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Biden Shouldn’t Reappoint Powell to Federal Reserve. He’s Too Soft on Wall Street.
Under Trump, Jerome Powell supported rolling back several financial regulations put in place after the Great Recession. ...[Read more]
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Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A common chemical may be to blame
Most cases of Parkinson’s disease are considered idiopathic – they lack a clear cause. Yet researchers increasingly believe that one factor is environmental exposure to trichloroethylene (TCE), a chemical compound used in industrial degreasing, dry-cl ...[Read more]
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White Supremacy Set the Stage for Texas’ Miserable Disaster Response
Ted Cruz’s “let them eat cake” vacation to Cancun was a visible reminder of the cruelty of our political system — a system that rewards politicians propped up by corporate money, right-wing lies, and racist ideologies for blaming others and evadin ...[Read more]
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‘Simply laughable’: How a lie about the Texas energy crisis dominated Fox’s coverage
While millions of Texans were coping with freezing temperatures without heat, electricity or running water this week, right-wing media pundits repeatedly claimed that green energy was to blame. And although the lie was debunked, that didn't prevent pundit ...[Read more]
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An 11-year-old boy died in a mobile home with no heat during the winter storm in Texas, and authorities suspect he had hypothermia
An 11-year-old boy died on Tuesday in an unheated mobile home in Texas that had lost power during a massive winter storm. His family and officials suspect he had hypothermia. Cristian Pavon was one of at least 30 people in Texas who died this week as tem ...[Read more]
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