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Ocasio-Cortez: People Maybe Shouldn’t Reproduce Due To Climate Change
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 87 Comments • 5 years ago
“"Is it okay to still have children?"”
Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested on Sunday night that people should consider not having children due to climate change because there is a "scientific consensus" that life will be hard for kids. "Our planet is going to hit disaster if we don't turn this ship...
Senate panel to investigate meetings between Russians, Obama officials
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 127 Comments • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“The Senate Finance Committee is probing meetings reportedly held in 2015 between two of former President Barack Obama’s top economic officials and...”
The Senate Finance Committee is probing meetings reportedly held in 2015 between two of former President Barack Obama’s top economic officials and Maria Butina, a Russian national who later pleaded guilty to conspiring to covertly influence U.S. foreign policy, the panel said Friday. Committee...
Trump Keeps Being Racist To Native Americans And Getting Away With It
Via: 1stwarrior • Op/Ed • 57 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
“Political leaders mostly say nothing when the president demeans indigenous people.”
WASHINGTON ― Over the weekend, the president of the United States appeared to make a punchline out of Native American genocide to score political points. You might have missed it because hardly any of the nation’s top leaders called him out on it. “Today Elizabeth Warren, sometimes...
Senate has uncovered no direct evidence of conspiracy between Trump campaign and Russia
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 148 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“"We were never going to find a contract signed in blood saying, 'Hey Vlad, we're going to collude,'" one Democratic aide said.”
WASHINGTON — After two years and 200 interviews, the Senate Intelligence Committee is approaching the end of its investigation into the 2016 election, having uncovered no direct evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to both Democrats and Republicans on the...
Illegal immigration on pace for worst year since massive wall-building spree in 2007
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 5 years ago
“New surge comprised of migrant families and children, which are a much tougher population to combat”
Illegal immigration across the southwest border is on pace for the worst year since 2007 — or the last time the country began a massive wall-building spree — according to new Homeland Security numbers. Four months into the fiscal year the Border Patrol nabbed nearly 201,500 people, compared to...
After holiday lull, Central American family migration returns to record levels, new figures show
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 23 Comments • 5 years ago
U.S. border officials said Friday they saw an abrupt drop-off in illegal crossings during the holiday season, but the number of Central Americans arriving in family groups has returned to record levels since then. The lull in unauthorized crossings suggests some Central American migrants - and...
US delays oil-and-gas lease sale near sacred tribal land
Via: 1stwarrior • Anishinaabe - The First People • 10 Comments • 5 years ago
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - U.S. land managers no longer plan to move forward in March with the sale of oil and gas leases that include land near Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. They say they need to gather more information before they put the parcels up for bidding. The...
Federal Prosecutors Unseal Indictments Naming 19 People Linked to Chinese ‘Birth Tourism’ Schemes
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 5 years ago
SANTA ANA, California – Following the arrests this morning of three defendants who allegedly operated “birth tourism” outfits that catered to Chinese clients, federal authorities today unsealed indictments that charge a total of 19 people linked to three schemes that operated across Southern...
Sen. Murkowski keeps promise to Heidi Heitkamp, reintroduces Savanna’s Act
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 5 years ago
“Savanna’s Act, legislation to improve interactions between federal, regional and tribal authorities to benefit #MMIW”
Keeping her promise to Senator Heidi Heitkamp, the former North Dakota Senator that was not re-elected in 2018, Senator Lisa Murkowski, the Republican senator from Alaska, has kept her promise to Heitkamp by re-introducing legislation known as Savanna’s Act, after the bill was stalled in...
REP. HAALAND ELECTED TO LEADERSHIP POSITIONS ON HOUSE COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES
Via: 1stwarrior • Anishinaabe - The First People • 8 Comments • 5 years ago
WASHINGTON – After being appointed to the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources last week, Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), who is a tribal citizen of the Laguna Pueblo, was elected the vice chair of the full committee and Chair of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands. In...