Peruvian lawmaker Francisco Sagasti is set to become the country’s next interim president as violence, protest and political crisis grip the South American nation.
Once omnipresent Kushner now MIA from Trump’s political pack
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As Donald Trump plotted his Conservative Political Action Conference appearance last week, and a broader, more-robust plan to return to politics as an omnipresent disruptor, one person was conspicuously absent from ...
The veterans who need Congress to act in 2021
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Rep. Stephen F. Lynch is from Massachusetts and is the chairman of the House's Oversight and Reform Committee's Subcommittee on National Security, which led an investigation into K2 toxic exposures during the 116th C...
Vernon Jordan, civil rights leader and close ally of Bill Clinton, dies
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Washington Vernon Jordan, a civil rights leader and close adviser to former President Bill Clinton, died Monday evening, multiple sources close to the family tell CNN. He was 85. The former president of the National ...
UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield: Congress’ work in wake of Capitol riot ‘shows that our democracy is resilient’
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US ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Monday that Congress' work in the immediate wake of the US Capitol insurrection confirmed to her that American democracy had survived the January 6 at...
LeBron James hits back at Zlatan Ibrahimovic criticism of political activism
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Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James on Friday fired back at Zlatan Ibrahimovic and vowed to never stay silent about social causes after he was criticized by the AC Milan forward for sticking his nose into politic...
Alleged leader of Oath Keepers disavows right-wing extremist group
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Jessica Watkins, an alleged leader of the Oath Keepers that is accused of planning to attack the Capitol, disavowed the right-wing extremist group on Friday in her first public comments since her arrest. "Given the ...
Democratic women poised to shake up male-dominated industry with new political media firm
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Recent success stories about women in politics are about candidates breaking barriers. There's a female vice president. More women than ever before serve in Congress. But when it comes to the people who help get the...
India’s groundwater crisis threatens food security for hundreds of millions, study says
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Hundreds of millions of people in India face a serious threat to their livelihoods and food security due to overexploitation of vital water supplies, according to the authors of a new study. India is one of the worl...
The political transformation of Virgina
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This was excerpted from the February 24 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Click here to read past editions and subscribe. More than 400 years after the firs...
The workers who could get us through this crisis
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is a Democrat from New York. Sheila Davis, DNP, is the CEO of Partners In Health, an organization that works to provide high-quality health care to impoverished communities globally. The opini...
The stunning political power of AOC
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Last Thursday, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) announced her plan to raise money to help victims of the extreme weather -- and power grid failure -- in Texas. On Sunday night, her office confirmed that sh...