“I will not go. And I will not go because of the virus situation,” Grassley said during a call with reporters, according to The Des Moines Register. The senator’s office confirmed to CNN that the comments reported by the newspaper are accurate. Grassley is also the longest-serving Republican in the …
Read More »The Supreme Court strikes the Keystone XL project
A federal judge in May sided with environmental groups, demanding that the new oil and gas pipelines undergo a long process of permits and regulation to build through bodies of water. That judge’s ruling canceled the so-called “National Permit 12” for several new pipelines, which authorized and accelerated work on …
Read More »American Egyptian medical student released from Egyptian prison after more than a year
Mohamed Amashah was released on Sunday “after 486 days of arbitrary detention,” according to the Freedom Initiative, the human rights organization that advocated on his behalf. He returned to the United States on Monday and “returned to his home in Jersey City, New Jersey to be with his loved ones,” …
Read More »Georgia Governor Brian Kemp Declares State of Emergency, Calls National Guard
Kemp, a Republican, said the executive order follows “weeks of violent crime and destruction of property in the city of Atlanta.” The governor’s statement says more than 30 Georgians were shot and wounded during the extended holiday weekend, including five people who died. One of the five deaths was that …
Read More »Fauci says – CNNPolitics
“We are still knee-deep in the first wave of this. And I would say this would not be considered a wave. It was an increase or a resurgence of infections superimposed on a baseline,” Fauci said in a live interview with Facebook. Director of the National Institute of Health, Dr. …
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