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Apr 30 2020
News
Records Show Strzok Intervened when FBI Moved to Close Flynn Investigation Due to Lack of ‘Derogatory Information’
New unsealed FBI memos show that the Bureau found “no derogatory information” on former national security adviser Michael Flynn while investigating his alleged Russian contacts, and moved to close their investigation of him in early January 2017 before former FBI agent Peter Strzok intervened, asking to keep the case open.
The documents, which were released Thursday by the Department of
National Review (News)Aug 29 2017
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Harvey death toll reaches 10 while massive Houston reservoir spills over dam
The remnants of deadly Hurricane Harvey spun toward Louisiana on Tuesday with more potentially disastrous flooding and emergency evacuations, while a reservoir west of downtown Houston spilled over for the first time in its history due to record-shattering rainfall.
Washington PostSep 28 2021
Analysis
Four Jagged Puzzle Pieces and a Few Weeks for Democrats to Assemble Them
In a pivotal week, in a make-or-break stretch for President Biden’s domestic agenda, congressional Democrats are trying to assemble a puzzle of four jagged pieces that may or may not fit together.
Making them work as a whole is critical for the party’s agenda and political prospects, and how quickly they can assemble the puzzle will determine whether the government suffers another
New York Times (News)Sep 28 2020
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Scientists find new signs of 'climate breakdown' in study of warming oceans
In a rare calm moment during a historically active Atlantic hurricane season, an international team of climate scientists on Monday published a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change showing that human-caused global heating is making the world's oceans more "stable"—which, as co-author Michael Mann explained, is "very bad news."
Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center
AlterNetOct 08 2017
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Nate batters weary Southeast with heavy rains, flooding
Hurricane Nate blasted onto the Gulf Coast and lashed much of the Southeast with heavy rains and winds Sunday, fading to a tropical storm but still knocking out power to more than 100,000 people and driving rivers of water through the streets of many communities.
USA TODAYOct 10 2017
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A ‘pressure cooker’: Trump’s frustration and fury rupture alliances, threaten agenda
Frustrated by his Cabinet and angry that he has not received enough credit for his handling of three successive hurricanes, President Trump is now lashing out, rupturing alliances and imperiling his legislative agenda, numerous White House officials and outside advisers said Monday.
Washington PostAug 24 2021
Background
How media bias caused the moral panic surrounding climate change
President Biden has put combating climate change at the very top of his national and international agenda, saying that military officials had told him that climate change was the “greatest threat to America,” and both he and Senator Bernie Sanders have recently called climate change “an existential threat.”
Dire statements like this on climate change have become so commonplace that the
American Enterprise InstituteSep 07 2017
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Trump's debt deal with Dems stuns GOP, as Congress moves toward vote
President Trump has stunned Republican lawmakers with his abrupt decision to strike a deal with Democrats for a short-term increase in the debt ceiling tied to Hurricane Harvey relief money, though Congress nevertheless is moving quickly toward a vote that could come by the end of the week.
Fox News DigitalSep 02 2017
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Trump's natural gas vision may prove impervious to Harvey
The Trump administration's big push to export more U.S. natural gas to Europe, Asia, and beyond may prove impervious in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey's wrath, as the country's leading exporter of the gaseous fossil fuel on the Gulf Coast was able to continue business as normal during the storm.
Washington ExaminerSep 20 2020
Analysis
As the West Burns, The Trump Administration Races to Demolish Environmental Protections
AS WILDFIRES DESTROY millions of acres in California, Oregon, and Washington, and an unprecedented series of hurricanes cause historic flooding in the South, leaving parts of the region uninhabitable, the Trump administration has been racing to reverse rules designed to prevent exactly these kinds of climate disasters.
Throughout his presidency, Donald Trump has presided over the
The Intercept