AvatarIan SaundersAvatarAvatarAmerica Is Not Ready for Omicronverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Ed YongThe new variant poses a far graver threat at the collective level than the individual one—the kind of test that the U.S. has repeatedly failed. America was not prepared for COVID-19 when it arrived. It was not prepared for last winter’s surge. It was not prepared for Delta’s arrival in the summer or …
AvatarIan SaundersAvatarAvatarBipartisan infrastructure pact clears key Senate vote after breakthrough in talksverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Tony RommSenate Democrats and Republicans banded together on Wednesday to advance a roughly $1 trillion proposal to improve the country’s aging infrastructure, overcoming months of political deadlock on one of President Biden’s signature economic policy priorities. The day of breakthroughs began with news of …
AvatarIan SaundersAvatarAvatarBiden administration to restore protections for U.S.' largest national forestverified_publisherCBS News - By Alexandra LarkinThe Biden administration moved Thursday to reverse a Trump-imposed policy that opened major areas of the U.S.' largest national forest, the Tongass …
AvatarIan SaundersAvatarAvatarAfrican American spelling bee champ makes history with flairAssociated Press - By Ben NuckolsLAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Zaila Avant-garde understood the significance of what she was doing as she stood on the Scripps National Spelling Bee stage, peppering pronouncer Jacques Bailly with questions about Greek and Latin roots. Zaila knew she would be the first African American winner of the …
AvatarIan SaundersAvatarAvatarBiden commemorates war dead at Arlington National CemeteryAssociated Press - By Calvin WoodwardARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — President Joe Biden honored America’s war dead at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day by laying a wreath at the hallowed burial ground and extolling the sacrifices of the fallen for the pursuit of democracy, “the soul of America.” Biden invoked the iconic battles of …
AvatarIan SaundersAvatarAvatarSurvivors remember Tulsa race massacre 100 years later as Biden marks anniversaryverified_publisherReuters - Makini BriceTULSA, Okla., May 31 (Reuters) - Lessie Benningfield Randle, 106, can still remember a house engulfed in flames and bodies stacked in truckbeds - horrors that 100 years later led to a pledge by President Joe Biden to work for racial justice. "I was quite a little kid but I remember running and the …
AvatarIan SaundersAvatarAvatarIn Tulsa, solemn remembrances of a century-old race massacre by survivors and descendantsverified_publisherThe Washington Post - DeNeen L. BrownTULSA — On the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, survivors and descendants gathered Monday at Standpipe Hill, where Black World War I veterans fought fiercely in a battle to hold off a White mob descending on the all-Black neighborhood of Greenwood. They collected soil from the …
AvatarIan SaundersAvatarAvatarCalls mount for Gaza-Israel cease-fire, greater US effortsAssociated Press - By Ellen Knickmeyer and Edith M. LedererU.N. Security Council diplomats and Muslim foreign ministers convened emergency meetings Sunday to demand a stop to civilian bloodshed as Israeli warplanes carried out the deadliest single attacks in nearly a week of Hamas rocket barrages and Israeli airstrikes. President Joe Biden gave no signs of …
AvatarIan SaundersAvatarAvatarU.S. Navy ship fires warning shots after Iranian boats come closeNBC News - By Dan De Luce and Mosheh GainsIt was the second tense encounter in less than a month in the Persian Gulf between Iranian and U.S. vessels. WASHINGTON — A U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots near three Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps boats in the Persian Gulf after the vessels approached at close range and ignored repeated …
AvatarIan SaundersAvatarAvatarBiden releases money in push to modernize U.S. electric gridPBS NewsHour - Cathy Bussewitz, Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — The federal government said Tuesday it is making more than $8 billion available to build and improve the nation’s transmission lines …
AvatarIan SaundersAvatarAvatarProsecutors Are Said to Have Sought Aggressive Approach to Capitol Riot Inquiry (Published 2021)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Katie BennerTheir proposal was quashed amid concerns that it would violate First Amendment protections, people briefed on the plan said. WASHINGTON — In the weeks after the deadly Capitol riot on Jan. 6, federal prosecutors in Washington devised a broad plan to root out possible conspirators, according to two …
AvatarIan SaundersAvatarAvatarWhy Chloé Zhao's historic best director Oscar win mattersverified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Justin ChangThe final shot in “Songs My Brothers Taught Me,” Chloé Zhao’s too-little-seen 2015 debut feature, is of a fistful of sand being hurled skyward, then quietly dissipating on a desert breeze. It’s not an atypical image to encounter in this filmmaker’s rapturously poetic yet insistently grounded work: …