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[ad_1] NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n October 2020, NASA’s Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey committee received a manifesto from its Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (EDIWG). Written by NASA Ames Research Center public-communications specialist Frank Tavares — along with a group of eleven co-authors including noted activists drawn from the fields of anthropology,
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[ad_1] (rarrarorro/Getty Images) Without any extreme gerrymandering, reapportionment and redistricting alone will likely cost Democrats their majority. Following last week’s elections, Democrats will retain control the House of Representatives. At the same time, their margin will be considerably smaller than it was in the preceding Congress. Republicans will likely hold between 208 and 212 House
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[ad_1] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 30, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Don’t believe Julie Kelly: McConnell is one of the most effective GOP leaders in history, and he’ll frustrate Biden’s agenda. American Greatness, the online outlet that sprung up in the summer of 2016 to,
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[ad_1] Democratic Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock speaks during an Election Night event in Atlanta, Ga., November 3, 2020. (Jessica McGowan/Reuters) What else to call claiming that the Jewish state goes around picking off God’s children as if ‘they don’t matter at all’? Raphael Warnock, the Democratic Senate candidate seeking to unseat Republican Kelly Loeffler
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[ad_1] Then-State Senator Jim Banks of Indiana speaks at the 2014 CPAC in National Harbor, Md. (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia ) Representative Jim Banks (R., Ind.) called for punishment on Friday after Syria envoy James Jeffrey said that his team fooled President Trump into leaving troops in Syria by misrepresenting the actual U.S. footprint. Trump announced in
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[ad_1] President Donald Trump departs after speaking about the presidential-election results in Washington, D.C., November 5, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Friday that the Trump administration is operating as if President Trump will serve a second term despite Joe Biden’s apparent victory, which the president is challenging via various lawsuits
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[ad_1] Associate Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito arrives for the swearing in ceremony of Judge Neil Gorsuch as an Associate Supreme Court Justice in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday said the coronavirus pandemic has “resulted in previously unimaginable
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[ad_1] COVID-19 response specialist Alexandra Vizcarra prepares to administer a nasal swab test at Public Health Madison & Dane County in Madison, Wis., October 19, 2020. (Bing Guan/Reuters) On the menu today: Yeah, we’re back to talking about the coronavirus pandemic, in part because we were repeatedly assured that herd immunity was imminent, and in
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[ad_1] Mayor Ted Wheeler wears a protective mask and googles during a protest in Portland, Ore., July 22, 2020. (Jonathan Maus/Bikeportland via Reuters) Newly reelected Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced Wednesday that the city would remove gendered language from its City Charter to be “more inclusive of all gender identities.” “The language of the documents
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[ad_1] NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump group of ex-Republicans founded by George Conway, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver, Rick Wilson, and others, has sunk to a new low: personal harassment of lawyers representing Donald Trump and Republicans in post-election lawsuits: Defend your democracy: 1. Created a LinkedIn account. 2. Message someone who
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[ad_1] President-elect Joe Biden speaks to reporters about efforts to confront the coronavirus pandemic in Wilmington, Del., November 9, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Electoral College votes on December 14, 2020. Until that day, there is formally no president-elect. Traditionally, when an election’s outcome is not disputed and the losing candidate has conceded, the winner on
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[ad_1] Senator Ben Sasse (R., NE) attends a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., June 16, 2020. (Tom Williams/Reuters) Senator Ben Sasse on Thursday slammed the Justice Department’s investigative report that concluded former Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta did not engage in misconduct in 2008 when he approved a sweetheart non-prosecution agreement for billionaire and accused sex
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[ad_1] Senator Joe Manchin (D., W. Va.) speaks during an oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 16, 2020. (Toni Sandys/Reuters Pool) Senator Joe Manchin on Wednesday slammed efforts by progressive members of his party to slash police department budgets, saying the Democratic Party as he conceives of it does not have “some
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[ad_1] Democratic Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock speaks during an Election Night event in Atlanta, Ga., November 3, 2020. (Jessica McGowan/Reuters) The gloves have come off in the runoff election between Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler and her opponent, Reverend Raphael Warnock of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Over the past week, Loeffler and Republican
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[ad_1] Former President Barack Obama announces funding for the construction and renovation of community health centers and the implementation of electronic health records, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the White House in Washington, D.C., December 9, 2009. (Jason Reed/Reuters) Today, The Atlantic carries an excerpt from a forthcoming memoir written by former president
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[ad_1] A student and parent pass Widener Library’s banners before Harvard University’s Class Day Exercises in Cambridge, Mass., May 27, 2015. (Dominick Reuter/Reuters ) A federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that Harvard’s admissions practices do not discriminate against Asian applicants, in a case that will likely end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. In
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[ad_1] President Trump approaches reporters as he departs the White House in Washington, D.C., September 30, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) President Trump is considering founding a digital media company to compete with Fox News, Axios reported on Thursday. Trump has complained vociferously in recent months about Fox polls showing he would lose the presidency, and he was
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[ad_1] The International Space Station, photographed by Expedition 56 crew members on October 4, 2018. (NASA/Roscosmos) With investment, the right vision, and a little luck, the ISS could continue to benefit human civilization for decades to come. With the first fully operational, crewed NASA trip to the International Space Station (ISS) since 2011 now planned
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[ad_1] (bodrumsurf/iStock/Getty Images Plus) I put up a couple of posts last month about the possibility that Arizona might, by approving Proposition 208 in this November’s vote, impose a sharp tax increase on, of course, “the rich.” It was, I argued, a measure, perhaps, of that state’s changing politics that such an item was on
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[ad_1] Governor Andrew Cuomo adjusts his mask during an event in New York, October 12, 2020. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) Governor Andrew Cuomo announced new lockdown and social distancing restrictions for New York on Wednesday as coronavirus numbers in the state continue to trend upward. Under the new statewide restrictions, all bars and restaurants with state liquor
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[ad_1] Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) walks from Senate Republican weekly policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 6, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Senator Pat Toomey called on the Trump administration this week to start working with President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team even as President Trump mounts various legal challenges challenging the election results. “We’re on
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[ad_1] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) addresses a question regarding citizenship while participating in a Census Town Hall at the Louis Armstrong Middle School in Queens, N.Y., February 22, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) A number of progressive House Democrats are pushing back against moderates’ claims that progressive policies and messaging are the reason for the party’s subpar
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