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The Senate’s months-long effort to clinch bipartisan deals — and prove the body can still function — is quickly running out of gas. The Senate passed legislation this week aimed at combating China’s competitiveness, in a win claimed by both sides as an example of how the embattled chamber can cut and pass meaningful agreements. But senators are facing a heavy lift as they try to figure out what’s next on the legislative agenda, with a host of bipartisan talks facing skepticism and Democrats grappling with dissent in their ranks. The two Senate leaders are trading shots over who is to blame for... Read More on The Hill... Our latest stories... 2000 Facts Oops! Make sure JavaScript is enabled in your browser.

Joe Biden has stressed the need for the world’s democracies to stand together as he arrived in the UK on his first overseas trip as US president. Biden will meet Boris Johnson in Cornwall on Thursday ahead of the G7 summit and is expected to deliver a warning not to let the Brexit trade dispute “imperil” the Northern Ireland peace process. He will also seek to show the US is back as a serious international diplomatic force after the Donald Trump years, using the visit to Europe to shore up transatlantic alliances... Continue Reading on The Guardian... Our latest stories... 2000 Facts Oops! Make sure JavaScript is enabled in your browser.

Israel has banned the sale of fur to the fashion industry on Wednesday, becoming the first country in the world to do so. "The fur industry causes the deaths of hundreds of millions of animals worldwide, and inflicts indescribable cruelty and suffering," Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel said in a statement after signing the amendment, which goes into effect in six months. "Using the skin and fur of wildlife for the fashion industry is immoral and is certainly unnecessary. Animal fur coats cannot cover the brutal murder industry that makes them. Signing these regulations will make the Israeli fashion market more environmentally friendly and far kinder to animals." Read Full Article on The Jerusalem Post... Our latest stories... 2000 Facts Oops! Make sure JavaScript is enabled in your browser.

A Virginia mom who endured Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution before immigrating to the U.S. ripped a Virginia school board at a public meeting Tuesday over its stubborn support of the controversial critical race theory. "I’ve been very alarmed by what’s going on in our schools," Xi Van Fleet told the Loudoun County School Board members. "You are now teaching, training our children to be social justice warriors and to loathe our country and our history." She likened CRT, which critics deride as a form of "neo-racism," to China’s Cultural Revolution, a Mao-led purge that left between 500,000 and 20 million people dead from 1966 to 1976. Watch a brave parent who grew up in Mao’s China point out all of the identical traits b/n the Cultural Revolution and what LCPS, and really every school system, are doing through the use of CRT. pic.twitter.com/zH7XuyBmW6 — The Virginia Project UAC (@TVPUAC) June 9, 2021 Continue Reading on Fox News...  Our latest st

Joe Biden said on Wednesday he will be announcing a vaccine plan for the world as he headed to Europe for his first foreign trip as president. “I have one, and I’ll be announcing it,” Biden told reporters before he boarded Air Force One. See Latest Updates Here... Our latest stories... 2000 Facts Oops! Make sure JavaScript is enabled in your browser.

President Donald Trump released a statement Wednesday praising the Interior Department's inspector general for "Completely and Totally exonerating me in the clearing of Lafayette Park!" — referencing, without explicitly saying so, an incident last year that his critics characterized as a photo opportunity for him. On June 1, 2020, federal police officers cleared Black Lives Matters demonstrators during a protest from Washington D.C.'s Lafayette Park. Trump was photographed holding a Bible at St. John's Church after the protesters were removed. Wednesday's report from the Interior Department's inspector general, Mark Greenblatt, found that people were moved so a contractor could install fencing, rather than a moment of political theater. Continue Reading on Newsweek... Our latest stories... 2000 Facts Oops! Make sure JavaScript is enabled in your browser.

On the eve of Kamala Harris’ visit to Guatemala Monday, marking her first foreign trip as vice president, Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei repeated his position during an interview that aired Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that the Biden administration’s more welcoming tone is responsible for attracting the historic migrant surge overwhelming resources and personnel at the U.S. southern border.The Biden administration’s promise that it will “reunite” migrant families and children with their relatives in America are incentivizing his compatriots to emigrate, Giammattei told CBS News. “The message changed [under Biden] too: ‘We’re going to reunite families, we’re going to reunite children,'” he added. Read Full Article on Breitbart... Our latest stories... 2000 Facts Oops! Make sure JavaScript is enabled in your browser.