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DC statehood approved by House as Senate fight looms

by Ashraf Khalil
| April 23, 2021 12:06 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — A decades-long movement to reshape the American political map took a further step Thursday as the House of Representatives approved a bill to make the nation's capital the 51st state.

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