“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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A federal judge in Texas has suspended an immigration program that has protected from deportation thousands of undocumented young adult immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. Created by former president Barack Obama with a 2012 executive order, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals protects these immigrants, known as …
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This story was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. The West Coast housing market is metaphorically on fire — with rotting shacks selling for millions. Decades of policies to restrict housing in desirable neighborhoods has pushed prices up — and it has …
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The Department of Justice under former president Trump attempted to seize the email logs from four New York Timesreporters in an attempt to identify their sources, the Times reported Friday. On Saturday, the department announced the Biden administration will end the practice of aggressively pursuing leak investigations by trying to …
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WASHINGTON — Barbara Boxer will be the first to tell you how much she loved the filibuster. Boxer, a California Democrat, won her first election to the U.S. Senate in 1992. Two years later, the so-called Republican Revolution swept into Washington, D.C. Soon, Boxer and her fellow Senate Democrats found …
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The Food and Drug Administration announced it will move to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars from the market, hoping the decision will help reduce addiction and youth smoking as well as close health disparity gaps between black and white Americans. “Banning menthol — the last allowable …
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At first, it was $2,000. That was the message throughout the Georgia runoffs, which Democrats carried in a shocking double victory on the back of a nationwide PR blitz, flooding airwaves with promises that a newly-blue Senate could end Mitch McConnell’s half-decade of tyranny. Then, the number shrunk: $2,000 was …
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Fox News has been a having a rough time filling its airwaves. Trump is out of office, Trump’s Twitter feed is out of commission, and President Biden has so far yet to transform the United States into crime-ridden socialist hellscape the network spent the better of 2020 warning their viewers …
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