Trump was seen without wearing a mask during his visit to Atlanta on Wednesday, and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in “The Situation Room” that Trump violated the law. The Hartsfield-Jackson airport is owned and operated by the city of Atlanta and is therefore included in …
Read More »Supreme Court Rules Wesley Purkey’s Federal Execution May Proceed
The court order grants the government’s request to lift a court order that had blocked Purkey’s execution, originally scheduled for Wednesday night. Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan disagreed in opinion 5-4. United States District Judge Tanya Chutkan issued an injunction on Wednesday prohibiting the …
Read More »Trump weakens the National Environmental Policy Act
President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce proposed setbacks to the National Environmental Policy Act regulations in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on January 9, 2020. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump finalized on Wednesday a reversal of the country’s environmental law, the …
Read More »Trump revokes major environmental law to speed up big infrastructure projects
President Trump announced on Wednesday that he is repealing a fundamental Nixon-era environmental law that he says stifles infrastructure projects but is credited with preventing large construction projects from dirtying the environment and ensuring public input on major projects. “Together we are reclaiming the proud heritage of the United States …
Read More »Covid Hospital data now goes to Washington instead of CDC. An epidemiologist explains why that is a problem
The change was confirmed by Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign strategist who is now an assistant secretary for public affairs at HHS. He said in a statement: “The CDC’s old hospital data collection operation once worked well in monitoring hospital information across the country, but today it is an …
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