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President Joe Biden listens during a secure video call with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
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U.S. banning Russian oil imports as Biden warns of ‘costs’

The move follows pleas by Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy to U.S. and Western officials to cut off the imports, which had been a glaring omission of massive sanctions.

4 years ago

Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference
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Government Accountability
International

Russia’s invasion puts a new light on Trump’s Ukraine pressure campaign

With Russia's brutal invasion and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy being hailed as a hero, Trump's infamous 2019 call to Zelenskyy is put into a very different light.

4 years ago

Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., speaks during a news conference about the
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Race & Ethnicity

After more than a century of trying, Congress passes an anti-lynching bill

Passage of the legislation to make lynching a federal crime is a major milestone after more than 200 attempts to pass such legislation failed over the course of a century.

4 years ago

Chester City Hall. (Google maps)
Government Accountability
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Pennsylvania

Chester receiver takes city officials to court for interfering with financial recovery efforts

Receiver Michael Doweary has petitioned the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania for an order compelling city officials to cooperate with his orders.

4 years ago

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2014, file photo, truck drivers stop at a gas station in Emerson, Ga., north of metro Atlanta, to fill up their tractor trailer rigs. A new government rule being announced by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, requires an estimated 3 million commercial truck and bus drivers to electronically record their hours behind the wheel in an effort to enforce regulations to prevent fatigue. (AP Photo/David Tulis, File)
Energy
Environment
Government

EPA rule would make heavy trucks cut smog, soot pollution

The proposal would require the industry to cut smog-and-soot-forming nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 90% per truck over current standards by 2031.

4 years ago

President Joe Biden signs the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 into law on Thursday. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Government
Government Accountability

It’s a cliché to call an election-year Congress do-nothing. The history doesn’t match

There's no law against making laws in an election year. There are special challenges, to be sure, but the hurdles may loom larger in lore than in reality.

4 years ago

File photo: In this Dec. 6, 2019, file photo, Cindy Parlow Cone, vice-president of U.S. Soccer, attends a meeting of the organization's board of directors in Chicago.  (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
National
Sports

Cindy Parlow Cone wins 4-year term as U.S. Soccer president, beats Cordeiro

Cone, a former national team player, received 52.3% of the weighted vote on the first ballot during the USSF National Council meeting.

4 years ago

In this photo, Feb. 27, 2022, taken from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the nation in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP, File)
Government
International
Military

Zelenskyy’s ‘desperate’ plea to Congress: Send more planes

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke with some 300 members of Congress and their staffs in an hourlong private video call on Saturday.

4 years ago

Aeroflot's passenger planes are parked at Sheremetyevo airport, outside Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday. Aeroflot said Monday that it suspended flights to New York, Washington, Miami and Los Angeles through Wednesday because Canada has closed its airspace to Russian planes. (Pavel Golovkin/AP)
NPR

The State Department tells Americans to leave Russia immediately

The new travel advisory was issued over heightened security concerns in the country as Russian military forces carry out an "unprovoked and unjustified attack" in Ukraine.

4 years ago

People cross on an improvised path under a bridge that was destroyed by a Russian airstrike, while fleeing the town of Irpin, Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2022. What looked like a breakthrough cease-fire to evacuate residents from two cities in Ukraine quickly fell apart Saturday as Ukrainian officials said shelling had halted the work to remove civilians hours after Russia announced the deal.
International
Military

Putin says Ukraine’s future in doubt as cease-fires collapse

Ukrainian officials said Russian artillery fire and airstrikes had prevented residents from leaving before the agreed-to evacuations got underway on Saturday.

4 years ago

File photo: Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, Nov. 30, 2021. Pence will urge Republicans to move on from the 2020 election. And he will say
Elections
Government Accountability
National

Pence hits Trump: No room in GOP ‘for apologists for Putin’

Former Vice President Mike Pence has been working to differentiate himself from Trump as he lays the groundwork for a possible 2024 presidential run.

4 years ago

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg touted electric transit buses during his first visit to former political rival Joe Biden's home state. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
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Infrastructure
Transportation

Former Biden rival Buttigieg touts electric vehicles in visit to president’s home state

The transportation secretary says the president’s mammoth infrastructure package will benefit Delaware and the rest of America with cleaner air.

4 years ago

A woman fleeing the conflict from neighbouring Ukraine holds her baby at the Romanian-Ukrainian border, in Siret, Romania, Thursday, March 3, 2022. The number of people sent fleeing Ukraine by Russia's invasion topped 1 million on Wednesday, the swiftest refugee exodus this century, the United Nations said.. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
Radio Times
International

The war in Ukraine and the humanitarian crisis unfolding

Russia is stepping up its assault on Ukraine and targeting civilian areas. Hundreds have died and millions are fleeing, creating one of Europe's largest refugee crises.

Air Date: March 4, 2022 10:00 am

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An American flag unfurls off a pedicab as it glides past the Denver City/County Building, which is illuminated in yellow and blue in support of Ukraine, late Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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Immigration
International
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Tens of thousands of Ukrainians can stay in the U.S. without fear of deportation

The Biden administration will grant temporary protection from deportation to tens of thousands of Ukrainians who are already living in the U.S.

4 years ago

Part of a Russian missile shot down by Ukrainian air defense
Energy
International
Military

Fire out at key Ukraine nuclear plant, no radiation released

The head of the United Nations’ atomic agency said that a Russian “projectile” hit a training center at the Zaporizhzhia plant.

4 years ago

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