President Biden announced the beginning of the Obamacare open enrollment period where premiums have dropped to an average of $67/month. Biden Announces Obamacare Open Enrollment Biden said in a statement provided to PoliticusUSA: Health care should be a right — not a privilege — for all Americans. Today, with the …
Read More »What Does It Mean to Be a New York Democrat These Days?
Last November, the often-fractious Democrats of New York papered over their sharp differences to celebrate Donald Trump’s defeat, a development that briefly united the party’s relatively moderate leader, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, with the state’s ascendant left wing. One year later, New York Democrats are in a vastly different place. …
Read More »Biden Makes Tax Dodgers Pay As G20 Leaders Agree To Establish Historic Global Minimum Corporate Tax
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Read More »U.S. Military Jury Condemns Terrorist’s Torture and Urges Clemency
At no point did the jurors suggest that any of Mr. Khan’s treatment was illegal. Their letter noted that Mr. Khan, who never attained U.S. citizenship, was held as an “alien unprivileged enemy belligerent,” a status that made him eligible for trial by military commission and “not technically afforded the …
Read More »Virginia Governor Race Reveals Dynamics of Republican Abuse, Voter Trauma
President Joe Biden won the state of Virginia by ten points in the 2020 presidential election. The 2018 midterms in Virginia was at least a mini-blue wave, featuring key wins by Representatives Jennifer Sexton, Elaine Luria, and Abigail Spanberger, substantially contributing to the Democrat’s regaining of a majority in the …
Read More »Pressure Grows on G20 Nations to Get Covid Vaccines to the Poor
ROME — From the opening moments of the Group of 20 summit on Saturday, the leaders of the world’s largest economies wanted to send a strong message about ending the coronavirus pandemic: During an unconventional group photograph, they were joined on the dais by doctors in white coats and first …
Read More »U.S. back with ‘guns blazing’ on climate issue
By Andrea Shalal ROME (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury’s top climate adviser said that renewed U.S. engagement on climate change under President Joe Biden has helped put the issue at the top of the Group of 20 agenda and is galvanizing fresh commitments to reduce emissions to net zero. Climate …
Read More »Both Parties Await Result in Virginia, and What It Bodes for the Battles Ahead
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — During one of the most hectic weeks of her speakership — as she sought to unite her fractious party and corral two sweeping pieces of legislation — Nancy Pelosi made time for a meeting in her Capitol suite with a group of Democratic lawmakers from New Jersey …
Read More »F.D.A. Clears First Coronavirus Vaccine for 5- to 11-Year-Olds
A C.D.C. study suggests that 42 percent of children aged 5 to 11 have coronavirus antibodies from prior infection, prompting some F.D.A. advisers to ask if one dose would be sufficient for children. Use of that study has been questioned by some scientists. F.D.A. panelists also asked whether only those …
Read More »Bad News For Republicans As SCOTUS Refuses To Block Maine Vaccine Mandate
The Supreme Court has refused to block Maine’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. CNN reported: A group of unvaccinated workers argued that the vaccine mandate violated their religious liberty rights. The court’s right wing — Justice Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito — dissented and would have halted the …
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