Ashlyn Amelung of Iron County and Dylan Turner of Washington County settle in for watching Space Jam at the Starlite Drive-In in Old Mines on Thursday, July 29, 2021. Amelung, 18 and a Missouri State freshman, recently received her first dose of vaccine, encouraged by her parents to do so. […]
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Plan to close 6 DMV offices from Southeast Alaska to the Interior encounters bipartisan opposition in Legislature
JUNEAU — A plan by the Dunleavy administration to close six Department of Motor Vehicles offices, most in smaller towns, is meeting bipartisan skepticism in the Alaska Legislature. The proposal, unveiled in December, would close offices in Eagle River, Tok, Homer, Haines, Delta Junction and Valdez to save a half-million […]
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Senator Calls Out Opposition To Deb Haaland: ‘A Woman Of Color Is Being Held To A Different Standard’
Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) says biases drove Republican opposition to Rep. Deb Haaland’s (D-N.M.) confirmation as the 54th secretary of the Interior Department and that GOP colleagues are holding women of color to a different standard, an argument she will make in a speech Monday ahead of the vote. Haaland, a […]
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Budget nominee Neera Tanden withdraws nomination amid opposition
Alexandra Jaffe, Associated Press Published 7:32 p.m. ET March 2, 2021 Washington — President Joe Biden’s pick to head the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, has withdrawn her nomination after she faced opposition from key Democratic and Republican senators for her controversial tweets. In this Feb. 10, 2021 […]
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Joe Biden’s Nominees Of Color Are Facing Outsize Opposition
A number of President Joe Biden’s nominees of color are facing opposition in the Senate, and their increasingly frustrated supporters are mobilizing against the harsher scrutiny these nominees have faced compared to their white counterparts. This week, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) threw the confirmation of Neera Tanden into doubt when […]
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Belarus police fire stun grenades at protesters as opposition threatens national strike
KYIV/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Belarusian police used stun grenades against protesters on Sunday as tens of thousands of people headed towards Independence Palace in the capital Minsk demanding that President Alexander Lukashenko resign. Protesters carrying the red-and-white flags of the Belarusian opposition movement scattered as loud bangs and flashes lit up […]
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Opposition team criticizes Enbridge plans for oil tunnel
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Enbridge’s plans for drilling an oil pipeline tunnel beneath a channel linking two of the Great Lakes do not meet industry standards and pose significant hazards to workers and the environment, experts who reviewed project documents on behalf of opposition groups said Monday. Two geologists […]
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Scrutiny of bad coronavirus laws now comes from Conservative MPs, not the Opposition
Boris Johnson last week in Parliament, where he faces opposition from his own backbenchers – JESSICA TAYLOR/UK PARLIAMENT SIR – I’ve been disappointed in Labour throughout the pandemic. It has supported the coronavirus regulations at every turn without parliamentary scrutiny, instead choosing to wait for things to go badly so that […]
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Air ambulance flies Russian opposition leader Navalny to Germany
An air ambulance took off from the Siberian city of Omsk on Saturday carrying Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to Germany for treatment of a suspected poisoning, after a day-long standoff over his medical evacuation. The 44-year-old lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner, one of President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics, fell into […]
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Belarus Opposition Candidate Flees as Protest Crackdown Deepens
(Bloomberg) — Opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya fled Belarus as police cracked down on protesters across the country for the second night following President Alexander Lukashenko’s claim to a landslide election victory in Sunday’s elections. “I thought this campaign had hardened me a lot and given me enough strength to withstand […]
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Opposition Candidate Leaves Belarus as Crackdown Grows
(Bloomberg) — Opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya fled Belarus as police cracked down on protesters across the country for the second night following President Alexander Lukashenko’s claim to landslide election victory in Sunday’s elections. “I thought this campaign had hardened me a lot and given me enough strength to withstand anything. […]
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Opposition Candidate Leaves Belarus Amid Crackdown
(Bloomberg) — Opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya fled Belarus as police cracked down on protesters across the country for the second night following Sunday’s elections in which President Alexander Lukashenko claimed a landslide election victory. “I thought this campaign had hardened me a lot and given me enough strength to withstand […]