Six years have passed since the triple meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on March 11th, 2011. The radiation effects of this disaster are felt worldwide, with its impact slowly grinding away over time. According to Japanese government and TEPCO estimates, the decommissioning of the plant is a decade-by-decade process, likely to take […]
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Theresa May has postponed next week’s crucial debate on the EU Withdrawal Bill after rebellious pro-European MPs demanded hundreds of amendments. MPs were to start scrutinising the Bill in a session lasting up to eight days, “but that timetable has slipped as the Prime Minister’s team try to head off multiple rebellions”, the Financial Times
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LONDON — Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, has much stronger financial ties to a Russian oligarch than have been previously reported. An NBC News investigation reveals that $26 million changed hands in the form of a loan between a company linked to Manafort and the oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, a billionaire
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Senate Democrats are weighing whether they have enough procedural tricks — and stamina — to kill a possible GOP attempt to repeal Obamacare. The Democrats are considering whether they could force enough amendment votes on the Senate floor to run out the clock and effectively kill the Obamacare repeal, by taking debate past Sept. 30,
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President Donald Trump is using targeted Facebook ads to reassure supporters that he still plans to build the border wall after his recent public comments caused many to question whether he would keep his promise. “There’s been a lot of noise and a lot of rumors,” reads the text of a Facebook ad from Trump’s
In a shift from how it operated during the Obama administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is cracking down on relatives who let undocumented kids stay with them after entering the U.S. Edwin, a Kansas City resident, recently received a call from immigration officials. They had apprehended his nephew at the southern border and wanted to
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NEWARK — When the 115th Congress returns to Washington on Sept. 5, Senator Robert Menendez will likely be absent: His federal corruption trial is set to begin here the following day. But when the Senate moves to vote on major bills during the fall – including on the debt ceiling, his plan to overhaul the
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San Fernando Valley Rep. Brad Sherman received an overwhelming endorsement from constituents Sunday for his decision to introduce articles of impeachment against President Trump. Several hundred attendees of a town hall cheered Sherman’s recitation of the reasons he thinks Trump has committed high crimes and misdemeanors, the constitutional standard for impeachment. But he also sought
Five more philanthropic organizations said Friday they have pulled their fundraising events from President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club following an intense social media push calling on people to boycott charities that use the venue. A total of eight groups have now pulled their events from Mar-a-Lago since the president’s off-the-cuff, combative and controversial news conference
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The leader of a North Carolina based group associated with the Ku Klux Klan says he is glad that a #woman died while taking part in a protest in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. Heather Heyer was killed when James Allen Fields Jr. allegedly drove a car into a crowd of protesters at high speed,
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