Members of Congress face plenty of tough decisions when voting on legislation that can shape the course of the nation. The measure to award a congressional gold medal to the Capitol Police officers who responded to the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol should not have been one of them. …
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scoffed at the denials by the attorneys general who served under former president Trump about having any knowledge of the Justice Department’s decision to secretly seize Democratic lawmakers’ data. Pelosi said their claims were “beyond belief” and called on them to testify under oath before Congress. …
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In 2020, the American people not only rejected Trump’s attempt to capture a second presidential term, they also stopped naming their babies Donald in droves. According to HuffPost, the Social Security Administration’s latest list of popular baby names shows the name Donald plummeted 55 spots – from the 555th most …
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Mike Pence dedicated a good five years of his life to smiling serenely as former President Trump raved incoherently at a nearby podium. He’d then, at a later time but with the same serene smile, explain why Trump’s incoherent ravings were actually good, and strong, and patriotic. It was a …
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House Republicans elected Rep. Elise Stefanik to replace Rep. Liz Cheney as their House conference chair, the third top-ranking member of the caucus. Once a fierce Trump opponent known for bipartisanship, Stefanik pivoted during Trump’s impeachment to become one of his most avid defenders and a “rising star” in the …
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I came face to face with the Doomsday Glacier (a.k.a. Thwaites glacier) in 2019, on a trip to Antarctica aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer, a 308-foot-long icebreaker operated by the National Science Foundation. I had dubbed the Florida-sized slab of ice its nickname in an article I’d written a few …
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Colonial Pipeline, which operates the largest gasoline pipeline in the country, was forced to shut down operations on Friday due to a ransomware attack. In a Saturday statement, Colonial Pipeline said that it “proactively took certain systems offline to contain the threat, which has temporarily halted all pipeline operations, and …
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Although cases of Covid-19 had been trending downward in the United States, experts are warning that we are now in a precarious place after cases nationwide ticked up this past week by 12 percent as 30 states plus D.C. reported a rise in infections. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading …
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During a House Judiciary Committee meeting on the rise of violence and discrimination against Asian Americans during the pandemic, Democratic Rep. Grace Meng strongly denounced Texas’ Republican Rep. Chip Roy’s earlier remarks where he spoke glowingly of his state’s history of “lynchings” and whined about political correctness getting in the …
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The American Rescue Act, passed by Democrats alone in the House and Senate and signed into law Thursday by President Biden, is not only massive, it’s massively popular. The $1.9 trillion bill — which will deliver $1,400 relief checks to most citizens, dramatically expand federal support for children over the …
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