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Sep 08 2021
News
Biden Asks Congress For $30 Billion To Help Disaster Relief And Afghan Evacuees
President Biden is asking Congress for billions in additional funding to help with natural disasters and aid for Afghan evacuees.
The White House wants $24 billion in additional funding to help recovery efforts for the California wildfires and several hurricanes, including Hurricane Ida. Biden administration officials are also asking for $6.4 billion to help with resettling vulnerable
NPR (Online News)Sep 07 2021
News
Climate Change Is The Greatest Threat To Public Health, Top Medical Journals Warn
The rapidly warming climate is the "greatest threat" to global public health, more than 200 medical journals are warning in an unprecedented joint statement that urges world leaders to cut heat-trapping emissions to avoid "catastrophic harm to health that will be impossible to reverse."
The editorial, which was published in leading journals such as The Lancet, The New England Journal of
NPR (Online News)Jul 15 2021
Opinion
America's choice: Build bridges or grow government
We face a pivotal choice for the direction of our country. We have an opportunity to pass a very important transportation and infrastructure bill or go down the path of the most massive level of spending ever contemplated in the history of the United States. We are witnessing the Left attempting to justify a historically preposterous expansion of government by leveraging a crisis that is
Dan MeuserAug 31 2017
News
2 explosions, black smoke reported at chemical plant outside Houston
At least one police officer was hospitalized after inhaling fumes following two explosions that rocked a flooded chemical plant outside of Houston on Thursday morning, officials said.
Fox News DigitalAug 28 2017
News
Heartbreak in Texas: Harvey will drive 30,000 to shelters, FEMA says
More than 30,000 people will need shelters as a result of the unrelenting rains and flooding of Tropical Storm Harvey overwhelming Texas, FEMA Administrator Brock Long said Monday.
USA TODAYSep 20 2017
News
Mexico Earthquake Kills Hundreds, Trapping Many Under Rubble
A powerful earthquake struck Mexico on Tuesday afternoon, toppling buildings, killing children in a school that collapsed, rattling the capital and sending people flooding into the streets for the second time in just two weeks.
New York Times (News)Jun 24 2018
News
Reviewers pounce on online report Virginia restaurant refused to serve Sarah Sanders
Reviewers from both sides of the aisle flooded a Virginia restaurant’s Facebook and Yelp pages with one- and five-star reviews after a server at the restaurant claimed his boss kicked out White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
The HillMar 07 2020
News
Why don’t we panic about climate change like we do coronavirus?
Because “outbreak” and “pandemic” and any of a dozen high-stakes words accompany dispatches about the deadly novel coronavirus, it’s not surprising — nor even ill-advised — that the news media and financial markets respond with alarm to COVID-19.
Still, the critical response leaves scientists, environmental advocates and long-view money managers imploring: Where’s the outrage on any
MarketWatchNov 30 2021
Analysis
The World Has No Answer for Migration
We didn’t need a confrontation between Belarus and the European Union over the fate of thousands of migrants and asylum-seekers from the Middle East and Africa to remind us that Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko was a brutal dictator with scant regard for human suffering—we knew that already. Instead, the real lesson of the crisis is what it says about the ability and willingness of
Foreign PolicyJul 09 2018
News
Thai cave rescue operation suspended after four more boys freed
Rescuers working at a cave site in northern Thailand have suspended operations for the day after bringing four more boys out of the flooded cave system Monday, according to a witness working with the rescue team, bringing the total number of rescued boys to eight.
CNN Digital