthwein, a public interest attorney in California, and now a friend of Jones, filed a lawsuit on June 11 on behalf of a currently incarcerated trans woman, Syiaah Skylit, and the entire class of trans prisoners in similar situations in California.

“As people have begun to assert their rights under SB 132, they have been met with severe retaliation, distressing delays, tactics intended to police their genders, dangerous rumors and misinformation, and systemic outing of transgender, nonbinary and intersex people,” Orthwein tells CNN.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation tells CNN, “CDCR has remained committed to providing a safe, humane, rehabilitative and secure environment for all transgender, non-binary, and intersex people housed in the state’s correctional facilities… All housing transfer requests are being reviewed by a multi-disciplinary team to include institution leadership, mental health professionals, and Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Compliance Managers. We’ve also developed and provided specialized training to staff to ensure they are aware of laws and departmental policies and to give them the knowledge and tools they need when interacting with the incarcerated transgender community.”

According to the court filing, “Defendants and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”) have repeatedly tortured, sexually assaulted, threatened, and pepper sprayed Plaintiff Syiaah Skylit, a 30-year-old Black transgender woman.” Orthwein says Skylit has attempted suicide and gone on a hunger strike.

On the day the lawsuit was filed and CNN requested comment, Skylit was informed that her transfer request was approved and she will be transferred within the next few days, according to Orthwein.

“CDCR cannot comment on pending litigation, nor can we comment on a specific incarcerated person’s housing requests. But again, we take the health and safety of all those in our care very seriously and are ensuring thorough reviews are completed for each request.”

According to CDCR, out of 1,277 incarcerated individuals that identify as transgender, non-binary or intersex, 272 have requested gender-based housing transfer requests. 265 are from people being housed at male institutions requesting to be transferred to female institutions and seven are from people being housed at female institutions requesting transfer to a male facility.

CDCR says that a total of 33 requests have been approved and 19 of those approved incarcerated people have already been transferred. They say the remaining 239 requests are “being evaluated.”

While both lawsuits and policy efforts are underway to ameliorate the conditions for transgender, non-binary and intersex people behind bars, advocates say lives are at stake.

“The need is urgent,” Heng-Lehtinen says. “There are trans people behind bars right now suffering.”

“We want people to understand that we are under no delusion that this bill will make prisons safe for anyone, including gender variant people,” Orthwein says. “We just hope that this bill makes it possible for transgender, nonbinary and intersex people to survive prison with as much of their mental and bodily integrity intact as possible.”

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Later that evening, the call came: the worst phone call of my life. It was from a US Capitol Police Officer who told me that Brian was in the hospital. I couldn’t comprehend what I was hearing. He said he would send an officer to my house. As I waited on pins and needles, I was finally met by a Virginia state trooper who could give me no information about what had happened to Brian. She escorted me to the hospital.

When I arrived at the ER, there was no one there to greet me. I told a woman behind a desk why I was there. She asked me to sign in and sit down. I explained the severity of the situation, trying my best to remain calm. Thankfully, the kindness of the state trooper helped ground me in a very agonizing, frustrating moment.

Eventually, I was greeted by the ER physician who told me the terrible news that Brian was on a ventilator and I could not see him because of Covid restrictions. I notified Brian’s mother, who immediately drove with her sister to the hospital. They also were not allowed to see Brian. The rest of his family soon arrived. Brian died the next day.

In the days after his death, I was further shocked and saddened to learn Capitol Police Officer Howard Leibengood and DC Police Officer Jeffrey Smith had died by suicide.

Devastated over the loss of Brian and drowning in grief, I took two months off from work. There were times I didn’t want to get up in the morning, didn’t want to face my life without Brian in it. I also did not watch any of the January 6 footage because I had heard so many terrible things about it and didn’t think I could psychologically handle it.

But before his memorial a month later, something came over me: I wanted to see everything I could and understand what happened that day. As I watched the videos, I couldn’t believe my eyes. I saw officers being brutalized and beaten, and protesters defying orders to stay back from entering the Capitol. All the while, I kept thinking, “Where is the President? Why is it taking so long for the National Guard to arrive? Where is the cavalry!?”

As the months passed, my deep sadness turned to outright rage as I watched Republican members of Congress lie on TV and in remarks to reporters and constituents about what happened that day. Over and over they denied the monstrous acts committed by violent protesters.

I was further angered when Officer Billy Evans was killed in early April at the Capitol, rammed by a driver at the North barricade of the Capitol Complex. The assailant, who was killed by police, reportedly struggled with mental health issues and was not apparently part of the January 6 riot, though he held strong political ideologies, his family said. But it felt very much to me that the attack and Officer Evans’ death was directly related to the events of January 6, that people were newly emboldened to vent their life frustrations with the government by attacking innocent officers who diligently protect the Capitol daily. Still, I kept largely silent out of respect for Officer Evans’ family.

When I learned of the proposal to create a January 6 commission to investigate the attack, and understood the importance of what this bill would accomplish, I finally felt compelled to speak out, along with Gladys, to encourage the Republican Senators to vote yes.

I knew it would not be comfortable or easy being in the public eye, but my desire for justice outweighed any discomfort I felt. As we went door to door to their offices several weeks ago ahead of the vote, some Republican senators were very pleasant and polite. Others were dismissive, and others could barely hide their disdain.

Since those meetings, only a handful of Republican senators showed that they possessed the moral compass to do the right thing by voting yes, putting America first, and showing warmth and compassion for the officers (as well as their families) who protect them daily.

By denying or downplaying the viciousness and trauma that occurred on January 6, members of Congress and the people who continue echoing their false narrative are engaging in a specific kind of psychological harm that is familiar to people who work in mental health. It’s known as “secondary wounding.” Secondary wounding, described by psychologist Aphrodite Matsakis, occurs when people “minimize or discount the magnitude of the event, its meaning to the victim, [or] its impact on the victim’s life.”

United States Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick passed away after confronting pro-Trump protesters on Jan. 6.

Make no mistake: All of the officers and people who were physically harmed, terrified, psychologically destabilized or lost loved ones due to that day are literally being re-traumatized every time someone speaks untrue words to describe what happened on January 6.

For those lawmakers who voted no, I will continue to speak out to remind them and those Americans who support them, of the horrors of that day and the trauma that continues in the minds of those that suffered in the battle in the very seat of American democracy. This not only includes the officers, but fellow senators and congressmen and women, as well as the innocent employees who were in the Capitol that day who were terrified and wondered if they, too, would make it home that day.

Brian was a proud American and loved his country. He continued his service long after his time in the military by becoming a US Capitol Police Officer, serving the American people and members of Congress — and protecting democracy.

To know that some members of Congress — along with the former President, Donald Trump, who Brian and I once supported but who can only now be viewed as the mastermind of that horrible attack — are not acknowledging Brian’s heroism that day is unforgivable and un-American.

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The spokesperson for the Iranian Judiciary unveiled plans to pay the families of victims of a Ukrainian jetliner that crashed near Tehran in January 2020 the whole amount of the allocated compensation prior to a court verdict.

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The coronavirus pandemic claimed 134 lives in Iran over the past 24 hours.

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As a victim of sanctions and a fierce economic war, Iran is going to release a document on the crimes it has faced under the inhumane and unprecedented sanctions imposed by the US, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said.

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Iran’s minister of health said the country will become one of the world’s biggest producers of the coronavirus vaccine by the end of summer.

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When a man broke into an Army Reserve center’s armory, the assault rifles and military pistols he stole quickly made their way into the hands of criminals in Massachusetts.

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Authorities in California’s agricultural heartland weren’t looking for a military assault rifle when they went to investigate the domestic assault case, but they found one.

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