POLITICS

The Biden Admin Forced Gas and Coal Plants To Embrace Carbon Capture—Then Privately Told Climate Activists To Fight It

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Last April, the Biden administration finalized environmental rules that effectively force gas and coal plants to adopt carbon capture—an expensive and controversial process in which emissions are stored underground—or risk shutting down. Months later, in November, a senior Biden EPA official told activists to “keep fighting” an ExxonMobil carbon capture project in Texas, the Washington Free

IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel Stepping Down Before Trump Inauguration

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‘The best way to support a successful transition is to depart the IRS on Jan. 20,’ he says. The head of the IRS said he is stepping down just before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. “After significant introspection and consultation with others, I’ve determined the best way to support a successful transition is to depart the

Biden and Harris Declare the Equal Rights Amendment ‘the Law of the Land.’ It Isn’t.

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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris declared on Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is “the law of the land.” It isn’t, as Biden and Harris do not have the authority to approve constitutional amendments, their statements carry no legal weight, and the U.S. archivist tasked with certifying the amendment has repeatedly

US Sanctions Chinese Firm Over Treasury Breach

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The action is part of a U.S. operation to counter ‘increasingly reckless cyber activity’ from Beijing, Treasury officials said. The United States on Jan. 17 sanctioned a Chinese cyber actor and a cybersecurity firm, accusing both of aiding the recent hack into the Treasury Department and the intrusion into major U.S. telecom providers. The Chinese

Expert on Jewish Proclivities Joe Scarborough Says Jews Will Always Vote for Democrats, Even If Democrats Put Conditions on Aid to Israel

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‘Don’t sit there wringing your hands, going, “I’m not going to get the Jewish vote,” because that’s just not the case,’ Scarborough says MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Friday that Jewish Americans will always vote Democratic, even if the party becomes tougher on Israel and puts conditions on military aid to the Jewish state. “After

Appeals court again declares DACA illegal, but keeps policy alive

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Washington — A federal appeals court on Friday declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy unlawful, casting a cloud of certainty over more than half a million unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. A panel of judges before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the