Politics

February 24, 2021
Top board leaders resign after deadly Texas power outages

Top board leaders of Texas' embattled power grid operator said Tuesday they will resign following outrage over more than 4 million customers losing electricity last week during a deadly winter...

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February 24, 2021
Asian shares slip on jitters over inflation, interest rates

Shares fell Wednesday in Asia as investors weighed the possibility that inflation might prompt central banks to adjust their ultra-low interest rate policies. Hong Kong led the decline, losing 2%...

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February 24, 2021
For Senate rules arbiter, minimum wage is latest minefield

She's guided the Senate through two impeachment trials, vexed Democrats and Republicans alike with parliamentary opinions and helped rescue Electoral College certificates from a pro-Trump mob ransacking the Capitol. She...

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February 24, 2021
Jury orders Alaska Airlines to pay $3.2 million to family of woman who died after falling down airport escalator

Alaska Airlines was ordered this week to pay $3.2 million to the family of a 75-year-old woman who died after falling down an escalator in an electric wheelchair at Portland...

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February 24, 2021
Another top Amazon executive to leave company

Just weeks after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced that he will step down as CEO by autumn, another top Amazon executive has bowed out of the company. Jeff Blackburn, former...

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February 24, 2021
Deaf employee who was fired at Costco wins $775,000 in lawsuit — and then loses it

A deaf former employee of Costco in Pompano Beach, Fla., won't get the $775,000 she won from a federal court jury in her suit alleging discrimination and wrongful termination. Christine...

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February 24, 2021
FAA orders high-tech inspections of engines on Boeing 777s

U.S. aviation regulators on Tuesday issued stringent new inspection requirements to ensure Pratt & Whitney engines like the one that broke apart over a Denver suburb on Saturday are safe....

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February 24, 2021
Boy Scouts seek to extend halt to lawsuits vs. local groups

Roadblocks are continuing to pop up in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy case as the organization tries to finalize a reorganization plan built around a global resolution of thousands...

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February 24, 2021
AP Exclusive: Black Lives Matter opens up about its finances

The foundation widely seen as a steward of the Black Lives Matter movement says it took in just over $90 million last year, according to a financial snapshot shared exclusively...

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February 24, 2021
Stellantis, citing global demand, laying off 150 at Jeep Cherokee plant

The Belvidere (Ill.) Assembly Plant, where the Jeep Cherokee SUV is made, is laying off 150 workers. Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep since the merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles...

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February 24, 2021
California governor says deal to reopen schools is close

As the vast majority of California students approach one year of distance learning, Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed Tuesday that classrooms will reopen “very, very shortly.” But his forecast was called...

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February 24, 2021
Federal judge says California can enforce net neutrality law

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that California can for the first time enforce its tough net neutrality law, clearing the way for the state to ban internet providers from...

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February 24, 2021
Lawsuits filed against auto insurers over rates in pandemic

Class action lawsuits were filed in Nevada against 10 major auto insurance companies on Tuesday, contending that the companies charged excessive insurance premiums during the pandemic by failing to account...

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February 24, 2021
ARC Document Solutions: 4Q Earnings Snapshot

ARC Document Solutions Inc. (ARC) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter profit of $1.3 million. The San Ramon, California-based company said it had net income of 3 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted...

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February 24, 2021
Forum Energy: 4Q Earnings Snapshot

Forum Energy Technologies Inc. (FET) on Tuesday reported a loss of $32.7 million in its fourth quarter. The Houston-based company said it had a loss of $5.85 per share. Losses,...

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February 24, 2021
Range Resources: 4Q Earnings Snapshot

Range Resources Corp. (RRC) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $38.4 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier. On a per-share basis, the Fort...

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February 24, 2021
New top editor named at Louisville Courier Journal

Mary Irby-Jones, the top editor for the Clarion Ledger and Hattiesburg American in Mississippi, has been named executive editor at the Courier Journal in Louisville. Irby-Jones will join the Louisville...

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February 24, 2021
ProPetro: 4Q Earnings Snapshot

ProPetro Holding Corp. (PUMP) on Tuesday reported a fourth-quarter loss of $44.1 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier. The Midland, Texas-based company said it...

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February 24, 2021
Pioneer Natural Resources: 4Q Earnings Snapshot

Pioneer Natural Resources Co. (PXD) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $43 million. On a per-share basis, the Irving, Texas-based company said it had net income of 26 cents. Earnings,...

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February 23, 2021
Naomi Wolf joins Tucker Carlson to warn we’ve become a Covid-19 police state. Guess which one liberals think is the bigger crime?

Liberal feminist author Naomi Wolf dared to take her alarm about the US' slide into totalitarian dictatorship onto Tucker Carlson's Fox News show, triggering a predictable uproar that largely ignored...

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February 23, 2021
China is right to expose Britain’s rank hypocrisy, London can’t adopt the moral high ground AND demand special trade deals

The two-faced UK government continues to blame Beijing for coronavirus & accuse it of human rights abuses & spying, so why does it still expect the Chinese to play ball...

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February 23, 2021
Why Vlad Doronin and Jonathan Goldstein are betting billions on Miami

How quickly things change. Nine months ago, most Miami offices remained shuttered. The luxury condo market was stalled, reeling from the double-whammy of a pre-pandemic glut and a collective case...

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February 23, 2021
The US loves to accuse other nations of being unable to cope in a crisis, but the chaos in Texas shows it can’t look after its own

The US has finger-wagged at other countries for decades, alleging they can't care for their people. But when disaster strikes at home, America is not prepared, with the winter storm...

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February 23, 2021
How Polish wargame where it loses to Russia could become a self-fulfilling prophecy

By losing a simulated war of its own invention with Russia, the Polish military seeks to convince NATO of its vulnerability. This could lead to a build-up of military forces...

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February 23, 2021
Leaked docs reveal how news agency Reuters secretly serves as a tool for British influence across the world

Reuters is one of the largest newswires in the world, providing untold numbers of journalists with text they can reuse. What few know is that some of that content is...

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February 23, 2021
Wayne Dupree: Nations rise and fall, and America’s now in danger of falling. I’ve never been more pessimistic about its fate

Democrat attempts to overturn a certified election result that went against them in Iowa shows what hypocritical manipulators they are and reveals their real intent – to seize complete control...

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February 23, 2021
Did you see those gas prices in Florida? What can we blame for this?

That's no typo on the sign of your neighborhood gas station. Gas prices are soaring in South Florida. And drivers are feeling it in the wallet as they hit the...

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February 23, 2021
Coca-Cola’s training telling people to ‘be less white’ fuels division, causes racism, and betrays what America stands for

Diversity training that isolates a group of people, as used recently by Coca-Cola, is becoming a major problem. It contradicts the very idea of equality and runs the risk of...

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February 23, 2021
Boris Johnson’s cautious Covid plan is not a roadmap to freedom, but a never-ending path to permanent restrictions on our liberty

Covid's in retreat and millions of people have been vaccinated, so why not move out of lockdown more quickly? Worryingly, the damaging restrictions are fast becoming an end in themselves...

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February 23, 2021
Restaurants with perfect inspections in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties

Zero state inspection violations. None. That's what it takes to make this list. Well, zero inspection violations as judged by the inspector and an address somewhere between Key West and...

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February 23, 2021
Cancelling national heroes makes us historically illiterate and will create an identity crisis for our young people

A headteacher in England has confirmed he is erasing the names of significant historical figures from his school after a pupil complained. But this lack of respect for the past...

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February 23, 2021
Will Saudi billionaire make Hibiscus Island Miami Beach’s new ‘Star?’

Miami Beach wealth haven Star Island is getting competition from its neighbor. Ibrahim Al-Rashid, son of Saudi billionaire Nasser Ibrahim Al-Rashid and Lebanese-French socialite Mouna Ayoub, bought yet another house...

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February 23, 2021
Cancel culture refuses to stop coming after Woody Allen, despite having no new ammunition

Thanks to a new documentary, filmmaker Woody Allen is once again answering to cancel culture advocates over allegations he molested his daughter, despite the issue already having been investigated and...

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February 23, 2021
‘Allen v. Farrow’, a compelling new four-part HBO docuseries, exposes Woody Allen’s depraved dirty laundry

The first episode of the series lays the damning groundwork of allegations that the disgraced filmmaker is a sick and twisted individual. So, why is he still fêted by Hollywood?...

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February 23, 2021
Why Wales will split from the UK or simply not exist by 2030, according to one of the country’s leading independence figures

RT spoke exclusively to Siôn Jobbins, chairman of YesCymru, an organisation advocating Welsh independence, who explained why it will be now or never for his country to go it alone...

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February 23, 2021
The Olbermann ‘stain’: Bigotry against Russians is perfectly fine in ‘woke’ America

That former TV star Keith Olbermann regularly engages in Russophobic rants isn't news. That no one from his political camp – ostensibly all about niceness, inclusivity and opposing bigotry –...

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February 22, 2021
‘Extremists’ – or is that conservatives? – are cognitively deficient: Guardian pumps up pseudoscientific assault on wrongthinkers

Using ‘conservative' to overlap with ‘extremist,' Cambridge University scientists claim they've found this elusive category of people to be cognitively deficient. The Guardian took these tentative conclusions and ran with...

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February 22, 2021
More people are booking Royal Caribbean cruises this year, even as they remain banned

Royal Caribbean Group is seeing an increase in bookings as the company nears the one-year mark without any cruises in the U.S., its biggest market. Despite U.S. cruises being banned...

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February 22, 2021
No family, no fun, no respite and no hope: Go-slow BoJo’s roadmap to nowhere quickly just adds to our mountain of lockdown misery

Britain's hugely successful vaccine rollout should have heralded a swift return to normalcy for our Covid-weary millions – so why is our once-bold PM being so infuriatingly ultra-cautious? British PM...

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February 22, 2021
Market fundamentalism should never apply to utilities, as Texans are learning the hard way

The devastating winter storm in Texas has not only left dozens dead, but survivors are being slammed with massive bills from the state's market-driven utility companies – evidence of the...

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