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Biden administration bars drilling in Colorado’s Thompson Divide landscape

The Biden administration on Wednesday barred drilling and mining in a Colorado landscape known as the Thompson Divide, an area of mountaintops, foothills and valleys in the center of the state. The administration said it would bar drilling and mining in 221,898 acres of the divide’s lands for 20 years as part of an effort...

Biden touts lower drug prices with Bernie’s help

President Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined together Wednesday to highlight the administration's efforts to lower health care costs along with the senator's recent wins in pressuring drug companies to lower the prices of some commonly used inhalers. Gathered at the White House with health care advocates and experts, Sanders lamented that despite working...

Mining for EVs, batteries could wipe out 1/3 of African great apes

Welcome to The Hill's Sustainability newsletter {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability   The Big Story Mining for EVs, batteries could wipe out 1/3 of African great apes Mining companies hunting critical minerals could wipe out more than a third of Africa’s remaining great apes, a new study has found. © Associated Press/Schalk van Zuydam And by putting new...

The new census racial categories ‘erase’ Afro Latinos

The gathering of population statistics may be viewed by many residents as a mundane domestic administrative task, but the patterns it reveals provides concrete data about racial hierarchies and exclusion. Without it, systemic racism is rendered invisible.

Progressive activists take victory lap after tens of thousands of Democrats cast protest votes against Biden

Almost 50,000 Wisconsin Democratic voters opted against voting for President Biden Tuesday night in a state decided by a razor-thin margin in the previous election.

‘Illegal program’: Governor vows to fight Biden flying migrants into US

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is vowing to keep up legal challenges against a controversial use of parole authority to allow migrants to fly into the U.S.

Supreme Court’s approval rating ticks up, poll shows

Americans’ approval of the Supreme Court is trending up, according to a poll released Wednesday. The Marquette Law School survey found that 47 percent...

Biden campaign faces backlash for omitting full context of Trump’s ‘animal’ comment: ‘Another hoax’

An X account for the re-election campaign of President Biden and Vice President Harris posted a video that left out key context from a Trump speech discussing migrant crime.

DOJ sues Utah for ‘discrimination based on gender dysphoria’ of transgender prisoner

The Department of Justice is suing the state of Utah, including the Utah Department of Corrections, for allegedly discriminating against a transgender inmate who had surgically removed his testicles after suffering from gender dysphoria.

Dems lose it over GOP plan to rename DC airport after Trump: ‘Find a federal prison’

House Democrats are up in arms over a long shot Republican proposal to rename Washington's main international airport after former President Donald Trump.

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