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.
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 ...
Texas power grid CEO is fired following widespread outages during winter storms
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Following widespread power outages during a series of winter storms that left many Texas residents in the dark for days, the head of the organization overseeing the state's power grid has been fired. Bill Magness, ...
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...
15 years ago a woman found a photo of an unknown family in a used book. Through the power of Twitter, she’s mailing it back to surviving members
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Every few years, a New York City woman took a moment to admire the family photo tucked away on her shelf -- but it wasn't a photo of her own family. Victoria Johnson came across the decades-old photo 15 years ago i...
Mother who lost her three children and her mom in a fire during Texas power outages talks about the tragic night
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As Texas hobbles back to normal life after a devastating winter storm, one mother is still trying to come to terms with a heart-wrenching and unfathomable personal tragedy. Jackie Pham Nguyen lost her mother, Loan...
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...
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...
Biden to travel to Houston on Friday in the wake of extreme weather and power outages
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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Houston on Friday as the state works to recover from major winter storms and power outages. "The President will meet with local leaders to discuss the win...
Jim Carrey is taking a break from posting his political art
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Jim Carrey is a painter, cartoonist and sketcher in his spare time, using the mediums the last couple of years to speak out against the Trump administration. The actor says he's now taking a break from posting the ...
Three children and their grandmother perished in a Texas fire after trying to stay warm during power outages. Their mom survived
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When the power went out at Loan Le's house in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land, Texas, on Monday, she headed over to her daughter's home about five miles away. Jackie Pham Nguyen and her three kids, Olivia, 11, Edis...
Protests in Haiti as political standoff continues
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Large crowds of Haitians took to the streets again on Sunday, as a standoff between President Jovenel Moise and the country's opposition movement stretched into its third week. "Those of us fighting, who want anothe...
With power outages across Texas, residents worry, wait and make do
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John Henderson's power first went out Tuesday morning and stayed off for 2 hours, and then came back on around 7 p.m., then was back off again around midnight and hasn't been on since, he said. What the San Antoni...