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Biden Administration Celebrates COP26 by Offering Largest Fossil Fuel Sale in U.S. History
Addressing world leaders at the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow earlier this month, President Joe Biden declared this to be a “decisive decade in which we have an opportunity to prove ourselves” on climate. Less than a week after the end of that UN meeting, the Biden administration will hold the largest oil and…
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Australia Reports Highest Jump in Covid-19 Cases of Entire Pandemic
Australia reported 2,417 new covid-19 cases on Thursday, the highest number of new cases in the country for any single day of the entire pandemic. The majority of cases were in the country’s second largest state of Victoria, which accounted for 1,438 new cases, despite being in a hard lockdown since August 5.
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Americans Are Not Happy With the CDC’s Communication Skills, Poll Finds
A new Gallup poll this week indicates that Americans aren’t too pleased lately with the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. It found that a plurality of people in the U.S. now think that the CDC is doing a poor job at communicating its pandemic response. Though this isn’t the first time the CDC has…
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The Taliban Is Silicon Valley’s New Big Problem
The Taliban have swept through Afghanistan, re-taking the country from the feeble local government that America’s military has propped up for the better part of two decades.