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Sen. Bernie Sanders argued Saturday that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour isn’t “incidental” to the federal budget, despite skepticism from Capitol Hill and the White House of its future in President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 relief package. “I’m very proud of the strong arguments our legal team is making to the parliamentarian that
Continue ReadingThe Transportation Security Administration is working to hire more than 6,000 airport security screening officers ahead of the traditionally busy summer travel season. The agency said in a news release that it was expecting a seasonal increase in the number of air travelers in the coming months and that more people will be flying as
Continue ReadingKremlin critic Alexey Navalny will remain behind bars after a Russian court partially rejected his appeal over a two-and-a-half year jail sentence handed down earlier this month. Then, in a separate case also heard on Saturday, Navalny was found guilty of defaming a World War II veteran and fined 850,000 rubles ($11,480). In the morning
Continue ReadingThe Ingenuity helicopter, sidekick and traveling companion of NASA’s Perseverance rover, has checked in with a good report and is “operating as expected,” according to the agency. If successful, Ingenuity will be the first helicopter to fly on another planet, leading to an “extraterrestrial Wright Brothers moment,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science
Continue ReadingAs far as Jill Biden is concerned, there isn’t necessarily going to be one “first lady platform,” or even two or three. A month into the job, and Biden has heaped a lot on her agenda, unsure at the moment exactly how it will unfold, only that it will “naturally evolve,” she has told her
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story Lincoln, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal-Star) — The military scattered the friends after they graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. For a time, one of them was stationed on the West Coast, another on the East Coast, the third on the Gulf Coast. When they would talk about home, Nebraska
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden has approved a major disaster declaration for Texas, unlocking more federal resources to assist the state struggling to recover from deadly winter storms. “Yesterday, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that a major disaster exists in the State of Texas and ordered federal assistance to supplement state and local recovery efforts in
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story Missoula, Montana (Missoulian) — The implications of Montana’s new constitutional-carry gun law will take some time to settle out on the state’s college campuses. “There are two things we know,” Montana University System Deputy Commissioner Kevin McRae said on Friday. “First, the Board of Regents’ May meeting will
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story West Linn, Oregon (KPTV) — Friday marks one week without power for tens of thousands of people across the Portland metro area. Many of those people are living in rural areas where access to resources is more difficult. One of those PGE customers is Kit Vandebroucke, who has
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Health experts have said that data so far has shown that Covid-19 vaccines prevent symptoms of the virus — but a new study suggests that the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines may also prevent infections. A team at the Mayo Clinic health system looked at more than 31,000 people across four states who had received at
Continue ReadingSynthetic chemicals called phthalates are damaging children’s brain development and therefore must be immediately banned from consumer products, according to a group of scientists and health professionals from Project TENDR. Project TENDR, which stands for Targeting Environmental Neuro-Development Risks, is a group of volunteer scientists, health professionals and child advocates working to study and reduce
Continue ReadingKim Kardashian West has filed for divorce from Kanye West, a court clerk for Los Angeles Superior Court confirmed to CNN on Friday. Christy Welder, a representative for Kardashian West, confirmed the divorce filing but said Kardashian West had no additional comment. CNN has reached out to West for comment. The filing cites irreconcilable differences
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Texans weathering harsh winter conditions will get some relief from the cold on Saturday, although many in the state are still without basic utilities. Saturday morning temperatures may be as low as 20 degrees for many inland locations, including Dallas and College Station, but the welcome return of onshore winds and full sunshine will warm
Continue ReadingEach day before the internet goes down, anti-coup activists in Myanmar pile on to social media and encrypted messaging apps to frantically organize the next day’s protest. By day, thousands of people across the country join vibrant demonstrations calling for the military, which seized power in a coup on February 1, to hand back power
Continue ReadingIt’s not supposed to look this easy. A little more than one month since President Joe Biden entered office, his cornerstone legislative priority — a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package — is on the path to passage by the deadline his administration set, largely mirroring the key elements he originally proposed. While Biden’s hope for
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The United States is seeing a large decline in new Covid-19 cases — but there’s a major caveat. According to a CNN analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University, the US is seeing a 29% decline in new Covid-19 cases compared to this time last week, the steepest one-week decline the country has seen during
Continue ReadingChina has revealed that four of its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers were killed during a bloody hand-to-hand battle with Indian troops on the two countries’ disputed border high in the Himalayas in June 2020. The two sides fought with fists, stones, and nailed-studded bamboo poles, in what was the deadliest border clash between the
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President Joe Biden pronounced to world leaders Friday that “America is back,” promising that he would position the country to take a prominent role in the global fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, hours before touring a vaccine manufacturing plant in Michigan, where he told Americans, “We’re going to beat this.” Addressing back-to-back diplomatic meetings and
Continue ReadingWeeks before the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, a burly and bearded neo-Nazi told a CNN reporter on camera that “Jews are terrorists.” At the rally — which turned deadly — he participated with gusto, carrying a banner that, according to court documents, said, “Gas the kikes, race war now!” during
Continue ReadingIt was late May. The world was helplessly watching as the Covid-19 pandemic advanced unimpeded country after country in what would later be called “the first wave” of infections. After China, Italy and the UK had become the virus hotspots, cities in the United States, especially New York, followed. And then in late spring, the
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