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Gov. Rick Scott’s anti-science purge begins: State employee banned for uttering ‘climate change’ A Florida state employee has been reprimanded and told not to come to work after Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) administration banned the use of the terms “climate change” and “global warming.” Earlier this month, reports said that officials in the Scott administration ordered Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) administrators not to use the terms in documents or meetings because they asserted that the climate science behind global warming was not a “true fact.” More
Portman among 47 GOP senators to sign letter to Iran WASHINGTON — In a move Democrats denounced as trying to sabotage the Obama administration’s foreign policy, Sen. Rob Portman and 46 other Senate Republicans yesterday warned Iran’s leadership that any agreement to limit Tehran’s apparent efforts to build a nuclear bomb would need Senate approval to stay in effect beyond 2016. More
Republicans to back Obama's student loan plan House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans. More
Trump aide Walt Nauta at center of contentious hearing in documents case Trump's attorneys and aide Walt Nauta sparred with prosecutors during hearing in case involving Trump's handling of classified records. 05/22/2024 - 11:32 am | View Link
Japanese officials erect barrier in front of Mount Fuji to obstruct tourists from taking pictures The vantage point in the Japanese town of Fujikawaguchiko requires people to stand in the road to get the best shot. | ITV National News 05/21/2024 - 1:46 am | View Link
OBSTRUCT | English meaning to block a road, passage, entrance, etc. so that nothing can go along it, or to prevent something from happening correctly by putting difficulties in its way: After the earthquake many roads were obstructed by collapsed buildings. Her view of the stage was obstructed by a pillar. 05/21/2024 - 2:30 pm | View Link
Obstruct Definition & Meaning The meaning of OBSTRUCT is to block or close up by an obstacle. How to use obstruct in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Obstruct. 05/21/2024 - 1:59 am | View Link
OBSTRUCT Synonyms: 116 Similar and Opposite Words Synonyms for OBSTRUCT: impede, hinder, hamper, embarrass, inhibit, stymie, handicap, disrupt; Antonyms of OBSTRUCT: facilitate, help, assist, aid, open, clear, liberate, make way. 05/20/2024 - 9:41 pm | View Link
OBSTRUCT | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary to block a road, passage, entrance, etc. so that nothing can go along it, or to prevent something from happening correctly by putting difficulties in its way: After the earthquake many roads were obstructed by collapsed buildings. Her view of the stage was obstructed by a pillar. 05/19/2024 - 3:41 am | View Link
Obstruct When you obstruct something, you block it. If you’re gobbling down your pizza, a chunk of crust you didn’t chew so well might obstruct your airway and you'll choke. Obstruct also means to get in the way so that you hide something from view. 05/18/2024 - 8:43 am | View Link
A congressional committee on Wednesday scaled back a U. S. military proposal that would have allowed it to force the transfer of potentially hundreds of Colorado Air National Guard members to the Space Force.
Gov. Jared Polis and several members of the state’s congressional delegation had protested the proposal, which is intended to help staff up the newest military branch by allowing it to absorb state-led units involved in space operations.
“The new leader of Taiwan barely had time to unpack his presidential office before China’s military surrounded the island on Thursday, in a large-scale show of force that risks locking the two sides in a fresh cycle of escalation,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Growing mistrust of Beijing helped propel Lai Ching-te to the presidency, which he assumed earlier this week.
“Since the first American shipments of sophisticated weapons to Ukraine, President Biden has never wavered on one prohibition: President Volodymyr Zelensky had to agree to never fire them into Russian territory, insisting that would violate Mr. Biden’s mandate to ‘avoid World War III,’” the New York Times reports.
“But the consensus around that policy is fraying.
A key adviser to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is stepping away from his presidential campaign, citing an “increasingly hateful and divisive atmosphere” that “no longer aligns with my values,” the New York Times reports.
“Angela Stanton King, the campaign’s adviser for Black engagement, announced her departure in a statement on social media on Tuesday evening, five months after she was added to the campaign’s payroll.”