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Democrats, Republicans sponsor bill to give thousands of Afghans path to citizenship

Bipartisan legislation has been introduced in both houses of U.S. Congress to establish a path to American citizenship for thousands of Afghan evacuees admitted to the United States on temporary immigration status, the sponsors announced on Tuesday.

Reuters

They couldn’t touch her: how Serena Williams became a rare legend

Prejudice and hostility followed her throughout a career of scarcely believable achievement, one that told us much about America

The Guardian - US

Aunty Kathleen grew up having to 'yarn in secret'. Now she's helping revive her Indigenous language

Indigenous Australians and Native Americans come together in the Red Centre to learn, from each other, how they can save their languages from extinction.

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Biden Signs $280B CHIPS Act in Bid to Boost US over China

President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a $280 billion bipartisan bill to boost domestic high-tech manufacturing, part of his administration's push to boost US competitiveness over China. Flanked by scores of lawmakers, union officials, local politicians and business leaders, Biden feted the legislation, a core part of his economic agenda…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Biden, suddenly on a hot streak, signs semiconductor bill as businesses boost investment

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed a broad competition bill into law Tuesday that will direct $52.7 billion toward domestic semiconductor research and development as part of an effort to make the U.S. less dependent on China and other Asian nations.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: GOP opposition to climate-and-drug bill highlights party's twisted priorities

Senate Democrats over the weekend passed legislation to help industry and individual Americans move to cleaner energy, make corporations pay their fair share in taxes and lower prescription prices for struggling seniors, all while lowering the deficit and, potentially, inflation. Republicans’ sole contribution to this historic package was to keep…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Have we reached the end of the doomscroll?

Digital platforms are having a bad year. That might be good news for America’s mental health.

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Pizzagate promoter tapped for Kremlin-backed propaganda campaign

Four new TV programs are aimed in large part at undercutting America's image in the developing world.

Axios

Commentary: What in the world are Washington and Beijing doing?

Let’s be clear: Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan was not a great opportunity to show America’s support for the island; it did not chasten Beijing to exert greater restraint toward Taipei. To the contrary—countless China and foreign policy specialists predicted it would produce a major, likely sustained, coercive Chinese reaction…

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Democrats finally get something done for President Biden. In the end, Manchin was more helpful than Sinema

As Democrats finally discovered reality and got some legislation moving, some mighty spurious arguments over the climate and energy bill emerged on both sides of the aisle.

Chicago Tribune

‘Everybody knew Jim Thorpe’: biographer David Maraniss on a pioneering athlete

Pulitzer winner’s new biography tells fascinating story of a Native American star recently recognised as a double Olympic champion

The Guardian - US

One Year after Afghan War, Biden Struggles to Find Footing

The 12 months since the chaotic end to the US war in Afghanistan haven't been easy for Joe Biden. The new president was flying high early in the summer of 2021, the American electorate largely approving of Biden's performance and giving him high marks for his handling of the economy…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Biden administration launches Africa strategy. But the real targets seem to be China, Russia

PRETORIA, South Africa — With Russia and China looming in the background, America’s top diplomat pitched a “new chapter” in U.S.-African relations on Monday, promising robust trade and calling for democracy despite political upheaval in much of the continent.

Los Angeles Times

America Needs More Foreign STEM Talent To Produce Semiconductors. The CHIPS Act Won't Fix That.

The U.S. is missing out on necessary high-skilled workers by faltering on immigration reform.

Reason

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Scots lawyer John Watt jailed for 10 years over sex abuse against children in the Edinburgh area

John Watt QC was extradited from America and was found guilty of one charge of rape, one of indecent assault and three of indecent conduct committed at houses in the Edinburgh area between September 1973 and August 1987.

Daily Record

Top Scots lawyer John Watt jailed for 10 years over catalogue of sex abuse against children

WEKU

A 'staggering' number of people couldn't get care during the pandemic, poll finds

Insured or not, one in five said they couldn't get treated for serious illness, while preventive and elective procedures were neglected. Disruptions in care hit Black and Native Americans the hardest.

WEKU

Poll: Black, Native American and Latino families face serious problems from inflation

Those households are struggling to stay afloat, according to a new poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Commentary: America needs a Declaration of Independents

Whether one watches Fox News or MSNBC, reads The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal, it has become difficult to view the United States as anything but a game of political dodgeball, with two opposing teams that loath one another trying to knock the other out by whistling…

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Fact-free speech is not free speech

The proliferation of lying in the body politic and certain news media has reached proportions so great that America finds itself on the brink of a revolution that threatens our entire system of government.

The Independent UK

What's in Democrats' big bill? Climate, health care, savings

The estimated $740 billion economic package from Democrats is nowhere near what President Joe Biden first envisioned with his effort to rebuild America’s public infrastructure and family support systems

Bangkok Post

Time to tone down Taiwan tensions

It was a picture-perfect shot, really. That was my thought when I saw US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi standing side by side with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei last Wednesday. But the one-day visit to the self-ruled island by the 82-year-old American politician has created no end of tension,…

Al Jazeera

‘No place in America’: Biden denounces killing of four Muslims

Police investigating the murder of Muslim men in New Mexico state as a possible hate crime.

Axios

Gun makers appeal to masculinity, white supremacist groups to sell guns: Report

"The gun industry is profiting off the blood of innocent Americans."

Axios

Stephen Breyer says America goes the wrong way "from time to time"

Breyer made no mention of the string of conservative rulings the Supreme Court issued at the end of its last term.

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