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Kerry says Trump dismisses climate change as ‘un-American’ and ‘Orwellian’
Hello, welcome to the live blog of US politics. I’m Tom Ambrose and I’ll be bringing you the latest news over the next few hours.
We start with this news Trump administration rescinds key scientific determination that gives government ability to regulate pollution from climate change. The move has been described as a gift to “polluting billionaires” at the expense of Americans’ health.
The hazard finding, which states that the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere endangers public health and well-being, has allowed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since 2009 to limit heat-trapping pollution from vehicles, power plants and other industrial sources.
Donald Trump called the move “the largest act of deregulation in American history.” “If you care about the environment, this is a big deal,” he told reporters Thursday. “This is as big as it gets.”
The move comes as part of Trump’s larger anti-environment push that has him rolling back pollution rules and boosting oil and gas.
Barack Obama said on social media that repealing the practice would make Americans “less safe, less healthy, and less able to combat climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.”
Former secretary of state John Kerry called the new rule “un-American.”
“Removal of the Endangerment Finding takes Orwellian governance to new heights and invites massive harm to people and property around the world,” said Kerry, who also serves as Joe Biden’s climate envoy. “Ignoring the warning signs will not stop the storm. It will send more Americans directly into its path.”
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In other developments:
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Daniel Rosen, the US attorney appointed by Trump to Minnesota, said: court file He said charges against an immigrant who was shot by a federal immigration officer last month should be dropped because “newly discovered evidence” contradicts federal officials’ account of the incident.
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Sensitive intelligence blamed on an informant Tulsi GabbardThe Director of National Intelligence was concerned about the National Security Agency’s report on wiretapping a phone call last year between two foreign intelligence members discussing Jared Kushner and Iran, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times report.
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He was asked “whether he fired or disciplined staff members who posted videos from your account, including the Obamas.” Donald Trump He said he didn’t. The President then continued excuse the racist clipdepicted Barack And Michelle Obama like cartoon monkeys.
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A federal judge on Thursday rejected a request from the Trump administration to pause his order to keep temporary legal protections for Haitian immigrants in place, saying he would not be afraid of death threats he read aloud in court.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed that U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the San Diego area saved 1.7 billion lives by seizing drugs.
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Justice Department prepares to drop charges against men accused of shooting ICE officer in Minnesota
Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis moved to drop aggravated assault charges against two Venezuelan men, including one who was shot in the leg by an immigration officer, after new evidence emerged that refuted the government’s version of events.
In a filing Thursday, the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Minnesota said “newly discovered evidence” in the criminal case against Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was “materially inconsistent with the allegations made against them” in the criminal complaint and court hearing filed last month.
The government’s motion asked the judge to be “dismissed with prejudice,” meaning the charges against the two men could not be reintroduced.
The pending impeachment follows a series of high-profile shootings involving federal immigration officials in which eyewitness accounts and video evidence have called into question claims justifying the use of deadly force. Dozens of felony cases against protesters accused of attacking or obstructing federal officers also collapsed.
The case at issue in Thursday’s filing stemmed from a Jan. 14 incident in which an FBI investigator alleged in an affidavit that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a vehicle driven by Aljorna, who crashed and fled on foot toward an apartment complex.
The government alleged that Aljorna began violently resisting when an immigration officer chased and attempted to arrest him.
While the officer and Aljorna struggled on the ground, Sosa-Celis and another man emerged from a nearby apartment and attacked the officer with a snow shovel and broom handle, the complaint alleges. The officer, who is not named in court records, then fired his handgun, striking Sosa-Celis in the upper right thigh. The men then fled to a nearby apartment and were arrested there.
The new evidence was not detailed in Thursday’s one-page motion to dismiss the charges, but cracks began to appear in the government’s case during a Jan. 21 hearing to determine whether the defendants could be released pending trial.
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Moderna’s clinical trial on a new, potentially more effective flu vaccine was a “brazen failure” and the FDA is now questioning it, a senior US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official said.
The FDA unexpectedly refused to consider Moderna’s application for a flu vaccine based on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, a decision that experts say has already had a chilling effect on vaccine development.
Officials say the problem stems from the design of the study, which required control group participants over the age of 65 to receive a high dose of the flu vaccine instead of the standard flu vaccine. Outside experts say the reasons run deeper.
“This is all pretext and confusion when the real agenda is to reject conventional science and serve a predetermined anti-vaccine agenda,” said Richard Hughes IV, a partner at Epstein Becker Green and a law professor at George Washington University.
Dorit Reiss, a law professor at UC Law San Francisco, said that “personally disparaging a company is not a legitimate reason to refuse to review an application” and that the denial must “address the substantive reasons.” “They’re finding reasons not to approve mRNA, and eventually they’ll do that to all vaccines,” says Angela Rasmussen, an American virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Organization at the University of Saskatchewan.
Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said concerns that mRNA and other vaccines were targeted by authorities were “unfounded.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Friday, an AFP journalist said, amid rising Washington-Beijing tensions.
The meeting took place just days after US President Donald Trump said he would host Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the White House later this year, as the world’s two largest economies seek to restart relations soured by the trade war.
Rubio arrived in the German city late Friday and will speak at the annual meeting focused on international security and defense on Saturday.
Kerry says Trump dismisses climate change as ‘un-American’ and ‘Orwellian’
Hello, welcome to the live blog of US politics. I’m Tom Ambrose and I’ll be bringing you the latest news over the next few hours.
We start with this news Trump administration rescinds key scientific determination that gives government ability to regulate pollution from climate change. The move has been described as a gift to “polluting billionaires” at the expense of Americans’ health.
The hazard finding, which states that the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere endangers public health and well-being, has allowed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since 2009 to limit heat-trapping pollution from vehicles, power plants and other industrial sources.
Donald Trump called the move “the largest act of deregulation in American history.” “If you care about the environment, this is a big deal,” he told reporters Thursday. “This is as big as it gets.”
The move comes as part of Trump’s larger anti-environment push that has him rolling back pollution rules and boosting oil and gas.
Barack Obama said on social media that repealing the practice would make Americans “less safe, less healthy, and less able to combat climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.”
Former secretary of state John Kerry called the new rule “un-American.”
“Removal of the Endangerment Finding takes Orwellian governance to new heights and invites massive harm to people and property around the world,” said Kerry, who also serves as Joe Biden’s climate envoy. “Ignoring the warning signs will not stop the storm. It will send more Americans directly into its path.”
Read the full story here:
In other developments:
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Daniel Rosen, the US attorney appointed by Trump to Minnesota, said: court file He said charges against an immigrant who was shot by a federal immigration officer last month should be dropped because “newly discovered evidence” contradicts federal officials’ account of the incident.
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Sensitive intelligence blamed on an informant Tulsi GabbardThe Director of National Intelligence was concerned about the National Security Agency’s report on wiretapping a phone call last year between two foreign intelligence members discussing Jared Kushner and Iran, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times report.
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He was asked “whether he fired or disciplined staff who posted videos from your account, including the Obamas.” Donald Trump He said he didn’t. The President then continued excuse the racist clipdepicted Barack And Michelle Obama like cartoon monkeys.
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A federal judge on Thursday rejected a request from the Trump administration to pause his order to keep temporary legal protections for Haitian immigrants in place, saying he would not be afraid of death threats he read aloud in court.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed that U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the San Diego area saved 1.7 billion lives by seizing drugs.
