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JUST IN: President Biden has signed a law establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the US https://t.co/Ixg84AV8ym

President Biden has signed a law making Juneteenth a federal holiday that acknowledges the end of slavery in the US https://t.co/jBxdII9eCz

Breaking News: Juneteenth is now a federal holiday. President Biden signed legislation officially enshrining June 19 as the national day to commemorate the end of slavery in the U.S. https://t.co/vpIzkgzEao

Russian President Putin polls higher than President Biden among Trump voters, per new polling from Economist/YouGov. https://t.co/KBuzl2Ylpg

BREAKING: President Biden signs legislation making Juneteenth a federal holiday. https://t.co/ETQYZbeZz9

It's the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. https://t.co/IbVTa71zgL https://t.co/Y0ATnxjNQz

"The Grandmother of Juneteenth": @NikolenDC details the history of Opal Lee, the 94-year-old activist who devoted her life to making Juneteenth a national holiday — and was invited to the White House to see President Biden make it happen https://t.co/vttUgeQd5s https://t.co/O94pHb5H2z

"We must learn from our history and we must teach our children our history because it is part of our history as a nation, it is part of American history," VP Harris says before Pres. Biden signs bill making Juneteenth the country's 11th federal holiday. https://t.co/TPZSY92GKh

An Israeli police officer who fatally shot an unarmed 31-year-old Palestinian man with autism was charged with manslaughter on Thursday, in a case that brought attention to the issue of police brutality. https://t.co/n3WxZuJBYK

At least 9 people have been taken to hospitals after multiple shootings in the West Valley area of metropolitan Phoenix. A suspect was apprehended. https://t.co/k1rNFh9c2u

VP Harris: "We are gathered here in a house built by enslaved people. We are footsteps away from where President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. And we are here to witness President Joe Biden establish Juneteenth as a national holiday. We have come far" https://t.co/XO5uU265UV

This 10-story apartment building was built in just over a day https://t.co/o4g53ronDO https://t.co/JNzEFgzy5I

"The kind of vote that will stick to their shoe forever, and smell up any room they ever walk into for the rest of their lives," Rachel Maddow says on 14 House Republicans voting against a bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. Watch more: https://t.co/biKh0p5I3F https://t.co/MJAKn6onYk

Global warming has been heating up and drying out the American West for years. Now the region is broiling under a combination of a drought that is the worst in two decades and a record-breaking heat wave. And it’s not even summer yet. https://t.co/ZxpJgqKHgR