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The Biden administration’s 100-day supply chain review shines a spotlight on the urgent need to produce more critical minerals from U.S. mines.

This review includes useful directives to expand geologic studies to identify new critical mineral deposits, evaluate existing mine wastes as valuable sources of critical minerals, and increase the nation’s mineral processing capacity. However,

Hours after thousands of former president Donald Trump’s supporters attacked the US Capitol on Jan. 6, Jenny Cudd sat outside a downtown hotel and taped a 25-minute livestream on Facebook describing her participation in the mob — “the new revolution,” in her words.

The Midland, Texas, florist displayed a mix of pride, anger, and tears as she narrated how she and other “patriots” decided

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Early in the pandemic, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a picture of herself exercising with the caption, “this is my COVID protection.” While Greene is certainly known for hyperbole, her sentiment is widely shared: social media is packed with assertions that you’re safe from the virus if you eat healthy and exercise. But for every tweet wryly asking

Distrust, misinformation and delays because of the holidays and bad weather have combined to produce what authorities say are alarmingly low COVID-19 vaccination rates in U.S. children ages 5 to 11.

As of Tuesday, just over 17% were fully vaccinated, more than two months after shots became available to the age group. While Vermont is at 48%, California is just shy of 19% and Mississippi