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Oct 13 2021
News
LA port to open round the clock to tackle shipping queues
One of biggest US ports will start operating 24 hours a day to try to clear long queues of cargo ships stuck waiting outside.
It comes as officials scramble to ease global supply issues that may lead to goods shortages this Christmas.
The Port of Los Angeles in California will handle more goods at night after a similar move by nearby Long Beach port.
The ports - which
BBC News
Jul 01 2022
News
Supreme Court overturns Trump-era border policy
The Supreme Court ruled the Biden administration can terminate the Trump administration’s “Migrant Protection Protocols,” also known as the “Remain in Mexico” program, which required asylum seekers at the U.S. border to wait in Mexico while their cases are processed.
The justices, in a 5-4 ruling authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, overturned a federal appeals court decision
NewsNation
Mar 09 2022
Opinion
Now Let's Do the American Oligarchs
About that "violent regime" business: It's possible to condemn the violence perpetrated by Russia's government while at the same time recognizing and condemning of our own. Our direct attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan, among other countries, have been matched by the proxy violence we have funded in nations like Palestine and Syria. Our sanctions have taken countless lives around the world, a
Common Dreams
Feb 28 2022
News
Putin eyes next phase as military advance held up by Ukrainian resistance
The Kremlin has declined to comment on details of the military operation, and its Defense Ministry is adamant that the campaign has been successful.
A senior US defense official said there were indications that in the last 24 hours Moscow had become frustrated by slow progress due to the unexpectedly strong Ukrainian defense and failure to achieve complete air dominance.
Deutsche Welle
Jul 26 2022
Analysis
The 1970s and now: Inflation, an unbalanced economy, and tough choices
From the grocery store to the electronics retailer to the car dealership, Americans ask the same question: When will inflation go back down to normal?
The answer is hard, frustratingly so, because the economy looks and acts a lot like a playground seesaw. Although it’s constantly in search of balance, occasionally a bully jumps on one end, tipping it toward recession or high inflation.
Christian Science Monitor
May 10 2022
Opinion
The major blind spot in Bill Gates’s pandemic prevention plan
“Many people in rich countries were shocked by the world’s unequal response to Covid,” Bill Gates writes in his new book, How to Prevent the Next Pandemic, which offers insights into how the tech billionaire and global health leader believes the world should prepare for global health crises. “Not because it was out of the ordinary but because health inequities are not visible to them the rest
Vox
Jul 26 2022
News
Trevor Reed says White House is 'not doing enough' to bring Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan home
The former U.S. Marine freed from a Russian prison in April said he believes President Joe Biden isn’t doing enough to bring basketball star Brittney Griner or corporate executive Paul Whelan home.
Trevor Reed, who was released in a prisoner exchange for Russian drug trafficker Konstantin Yaroshenko after having served more than two years behind bars, said in an interview that he
NBC News Digital
Dec 07 2021
News
Biden wraps two-hour call with Putin
President Biden wrapped a two-hour video call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday during which the U.S. president warned Moscow against invading Ukraine.
The White House said in a subsequent readout that Biden “voiced the deep concerns of the United States and our European Allies about Russia’s escalation of forces surrounding Ukraine and made clear that the U.S. and our
The Hill
Mar 19 2022
Analysis
Mixed signals from Ukraine’s president and his aides leave West confused about his end game
The mounting death toll in Ukraine has forced President Volodymyr Zelensky to consider concessions to Russia in order to bring an end to the devastating conflict, but the specific elements of any peace deal his government may be discussing with Moscow remain a mystery to Western leaders, said U.S. and European officials.
The secretive rounds of meetings between Russian and Ukrainian
Washington Post
May 31 2021
News
Tulsa massacre: Biden urges Americans to reflect on ‘deep roots of racial terror’
In a speech marking 100 years since the Tulsa race massacre, Joe Biden called on Americans to think upon “the deep roots of racial terror” in the United States and to destroy systemic racism in their society.
In hard-hitting words as part of a declaration of a day of remembrance for the hundreds of Black victims of the 1921 mass killing in Oklahoma, Biden used unusually strong language
The Guardian