Democratic lawmakers and the father of a 14-year-old killed in a previous school shooting were among those who unleashed on Republicans. Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was killed the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, was among those who refused to hide his fury at the right-wing lawmakers whose allegiance to the […]
“The fate of these small businesses,” said one advocacy group, “will be tied to those senators who voted down this lifeline today.” Advocates for independently-owned businesses warned that restaurants, gyms, and other Main Street businesses across the U.S. will be forced to close in the coming months after Republicans in the Senate on Thursday blocked a […]
The discharge could release a number of radioactive isotopes into the Pacific Ocean, critics say. Despite outcry from local leaders and the Japanese public and warnings from environmental campaigners, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday gave its approval for a plan to discharge contaminated water from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, a move […]
“This is who Joe Manchin is,” said one critic. Sen. Joe Manchin voted against his own party’s climate action proposal once again this week, joining the Republicans in their effort to reroute billions of dollars from a climate fund to develop weapons systems at the Pentagon. The West Virginia right-wing Democrat was the only member of […]