Month: September 2020

Almost 20 years ago, the U.S. Energy Information Administration had an idea: Make an educational website for children about energy sources and the science behind them. Click Here: gold coast suns 2019 guernsey In short order, the EIA created “Energy Kids,” which now features energy-themed sudoku and crossword puzzles, colorful pie charts and a know-it-all…

A new initiative aims to to address what it describes as a “disturbing spike in hate incidents across the United States” with a database and hotline to help impacted communities and document the bigotry. Communities Against Hate was led by The Leadership Conference Education Fund and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, working…

Matching a growing popular demand, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee on Saturday urged Congress to create an independent commission to investigate the possible role that members of President Donald Trump’s campaign or transition teams may have had with alleged Russian interference in last year’s presidential election. In a video message released on…

Legislation that would expand benefits for Social Security recipients while giving millions of seniors a tax break was re-introduced in the U.S. House on Wednesday, with support from over two-thirds of the Democratic caucus—and, its backers hope, from large swaths of the grassroots resistance movement. Rep. John Larson’s (D-Conn.) bill, the “Social Security 2100 Act”…

Despite state leaders’ “hankering to kill,” the U.S. Supreme Court late Monday refused to allow the state to proceed with its scheduled execution, dealing yet another legal blow to the government’s planned spree. “The nation’s highest court took several hours to reach its decision, finally announcing at 11:50pm [local time] that it had declined to…

In Sunday’s episode of “Last Week Tonight,” host John Oliver took on media consolidation and the not-so-covert conservative bias at Sinclair Broadcast Group’s local news stations. “With Sinclair, they’re injecting Fox-worthy content into the mouths of your local news anchors—the two people who you know, and who you trust.” —comedian John Oliver”Sinclair may be the…

Former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.) said Tuesday he believes the Senate will launch an ethics investigation into Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R) if he wins the election even if President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named…

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Staying true to his “pledge to erode the constitutional right to abortion,” President Donald Trump on Friday nominated leading anti-choice crusader Charmaine Yoest to a top post at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The anti-choice law firm Americans United for Life, where Yoest previously served as president and CEO, describes the nominee…

Following President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey, 20 state attorneys general have added their voices to the chorus and called for an independent special prosecutor to probe alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The letter (pdf), dated May 11 and addressed to U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (as Attorney…