Month: March 2019

Just one day after President Donald Trump told non-Americans to stay out of the country, the Republican mayor of America’s largest border city sent a completely opposite message. On Monday, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer announced a 5-year plan to make the city more welcoming to immigrants. “Immigrants from around the globe help define our city. […]

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By April Simpson Mississippi lawmakers are setting out to change a 77-year-old law that prevents some of their electric service providers from offering broadband services and taking advantage of federal money to improve rural residents’ access to high-speed Internet.  The House Public Utilities Committee approved a bill on Monday that would give electric cooperatives, nonprofits […]

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Federal prosecutors have accused former Minnesota charity workers and their friends of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars originally set aside to help the homeless.  The heartless scam could have bilked Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis of $750,000, the nonprofit said in a statement ― money that state and local governments had given the charity for […]

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Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon became the first major international diplomat to throw his weight behind the so-called Green New Deal, a nascent effort by left-wing Democrats to zero out planet-warming emissions and end poverty over the next decade. In an interview with HuffPost, Ban ― now the co-chair of the newly launched Global Commission […]

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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow examined the possible consequences of a report in The Washington Post that claimed President Donald Trump had seized his interpreter’s notes following a 2017 meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Tuesday night, the “Rachel Maddow Show” host said there was “no reason” to suggest that Putin had done the same, which meant that […]

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