Ramped up domestic oil production and alternative supply routes have lessened the U.S.’s need for the hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil that would have been pumped daily through the now-cancelled Keystone XL pipeline, some industry experts say. On Wednesday, not long after being sworn in as president of …
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World leaders welcome new U.S. president Joe Biden, with hopes of repairing frayed alliances
World leaders welcomed U.S. President Joe Biden into their ranks Wednesday, noting that their most pressing problems — including the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change — require multilateral co-operation, an approach Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, largely rejected. Many expressed hope Biden would right U.S. democracy two weeks after rioters stormed …
Read More »The youngest poet to read at a U.S. presidential inauguration had dreams of this day
In one of the inauguration’s most talked about moments, poet Amanda Gorman summoned images dire and triumphant Wednesday as she called out to the world, “even as we grieved, we grew.” The 22-year-old Gorman referenced everything from Biblical scripture to the musical Hamilton, and at times echoed the oratory of …
Read More »From Biden’s Bible to the colour purple: 5 things you may have missed during the inauguration
Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday in a scaled-down celebration, because of the coronavirus pandemic, and heightened security following the mob attack at the Capitol two weeks ago. But there was no shortage of interesting details of historic significance during the …
Read More »China, WHO should have acted quicker to stop pandemic: expert panel
A panel of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization has criticized China and other countries for not moving to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier and questioned whether the UN health agency should have labelled it a pandemic sooner. In a report issued to the media Monday, …
Read More »Mitch McConnell says Capitol riot ‘provoked by the president and other powerful people’
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell opened the Senate on Tuesday saying the pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol was “fed lies” by the president and others ahead of the deadly riot earlier this month that was an attempt to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory. McConnell’s remarks are his …
Read More »Alexei Navalny’s return to Russia solidifies opposition leader’s role as ‘anti-Putin’
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny returned home from Germany to challenge President Vladimir Putin and now faces the possibility of years of hard labour because of it. His supporters are also confronting the existential question of how his political movement will survive with him sidelined, in all likelihood for a …
Read More »Could new virus variants derail COVID-19 vaccination efforts? Scientists hope not
After the virus behind COVID-19 spent 2020 wreaking havoc around the globe, this year started with a bit more hope — vaccination efforts were ramping up, after all — and a tinge of fear. Multiple new coronavirus variants have been discovered across several continents, from Europe to Africa to South …
Read More »District of trepidation: Fear of violence upends U.S. capital before inauguration
In a moment of nation-splintering turmoil, an incoming American president, Abraham Lincoln, travelled by train to his inauguration in Washington, D.C., in a nerve-racking ride cloaked in disguise as he faced threats to his life. Now, 160 years later, an incoming president has cancelled plans for a train ride to …
Read More »Twitter suspends Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene over election fraud claims
Twitter on Sunday temporarily suspended the account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican U.S. congresswoman from Georgia who has expressed racist views and support for QAnon conspiracy theories online. Greene’s account was suspended “without explanation,” she said in a statement, while also condemning Big Tech companies for “silencing” conservative …
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