After years of negotiations, new government Hanford plan stirs up plans to treat radioactive waste Three government agencies made a plan public for how to move forward and clean up radioactive waste from large, underground tanks at the Hanford site in southeast Washington. 04/30/2024 - 1:13 pm | View Link
WA, feds upend plan to clean up one of nation’s most costly, dangerous radioactive sites The Department of Energy and its regulators have released a revised path forward for DOE’s most costly liability in the nation — the 56 million gallons of radioactive waste stored in leak-prone ... 04/30/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
Hanford’s new plan to clean up 56 million gallons of nuclear waste State and federal officials revealed a new roadmap for neutralizing the Western Hemisphere’s most polluted site via a technique known as grouting. 04/30/2024 - 12:58 am | View Link
Full jury of 12 people and 6 alternates is seated in Trump's hush money trial in New York Lawyers spent days quizzing dozens of New Yorkers to choose the panel that has vowed to put their personal views aside and impartially judge the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. 04/19/2024 - 6:45 am | View Link
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) “has repeatedly claimed to be the recipient of two Bronze Star medals and a Combat Infantryman Badge from his time in the U. S. Army serving in Iraq and Afghanistan,” CBS News reports.
“There is no question that Nehls served overseas, engaged in combat, and was awarded a Bronze Star for his duties there.
“Kristi Noem’s damage-control tour is in full swing. It appears destined for the same fate as her late dog Cricket: dead in a gravel pit somewhere near Pierre,” Politico reports.
“But at Mar-a-Lago, even before the revelation about her dog, Noem had long ago been cast aside as a likely running mate, according to six people close to former President Donald Trump who, while not discounting Noem entirely, have for many weeks said she has almost no chance of being on the ticket.
“Donald Trump on Thursday scoffed at the notion that he would debate long shot presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. even as the former president’s allies show more concern about Kennedy’s campaign,” Business Insider reports.
Said Trump: “He’s, uh, not a serious candidate. They say he hurts Biden. I don’t know who he hurts, he might hurt me.
“A key political operative on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign was charged with assault after allegedly choking and punching a woman in New York early Saturday morning,” Mediaite reports.
“Trent Pool, who serves as a paid consultant on the long-shot independent campaign and has been leading the effort to get Kennedy on the ballot in all 50 states, was charged with assault and criminal obstruction of breathing.”
Russian state-affiliated accounts have boosted their use of TikTok and are getting more engagement on the short-form video platform ahead of the U. S. presidential election, according to a study published Thursday by the nonprofit Brookings Institution.
The report states that Russia is increasingly leveraging TikTok to disseminate Kremlin messages in both English and Spanish, with state-linked accounts posting far more frequently on the platform than they did two years ago.
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Such accounts are also active on other social media platforms and have a larger presence on Telegram and X than on TikTok.