U.S. Senate advances $95.3 billion bill that includes emergency funding for Ukraine, Israel
The U.S. Senate voted 67-32 to move ahead on the measure, after a tense week on Capitol Hill that saw immigration provisions dropped from the package following opposition from Republicans. Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate moved past a procedural hurdle Thursday to begin work on a $95 billion emergency spending bill that…
Georgia senators debate state pullout from accrediting American Library Association
Participants in a Feb. 1 rally at the Georgia Capitol supported a suite of bills they said would remove obscenity from libraries. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder Some conservative state senators want Georgia to become the latest state to pull out of the American Library Association, a nonprofit organization that supports libraries and accredits the schools that…
The EPA Launches a Crackdown on Killer Soot
Stanton Energy Center, a coal-fired power plant, in Orlando.Paul Hennessy / ZUMA This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized long-awaited new limits on soot, the tiny air pollution particles emitted by sources as varied as power plants, factories, car exhaust,…
Chris LaCivita Ran One of American Politics’ Most Notorious Smear Campaigns. Now He’s Working For Trump.
Mother Jones; Andrew Harnik/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When he ran for president in 2004, Democrats were counting on Sen. John Kerry’s military service to define him as a strong leader after 2001’s terrorist attack and George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq. The…
Donald Trump’s Energy Plans “Potentially Disastrous” for the Climate
Andrew Harnik/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The United States’s first major climate legislation dismantled, a crackdown on government scientists, a frenzy of oil and gas drilling, the Paris climate deal not only dead but buried. A blueprint is emerging for a second Donald Trump term that is even…
Bill to create commission focused on delivering more help to Georgians with disabilities gains traction
“We need to be at the table, because we are registered voters and we vote and our voices count,” Dorothy Harris, who is a self-advocate from Fitzgerald, said at a press conference held Wednesday at the state Capitol. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder Advocates are rallying behind a bipartisan proposal to create a new commission focused on…