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Aug 18 2021
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Climate change: Do individual actions really matter?
A sobering report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released last week placed blame for rising global temperatures squarely on human activity and predicted even more severe weather in the coming years unless drastic measures are taken to reduce global emissions.
“How hot it gets is still up to us,” Kim Cobb, one of the lead authors of the report told Yahoo
Yahoo! The 360May 10 2022
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‘Pro-Life’ Democrat Senator Flips View, Says He Will Support Left’s Abortion Bill
Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, a self-described “pro-life” Democrat, said on Tuesday that he would support an abortion-rights bill scheduled for a Senate vote on Wednesday.
Casey argued that his switch to support the Democrat-led legislation is based on changing circumstances related to the recent leak of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft of a court opinion that
The Daily WireApr 26 2022
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More Than Half of People in U.S. Likely Had Covid-19, CDC Says
Nearly 60% of people in the U.S., including three in four children, exhibited signs of previous Covid-19 infection as of February, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report said.
The estimated proportion of people in the U.S. with detectable, infection-induced antibodies jumped from 34% in December 2021 to 58% by February 2022, according to a study the CDC released Tuesday,
Wall Street Journal (News)Apr 10 2022
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Jan. 6 Panel Has Evidence for Criminal Referral of Trump, but Splits on Sending
The leaders of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack have grown divided over whether to make a criminal referral to the Justice Department of former President Donald J. Trump, even though they have concluded that they have enough evidence to do so, people involved in the discussions said.
The debate centers on whether making a referral — a largely symbolic act — would
New York Times (News)Apr 26 2022
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Harvard Creates Fund to Redress Its Ties to Slavery
Harvard University is committing $100 million to study and redress its ties to slavery, the university’s president announced Tuesday, and with that money will create an endowed “Legacy of Slavery Fund,” which will continue researching and memorializing that history, working with descendants of Black and Native American people enslaved at Harvard, as well as their broader communities.
New York Times (News)Apr 26 2022
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Jeff Bezos trolls Musk, says Twitter takeover may empower China
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos shared a conspiracy that Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter could empower China — just to later admit it was “probably” unfounded.
The Washington Post owner took aim at the only person in the world richer than him soon after Musk called his new $44 billion purchase “the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.”
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New York Post (News)Apr 26 2022
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Beijing enforces lockdowns, expands COVID-19 mass testing
Workers put up fencing and police restricted who could leave a locked-down area in Beijing on Tuesday as authorities in the Chinese capital stepped up efforts to prevent a major COVID-19 outbreak like the one that has all but shut down the city of Shanghai.
People lined up for throat swabs across much of Beijing as mass testing was expanded to 11 of the city’s 16 districts.
Associated PressApr 26 2022
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Biden Announces The First Pardons Of His Presidency
President Joe Biden announced Tuesday morning that he has granted clemency to 78 individuals, all of whom were convicted of low-level drug offenses or nonviolent crimes. Three people were pardoned, and 75 received commutations of their sentences.
It’s the first time Biden has exercised his constitutional clemency powers as president. Many of the people granted commutations were
HuffPostMay 03 2022
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Biden Statement: We Need More Pro-Choice Lawmakers to Codify Roe, 'Which I Will Work to Pass and Sign Into Law'
President Joe Biden said the apparent leak to Politico of a majority Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade means "we will need more pro-choice Senators and a pro-choice majority in the House to adopt legislation that codifies Roe, which I will work to pass and sign into law."
Biden's statement was posted on the White House website on Tuesday morning, the day after Politico
CNSNews.comMar 04 2022
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Russia to punish ‘fake’ war news, blocks Facebook, Twitter
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday intensified a crackdown on media outlets and individuals who fail to hew to the Kremlin line on the war in Ukraine, blocking Facebook and Twitter and signing into law a bill that criminalizes the intentional spreading of what Moscow deems to be “fake” reports.
The moves against the social media giants follow blocks imposed on the BBC, the U.S.
Associated Press