Georgia election officials are set to begin a mass purge of inactive voters from the state’s voting rolls on Monday.Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in October released a list of over 313,000 voters whose registrations were at risk of being cancelled, about 4% of the state’s total registered voters. Those voters were mailed notices…
read moreAll seven Democratic presidential candidates who qualified for next week’s debate threatened on Friday to skip the event if an labor dispute forces them to cross picket lines on the campus hosting it. The Democratic National Committee said it was trying to come up with an “acceptable resolution” to the situation so the debate could proceed. …
read moreU.S. health regulators approved a second drug for a debilitating form of muscular dystrophy, a surprise decision after the medication was rejected for safety concerns just four months ago.The ruling marks the second time the Food and Drug Administration has granted preliminary approval for the disease based on early results and is likely to stoke…
read moreCentral American countries are teaming up to conserve the region’s five great forests as part of a regional climate action plan released at U.N. climate talks in Madrid this week, the alliance behind the effort said.The coalition of governments, indigenous people, green groups and others announced a plan to protect 10 million hectares of forests…
read moreThe World Health Organization warns that gains made in tackling the Ebola epidemic in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are being threatened by ongoing insecurity in the region.As of Dec. 10, WHO reported 3,340 cases of Ebola, including 2,210 deaths. Over the last week, 27 new confirmed cases of Ebola were reported from four health…
read morePresident Donald Trump’s reelection campaign on Thursday shrugged off the president’s expected impeachment less than a year before Election Day, talking up the campaign’s data collection efforts and declaring that no one in the Democratic field can compete with the incumbent.With a House impeachment vote expected next week, the campaign stressed that polls indicate impeachment…
read moreA measles epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 5,000 people this year, according to a report by the World Health Organization. The agency says there are a quarter million suspected measles cases in the country and all provinces have been affected, making it one of world’s fastest and largest moving epidemics. As…
read moreThe U.S. House Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump Friday, clearing the way for a vote in the full House that could come as early as next week.Committee members voted along party lines after it recessed late Thursday after 14 hours of debate. The two articles, accusing Trump of…
read moreFreweini Mebrahtu remembers when she returned to her home village in northern Ethiopia and saw women squatting over holes in the ground. Without any sanitary pads to use during their menstrual period, they were stuck in this undignified position.“How is that possible? And they were telling me that they don’t even use underwear,” she told…
read moreMarine biologist Lara Muaves witnessed the impact of climate change firsthand this year, when two devastating cyclones tore through her native Mozambique, leaving hundreds dead, including her best friend.Nigerian social entrepreneur Mahmood Maishanu sees its footprint in crippling droughts that have hit his homeland. So has French-Moroccan activist Ayoub Makhloufi, who nonetheless remains optimistic that…
read moreTime Magazine’s selection of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as its Person of the Year underscores the growing clout of youth power—pushing governments to escalate the fight against what many consider a climate crisis. That is also happening in Africa, which is especially vulnerable to climate change. At the Madrid climate conference, Lisa Bryant reports…
read moreCentral Africa is fighting for the survival of the African forest elephant, with more than 70% of the population wiped out in the last 15 years.Gabon, home to more than half of Africa’s forest elephants, recently has seen a surge in poachers. Countries such as Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have lost…
read moreA divided federal appeals court spent more than three hours Thursday sparring over whether President Donald Trump is illegally profiting from the presidency through his luxury Washington hotel.The state of Maryland and the District of Columbia asked 15 judges on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a ruling by a three-judge panel…
read moreThe U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution that recognizes as genocide the mass killings of Armenians a century ago, a historic move that infuriated Turkey and dealt a blow to the already problematic ties between Ankara and Washington. Turkey condemned the measure, which passed a month after an official visit to the White House by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who enjoys…
read moreThe Democratic-controlled U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Thursday is again debating articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, but expects to rebuff Republican attempts to weaken the allegations and then send them to the full House of Representatives for a vote next week. The panel started its debate Wednesday night. Democratic lawmakers laid out…
read moreThe U.S. House Judiciary Committee is expected to approve articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump as early as Thursday, as majority Democrats push to punish a leader they say abused his power while Republicans criticize the process as politically motivated and lacking evidence.The committee spent Wednesday night debating the articles, which accuse Trump of…
read moreEuropean Union leaders on Thursday will push to agree to make their bloc climate neutral by 2050, luring reluctant eastern member states with promises of extra money for their heavily-polluting economies.The bloc’s 27 national leaders will meet in Brussels from 1400 GMT, a day after the bloc’s executive proposed a Green Deal to mobilize 100…
read moreEnvironmentalists and climate change activists worldwide are hailing Time magazine’s decision to make Greta Thunberg its 2019 Person of the Year. The teenage activist has attracted the world’s attention with her eloquent calls on political and industrial leaders to make courageous decisions on climate change. Her actions have inspired young people worldwide to fight for…
read moreThe House Judiciary Committee took the first steps Wednesday evening toward voting on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, beginning a marathon two-day session to consider the historic charges.Democrats and Republicans on the panel used the prime-time hearing to make final arguments for and against impeachment. Both sides appealed to Americans’ sense of history…
read moreSome U.S. Democrats from highly competitive districts say they are undecided on how to vote on the impeachment of President Donald Trump in the House of Representatives, a vote that will be historic as well as pivotal for their own political futures.In conversations in recent days with over a dozen lawmakers from swing districts, only…
read moreHouse Democrats will vote on two articles of impeachment early next week, charging President Donald Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — two offenses they say should remove him from office under the standards laid down by the U.S. Constitution. Trump is the third president in history to face impeachment based on a…
read moreThe use of robots in the U.S. workplace more than doubled from 2009 to 2017, the bulk of them in manufacturing. But the extent of manufacturing job losses in the Midwest was masked by the economic boom of the past 10 years.“A growing economy independent of technology, independent of robotics, has been able to absorb,…
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