Coal Baron Manchin Says He’ll Vote Against Biden’s Climate-Friendly Fed Nominee
Conservative Democrat coal baron Sen. Joe Manchin (West Virginia) has announced that he is opposed to President Joe Biden’s nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin to the Federal Reserve board, throwing uncertainty into whether she will have enough votes to be confirmed by the Senate. In a statement, Manchin said that he is “unable” to support […]
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Russian Dissident Who Held “No War” Sign on TV Was Briefly Missing, Lawyers Say
An employee of a Russian television station who went missing after she protested the government’s war with Ukraine on the air has been found, her lawyers indicated on Tuesday. Marina Ovsyannikova was the editor at Russia’s state-run Channel 1 station on Monday. interrupted a live broadcast of the country’s most-watched news program by holding up […]
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US Sewer Data and Surges Abroad Should Remind Us the Pandemic Isn’t Over
Although the testing of wastewater to detect viruses in a whole population has been done since the days when polio was a problem, it took until the March 2020 COVID-19 outbreak to make it practical. in AustriaThe technique has been made a major part of the pandemic fighting. The U.S. has seen the elimination of […]
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A Tiny Christian College Is Fueling the Right’s Nationwide War on Public Schools
This is the first in a three-part series on Hillsdale College and its charter school network. It also examines the connection between Hillsdale College and the national struggle for education. Costa Mesa’s February 2 mood was more love bomb that fire bomb. It was yet another packed school board meeting with passionate parents. But this […]
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Ginni Thomas, Wife of Clarence Thomas, Attended “Stop the Steal” Rally on Jan. 6
Ginni Thomas, a far right activist and wife of conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, admitted in an interview published on Monday that she attended the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol building. Thomas told The Washington Free Beacon that she attended the rallyIn support of former […]
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Facing Military Setbacks, Russia Is Increasingly Targeting Ukrainian Civilians
After a series of Russian missile attacks on residential areas in Kiev’s capital, the mayor of Kyiv declared a 36-hour curfew. Talks between Russia & Ukraine are continuing today, and the prime minsters of the Czech Republic and Poland are travelling to Kyiv for a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelesky. Peter Zalmayev of the Eurasia […]
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Maryland will be the second US state to ban cat declawing for cosmetic or aesthetic purposes
After the House’s vote to ban it, Maryland will be the second state to ban the declawing of cats. According to the Associated PressNew York passed a similar law in 2019 and many other states are considering banning declawing. The Washington PostAccording to reports, the bill could soon be sent to the governor for approval […]
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Russia’s War on Ukraine Risks “Meltdown of Global Food System,” UN Chief Says
The head of the United Nations warned Monday that Russia’s assault on Ukraine is pushing the global food system to the brink of disaster as wheat prices skyrocket and key supply chains are thrown into chaos, threatening a hunger crisis in Europe and well beyond. “Russia and Ukraine represent more than half of the world’s […]
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Prisons Aim to Stifle Creativity. Here’s a Book That Pushes Back.
I spent six-and-a-half years in prison. I spent a lot of that time working on a fiction manuscript. I had to search for the right way to do this. So do most writers in prison. Now there’s a book to help change that. PEN America’s The Sentences That Create Us (Haymarket Books, 2022), edited by […]
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Progressives Are Urging Schumer to Restart Push for Climate and Social Spending
Progressive groups are asking Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to restart negotiations on the budget reconciliation package that contains the bulk of President Joe Biden’s social and climate agenda, which passed the House under the banner of “Build Back Better” before stalling in the Senate last year. Refusals by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) and […]
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