meIt was the death of a seller. With his tie undone and the crumpled cap of “Make America Great Again” in hand, Donald Trump cut a sad figure lurching through the south yard of the White House on his return from his failed return in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Some observers compared …
Read More »The EU is closer to banning US travelers, where the coronavirus is emerging
LONDON — The European Union is about to ban travelers from the United States when it opens its borders again next week because the rate of US coronavirus infection is too high, two EU diplomats said. The 27-member bloc is reopening for non-essential travel on July 1 and has drawn …
Read More »NASA pioneer Mary Jackson: how the ‘hidden figure’ became the space agency’s first black engineer
Earlier this week, NASA announced that it will rename its headquarters building in Washington DC after Mary W. Jackson, the space agency’s first black engineer. “Jackson began his career at NASA in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia,” NASA said in …
Read More »Minnesota sues Exxon and Koch Industries for damages caused by climate change
The oil and gas industry was affected by another lawsuit when Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced this week that his office is suing two of the nation’s largest oil companies, and the oil industry trade group, for a “30-year hoax campaign” over the impacts of climate change. At a …
Read More »The Republican Party’s excuse for ending unemployment benefits is not even true.
It turns out that people are willing to work even when generous unemployment benefits are on the table. Saul Loeb / Getty Images Republicans in Congress have a simple excuse why they don’t want to extend the federal unemployment benefits of $ 600 per week that are slated to expire …
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