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Sen. Joe Manchin's Build Back Better opposition is a political balancing act

Voices // 1 day ago

Sen. Joe Manchin's Build Back Better opposition is a political balancing act

Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Sen. Joe Manchin's opposition to Build Back Better demonstrates his effort to balance support for government programs that will benefit people in West Virginia with the social conservatism that many adhere to.

Omicron, political divisions paint grim outlook for 2022

Voices // 2 days ago

Omicron, political divisions paint grim outlook for 2022

Mich. school shooting: Charging parents for child's alleged crimes not unprecedented

Voices // 3 days ago

Mich. school shooting: Charging parents for child's alleged crimes not unprecedented

Kim Jong Un's decade in power: Starvation, repression, brutal rule

Voices // 4 days ago

Kim Jong Un's decade in power: Starvation, repression, brutal rule

Texas ducks the federal courts with abortion law, inspiring copycats

Voices // 1 week ago

Texas ducks the federal courts with abortion law, inspiring copycats

Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Texas' government has become a laboratory for bad ideas.

Poland's border wall will cut Europe's oldest forest in half

Voices // 1 week ago

Poland's border wall will cut Europe's oldest forest in half

Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Poland is planning to build a wall along its border with Belarus, primarily to block migrants fleeing the Middle East and Asia. But the wall would also divide the ancient Białowieża Forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Vladimir Putin is winning, but he won't invade Ukraine

Voices // 1 week ago

Vladimir Putin is winning, but he won't invade Ukraine

Make no mistake: Russia's President Vladimir Putin is winning the fight in Ukraine -- so far.

Research offers new clues on how climate change affects tornadoes

Voices // 1 week ago

Research offers new clues on how climate change affects tornadoes

Dec. 14 (UPI) -- The tornado outbreak that tore through communities from Arkansas to Illinois was so unusual in its duration and strength that a lot of people are asking what role climate change might have played.

U.S. short on faculty to train next generation of nurses

Voices // 1 week ago

U.S. short on faculty to train next generation of nurses

Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Despite a national nursing shortage in the United States, over 80,000 qualified applications were not accepted at U.S. nursing schools in 2020, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Rethinking police reform: from defunding to promoting sustainability

Voices // 2 weeks ago

Rethinking police reform: from defunding to promoting sustainability

Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Derek Chauvin was convicted of the murder of George Floyd on June 25. Since then, calls for police reform haven't been as loud.

California's water supplies are in trouble as climate change worsens dry spells

Voices // 2 weeks ago

California's water supplies are in trouble as climate change worsens dry spells

Dec. 9 (UPI) -- California is preparing for a third straight year of drought, and officials are tightening limits on water use to levels never seen so early in the water year.

Oncology doctors say Build Back Better Act will slash cancer care funding; ad 'half-true'

Voices // 2 weeks ago

Oncology doctors say Build Back Better Act will slash cancer care funding; ad 'half-true'

Dec. 8 (UPI) -- An advertisement from the Community Oncology Alliance, part of a $1.6 million campaign running on radio and in print, attacks a proposal in the Democratic-backed Build Back Better package. It's only half-true.

Lessons of Pearl Harbor resonate with the worst U.S. policy blunders

Voices // 2 weeks ago

Lessons of Pearl Harbor resonate with the worst U.S. policy blunders

Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The history of the Pearl Harbor attack and the catastrophic consequences of fatally flawed assumptions is as relevant today as it was on Dec. 7, 1941.

West must cut a deal with Taliban to prevent starvation in Afghanistan

Voices // 2 weeks ago

West must cut a deal with Taliban to prevent starvation in Afghanistan

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The lack of food security in Afghanistan may soon become a threat to the stability of many other countries.

U.S. is top source of plastic trash in the ocean

Voices // 2 weeks ago

U.S. is top source of plastic trash in the ocean

Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Plastic waste permeates the world's oceans. It shows up on beaches, in fish and even in Arctic sea ice. A new report makes clear the U.S. is a big part of the problem.

Limiting access to abortion could harm the economy, women's well-being

Voices // 3 weeks ago

Limiting access to abortion could harm the economy, women's well-being

Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Providing Americans with a full range of reproductive health options is good for the economy and essential to the financial security of women and their families.

Soon, 1 out of every 15 points of light in the sky will be a satellite

Voices // 3 weeks ago

Soon, 1 out of every 15 points of light in the sky will be a satellite

Dec. 2 (UPI) -- With no regulation, in the near future, one out of every 15 points you can see in the sky will actually be relentlessly crawling satellites, not stars. This will be devastating to research astronomy.

Voices // 3 weeks ago

Sushi, religion, and the DC courts

A recent New York Times magazine story on the links between a minority religion and a major sushi distributor ignored important first amendment issues in an ongoing court case.

Biden's national security, defense strategies need specific action goals

Voices // 3 weeks ago

Biden's national security, defense strategies need specific action goals

Last March, the Biden administration released its interim National Security Strategic Guidance.

Green transition must avoid 1970s policy errors in oil market

Voices // 3 weeks ago

Green transition must avoid 1970s policy errors in oil market

Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Russian energy giant Gazprom has announced record profits for the first nine months of the year, and is forecasting even stronger results for the fourth quarter.

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