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Despite Manchin’s blow to Build Back Better, Biden boosts fuel economy standards to fight climate change
December 21, 2021The final standards will contribute toward a goal set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement to keep the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2° Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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D.C. sues white supremacist groups, 26 leaders for damages from Jan. 6 insurrection
December 20, 2021D.C. AG Karl Racine is using the 1871 Civil Rights Act, originally designed to target the Ku Klux Klan, to uncover who funded the groups.
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Chileans elect Gabriel Boric president, reject ultra-conservative candidate
December 20, 2021Defeated right-wing candidate Kast’s brother had served the Pinochet dictatorship while his immigrant father was a member of Germany’s Nazi Party.
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Progressive anger erupts after Manchin kills Build Back Better
December 20, 2021Questions swirl about whether the West Virginia politician will quit the Democratic Party and join the GOP.
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West Side Stories, including the latest Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner film
December 20, 2021Recorded just days after West Side Story opened on Broadway in September 1957, Columbia Records producer Goddard Lieberson’s brilliant original Broadway cast recording was my first acquaintance with Leonard Bernstein’s musical score for the updated version...
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