President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing federal government agencies to assess the risks climate change brings to both public and private financial assets in the U.S., the White House announced on Thursday. The order, called the Climate-Related Financial Risk, mandates regulators including Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who oversees …
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Max Vigilant is the head of operations at the mosquito and vector control unit at the Harris County Department of Public Health. He works out of an un-fancy building on the outskirts of Houston, doing the kind of work that is rarely noticed or covered by the media but which …
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Walter Mondale, the prominent late-20th-century Democrat who served as Jimmy Carter’s vice president and lost to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 election, died Monday, April 19th, at his home in Minneapolis, The New York Times reports. He was 93. A spokesman for Mondale’s family confirmed his death but did not …
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Wyoming Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney ripped Trump once again, saying the former president not only used language in the past that ultimately led to the attack on the Capitol but that he continues to do so to this day. On Sunday, Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan asked Cheney about …
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President Joe Biden signed an executive order expanding voting rights on Sunday. Biden announced the signing during a remote video message to the Martin and Coretta King Unity Breakfast, marking the 56th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” during which voting rights marchers were brutally attacked by law enforcement on the Edmund …
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Former President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump both received the Covid-19 vaccine. They just didn’t tell anyone about it. Maggie Haberman of the New York Times reported the news on Monday, noting that Trump and Melania got the vaccine all the way back in January, when they were still …
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WASHINGTON — Dark money, that torrent of anonymous cash unleashed by groups with mind-numbingly generic names such as Americans for Prosperity or Patriot Majority, is an ugly fixture of American politics, a weapon used to win elections, confirm (or defeat) judges, and pass (or defeat) legislation. Once dominated by ultra-wealthy …
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It’s only a matter of hours now. President Trump is well on his way out of office, and by this time tomorrow he’ll be nothing more than a civilian with a security detail. Perhaps concerned about the legacy he will leave, Trump on Tuesday evening released a lengthy video address …
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Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said that Trump “can’t be trusted,” and he sees no reason why the president should receive intelligence briefings during his remaining days in office or going forward. “There is no circumstance in which this president should get another intelligence …
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The jobs crisis in the U.S. is worsening as weekly unemployment claims reached a five-month high, according to new unemployment numbers released by the Department of Labor. Almost 1.4 million people filed initial jobless claims for the week ending January 9th, which is many more than economists expected. “The rise …
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