• Democrats shift messaging ahead of midterm elections to paint Republicans as too extreme

    Democrats shift messaging ahead of midterm elections to paint Republicans as too extreme

    May 15, 2022 09:35 PM EDT

    ... is have us point our fingers in the wrong direction. Meanwhile, with the other hand, they are picking our pockets to hand the wealth our work creates to their corporate donors. And so with Republicans continuously naming a villain, if we don't name one, and we simply rejoin with ...

  • WATCH: Biden says overturning Roe would be a 'radical,' 'fundamental shift' for the country

    WATCH: Biden says overturning Roe would be a 'radical,' 'fundamental shift' for the country

    May 03, 2022 07:46 PM EDT

    ... shouldn't try. “We cannot allow our decisions to be affected by any extraneous influences such as concern about the public’s reaction to our work,” Alito wrote in the draft opinion, according to Politico. Outside, the Supreme Court building, anti-abortion rights protestors carried signs that said “Ignore Roe ...

  • Egg producers shift as public demand for cage-free hens grows

    Egg producers shift as public demand for cage-free hens grows

    Feb 11, 2022 06:54 PM EDT

    ... feed birds that could move about and how to collect their eggs. More workers and more feed were also needed because hens moving around would work up more of an appetite. The key, said Dean, was getting long-term commitments for guaranteed buyers of eggs at a higher price and ...

  • The Fed aims to clamp down on inflation with rate hikes. Will it work?

    The Fed aims to clamp down on inflation with rate hikes. Will it work?

    Jan 26, 2022 11:45 PM EDT

    Lisa Desjardins: Powell noted that unemployment is low overall, 3.9 percent, arguing the job market can handle a shift from the Fed. Jerome Powell: I think there is quite a bit of room to raise interest rates without risking the labor market. This is, by so many measures, a ...

  • How 'mix and match' COVID-19 booster shots work, according to an infectious disease expert

    How 'mix and match' COVID-19 booster shots work, according to an infectious disease expert

    Oct 27, 2021 07:38 PM EDT

    ... As an infectious disease expert, I have closely followed the development of the COVID-19 vaccines and the research on how immunity and vaccine efficacy shift over time. With the swirling mass of news around how effective the COVID-19 vaccines are and who needs booster shots and when, it ...

  • How infrastructure funding to expand broadband access could create a ‘generational shift’

    How infrastructure funding to expand broadband access could create a ‘generational shift

    Aug 03, 2021 10:35 PM EDT

    ... have topographical challenges when it comes to connecting places where there are more cows than farms -- than people.On the urban side, we need to work on competition. People should have a variety of choices of where they can actually access service. And that's not always the case. And ...

  • How a rise in remote employment may impact post-pandemic work life

    How a rise in remote employment may impact post-pandemic work life

    Jun 03, 2021 10:25 PM EDT

    ... care provider and union member Hillary Rothrock agrees. Hillary Rothrock: Those who have to leave their homes, who are not able to stay home and work should be compensated as such. And I do believe that it's something we should look at, such as a shift differential, hazard pay ...

  • Blinken touts Biden climate policies as shift from Trump

    Blinken touts Biden climate policies as shift from Trump

    May 18, 2021 12:50 PM EDT

    REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — On a trip overshadowed by the crisis in the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday touted the Biden administration's abrupt shift in its predecessor's climate policies as he visited Iceland for talks with senior officials from the world's Arctic ...

  • Pelosi pledges swift work on major infrastructure package

    Pelosi pledges swift work on major infrastructure package

    Mar 14, 2021 11:09 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday pledged swift work by Congress on a job and infrastructure package that will be “fiscally sound,” but said she isn’t sure whether the next major item on President Joe Biden’s agenda will attract Republican backing. Fresh off a major legislative victory ...

  • In foreign policy shift, Biden lifts terrorist designation for Houthis in Yemen

    In foreign policy shift, Biden lifts terrorist designation for Houthis in Yemen

    Feb 16, 2021 11:40 PM EDT

    ... Lenderking: As I say, they have ways of getting messages to us. And so we have taken those. And we will do our best to work constructively with those messages and with the various groups in Yemen who are supportive of a peace process. Nick Schifrin: Your critics say that ...