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CIA partners with Google, Amazon and IBM in latest big tech procurement drive
Dec 03, 2020 16:20The US military industrial complex is returning to its roots as the CIA turns to big tech to maintain control and rebuild the war economy.
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Trump has discussed with advisers pardons for his 3 eldest children and Giuliani
Dec 03, 2020 16:20Rudolph W. Giuliani, who is promoting baseless claims of widespread election fraud, talked about a pardon with President Trump as recently as last week. Trump has discussed with advisers whether to grant pre-emptive pardons to his children, to his son-in-law and to his personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, and talked with Giuliani about pardoning him as recently as last week, according to two people briefed on the matter.
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Mnuchin violates CARES act with plan to move $455 billion in unspent COVID funds
Dec 03, 2020 11:52Bloomberg reported that the funds, which the US Congress allocated to the Federal Reserve in March for emergency lending programs to assist local governments and struggling businesses, will be put in the US Treasury Department’s General Fund following Mnuchin’s widely condemned decision last week to cut off the relief programs at the end of the year.
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Making headlines: COVID-19 and gender inequality
Dec 03, 2020 11:41We have repeatedly heard about how COVID-19 disproportionately affects women. While men are more likely to die from the virus, in many other respects, women are bearing the brunt of the pandemic’s impact.
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Scott Atlas resigns as Trump pandemic adviser after controversial tenure
Dec 02, 2020 14:27Scott Atlas has resigned as special adviser to Donald Trump, a White House official said on Monday (30 Nov) , after a controversial four months during which he attacked science-based public health measures and clashed repeatedly with other members of the coronavirus task-force.
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Hunger like they've never seen it before: US food banks struggle as 1 in 6 families with children don't have enough to eat
Dec 02, 2020 14:25According to Feeding America, the largest hunger relief organization in the U.S., more than 50 million people will experience food insecurity by the end of the year.
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Yemen: Trump is showering Saudi Arabia with last-minute gifts
Dec 02, 2020 07:56While the administration of Donald Trump readies its exit from the White House and the West Asia region, Saudi Arabia’s use of American diplomatic cover and weapons alike has taken on a fevered pace as the Kingdom deepens the tragedy it has afflicted upon Yemen, where millions of forgotten people are struggling against a cold winter, starvation, epidemics, and the worst blockade in the modern era.
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Joe Biden announces all-female media team at his White House
Dec 01, 2020 14:11Joe Biden will have an all-female senior communications team at his White House, led by campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield.
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Noam Chomsky: Trump has revealed the extreme fragility of American democracy
Dec 01, 2020 14:10Even after Trump-appointed bureaucrat Emily W. Murphy of the General Services Administration signed a letter enabling Biden to start working with federal agencies and prepare for a transition of power, Donald Trump has personally continued to resist conceding.
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Pennsylvania supreme court throws out Republican bid to reject 2.5m mail-in votes
Dec 01, 2020 14:08Pennsylvania’s highest court has thrown out a lower court’s order that was preventing the state from certifying dozens of contests from the 3 November election.