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Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding a press conference on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The long-awaited talks between Putin and his US counterpart on the sidelines of the G20 summit were cancelled by Donald Trump over Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian…
North Carolina election officials have declined to certify the winner of the state’s Ninth Congressional District election, after allegations were made suggesting absentee ballots may have been tampered with. Elections officials and Democrats have been careful not to allege any…
House Democrats unveiled details of their first bill in the new Congress on Friday — a sweeping anti-corruption bill aimed at stamping out the influence of money in politics and expanding voting rights. This is House Resolution 1 — the…
Clean energy technologies threaten to overwhelm the grid. Here’s how it can adapt. The centralized, top-down power grid is outdated. Time for a bottom-up redesign. By David Roberts@drvox Updated Dec 1, 2018, 10:16am EST Graphics: Javier Zarracina Share Tweet Share
Sometime after 2009, when Annise Parker was elected mayor of Houston, becoming the first openly gay woman to run a major American city, she remembers being stopped in her garden by her activist neighbor Ray Hill for some idle chitchat.…
At a certain point several years ago, I needed to figure out whether I was a baritone or a tenor. This was a matter of considerable urgency, because baritones had a depth and oaky solidity to their voices that I…
