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Mayor Adams travels to Mexico to deter migrants as NYC deals with crisis
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is on a four-day trip south of the border. He says he will be discouraging migrants from traveling to the city after more than 120,000 have shown up in the Big Apple in the last year. “We’re going to tell them that coming to New York doesn’t mean you’re… -
Hotel bookings for Army-Navy game canceled due to influx of migrants
The Army-Navy game is one of college football’s greatest and oldest rivalries. On Dec. 9, the Black Knights and Midshipmen are set to face off at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. However, an unexpected influx of migrants to the area is affecting some veterans’ travel plans. Thousands of people are set to flood the Boston… -
DOJ indicts China-based companies, executives for fentanyl-related crimes
The Justice Department announced indictments against China-based companies and their employees for crimes related to fentanyl. A total of eight companies, along with 12 of their executives, have been charged. The charges include crimes related to the production, distribution and importation of fentanyl, synthetic opioids, methamphetamine and their precursor chemicals. “We know this global fentanyl… -
An unlikely pair: The 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine
An unlikely pair of scientists won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their mRNA vaccine research. Their discoveries enabled the rapid development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. “Everybody who knows us knows that we are very different,” Katalin Karikó said to her prize-winning partner. “I am talkative and bubbling. Drew is more scientific.” In… -
New EV battery factory requires energy from coal-fired power plant
An upcoming $4 billion electric vehicle (EV) battery factory in De Soto, Kansas, has been hailed as the result of President Joe Biden’s renewable energy efforts in the Inflation Reduction Act. However, building the factory may also mean the continued existence of a nearby coal-fired power plant. Running this new EV battery factory, backed by… -
Canada’s new podcasting requirements spark free speech debate
Fights over free speech are not limited to the U.S. Canada is facing a debate over newly implemented speech regulations. At issue is the nation’s effort to “ensure online streaming services make meaningful contributions to Canadian and Indigenous content.” The new directive, announced Friday, Sept. 29 by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), requires… -
Ill. Gov. Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Johnson confront White House over migrant crisis
Tensions are rising between top Democrats in Illinois and the Biden administration over the state’s migrant crisis. Thousands of migrants are being relocated to Chicago, however limited resources to house them are being provided. Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker penned a letter to President Joe Biden criticizing the federal government’s response to the migrant crisis,… -
Dem. Rep. Phillips leaves leadership post after pushing for Biden challenger
Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., is stepping down from his House Democratic leadership role over his party’s support for President Joe Biden to be the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee. According to Axios, Phillips is relinquishing his role as co-chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Caucus after unsuccessfully calling for a younger viable challenger for the… -
Hundreds of migrants housed at O’Hare as Chicago deals with ongoing crisis
Hundreds of migrants are living in Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport while the city attempts to find them permanent housing. Since August 2022, over 15,000 migrants seeking asylum arrived in Chicago, according to city data. Buses and planes carrying migrants from the southern border continue arriving in the Windy City — 59 buses arrived in September… -
California city first in nation to recognize legal rights of elephants
A city in California has passed an ordinance protecting the legal bodily liberties of elephants. The historic law marked the first legislation protecting the rights of nonhuman animals. The law was passed in an Ojai City Council meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 26. It’s a decree that animal rights advocates have pushed for years. “Recognizing the… -
Sen. Feinstein’s death leaves Senate vacancy Gov. Newsom needs to fill
California’s longest-serving senator, Dianne Feinstein, has died at the age of 90. President Joe Biden reacted to the news, calling her a “pioneering American and a true trailblazer.” While reactions continue to pour in, attention is already turning to the implications of her absence. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, D, is tasked with filling her seat.… -
Climate advocates, indigenous tribes protest efforts to mine $67B of minerals in Canada
Beneath a remote expanse of wilderness in Canada lies a rare mineral deposit that officials have called the world’s most important untapped source of nickel, copper and cobalt. Worth an estimated $67 billion, these metals, located in a region known as the Ring of Fire, are essential for building the batteries that power electric vehicles.… -
DHS collects migrants’ DNA for growing database, raising privacy concerns
The Department of Homeland Security has been collecting DNA from migrants detained at the U.S. southern border since 2019. Mark Morgan, former acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection said that at the beginning of the Trump administration, if migrants came to the border as a family, doing so would be their passport into the…
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