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Kakhovka dam breach raises risk for Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Najmedin Meshkati
The immediate situation is becoming very precarious
Expert: Here’s what House Republicans got in return for pushing the US to the brink of default
Raymond Scheppach
Republicans didn’t get most of what they sought in a bill they passed in April – though they did get some of it
Melting Antarctic ice may strangle vital ocean currents
Katie Myers
Models show that currents could slow by more than 40 percent within 30 years, with potentially devastating effects
Donald Trump’s false start
Heather Digby Parton
Does all this mean that Trump has finally smoothed out all his rough edges
“A colossal giveaway”: A tax break for big polluters is also starving public schools in Texas
Elliott Woods
In December, legislators killed a controversial abatement program, Chapter 313, but its effects will last decades
“Reckless and cruel”: House GOP quietly kills civil rights panel days after Tyre Nichols video
Rae Hodge
"GOP Oversight tried to toss out the Civil Rights Subcommittee without anybody noticing," Democrat says
The laptop from hell and other stories: Your guide to 2023 congressional investigations
Rae Hodge
Kevin McCarthy's troops plan to probe Hunter Biden, DHS, the FBI and more — but the real point is to get on TV
Kevin McCarthy abruptly backtracks on GOP tax plan that conservatives called a “gift to Democrats”
Samaa Khullar
The bill was a key concession to GOP hardliners but now it may not even get a committee vote
Two years after Texas’ voting rights showdown, lawmakers again push dozens of elections bills
Pooja Salhotra
Democrats are seeking to expand voting access and Republicans pledge to make elections more secure
Will Republicans blow up the global economy? They seem eager to try
Heather Digby Parton
Yes, the debt-ceiling fight is a boring, pointless political ritual — but the risk this time is off the charts
Put the popcorn away, folks: Kevin McCarthy is speaker of the House, and that’s no joke
Chauncey DeVega
As usual, the mockery was a way to avoid the real emotions we should feel: How the hell did America get here?
House Republican sounds the alarm on Kevin McCarthy’s MAGA giveaway: “What backroom deals were cut?”
Igor Derysh
"We don't have any idea what promises were made or what gentleman's handshakes were made," said Rep. Nancy Mace
The shutdown caucus really wins: The House power grab was always bigger than Kevin McCarthy
Lucian K. Truscott IV
Kevin McCarthy's GOP opponents shut down the House all week, preventing Congress from governing. What's next?
Speaker battle may set up MAGA plot to hold debt ceiling hostage to cut Medicare, Social Security
Jessica Corbett
Some Republicans say threat of government shutdown is "non-negotiable"
McCarthy debacle comes with a lesson: There’s a downside to being a party of fascist trolls
Amanda Marcotte
Calling Republican renegades "ultraconservative" doesn't cut it: This clown show is a symptom of the big F
Looking ahead: Top food and agriculture stories for 2023
FoodPrint
There’s a great need for change, change that large institutions will likely fight
Elon Musk fired Twitter’s janitorial staff and employees are left to supply their own toilet paper
Matthew Chapman
Musk has been making drastic cuts at Twitter and the financial health of the company is causing a buzz
California passed a milestone law to stop neighborhood drilling. Big Oil launched a counterattack
Blanca Begert
A new fossil fuel-sponsored ballot initiative could reverse a major environmental justice victory
Gaetz and Boebert “blow through” Capitol security and refuse screenings — then diss Zelenskyy speech
Igor Derysh
Gaetz and Boebert sat through standing ovations and checked their phones as the Ukrainian leader pleaded for help
Congress just passed $858B military budget — but GOP is blocking $12B to fight child poverty
Jake Johnson
GOPer says "the country frankly doesn't have the time or the money" to help impoverished kids
Coach Prime is not the HBCU savior: On Deion Sanders and the money-making machine of college sports
D. Watkins
The outrage over Deion Sanders leaving his Jackson State football coaching job for Colorado is misplaced
Biden’s Holiday Express delivers for 21st-century robber barons at rail workers’ expense
Bob Hennelly
Praising himself as pro-union, Biden used heavy-handed tactic to head off strike he just told us he had prevented
Biden pushed to seal the deal on paid sick leave for rail workers
Brett Wilkins
"Put up or shut up about how you really want them to have sick leave!"
Loco-Motive: Pact forced on US railroad workers — sick days still in doubt
Bob Hennelly
“We firmly believe in the workers’ right to fight for their own best interests," one union says
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