The Biden administration announced Friday it is reviewing or ending policies put in place by the Trump administration that weakened protections for endangered or threatened species. The move comes from an executive order Biden issued instructing all federal agencies to examine Trump administration actions that may conflict with Biden-Harris administration …
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Florida has the most variant covid cases in the United States. State health officials say in the two weeks following spring break cases have more than doubled and surpassed 11,800 cases, as of Wednesday. Officials fear that because “less than one-half of 1 percent of cases are studied for the …
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Matt Gaetz is back in the news, a now-frequent occurrence which, despite the all-press-is-good-press ethos around which he built his political career, hasn’t exactly been a boon to the Florida congressman’s brand over the past month or so. The Daily Beast reported Thursday night that it obtained a letter in …
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As the nation braces for the verdict in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis cop who killed George Floyd last May, the state of Florida has enacted sweeping and draconian restrictions on protest, and even given the state the power to veto local funding funding cuts to …
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In the latest socially distanced episode of our Useful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Stella Moris, a lawyer and the life partner of Julian Assange. Matt and Katie discuss a recent Twitter thread by Dr. Sarah T. Roberts of UCLA, in which she laments the fall …
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Republican House Minority Whip, Steve Scalise (R-La.), still won’t let go of the lie that the presidential election was stolen from former president Donald Trump. Scalise refused to say that President Biden won the election after ABC News host Jon Karl asked him point-blank. “Clear this up for me: Joe …
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WASHINGTON — In the days leading up to Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial earlier this month, Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the lead impeachment manager, heard the same question a lot: Could he convince enough Democratic and Republican senators convict the former president? Doing so required a two-thirds vote in the …
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The pandemic has driven home a lesson that’s been true for a long time about Republican politicians: They don’t actually care about the welfare of their constituents so long as they’re able to trick enough people into people into believing the other side is responsible for everything that’s wrong. Nearly …
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Georgia prosecutors pursuing a criminal investigation against former president Donald Trump for trying to influence the 2020 election are eyeing a call Sen. Lindsey Graham made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger as part of that probe, the Washington Post reported Friday. The call took place 10 days after …
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Fox Business abruptly canceled its highest-rated show, Lou Dobbs Tonight, just one day after voting software company Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News that named Dobbs and other Fox hosts, claiming they were part of a “disinformation campaign” against the company. Los Angeles Times writer Stephen Battaglio …
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