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President Biden speaks at the United Steelworkers headquarters in Pittsburgh on April 17. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images President Biden speaks at the United Steelworkers headquarters in Pittsburgh on April 17. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images President Biden wants to tripleContinue Reading

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Afghanistan says the move is illegal, but Pakistan insists it’s for security reasons., Inside Story Afghanistan says the move is illegal, but Pakistan insists it’s for security reasons. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans are being forced to leave Pakistan as part of a government crackdown. Many have lived there forContinue Reading

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Ryan J. Reilly and Jane C. Timm @ NBC News: Speaker Johnson’s team briefed conservative influencers on his election bill before The Traitor meeting Conservative influencers were briefed about House Speaker Mike Johnson’s latest election integrity bill well before it was publicly announced. Nikki McCann Ramirez @ Rolling Stone: TheContinue Reading

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Hyster, a US manufacturer of forklifts and materials-handling equipment, has agreed to provide 10 battery-powered terminal tractors to shipping company APM Terminals at its location in Port of Mobile, Alabama. The tractors are part of APM’s $60-million investment in port equipment electrification pilots, and are scheduled to be delivered thisContinue Reading

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The following article was first reported and published by  The Lever , a reader-supported investigative news outlet that holds the powerful accountable. When Biden’s presidential envoy Joseph Yun landed in the Marshall Islands in June 2022, he took every precaution. Everyone involved wore teal N95 masks. Yun kept his distance fromContinue Reading

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Last September witnessed what used to be a truly rare weather phenomenon: a Mediterranean hurricane, or “medicane.” Once upon a time, the Mediterranean Sea simply didn’t get hot enough to produce hurricanes more than every few hundred (yes, few hundred!) years. In this case, however, Storm Daniel assaulted Libya withContinue Reading

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As the cost of housing has exploded, so has the number of people experiencing homelessness. And unfortunately, instead of trying to house people, more states and cities are criminalizing people simply for lacking a safe place to sleep. According to the National Homelessness Law Center, almost every state restricts the conduct of people experiencing homelessness. In Missouri,Continue Reading