Tag Archives: politics

Nilofar Ayoubi first heard about the 9/11 attacks on the radio, as there was no TV or internet growing up under the Taliban. Within weeks, U.S. warplanes began bombing Taliban and Al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan, and Northern Alliance rebels were blitzing across the plains with support from American special …

Hospitalizations due to Covid-19 surpassed 100,000 nationwide this week, more than doubling the amount of those admitted last month and marking the second time rates have been this high throughout the pandemic, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. According to the Department of Health and Human …

The Biden administration imposed new sanctions against a Cuban official for alleged human rights abuses inflicted on protesters during the government’s crackdown earlier this month. The sanctions, brought against the Cuban defense minister and the head of the nation’s special forces brigade, Alvaro Lopez Miera, were “just the beginning,” President …

Republicans had more confidence in science four decades ago than they do today, according to a new poll. In 1975, Gallup polled U.S. adults about their confidence in science, and 72 percent of Republicans said they had “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the field. But …

Once again, the Texas GOP is pushing forward a bill that would suppress voting in the state, and once again, Democratic legislators in the state are planning to leave the state to stop it from passing. At least 58 Democratic lawmakers intend to fly to the nation’s capital where they …

President Biden fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul, a Trump holdover, after he refused to resign. Saul, who was fired on Friday, said he does not intend to leave and claims the White House’s move to fire him as the head of the independent agency, which usually doesn’t change along …

The Supreme Court decided not to hear a Virginia school board’s appeal of a lower court decision to allow transgender students to use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity. In doing so, the court handed a victory to Gavin Grimm, a transgender student who sued his school when …

It’s an exaggeration to say that the future of human civilization depends on Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s charm and persuasiveness. But not by much. She has become the face of President Biden’s climate and clean-energy push – in the last two weeks, alone, she’s been to Houston, West Virginia, and …

The Biden administration announced that the government will not require federal employees to be vaccinated for Covid-19 in order to work in federal buildings. Recommendations by the Safer Federal Workforce task force on Thursday state that the administration “strongly encourages” all Americans to get the vaccine, vaccination “should generally not …

Sen. Joe Manchin might have just killed Democrats’ dreams of passing comprehensive election reform. The senator announced Sunday that will not support the For the People Act, making him the only senate Democrat not in favor of it. If passed, the For the People Act would expand access to the …