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The Urban Institute, a major left-of-center policymaking outfit, has released an expansive and ambitious new plan to expand health insurance coverage: the Healthy America program. This isn’t quite Medicare-for-all, but that’s part of the selling point. The idea is to…
Last week, President Donald Trump’s administration rolled back yet another LGBTQ-friendly policy — this time, rescinding some protections for transgender people in prison. The new guidelines in the Transgender Offender Manual, as reported by Dominic Holden at BuzzFeed, likely make…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – UK Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson announced that 2.5 billion pounds ($3.4 billion) would be put into the construction of new submarines for the Royal Navy, the UK government said in a statement. “Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson today…
JERUSALEM (Sputnik) – The absence of Russia’s intention to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, just like the United States did, is “strange,” as Russia was one of the first countries to recognize West Jerusalem as the capital…
LONDON (Sputnik) – The celebration of the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem in “defiance of international law” marks a “dark day for peace,” Palestinian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Dr. Manuel Hassassian told Sputnik on Monday. “Today is…
E-car maker Tesla registered another company in Shaghai on May 10. According to the registry, newly set up Tesla Shanghai will focus on electric cars, their spare parts and car batteries. Tesla is reported to have been long considering opportunities to start manufacturing its automobiles…
