Giorno: 7 Giugno 2023

Virginia regulators to vote on Gov. Youngkin’s plan to withdraw state from climate initiative

Virginia regulators are expected to take a final vote Wednesday on whether to advance Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s plan to withdraw from a multistate carbon cap-and-trade program. Virginia spent years under Democratic administrations moving toward participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which environmental advocates say is a proven tool to help reduce pollution and address […]

Wisconsin Legislature to approve measures protecting access to gas-powered vehicles, other machines

The Wisconsin Legislature is expected to approve bills Wednesday that would protect access to gas-powered vehicles, snow blowers, lawnmowers and other machines. The Republican-controlled Assembly passed the measures in April, with all Democrats objecting, and the Senate was expected to give final approval on Wednesday. It would then be up to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers […]

Conservatives blockade House floor in latest mutiny against GOP leadership

Conservatives appear to be exacting revenge on House GOP leaders by paralyzing the chamber’s legislative business in an unprecedented blockade after tanking a normally sleepy procedural vote on Tuesday. “House Leadership couldn’t Hold the Line,” Rep. Matt Gaetz tweeted on Wednesday morning. “Now we Hold the Floor.” Some Conservatives are unhappy about the debt limit […]

Banks, Rubio introducing blanket ban on Pentagon funding for schools hosting CCP-tied Confucius Institutes

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., are introducing legislation that would close what they describe as loopholes in the Biden administration’s guidance that still allows Department of Defense (DOD) funding to go to universities with Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked Confucius Institutes. The No Federal Funding for CCP Spying and Persuasion in […]

Rasmussen Poll: 47 Percent of GOP Voters Likely to Skip Target

Target has traditionally carried LGBTQ Pride-themed merchandise for the month of June (Pride month), but this year the retailer began receiving backlash and boycotts over its Pride Collection.

Lucy Letby texted about doctor ‘crush’ hours before attempt on boy’s life, court told

Read More Lucy Letby was texting about a doctor on whom she allegedly “had a crush” hours before she attempted to murder a vulnerable baby boy, a court has heard. The nurse, 33, denied the doctor was her boyfriend or that she was “sweet” on him, as she gave evidence for a 12th day at […]

Dowden suggests No 10 holding back messages from UK Covid inquiry to protect ‘intimate’ family information – live

Read More From 2h ago In his second response to Angela Rayner at PMQs, Oliver Dowden, the deputy PM, implied that the government was taking the Covid inquiry to court to contest its demand for unredacted WhatsApp messages because it wants to stop the inquiry seeing messages containing private medical information and “intimate” family details. […]

Prince Harry has no proof Mirror Group journalists hacked phone, court told

Read More Prince Harry does not have a “single item” of evidence his phone was hacked by journalists working for Mirror Group Newspapers, the high court has heard. Andrew Green KC, the Mirror’s barrister, admitted the company’s journalists hacked many other celebrities’ voicemails during the 2000s. But he insisted there is no hard evidence Harry […]

‘Absolute scandal’: UAE state oil firm able to read Cop28 climate summit emails

Read More The United Arab Emirates’ state oil company has been able to read emails to and from the Cop28 climate summit office and was consulted on how to respond to a media inquiry, the Guardian can reveal. The UAE is hosting the UN climate summit in November and the president of Cop28 is Sultan […]

Poll: CEOs See Soft Landing for Economy

Corporate leaders see a soft landing for the U.S. economy instead of a recession.Corporate leaders see a soft landing for the U.S. economy instead of a recession.