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Clinton advisor says Biden campaign ‘doing it all wrong’

A longtime senior advisor to President Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hit the Biden campaign over its strategy in a New York Times op-ed on Sunday, arguing the president is siding too much with his base, and leaving moderates behind. Mark Penn, who served as an advisor to the Clintons from 1995 to...

Johnson’s ‘intuition’ clashes with data on illegal voting

The GOP unveiled a bill this week to bar noncitizens from voting in federal elections — prohibiting something that’s already illegal to address a problem they can’t prove exists. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was candid this week in telling reporters that Republicans are motivated by intuition in seeking another law that would limit voting to...

To aid the green energy transition, we need to modernize our grid infrastructure

Failing to modernize our out-of-date grid infrastructure is the No. 1 threat to the green energy transition. FERC must act and finalize this rule so we can modernize our transmission and energy systems before it’s too late. 

Putin replaces defense minister

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday proposed replacing Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu with former vice prime minister Andrei Belousov, according to an official post by the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, on Telegram. Shoigu was appointed to lead the Kremlin’s security council, Russian state media reported, citing spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. The announcement comes...

Van Hollen hits Clinton over ‘dismissive’ remarks about student protesters

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) criticized former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday over her remarks last week that most of the students participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests across the country are ignorant and ill-informed. Clinton said Thursday that the students, who have taken over hundreds of college campuses in protest of the Israel-Hamas...

UN aid agency estimates about 300,000 people have fled Rafah

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said Sunday it estimated that about 300,000 people have fled Rafah ahead of a potential full-scale Israeli invasion. “Over the last week, @UNRWA estimates around 300,000 people have now fled #Rafah, as the forced and inhumane displacement of Palestinians continues. There is nowhere safe to go. There...

Apple employees in Maryland vote to authorize strike

Employees at an Apple store in a Baltimore suburb voted to authorize a strike on Saturday, setting up what could be the first work stoppage at any Apple retail store in the country. The Towson, Md., employees claim the tech giant isn’t bargaining in good faith as they negotiate a union contract. The group of about...

Dozens walk out of Jerry Seinfeld speech at Duke commencement in protest of his support for Israel

Dozens of students walked out of the Duke University commencement ceremony ahead of Jerry Seinfeld’s scheduled speech Sunday, apparently in protest of the Jewish comedian’s support for Israel, according to news reports and videos circulated on social media. As Seinfeld received his honorary degree, before beginning his commencement speech, the graduating students rose from their...

The exhausted Scottish National Party clings to power, for now

A quarter of a century on, there is little sense of optimism anywhere in the parliament.

Northern lights: What causes the colors that we see — and don’t see?

Greens and blues, reds and purples — when it comes to the northern lights, what causes all the different colors?

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