In the News
December 5, 2023
US lawmakers are pushing for a ban on fuel imports from refineries that use Russian crude oil, as researchers suggest such transactions have bolstered Russia’s tax revenue by up to US$275mn so far this year.
November 29, 2023
November 20, 2023
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — President Joe Biden is facing new pressure from the left over Israel’s military operations in Gaza, with some progressives now calling for conditions to be imposed on U.S. military assistance to Israel.
November 21, 2023
Oil-producing countries have stalled efforts to draft the first legally binding international agreement on cutting plastic pollution, according to official observers at UN talks in Nairobi.
November 17, 2023
Transcript: After Russia invaded Ukraine, the U.S. and European allies banned the import of Russian oil and natural gas. But a new report reveals that fuel made in part from Russian crude is still ending up in American gas tanks. Nick Schifrin and producer Teresa Cebrian report on a new investigation released by the organization, Global Witness.
November 16, 2023
“No state does a worse job at renewal than Texas”
A new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families found the number of children insured under Medicaid in Texas and elsewhere increased during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
November 13, 2023
Former president Donald Trump denigrated his domestic opponents and critics during a Veterans Day speech Saturday, calling those on the other side of the aisle “vermin” and suggesting that they pose a greater threat to the United States than countries such as Russia, China or North Korea. That language is drawing rebuke from historians, who compared it to that of authoritarian leaders.
November 8, 2023
My columns from Israel and the West Bank over the past few weeks have been depressing, reflecting my fear that we’re on a bloody, downward spiral that will make everything worse. So let me share what I saw as an ember of hope.
November 6, 2023
Nearly 100 House Democrats are calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to strengthen a proposed rule that would set minimum staffing standards for nursing homes.
The letter anchored by Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-Tex.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) will be sent to the agency this afternoon, joining more than 25,000 comments already filed on the proposal.
October 30, 2023
The shortage of air traffic controllers at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is back in the news, amid troubling new revelations about the harrowing close call in February, when a landing FedEx cargo plane came within seconds of colliding with a Southwest Airlines flight.
The 128 people taking off on Southwest Flight 708 for Cancún that morning had no idea what nearly hit them.
October 23, 2023
In May of 2022, just over two months after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, US President Joe Biden signed into law the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act. This piece of bipartisan legislation recalled the historic program used by the United States during World War II to help supply its allies and ensure the defeat of Nazi Germany. Ukrainian diplomats worked hard to extend the Lend-Lease program beyond September 2023, but it expired on September 30.