Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is defending Speaker Nancy Pelosi — and progressives’ plan for passing both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and a reconciliation bill expanding the social safety net in tandem — after centrist Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) wrote a letter accusing the speaker of breaking an agreement with moderates. …
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On March 11th, 2020, as new cases of coronavirus were popping up around the United States at an alarming rate, the president, seeking to reassure Americans that everything was under control, delivered a primetime address from the Oval Office. “To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be …
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Yet another attempt by Trump buddy and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell goes down in flames. Lindell submitted a document, titled “The Big Lie,” to the Idaho Secretary of State’s office that claimed votes for Trump in all 44 state counties were electronically switched to Biden in the 2020 election. But …
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The Biden administration is taking action to protect people from the number one weather-related killer: extreme heat. U.N. climate scientists have warned that record-shattering climate extremes will become increasingly common as global warming progresses, meaning extreme heat events that once occurred every 50 years will now happen once a decade. …
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Gavin Newsom will remain the governor of California. The state voted against recalling the 53-year-old Democrat on Tuesday — and it wasn’t close. When the Associate Press called the race just before 9 p.m. on the West Coast, a whopping 67 percent of voters had opposed the recall. The decision …
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Don’t blame me for the escaped dazzle of zebras. That is the message Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) sent out in a press release from her office on Friday claiming that she is not responsible for “letting loose the six zebras that have been on the run in the D.C. …
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Facing an increasing number of new Covid-19 cases and deaths, President Joe Biden Thursday unveiled a more aggressive strategy in his war on the novel coronavirus — most notably, expansive federal vaccine requirements estimated to impact as many as 100 million Americans. In a speech, Biden outlined other details of …
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“Something bad is going on. We’ve got to realize that,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said of the alarming rate at which covid cases are on the rise nationwide and how too many are ignoring safety measures that could save lives. During a Sunday interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, the director …
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Millions of Americans are at risk of eviction, thanks to the eviction moratorium that expired over the weekend while Congress and the White House sparred over who was responsible for extending it. President Joe Biden asked landlords to pause evictions for the next 30 days on Monday as the administration …
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The United States, along with Western allies officially accused the Chinese government of working with cybercriminals who used ransomware to extort U.S. businesses, and for playing a role in the cyberattack on Microsoft Exchange email server software earlier this year. In a statement released on Monday, the White House said …
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