Mega-Drought Continues to Ravage Western U.S.
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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Biden’s New Covid Plan: Omicron Edition
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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Government Shutdown: What to Expect?
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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Biden’s Promise on Climate Change: What to Expect?
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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Experimental COVID-19 Pill and Its Potential Effects
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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Strikes Are Sweeping the Labor Market as Workers Wield New Leverage
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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Biden’s Plan to Restore and Restructure Iran Deal
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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U.S. Unemployment Rates Continue to Drop
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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Biden Declines Trump Request to Withhold White House Records From Jan. 6 Committee
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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Federal Judge Issues Order Blocking Texas’ Six-Week Abortion Ban
“From the moment S.B. 8 went into effect, women have been unlawfully prevented from exercising control over their lives in ways that are protected by the Constitution”, US District Judge Robert Pitman said when addressing a request from the Justice Department, which brought the lawsuit. “That other courts may find a way to avoid this conclusion is theirs to decide; this Court will not sanction one more day of this offensive deprivation of such an important right.” The appointed authority’s structure is a win for abortion laws’ defenders, who had seen different endeavors to hinder the law obstructed by the ban’s plan. Though, it may be just an impermanent triumph.
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