Biden signs $1.9T coronavirus relief bill in first major legislative win

Republicans have blasted bill as wasteful spending frenzy. Biden signs American Rescue Plan President Biden on Thursday signed into law the sweeping $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package that Democrats muscled through Congress without any Republican support, securing the first big legislative win of his presidency. … Read More

EU’s attempt to reform itself branded ‘biased from the very beginning’

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The strong broadside comes after a symbolic event on Wednesday to mark the start of Conference on the Future of Europe. Adobe Stock Ursula von der Leyen and David Sassoli, presidents of the European Commission and Parliament respectively, signed a … Read More

How cascading crises in 2020 led to record high gun sales

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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain University of Arizona researcher Jennifer Carlson says she and other sociologists see gun business as a telltale sign of what’s going on in the American psyche. If that is the case, Americans in 2020 were afraid. … Read More

Returning from Iraq, Pope Francis talks about ‘risks’ taken on trip

Pope Francis waves atop the stairs of the papal plane at Baghdad International Airport March 8, 2021, following his March 5-8 visit to Iraq. (CNS photo/Alaa Al-Marjani, Reuters) ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM IRAQ — The Catholic Church’s commitment to … Read More

Battenfeld: Joe Biden can’t handle a press conference – where is the outrage?

President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House, Saturday, March 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Nearly seven weeks and counting and President Biden has yet to stand before America and take repeated questions … Read More

Biden wants you to pay for his self-inflicted border crisis

Photo by: Andrew Harnik – National Security Council Coordinator for U.S. Southern Border Roberta Jacobson speaks at a press briefing at the White House, Wednesday, March 10, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) The number of migrant children in custody … Read More

Catholics urged by U.S. church leadership to avoid Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine

“There is no remnant of the original abortion in the cell line,” said Barry Bloom, former dean of the Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson professor of public health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health about the … Read More

How the Russian government accidentally blocked its own websites

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Reminder: Internet censorship can have unintended consequences. Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images Russian internet users began noticing something strange on Wednesday: a number of websites, including the Kremlin’s own Kremlin.ru, were down. Just hours earlier, Roskomnadzor, the Russian government body overseeing communications … Read More

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