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Biden, Democrats Amplify $15 Minimum Wage Demands, Progressives Say It Should Be $20 On 1/30/21 at 10:31 AM EST President Joe Biden and a strong majority of congressional Democrats say they can pass a bill to increase hourly minimum wage to $15 an hour or more by March, with or without any Republican support. Biden and top Democratic lawmakers have reignited a push to increase the federal minimum wage for the first time in 12 years, promoting legislation that aims to pull 28 million full-time w...

12:49 p.m. ET, January 19, 2021 Current and former officials whove been critical of Trump have been invited to his send-off From CNNs Kaitlan Collins, Jim Acosta, Kevin Liptak, and Kate Bennett Dozens of current and former administration officials have been invited to President Trumps farewell ceremony tomorrow, including those who have been extremely critical of Trump since leaving the White House. Trumps former chief of staff John Kelly recently told CNNs Jake Tapper hed vote to remove Trump...

January 6 wasn’t the first time the Capitol has been violently breached. History books mention 1814 — when the British army set fire to the Capitol. Less well known is what happened on March 1 st, 1954.  That’s when four young Puerto Rican nationalists from New York, fired more than two dozen bullets into the House of Representatives chamber. The attack was meant to bring attention to the fight for Puerto Rico’s independence. Five members of Congress were wounded in the assault. On the...

BICOM 11th January 2021 BBC News reports that talks between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan over a dam on the Nile river have collapsed. Egypt is concerned the dam will severely impact the country’s water supply. The United States along with the World Bank attempted to lead mediation efforts surrounding disagreement about the dam, fearing further escalation would destabilise the region. BBC News reports that an Israeli diamond magnate will face trial in Ge...

Where have UFOs crashed in Pennsylvania (reportedly)? Updated Jan 06, 2021; Facebook Share Like the UFO-crash sighting in Hawaii in late December, UFO crashes have been reported in Pennsylvania over the years. The Pennsylvania reports were not nearly as recent as just a few days ago, but they did involve multiple witnesses. On the night of December 9, 1965, a large fireball was seen by thousands of people in at least 6 U.S. states and Ontario, Canada. Reported as a meteor by the media, witness...

Jessica McGowan/Getty Images Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell came to back $600 one-off payments to Americans as part of a new wave of proposed federal coronavirus relief after hearing that prior opposition was hurting Republicans in Georgia, according to The New York Times. Citing a private call, The Times said McConnell described Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue as "getting hammered" on the issue. Those two senators runoff elections in Georgia will dec...

Hard for Biden to change Trumpization and US division By Mu Lu Source: Global Times Published: 2020/12/15 21:21:06 US president-elect Joe Biden Photo: AFP The Electoral College, a group of the US most important voters, on Monday decisively confirmed Joe Biden as the next president, ratifying his November victory in an authoritative state-by-state repudiation of President Donald Trumps refusal to concede he had lost, the Associate Press reported on Tuesday. During Trumps four-year presidency,...

Pakistan: Two Chinese Engineers Missing, Says Embassy Posted by Xiao Qiang | Sep 1, 2008 Two Chinese engineers have gone missing in northwest Pakistan along with their driver and a security guard, a Chinese embassy official and police said on Sunday. The group disappeared on Friday in the North West Frontier Province near the border with Afghanistan, a senior diplomat at the embassy told AFP. Police have sent three investigation teams to the rugged area in an attempt to trace the engineers and ...

President Donald Trump is fuming that he apparently didn't know about ongoing federal investigations involving Hunter Biden that pre-date last month'

Data visualization is a wonderful thing. It helps us understand important trends that would be invisible in raw data alone. Now more than ever, data analysts have been instrumental in providing data visualizations that rebut two of the most widely accepted, baseless slogans of the prolockdown, militant mask-wearing crowd: "Lockdowns save lives" and "Wear the damn mask." The data tell a surprisingly clear story about the effectiveness of mask mandates and lockdowns in stopping the spread of covi...