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from ABC News (& affiliates)
TV Network in New York, New YorkThe order is among many executive actions taken in his first days in office.
President Joe Biden plans to sign a pair of executive orders Friday aimed at expanding food assistance for tens of millions of Americans and launching a process that will require federal contractors to pay their workers a $15 minimum wage and provide emergency paid leave. The moves come on Biden's second full day in office, and continue a string of executive actions he's taken to jumpstart his agenda and set the tone for his administration amid a COVID-19 pandemic that has left families struggling economically.
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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
On Thursday alone the US registered 4,045 new deaths and more than 192,000 new cases
In his first full day as US president, Joe Biden tackled his country’s staggering coronavirus caseload with a spate of new measures, including mask-wearing and quarantining requirements, as EU leaders “strongly discouraged” their constituents from non-essential travel. Before signing 10 executive orders to strengthen the US fight against Covid, Biden confirmed earlier in the day that he had reversed his predecessor Donald Trump’s decision to quit the World Health Organization (WHO).
America's relations with the rest of the world, and especially Europe, will take a lot of work to fix
The confirmation of Antony Blinken as US secretary of state by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is a foregone conclusion. That makes his opening statement at the Senate hearing on Tuesday an important document. Blinken did not throw away the baby with the bathtub, as it were, when he marked a distance from the previous Trump administration’s foreign-policy record on China, but he dissented on how Washington had gone about it. On the other hand, while avoiding any indulgence in American exceptionalism, he didn’t reject it, either. That is not surprising. The America that President Joe Biden will work for is unrecognizable from that of the Barack Obama era, and, more importantly, the world has changed phenomenally during the past four years.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
A panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 on January 19 to vacate the Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, which repealed and replaced the Obama administration’s marquee climate policy, the so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP). The case is titled American Lung Association v. EPA.
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
Our twentieth Center of Progress is Vienna, nicknamed the “City of Music.” From the late eighteenth century through much of the nineteenth century, the city revolutionized music and produced some of the classical and romantic eras’ greatest works. The sponsorship of the then-powerful Habsburg dynasty and the aristocrats at Vienna’s imperial court created a lucrative environment for musicians, attracting the latter to the city. Some of history’s greatest composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, lived and created music in Vienna. Many of history’s most significant symphonies, concertos, and operas thus originated in Vienna. Even today, pieces composed during Vienna’s golden age continue to dominate orchestral music performances worldwide.
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from The Inlander
Media/News Company in Spokane, WA
Media/News Company in Spokane, WA
From a former Spokesman-Review editor to the current one: Spokane does not need a community cheerleader. It needs a community watchdog.
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FAR-LEFT BIAS, MOSTLY FACTUAL, news and activism NPO based in Albuquerque, NM
Allowing them and their followers to distance themselves from what happened would be the kind of strategic blunder we too often see from the centrist wing of the Democratic Party.
When MAGA protesters forced their way into the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday, January 6th, those watching events unfold on cable news saw what appeared to be a highly disorganized mob breaking windows and aimlessly wandering around the building posting evidence of their crimes to social media. As more information has come out about the actions and intentions of some of those there that day, what happened has begun to seem a little less chaotic and more sinister.________
from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com
Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia
On the occasion of Joe Biden’s inauguration to the presidency, “Patriarch” Philaret Denisenko of the schismatic “Kiev Patriarchate” (KP) wrote to the new president to congratulate him, recall their many meetings together, and entreat his protection. Biden has shown himself a friend of Constantinople’s schismatic movement in Ukraine, which was focused on the person of Philaret Denisenko for 30 years. While Philaret has departed from the main schismatic body, he still has hopes that his personal connection with President Biden will prove beneficial for him and his KP.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from The Western Journal
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, Media/News Company in Phoenix, Arizona
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, Media/News Company in Phoenix, Arizona
Angered at reports that their National Guard troops were shunted off to a Washington, D.C., parking garage after having come to protect Congress, three governors have said they will bring their troops home. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a terse tweet Thursday after initial reports surfaced that the Guard was booted from the Capitol when not on duty. “I have instructed General Norris to order the return of the Texas National Guard to our state. @TexasGuard,” the Republican governor tweeted. On Friday, Abbott was joined by two fellow Republican governors — Ron DeSantis of Florida and Chris Sununu of New Hampshire.
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