The Week Newly confirmed Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is ‘obsessed’ with creating ‘clean-energy jobs’ The Senate on Thursday confirmed former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, 64-35, to lead the Energy Department, with 14 Republicans joining all 50 members of the Democratic caucus to give President Biden his 10th Cabinet-level appointee (plus one deputy secretary). After her […]
Best Life Dr. Fauci Just Said This Is the Tell-Tale Sign You Have Long COVID Doctors now know that the novel coronavirus can affect the bodies of those it infects in many different ways. And while the range and severity of acute COVID symptoms can differ from person to person, the extended period of sickness […]
According to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll, two-thirds of Americans are either somewhat or very worried about the “newer, potentially more contagious” COVID-19 variants that have triggered huge overseas outbreaks and are now spreading in the United States. Those concerns are valid. But maybe it’s time for Americans to start worrying a little less. To […]
WASHINGTON — Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he’s concerned Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plan to establish a commission to investigate the U.S. Capitol attack would be overly “partisan.” Speaking on the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon, McConnell noted Pelosi’s proposal was criticized by the leaders of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission it was supposedly […]
WASHINGTON — Nearly a year after most schools shut down, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie sees an opportunity for the Republican Party, whose handling of the coronavirus pandemic under Donald Trump was widely seen as anti-scientific and contributing to thousands of needless deaths. With parental frustration over the school closures boiling over in parts […]
The Week Republican leaders want to avoid a party civil war. Trump might have other ideas. In a two-page memo addressed to GOP donors, voters, leaders, and activists, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) declared: “The Republican Civil War is now canceled.” It isn’t clear if his fellow Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, are listening. Scott […]
Just as José Loera and his family were beginning to assess the damage to his mother’s home in Houston — a caved-in roof, a living room ruined by burst pipes, flooding throughout the house — the family received more devastating news. Loera’s father, José Emilio, who had already been in the hospital for three weeks […]
Landslide in the cemetery of Camogli village sent 200 coffins into the sea – Vigili del fuoco-DAPRESS / SplashNews.com Hundreds of coffins were carried away and plunged into the seas after a landslide on Tuesday hit a graveyard in a village near Genoa. Firemen and rescuers in Camogli, a cliff-side village near the northern city […]
A Chinese man in New York ended up in a coma after getting beaten up on a street last Friday. The incident occurred while the victim, identified only as Zheng, was out for an evening walk just a few blocks away from his home in Flushing, Queens. After having a drink, Zheng went out and […]
The Daily Beast They Survived Hell—and Their Bosses Want Them to Use Vacation Time The Washington Post/Mark Felix/GettyDALLAS—First they had to deal with a nightmare of a winter storm, an historic assault that wiped out their power, heat, water, or all three at once.Now they have to deal with bosses denying them pay.Internal company emails […]