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Apr 09 2024
News
More of this for Ukraine, Please ... U.S. Government to Approve Commercial Sale of Air Defense
As I have said earlier … he will not leave Ukraine to be swallowed up by Putin and Russia’s revanchist neo-imperialistic project. It has been 10 years now since Russia invaded Ukraine(Crimea) and JRB(our awesome President) and the late senator John McCain were among the earliest U.S. senior officials to support Ukraine against Russia. JRB isn’t about to quit now, even as the House of
Daily KosMar 18 2024
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US Supreme Court seems wary of curbing US government contacts with social media platforms
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared skeptical of a challenge on free speech grounds to how President Joe Biden's administration encouraged social media platforms to remove posts that federal officials deemed misinformation, including about elections and COVID-19.
The justices heard oral arguments in the administration's appeal of a lower court's preliminary injunction
ReutersMar 25 2024
Opinion
I helped advise the US government on the next likely pandemic. What I learned is alarming
Four years on from the first Covid lockdown, life feels to be largely back to normal, although legacies of the pandemic remain. Collective amnesia seems to have set in. Politicians seem eager to move forward and not relive the decisions, delays and deaths that characterised public policy and press briefings. Yet we can’t forget such a brutal event, when Covid is estimated to have killed nearly
The GuardianMar 27 2024
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Biden promises US government will pay for Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge reconstruction
President Joe Biden would like the federal government to pay for the reconstruction of Baltimore‘s Francis Scott Key Bridge despite its collapse being caused by a foreign container ship.
“I have directed my team to move heaven and earth to reopen the port and rebuild the bridge as soon as humanly possible,” Biden told reporters in the White House‘s Roosevelt Room Tuesday. “It’s my
Washington ExaminerMar 20 2024
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US solar factories need more government support to succeed, report says
March 20 (Reuters) - U.S. efforts to build a domestic supply chain for solar energy components is stalled and will require urgent government action to support the factories needed to compete with China, according to a report published on Wednesday.
The analysis by Guidehouse Insights, commissioned by the Solar Energy Manufacturers for America Coalition, said existing federal subsidies
ReutersApr 14 2024
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Supremes hammer local government 'extortion' of homeowner
The U.S. Supreme Court has called out a California county for what amounts to "extortion" of a homeowner who bought land there and built a home in which to raise his grandson. The ruling in Sheetz v. El Dorado County returns the dispute to the lower courts for them to determine what traffic impact a single home will have. Earlier, county officials, without determining how much traffic would be
WNDApr 17 2024
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Chinese government linked to illicit fentanyl trade
Beijing’s communist government is supporting illicit trade in deadly fentanyl by offering tax rebates and other incentives to manufacturers in China, according to a bipartisan report by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
An investigation by the committee, based on data gathered from the Chinese government’s internet, revealed extensive links between fentanyl
Washington TimesApr 05 2024
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Federal government now wants to weigh in during U.S. Supreme Court arguments on Grants Pass homeless camping case
The U.S. solicitor general wants time to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to narrow a court order barring Grant Pass from enforcing its public camping ban that has roiled cities across the West on how to deal with rising homelessness. The federal government has a stake in the issue as “the country’s largest property owner” to protect people from unconstitutional policing while also ensuring cites
The OregonianApr 17 2024
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Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government
Dozens of Google employees began occupying company offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, California, on Tuesday in protest of the company’s $1.2 billion contract providing cloud computing services to the Israeli government.
The sit-in, organized by the activist group No Tech for Apartheid, is happening at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office in Sunnyvale and the 10th floor commons
WiredApr 17 2024
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Japanese Executives Call for Government Steps to Bolster Yen
Japanese financial authorities should consider conducting coordinated currency intervention with other countries to support the yen, the head of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry said.
Small and mid-sized Japanese companies are suffering from the rising costs of imported materials as the yen trades near a 34-year low against the dollar, TCCI Chairman Ken Kobayashi said
Bloomberg