On February 25, President Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the 116th Justice of the Supreme Court, to replace the retiring Justice Stephen Brenner. Judge Jackson is the first African American Women to be nominated to the United State’s highest court.
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The western United States has been locked in a mega-drought for the past 22 years and has developed into the worst one in at least 1,200 years, according to a study published February 14.
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Much is still unknown about Omicron. Omicron was first discovered by scientists in southern Africa and is now present in more than 30 countries.
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The federal government announced an agreement to extend funding until February on Thursday as Republican senators oppose President Joe Biden’s vaccination plan. The threat of shutting down became more real due to the discovery of the Omicron COVID variant.
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President Joe Biden said last year the country was confronting four “historic crises simultaneously.” The crises include the pandemic, financial instabilities, the requirement for racial equity, and the “undeniable realities and accelerating threats of climate change.”
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The pharmaceutical firm Merck declared last week that an antiviral pill it’s creating can significantly decrease numbers of hospitalizations and deaths among individuals with Coronavirus. The outcomes haven’t yet been thoroughly analyzed, though.
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Shortly before midnight on Wednesday, manufacturing and distributing employees at a John Deere facility in Waterloo, Iowa, shut down the foundry and walked out as a form of a protest against the company’s working conditions. The foundry was already empty and understaffed when Deere started telling their employees with night shifts not to come to work. Overnight workers panicked because of the lack of jobs in the market.
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President Joe Biden and three of his European partners said in a joint statement on Saturday that they’re certain that the Iran atomic arrangement can be reestablished in spite of its slow down over the mid-year.
In a joint statement that came following a conversation between Biden, United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G20 in Rome, the leaders said they are “convinced that it is possible to quickly reach and implement an understanding on return to full compliance” of the Iran nuclear deal.
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In the fall of 2021, we are continuing to not only see the social and medical ramifications of the Covid-19 Pandemic, but we are now seeing some more economic problems start to arise. That comes in the form of the United States overall unemployment rate continuing to plummet.
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The White House on Friday officially obstructed an attempt by Donald Trump to withhold reports from Congress about the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, setting up a legitimate confrontation between the current and previous presidents over the privilege to hold the documents.
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