Despite attempts by state Republicans to block it, more than 275,000 working Missourians are eligible to receive health care through the state’s Medicaid program, the state supreme court has ruled. Last summer, 53 percent of Missouri voters supported a constitutional amendment to expand the state’s Medicaid program, part of the …
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President Biden met with local mayors and law enforcement leadership to discuss violent crime and urged them to make use of federal funds available through Covid-19 relief to help combat crime in their cities. “Our strategy provides including funding for law enforcement through the American Rescue Plan for states, cities …
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Greenpeace UK has released additional video clips of its explosive, undercover interview of one of ExxonMobil‘s top lobbyists. In these new video segments, Keith McCoy, senior director of federal relations for the oil giant, describes how the company’s playbook for dealing with public outrage over its plastic pollution is “just …
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PORTLAND, OREGON — The streetcars stopped running because power cables were melting. The public pools were shut down to protect lifeguards and pool staff from “severe heat.” Roads and intersections began to buckle. Economic and civic life in this Pacific Northwest city ground to a halt as temperatures soared to …
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Puerto Rico will receive nearly $4 billion in federal pandemic relief funds for education as part of the American Rescue Plan, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announcedwhile visiting the island. “The students of Puerto Rico have suffered enough,” Cardona said on Monday, according to the AP,during a trip to the …
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Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $230 million in a settlement to resolve claims that it “helped fuel” the opioid crisis in New York state. The settlement also bars the company from manufacturing or selling opioids nationwide, something Johnson & Johnson says they’ve already done. The deal requires Johnson …
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A full 29 percent of Republicans think Donald Trump has a real shot at being “reinstated” as president by the end of 2021, according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll. A full 17 percent of GOP respondents said it’s “very likely” that Trump, who lost the electoral college to Joe …
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Republicans in the state of Georgia muscled through a sweeping new law that will dramatically roll back access to the ballot box in the nation’s most hotly contested battleground state. The new law, passed by both chambers of the state legislature and signed by Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday, is …
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CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan ventured out to California recently and spoke to QAnon believers who are convinced Trump will be back in the White House very soon as a result of a deadly military coup that they fully support. “This whole thing with Biden… he’s like a puppet president. The military …
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In one of her first speeches as a member of Congress, Rep. Cori Bush (D-Missouri) called for impeachment of the “white supremacist in chief” and was roundly booed by Republicans in the chamber. A longtime racial-justice activist-turned-politician who was elected to Congress in November, Bush made the most of her …
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