Senate Preparing $10 Billion Bailout Fund for Jeff Bezos Space Firm
Bezos’s Blue Origin lost its bid for a major NASA contract to Elon Musk, but the Senate is ordering the agency to give a second one now.
Bezos’s Blue Origin lost its bid for a major NASA contract to Elon Musk, but the Senate is ordering the agency to give a second one now.
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From its founding during the Mexican-American War to its reporting on Latin America today, AP’s always been quietly conservative.
The signature of outgoing Associated Press Executive Editor Sally Buzbee is conspicuously absent from the memo sent over the weekend.
Since 2019, Congress has repeatedly held hearings on climate resiliency for bases, but hardly ever talks about schools, public housing, or prisons.
Three progressive Democrats voted no on $1.9 billion in funding for the Capitol Police, while AOC, Jamaal Bowman, and Rashida Tlaib voted present.
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Keisha Lance Bottoms is making a risky bet that her Anti-Violence Advisory Council can heal decades of racial inequality.
The Coronavirus Crisis
Doctors, economists, lawmakers, and civil society groups fighting the WTO waiver are funded by the pharmaceutical lobby.
The Senate majority leader continues to push the all-encompassing For the People Act, while the West Virginia senator is narrowly focused on reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act.
Kelly is in the minority of Senate Democrats who have sponsored neither the sweeping labor reform legislation nor a crackdown on forced arbitration.
Some of the same interests that promote business in “opportunity zones” are funding the pro-statehood push in Washington.
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