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Housing activists in Swampscott, Mass., on Oct. 14, 2020. A congressional report finds that four corporate landlords acted aggressively to push out tenants during the first year of the pandemic, despite a federal eviction moratorium and billions in emergency rental aid. Michael Dwyer/AP hide caption

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Corporate landlords used aggressive tactics to push out more tenants than was known

Congress finds four companies appeared to have a strategy to get tenants to leave during the pandemic. Many faced eviction after missing only one payment, and while waiting for emergency rental aid.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin struck a deal to include energy and climate spending in a party-line reconciliation bill. Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption

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Climate experts experience an odd sensation after the Manchin budget deal: optimism

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Housing activists in Swampscott, Mass., on Oct. 14, 2020. A congressional report finds that four corporate landlords acted aggressively to push out tenants during the first year of the pandemic, despite a federal eviction moratorium and billions in emergency rental aid. Michael Dwyer/AP hide caption

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Corporate landlords used aggressive tactics to push out more tenants than was known

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Lucille Brooks, a retiree who lives in Pittsford, New York, was sued in 2020 for nearly $8,000 by a nursing home that had taken care of her brother. The nursing home dropped the case after she showed she had no control over his money or authority to make decisions for him. Heather Ainsworth for KHN hide caption

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Nursing homes are suing friends and family to collect on patients' bills

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Streaming service Hulu is now allowing political ad buyers to address issues like abortion rights and gun control. Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption

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Hulu will take political ads on contentious issues after a social media outcry

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Taiwanese honor guards stand by under a national flag during a military ceremony in front of the presidential office in Taipei on March 9. Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Biden and China's Xi discuss tensions over Taiwan

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James Caan was so persuasive as "Sonny" Corleone in The Godfather, that he got turned down when he tried to join a country club because its members thought that he, like his character, was a "made man." CBS Photo Archive/CBS via Getty Images hide caption

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Like a mob hit – the passing of a generation of movie gangsters

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