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Call... for fifteen hundred dollars off your kohler walk-in bath. visit kohlerwalkinbath.com for more info. tonight, a cynical power play. that's how republican senator ted cruz describes the push for the john lewis voting rights advancement act. as democrats make a renewed push for the voting rights with the bill which would make it easier for the justice department and minorities to challenge election rules that they believe are discriminatory. >> state legislators and others are going to defame and diminish our democracy, we in the congress have a duty to defend it. >> this bill is a disa...

What’s new? In 2019, Nigerian authorities launched a ten-year National Livestock Transformation Plan to curtail the movement of cattle, boost livestock production and quell the country’s lethal herder-farmer conflict. But inadequate political leadership, delays, funding uncertainties and a lack of expertise could derail the project. COVID-19 has exacerbated the challenges. Why did it happen? Violence fuelled by environmental degradation and competition over land has aggravated long-running tensions in the country’s northern and central regions. A surge in bloodshed in 2018 prompted ...

In south-western Niger, organised banditry could reinforce mistrust between ethnic groups and foster insurgencies that jihadists could exploit. The Nigerien authorities should take action to remedy the injustices experienced by communities living off livestock, initiate intercommunal dialogues and better supervise fledgling self-defence groups.

A handful of Democrats want to hold up a $2 trillion infrastructure bill to save a choice tax deduction for the wealthy, not that you'll hear it described that way... Josh Gottheimer, Democrat of New Jersey, made an inspired plea recently. The Harvard man and Alpha Epsilon Pi brother is a member of the so-called “SALT caucus,” a group of congressfolk threatening to hold up Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill if it doesn’t include a full repeal of a Donald Trump-imposed $10,000 cap on deductions of state and local taxes. “It is high time that Congress reinstates the state and local tax d...

Ercot Still Short $1.3 Billion in Energy Payments: Texas Update Bloomberg 2/26/2021 Mark Chediak, David Wethe, Joe Carroll and Naureen S. Malik (Bloomberg) -- A second day of marathon hearings on Texas’s unprecedented energy crisis raised concerns about the liquidity of the state’s power market, and who will ultimately pay for the disaster as some companies face bankruptcy. Several utilities told Texas lawmakers Friday that they were still awaiting payment from the grid operator, known as Ercot, for power they provided during the grid emergency, with at least one worryin...