Department of Energy officials met in Washington, D.C., in early June with executives from Lithium Americas, the developer of Thacker Pass, a proposed project in northern Nevada that is the largest planned lithium mine in the United States. The first Trump administration approved the development of Thacker Pass in 2020 and, since then, the project
Radical mythology deemed December 14, 1825, the beginning of the Russian revolutionary movement. Tsar Alexander I had died three weeks earlier, and it was still not clear which of his brothers, Konstantin, who was in Warsaw, or Nicholas, who was present in the capital, would succeed him. Taking advantage of the confusion, a group of
The Republican president leapt from a window in an attempt to break quorum. James Talarico’s chartered flight featured leather seats and flight attendants. Texas state representative James Talarico (D.) compared himself to Abraham Lincoln while touting his party’s walkout to block Republican efforts to pass a new congressional map. But while the Great Emancipator attempted
After Biden administration climate adviser Jake Levine announced his campaign to represent California’s 32nd Congressional District, his wife, MSNBC host Jacqueline Alemany, took to X to assure the public that she will uphold journalistic standards. “As a journalist, it’s paramount to respect certain boundaries on my support,” Alemany wrote on Tuesday. “That means I won’t
Latest financial disclosure from Bowman’s Built to Win PAC shows $3k on hand, $47k in debts Jamaal Bowman (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) It’s a PAC of lies. Former congressman Jamaal Bowman left Congress claiming he had received commitments “in the millions” for his new Built to Win PAC, but his most recent federal financial disclosures show
Executive order will also target banks for dropping clients over politics Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order directing federal regulators to eliminate Obama-era guidelines that pressure banks to deny services to conservative groups. It also calls to punish banks that drop customers because of politics. The
‘Tax-exempt status is a privilege, not a right, and it should not subsidize organizations with links to terrorism,’ Arkansas senator writes Tom Cotton / Getty Images Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) is petitioning the IRS to formally investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for violations of its tax-exempt status, citing “ties to terrorist organizations,