Hierdie week, Venezolane word gevra om nie een keer maar twee keer na die stembus te gaan nie, in twee bisarre botsende verkiesingsgebeurtenisse.
Severe storms this weekend are just the beginning of a very active week of weather
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After a final taste of old man winter this week, spring's extreme weather will roar back to life with tornadoes, hail and extreme winds over the next week. Meer as 30 million people are under the threat of severe...
Harris casts first tie-breaking vote for a Biden nominee after Senate splits on Pentagon pick
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Vice President Kamala Harris cast her first tie-breaking vote related to a Biden administration nominee on the Senate floor Wednesday evening, voting to advance the nomination of Colin Kahl to be the Pentagon's unde...
Luzardo follows Manaea’s stellar start, A’s beat Twins twice
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Matt Olson hit a grand slam, Mitch Moreland homered twice to back Sean Manaea's shutout, and Jesús Luzardo followed with his own Game 2 gem as Oakland swept a doubleheader against the depleted Twins, 7-0 en 1-0 op T ...
Reps. Roy, Herrell move to force House vote on extending Trump-era border restrictions
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Roy filed a discharge petition to force a vote in the House, where Democrats hold a slim majority, on Herrell’s PAUSE Act. That bill would keep Title 42 protections in place until all COVID-19 mandates and public hea...
New York attorney general asked to investigate Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s book
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The New York state comptroller has asked the state's attorney general to investigate allegations that Gov. Andrew Cuomo used state resources in the "development and promotion" of his book on the coronavirus pandemic...
Supreme Court asked to make foreign intelligence court opinions public
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The ACLU and other groups asked the Supreme Court on Monday to consider whether a special court that reviews government requests for electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes must disclose significan...
Ohio GOP lawmaker to resign giving Republicans one fewer vote in the House
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Republikeinse Rep. Steve Stivers of Ohio announced Monday on Twitter that he is leaving Congress next month to become the president and CEO of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, giving the GOP at least temporarily one fewer...
Negotiations over Biden’s infrastructure package continue in Congress this week. Here’s what to watch
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Washington Washington is staring down a bumpy road to infrastructure consensus. The Biden administration's roughly $ 2 trillion proposal focused on infrastructure and the climate crisis enters a critical week on Ca...
Todd Piro: My 6 week paternity leave adventure — between bottles and Baby Shark, watching love unfold
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Playing off the old "Seinfeld" episode called "The Summer of George," where the character George Costanza plans an activity-filled three months away from work that ultimately ends with him failing to leave his apartm...
Janice Dean: Cuomo, COVID and the anniversary of my mother-in-law’s death – why this week was so hard
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-- Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore" I have this quote printed out and posted on my wall. I have read it every day and I realized my family has lived through that storm. April 14th was the one-year anniversary o...
How to celebrate National Volunteer Week
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Covid-19 has presented challenges to both staffing and financing for charitable causes around the world. Hierdie jaar, non-profits are using National Volunteer Week (April 18-24) to ramp up support. "There's never been...