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Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images Meteorology may have come a long way since its inception, but it is not possible for anyone — whether it be the government, scientists or billionaires — to control the weather, according to experts. The desert region of Dubai received a record-breaking amount of rain — two year’s worth […]
Allison Robbert-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — During his campaign for president, Donald Trump and his advisers worked to vehemently distance themselves from Project 2025, the controversial plan to overhaul the federal government proposed by a closely aligned conservative group. But several individuals connected to the plan have already received posts in the new administration, and one […]
Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images Meteorology may have come a long way since its inception, but it is not possible for anyone — whether it be the government, scientists or billionaires — to control the weather, according to experts. The desert region of Dubai received a record-breaking amount of rain — two year’s worth […]
Russian President Valdimir Putin; Photo credit: Sefa Karacan/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that it defeated a Ukrainian ATACMS attack in the western Bryansk region, shortly before the Kremlin updated its nuclear weapons doctrine to allow for nuclear strikes in response to foreign ballistic missile attacks. Ukrainian forces fired […]
www.fuchieh.com/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump has proposed a plan to eliminate the Department of Education to “send all education work and needs back to the states,” according to his Agenda47 policy platform. According to education experts, an end to the Department of Education could leave billions of funds, scholarships, grants and more hanging in the […]
Steve Christo – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The United States has seen a significant increase in the use of clean energy over the last few years; however, Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of energy, has claimed otherwise. Wright, chief executive of Liberty Energy — the world’s second-largest fracking services company — […]
Daniel Slim via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Amid mounting frustration from centrist voters and shifting party coalitions, one group thinks it has the solution to making parties and political candidates: comprehensive election reform. Unite America, a philanthropic venture fund, is in the middle of a yearslong effort to support ballot initiatives that would fundamentally alter […]
Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images (LONDON) — The foreign ministries of Germany and Finland said Monday that they were “deeply concerned” by the severing of an undersea cable connecting the two countries across the Baltic Sea — one of two Baltic Sea connections suddenly damaged in recent days. Finnish company Cinia reported a “fault […]
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (LINCOLN, NE) — Dan Osborn, a former union president and Navy veteran who ran an unusually competitive U.S. Senate campaign in deep-red Nebraska as an independent, is launching a new political action committee meant to help working class candidates like himself run for office. “At least the idea […]
Justin Lane – Pool/Getty Image (NEW YORK) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is expected to propose the next steps in Donald Trump’s New York hush money case Tuesday after the “unprecedented circumstances” of the former president’s election following his conviction on 34 felony counts earlier this year. Trump’s sentencing in the criminal case is […]
