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Year: 2021

Biden’s climate push promises ‘jobs, jobs, jobs.’ Here’s what that might look like

In his first address to a joint session of Congress last week, President Joe Biden framed his climate change agenda as a once-in-a-generation economic opportunity, speaking directly to blue-collar workers. He promised that his focus on the environment would result in “jobs, jobs, jobs.” But what will those “jobs, jobs, jobs” look like? Although the

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Soldiers who went missing on secret US military mission in 1962 to be honored with Maine memorial

The families of soldiers lost while taking part in a secret US mission during the Vietnam War have long wanted their relatives’ names included on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. Because of complexities surrounding Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 — which disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1962 — that hasn’t happened. But relatives

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Felipe Solá, canciller de Argentina: «Si la oposición no va a elecciones en Venezuela, se va a alejar cada vez más del pueblo. Y es exactamente lo que le conviene a Maduro»

(CNN Español) — Felipe Solá, ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de la Argentina, en una entrevista con María O’Donnell y Ernesto Tenembaum en Conecta2 por CNN en Español, expresó el riesgo que conlleva para el Mercosur la postura de Brasil y Uruguay de no respetar el tratado que establece el consenso entre las partes y alertó

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3 killed, 27 hospitalized after boat capsizes off San Diego in human smuggling attempt

SAN DIEGO, California — Three people were killed and more than two dozen others were hospitalized Sunday after a boat capsized and broke apart in rough water just off the San Diego coast during a suspected human smuggling operation, authorities said. Lifeguards, the U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies responded around 10 a.m. following reports

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Senate Republicans insist bipartisan infrastructure deal is possible while slamming size and scope of White House proposal

Several Senate Republicans insisted on Sunday that they were open to a bipartisan deal on a narrow infrastructure plan, despite slamming the size and scope of President Joe Biden’s massive infrastructure proposal. Biden unveiled a roughly $2 trillion dollar package in March that aims to improve the nation’s infrastructure and shift to greener energy over

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Cindy McCain on Afghanistan withdrawal: ‘The whole effort will be for nothing unless we do it correctly’

Cindy McCain said Sunday that if her late husband, Arizona Sen. John McCain, were alive, he would be watching the US’ approach to withdrawing troops from Afghanistan and warned that America’s longest war will have been “for nothing” if it’s not done correctly. “I’ve often thought what John would say right now, what he would

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