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02/16/2025

Bessie Coleman took to the skies back when men dominated the aviation industry.

02/16/2025

The quality of your ideas is important. Even more important: being able to communicate those ideas effectively.

02/16/2025

In the past weeks, the Trump administration has purged federal law enforcement agencies of prosecutors and investigators who’d been pursuing white supremacist groups that had been listed among the most dangerous threats to national security: https://propub.li/419C5nz

02/16/2025

02/16/2025

Thirty-one-year-old Cameroonian man Choe Blaiss Che was arrested by immigration officials despite having Temporary Protected Status and no criminal record. He overheard an officer saying they needed to hit arrest numbers for the day and to send him to the detention center and figure out his status there https://reut.rs/4k0ib5R

02/16/2025

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum impressed President Trump by standing firm without antagonizing him.

Her deft hand with the president wasn’t expected. Known for her stern demeanor, the leftist politician and academic cut her teeth in university activism and is in many ways the opposite of Trump.

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02/16/2025

Two of the lawyers working at DOGE are former Supreme Court clerks — one worked for Chief Justice John Roberts and the other for Justice Neil Gorsuch — while the third was selected to clerk for Gorsuch later this year: https://propub.li/4gD5lrr

02/16/2025

Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was the lone Republican to vote against Robert F. Kennedy's confirmation for Health and Human Services secretary on Thursday.

Kennedy, an environmental attorney who has spread misinformation and falsehoods about vaccines and their safety, was confirmed by a 52-48 vote. McConnell joined all Democrats in voting against Kennedy.

"I'm a survivor of childhood polio. In my lifetime, I've watched vaccines save millions of lives from devastating diseases across America and around the world," McConnell, the former Republican leader in the Senate, said in a statement after the vote. "I will not condone the re-litigation of proven cures, and neither will millions of Americans who credit their survival and quality of life to scientific miracles."

While McConnell said that people "have a right to push for a healthier nation and demand the best possible scientific guidance on preventing and treating illness," a record of promoting conspiracy theories and eroding trust in public health "does not entitle Mr. Kennedy to lead these important efforts."

McConnell noted that the first Trump presidency "delivered a medical miracle with Project Warp Speed," the federal government's public-private partnership effort in 2020 and 2021 to speed up the development and distribution of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines.

"Mr. Kennedy failed to prove he is the best possible person to lead America’s largest health agency," McConnell said. "As he takes office, I sincerely hope Mr. Kennedy will choose not to sow further doubt and division but to restore trust in our public health institutions."

02/16/2025

NEW DELHI (AP) — At least 15 people were killed in a stampede at a railway station in India’s capital of New Delhi, an official said Sunday.

02/16/2025

Six senior Justice Department officials, including Manhattan's top federal prosecutor, resigned on Thursday rather than comply with an order to dismiss corruption charges against New York City's mayor, according to internal Justice Department letters seen by Reuters and people familiar with the matter.

02/16/2025

Elon Musk theorizes that senior government employees are funneling tax dollars into their own pockets. The reality, as Forbes has tracked, is that there are plenty of legal ways for them to become rich despite their government salaries.
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