As President Biden prepares to announce a U.S. emissions pledge, a group of electricity companies sent him a letter urging the president to set clean energy standard (CES) goal of reducing the industry’s carbon emissions by 2030. The coalition of thirteen power companies, which includes PSEG, Exelon Corp. and Talen …
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Since leaving office, former president Donald Trump had been playing a peculiar game: He’s demanded credit for the rapid development and deployment of the coronavirus vaccines while refusing to encourage all Americans to do their part and get a jab. He did not even reveal that he had been secretly …
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The Biden administration is deploying the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to aid in the processing of immigrant children at the southern border as a surge in crossings has led to them being held for prolonged periods in overcrowded facilities. FEMA will be deployed for the next 90 days, Homeland …
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When Congress was considering the latest Covid relief bill, much of the debate centered around two provisions: relief checks and the minimum wage — was $1,400, if combined with the $600 dispatched in January, sufficient to satisfy Joe Biden’s promise of $2,000? Should Democrats disregard the Senate parliamentarian’s ruling to …
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Federal law enforcement officials are examining communications between insurrectionists and members of Congress to determine whether lawmakers aided members of the mob who attacked the Capitol on January 6th, according to CNN. Investigators want to know “whether lawmakers wittingly or unwittingly helped the insurrectionists,” a US official briefed on the …
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tried to do some damage control after making a trip to Mexico with his family while the people in his state are suffering from the aftermath of the historic storm that has left hundreds of thousands without power. After receiving backlash all day Thursday, Cruz backtracked …
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In a private call with Democratic lawmakers, audio of which was leaked to the New York Post, secretary to Gov. Cuomo Melissa DeRosa said that the governor’s office “froze” when they were asked by the Department of Justice to turn in the state’s data on nursing home deaths from the …
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Former president Donald Trump was so convinced that the radical left and antifa posed a domestic threat to the country, he drew law enforcement resources away from focusing on violent groups on the far-right. “The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization,” Trump tweeted in …
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UPDATE: Former Michigan Director of Health and Human ServicesNick Lyonhas been charged with nine felony counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection in connection to the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. On Thursday, Lyon pleaded not guilty to all charges; if convicted, each involuntary manslaughter charge carries a penalty of up …
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Ahead of the Georgia runoff elections, Democratic Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock and actress Kerry Washington discussed what is at stake in the January 5th election as part of Rolling Stone’s Georgia Talks series. “We say all the time that elections have consequences. I have to say that after we …
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