NEW: Senate passes bill that would secure funding for the US Capitol and Capitol Police in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot, which was at risk of having to furlough officers without additional money. nbcnews.to/3iZMcnQ
UPDATE: House votes 416 to 11 to approve the $2.1B emergency supplemental funding bill; the bill now goes to President Biden who is expected to sign it. nbcnews.to/3iZMcnQ
The bill includes almost $1B for Capitol security — $100M for the Capitol Police, $300M for security measures, and $500M for the National Guard, which concluded its mission at the Capitol in May.
The bill also includes roughly $1.1B for the special immigrant visa program to assist with Afghan interpreters coming to the U.S. as American troops withdraw from the nation's longest war.
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NEW: CDC issues warning about delta variant of Covid-19: "Acknowledge the war has changed." nbcnews.to/3rGPwbr
An internal CDC document concludes that the delta variant is “highly contagious, likely to be more severe” and that “breakthrough infections may be as transmissible as unvaccinated cases.”
Vaccines continue to be effective, particularly at preventing severe disease, according to the document. But they may not be as good at preventing infection or transmission of the delta variant.
BREAKING: Simone Biles is out of the U.S. gymnastics team final in Tokyo. nbcnews.to/2UTtdTN
UPDATE: Simone Biles out of team gymnastics final in Tokyo "due to medical issue," officials say. nbcnews.com/news/olympics/…
UPDATE: U.S. women win silver in team gymnastics final after Simone Biles withdraws "due to medical issue"; Russian Olympic Committee wins gold, Great Britain wins bronze. nbcnews.com/news/olympics/…
@chloe_aatkins The current landscape of abortion access in the US came into focus in May after the Supreme Court decided to consider the legality of Mississippi’s ban on nearly all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. (2/8)
@chloe_aatkins This restriction was the first to reach the US Supreme Court from a wave of state laws intended to strike down Roe v. Wade, the decision that established the constitutional right to an abortion nationwide. (3/8)
"There's a real-time genocide that's happening just 90 miles from the coast of our great country...I just do not understand how the international community stays quiet, they stay mute," Enrique Santos says of Cuban protests.
WATCH: Younger generation leads the charge for freedom in Cuba. - @MorganRadford
When England's Bukayo Saka took his penalty in the Euro 2020 final, what followed wasn't just another chapter of the country's tale of soccer heartbreak, but also a grim echo of what its Black stars have endured for decades. (1/4) #NBCNewsThreadsnbcnews.to/2W5qyXz
After he missed the decisive kick, 19-year-old Saka's social media timeline was flooded racial abuse.
"I knew instantly the kind of hate I was about to receive," he said, adding, "There is no place for racism or hate of any kind in football or any area of society." (2/4)
Saka's defiant response is firmly rooted in soccer's past.
Emerging as society's leading voices demanding change, experts say that Saka and his England teammates continue another storied soccer tradition: using the game's unique position as a conduit for racial discussion. (3/4)
@BridgeDet313 Built in 1941, the Birwood Wall, a 6-foot-high, 4-inch-thick divider that sits just below Detroit’s storied Eight Mile Road, separated a Black neighborhood to the east from a community on the west that was developed for whites only. (2/11)
@BridgeDet313 In a 6-month investigation, @NBCNews and @BridgeDet313 discovered that one of Detroit’s most prominent families built the wall.
The side of the wall residents called home would later affect the sale price of their houses and the wealth they would inherit. (3/11)