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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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U.S. GOP Quietly Scrubs Webpage Detailing Trump’s ‘Historic Peace Agreement With the Taliban’
In the wake of the Taliban’s recent capture of Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, it looks like the U.S. Republican Party is quietly scrubbing traces of the former president’s deals with the militant Islamist group.
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Joe Biden: Facebook’s Not Killing People. My Bad.
Last Friday, Joe Biden told reporters that Facebook was “killing people” by refusing to take action on a number of anti-vax accounts spreading conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and other misinformation about the novel coronavirus pandemic — causing the social network to respond with faux indignation. Now Biden is walking that back, sort of, saying that while…
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Keystone XL Pipeline Developer Wants $19 Billion in Taxpayer Dollars
The owner of the Keystone XL pipeline is suing the U.S. government as payback for cancelling a permit for the project. The claim, which comes under a provision in the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement, shows the need to rewrite trade law to prioritise people and the planet over polluting companies.