Tag: Policies & Impacts

[PREMIERING 7:30 PM ET] Texican Standoff: Border Surge Paused at Rio Grande by Texas Law Enforcement After Title 42 Ends—Todd Bensman

May 12, 2023
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Reporter Todd Bensman is one of the few journalists at America’s southern border in Texas, covering the mass migration crisis that has worsened since the lifting of Title 42—a Trump-era policy allowing U.S. authorities to swiftly expel illegal immigrants. “You cannot find a single Border Patrol agent anywhere in sight. They are pulled off of…

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Behind the New Twitter CEO’s World Economic Forum Ties

May 12, 2023
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Twitter users are mourning the death of the platform: The hashtag #RipTwitter was trending this afternoon. And the feed was filled with posts and videos about Elon Musk’s newly appointed CEO, Linda Yaccarino. Yaccarino was the head of advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal. She’s also a forum executive chair at the World Economic Forum. So…

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GOP Governors Urge Biden Admin to Drop Title IX Overhaul, Protect Women’s Sports

May 12, 2023
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Half of the nation’s governors are asking the Biden administration to either withdraw or delay a proposed rule aimed at preventing schools from barring biological males from participating in female athletics programs. Led by Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, 25 Republican governors submitted a joint comment on May 11 to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona opposing his…

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Supreme Court Finds Journalists Cannot Sue Puerto Rican Control Board

May 12, 2023
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The Supreme Court ruled 8–1 against journalists seeking documents from a financial control board in Puerto Rico created to deal with the U.S. commonwealth’s fiscal troubles. The majority opinion in the case, Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo Inc., court file 22-96, was released May 11 and written…

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Austin Says He’s Had No Contact With Chinese Counterpart

May 12, 2023
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told a Senate panel on May 11 that he has had no contact with the Peoples Republic of China’s (PRC) new defense minister despite repeated attempts to introduce himself. Austin told the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Defense Subcommittee that he had several face-to-face sit-downs with former PRC Defense Minister Gen….

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Consumer Sentiment Hits 6-Month Low in May: Survey

May 12, 2023
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Consumer sentiment in the United States took a hit in May, dropping to its lowest point this year. This decline comes amid renewed concerns about the American economy and elevated expectations for inflation in the long term. According to the University of Michigan’s preliminary reading of its consumer sentiment index, the figure dropped to 57.7—considerably…

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Feds Paid $38 Million in Pandemic Aid to 3,200 Dead People, Inspectors General Find

May 12, 2023
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About $38 million in federal pandemic assistance was issued to Social Security numbers belonging to more than 3,000 dead people in 2020 and 2021, a U.S. Inspector General team empaneled to probe fraud reported on May 11. The disclosure was posted by the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) in a follow-up to a February report…

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Federal Reserve Governor: Climate Change Doesn’t Pose ‘Material’ Risk to US

May 12, 2023
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Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller said that climate change does not present a “sufficiently unique” risk to the U.S. financial system. Regarding climate change, or the theory that the Earth’s temperatures are warming due to human activity, “I do not believe it poses a serious risk to the safety and soundness of large banks or…

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PREMIERING 7:00PM ET: Behind the New Twitter CEO’s World Economic Forum Ties

May 12, 2023
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Twitter users are mourning the death of the platform: The hashtag #RipTwitter was trending this afternoon. And the feed was filled with posts and videos about Elon Musk’s newly appointed CEO, Linda Yaccarino. Yaccarino was the head of advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal. She’s also a forum executive chair at the World Economic Forum. So…

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LIVE NOW: View of US Border at El Paso, Texas, After End of Title 42

May 12, 2023
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Views of the U.S.-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas, after the United States lifted a COVID-19-related restriction known as Title 42 on Thursday night. …