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Sanders shakes up Senate staff
It’s a reflection of the Vermont senator’s elevation to a powerful new position, but also an acknowledgment that his presidential ambitions are over.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., questions former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, D-Mich., as she testifies during a hearing Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. | Jim Watson/Pool via AP
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Bernie Sanders is shaking up his staff as he steps into a powerful new role in the Senate, three people familiar with the moves told POLITICO.
The Vermont senator’s chief of staff, legislative director and top communications staffer are on their way out or have changed roles, according to the sources. In their place, senior aides from Sanders’ 2020 presidential bid have come on board.
Goulston & Storrs Attorneys Joel Antwi and Kaileigh Callender Named to National Black Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 List
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BOSTON, Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Goulston & Storrs, an Am Law 200 firm, is pleased to announce that Joel Antwi and Kaileigh Callender have been named to the National Black Lawyers Top 40 Under 40. The list recognizes Black attorneys from each state who are rising stars in their respective areas of the law.
Antwi and Callender are associates in the firm s Litigation Group and were selected for their notable professional achievements and leadership. All candidates are nominated by current members of National Black Lawyers.
Searching for signs of alien life
In the podcast Wild Thing, host and SAIS alum Laura Krantz searches for evidence of extraterrestrial life By Jacob deNobel / Published
On October 19, 2017, scientists observed a visitor from another solar system.
Researchers had first identified
the object as a comet, but they soon realized that its distinct pattens of acceleration classified it as something far more significant. The 400-meter, cigar-shaped interstellar object had traveled the Milky Way for hundreds of millions of years before landing
on our doorstep. Given the name Oumuamua Hawaiian for a messenger from afar arriving first
it was the first confirmed sighting of an object from outside our sun s gravitational pull.
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