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The Biden Environmental Protection Agency today prohibited all uses of the toxic solvent trichloroethylene, or TCE. The rule is a crucial victory in efforts to tackle health harms, like cancer, that TCE exposure can cause.

The agency also banned all consumer uses of the chemical perchloroethylene, or perc, which is used for dry cleaning and automotive care products. Perc has been linked to health harms, including damage to the kidneys, liver and the immune system.

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Well, duh. But at least there's some main stream coverage of that angle.

Paywall bypass: https://12ft.io/https://theintercept.com/2024/12/05/congress-anti-communism-school-curriculum/

Bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5349

House vote:

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23376918

In his first sit-down news interview since winning a second presidency in November’s election, Donald Trump renewed promises to pardon his supporters involved in the attack on the US Capitol in early 2021.

He also doubled down on promises of mass deportations and tariffs in the conversation with NBC’s Meet the Press host Kristen Welker – the latter of which he acknowledged could cause Americans to pay more after riding voters’ complaints about higher prices back to the White House at the expense of Vice-President Kamala Harris.

“I’m going to be acting very quickly. First day,” Trump said in the interview, claiming convicted Capitol attackers had been put through a “very nasty system”.

US President-elect Donald Trump reiterated his campaign promises to impose trade tariffs and carry out mass deportations on Sunday, while also hinting at the possibility of withdrawing from NATO.

In his first major televised interview, six weeks before taking office, Trump said he would "absolutely" consider leaving NATO if allies didn't "pay their bills."

"They have to pay their bills," Trump told NBC's "Meet the Press," saying he would "absolutely" consider taking the United States out of the alliance unless members are "treating us fairly."

He also suggested that US backing for Ukraine would be reduced, stating he would "probably" limit funds to Kiev, which the United States has been steadfastly backing since the war in Ukraine broke out.

"Possibly. Yeah, probably, sure," he told the US news outlet.

Demonstrators called for accountability following the issuance of International Criminal Court (ICC) warrants seeking the arrests of Gallant and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Protesters chanted slogans and held signs condemning Israeli actions in Gaza, urging international authorities to enforce the ICC’s rulings.

The demonstration underscored growing global outrage over Israel’s military actions and the perceived impunity of its leaders.

Despite the ICC warrants, Gallant appeared undeterred, praising the Israeli army during a speech in New York.

NEW YORK, Dec 6 - A former Allianz fund manager was spared prison time on Friday over his role in a meltdown of private investment funds sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic that caused an estimated $7 billion of investor losses.

Gregoire Tournant, 57, of Basalt, Colorado, pleaded guilty in June to two counts of investment adviser fraud. He agreed to give up $17.5 million in ill-gotten gains, including bonuses that were inflated by his fraud. Chief Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the federal court in Manhattan sentenced him to 18 months home confinement and three years probation.

I read The New York Times daily as a barometer - as a farmer would heed a bellwether, or an old-fashioned European anthropologist would stare at the behaviour of a faraway tribe - to see which way the liberal Zionist wind is blowing.

I strongly recommend that people with a smidgeon of sanity left in them in this exceedingly diabolical political culture do the same: never read the Times or its ilk for news and analysis, but as the archival evidence of the liberal savagery that has long sold itself as "the world order".

As soon as news of the Israeli thuggery in Amsterdam broke, the Times went into high gear to distort, deviate, manoeuvre, meander and rush to place the word "antisemitism" in headlines.

"What to Know About the Attacks on Israeli Soccer Fans in Amsterdam," read one headline of an 8 November article, explaining that "Dutch and Israeli officials described the clashes after a soccer match as antisemitic".

Bret Stephens, one of the two chief pro-Israel columnists gainfully employed at the Times, was immediately called into action that same day to decry: "The Age of the Pogrom Returns".

By 10 November, even the Israeli dissident columnist Gideon Levy had joined Stephens to condemn the "pogrom" in Haaretz. However, he pointed out another glaring fact that Stephens and his ilk habitually leave out: "An ugly, criminal pogrom against Israeli soccer fans took place in Amsterdam on Thursday. Similar pogroms, carried out by settlers, take place almost daily in the West Bank."