Cruz challenges Biden DOJ pick's contention that she opposes defunding police

joe-biden”>President Biden<, R-Texas, confronted her with a recent article she wrote that, he claimed, proves otherwise. Early in the hearing, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., attempted to get ahead of the controversy by asking Clarke about a June 2020 Newsweek opinion piece she wrote about the subject. BIDEN DOJ NOMINEE KRISTEN CLARKE DEFENDS PAST CONTROVERSIAL WRITINGS ON…

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California promotes 'dismantling racism in mathematics' guidance in draft for statewide framework

A us-regions-based group is sounding the alarm as the state education” target=”_blank”>education< on Oregon defending the program, which advises, among other things, that the focus on finding the right answer is an example of White supremacy infiltrating classrooms. “The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so,”…

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Biden CIA head William Burns says pulling out of Afghanistan will 'diminish' US intelligence

CIA Director William Burns said U.S. intelligence will “diminish” after U.S. troops pull out of conflicts joe-biden” target=”_blank”>President Biden< “So all of that, to be honest, means that there is a significant risk once the U.S. military and the coalition militaries withdraw,” Burns said, though he added that the U.S. would retain a “suite of…

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Missing California hiker found safe after public helps rescuers trace location of photo he sent friend

A general who went missing-persons” target=”_blank”>missing< was found safea> on Tuesday after the public helped to pinpoint his location using a photo he had sent a friend, authorities said.<. The friend gave deputies a photo showing Compean’s dirt-covered legs dangling from a rocky cliff he had sent earlier in the hike in the hopes of learning…

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Lt. Col. Daniel Davis (ret.): Afghanistan – 20 years is enough, Biden right to plan firm end to war

joe-biden” target=”_blank”>President Biden<said, and declared “I will not pass this responsibility to a fifth.” That decision is a logical, realistic recognition that the United States has accomplished all it could in this war and ending it is the right call. That’s not to say withdrawing will be easy, clean, or problem-free – and it will…

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Republicans to offer $650 billion infrastructure proposal as counter to Biden $2.2 trillion spending plan

senate plan to offer an infrastructure bill of their own that would spend about $650 billion, a GOP source tells Fox News, as the White House and congress” target=”_blank”>congressional< $2 trillion-plus spending plan.  The proposal comes after Republicans for weeks complained that the president’s “American Jobs Plan” spent well under half of its money on infrastructure…

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NASA satellite data could detect volcanic unrest years before eruptions

New research methods using satellite data may be able to detect planet-earth years in advance.  In a recent study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, researchers from air-and-space and the us-regions said that large-scale thermal unrest measured using a statistical analysis of satellite-based long-wavelength infrared data revealed that the last magmatic and steam eruptions of five different volcanoes…

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House committee advances DC statehood bill along party-line vote

A panel of House house-of-representatives advanced legislation Wednesday to make washington-dc” target=”_blank”>Washington, D.C< “Democracy requires much more. D.C. residents demand much more. D.C. residents deserve full voting representation in the Senate and the House and complete control over their local affairs. They deserve statehood.” WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 21: Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbia delegate to the…

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