An internal watchdog is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to step up its actions to address emissions of cancer-causing benzene, saying that oil refineries have been releasing unsafe levels of the substance. The EPA has classified benzene — which can come from burning coal and oil— as a known human carcinogen. Refineries turn...
A Fulton County Jail inmate died at an Atlanta hospital earlier this week, marking the sixth death in recent weeks at the same jail where former President Trump surrendered to authorities last month. The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday 24-year-old Shawndre Delmore was discovered unresponsive during a routine check by a detention officer last week. Delmore...
The Trump campaign aimed its ire at the Biden administration's plans to push for more Americans to use electric vehicles Thursday. “Joe Biden’s Electric Vehicle mandate will murder the U.S. auto industry and kill countless union autoworker jobs forever, especially in Michigan and the Midwest,” Trump’s campaign said in a statement. “There is no such...
Former President Trump on Thursday signaled he may attempt to move his Georgia charges to federal court. “President Trump hereby notifies the Court that he may seek removal of his prosecution to federal court,” Steve Sadow, Trump’s attorney, wrote in court filings. Legal experts have anticipated Trump would make such an attempt, but Thursday’s filing...
Megyn Kelly announced Thursday she will interview former President Trump next week. The interview will be the first Kelly has conducted with Trump since May 2016, which came amid a feud between them that reached a peak in 2015's Republican primary campaigning. “It will be my first interview with a former president in seven years,...
Chinese hackers obtained a consumer signing key that was used to breach U.S. officials’ emails earlier this year through a Microsoft engineer’s account, the company said Wednesday. An investigation into the breach found that a consumer signing system crash in April 2021 produced a snapshot of the crash process, also known as a crash dump,...
California is on its way to becoming the third state in the country to decriminalize psychedelics after the state Assembly passed a bill that would allow adults 21 and older to possess and use small amounts of plant and mushroom psychedelics. Senate Bill 58, introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D) in 2021, was passed...
Harry Reid, the former Democratic Senate majority leader passed away in 2021. But his ghost still looms over efforts to commercialize a new generation of advanced nuclear reactors and now threatens to undermine the Biden administration’s climate targets, which will depend upon these new reactors to complement wind, solar and other low carbon technologies in the coming...
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) put out a video Thursday attacking five New York Republican House members for not moving to expel embattled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.). “New York’s extreme MAGA Republicans protected George Santos,” text in the video reads. The video, from the campaign arm of House Democrats, takes aim at New York...