An unknown number of residents in the US state of Texas are facing sky-high energy bills. Some Texans received a bill for $ 5000. The highlight was a resident who received a bill of more than $ 16,000 for his consumption in the past week alone. The high prices […]
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American Vice President Kamala Harris Has A Phone Call With Macron
American Vice President Kamala Harris spoke during a telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron about, among other things, the corona pandemic and climate change. Harris has also pledged to “revive the transatlantic alliance”. “Vice President Harris and President Macron agreed on the need for close bilateral and multilateral […]
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Proposal to Expel QAnon MP From US parliament
Democratic Member of the United States Parliament Jimmy Gomez wants his colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene to be expelled from Congress. Taylor Greene, who is known as a supporter of former President Donald Trump and the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory, has expressed support in 2018 and 2019 for calls to […]
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Democrats and Republicans in the US Senate Want to Cooperate More
The leaders of the Democrats and Republicans in the US Senate want to respond to the call by new president Joe Biden to start working together again. Democrat Chuck Schumer took over from Republican Mitch McConnell as majority leader in the Senate on Wednesday. “We have no choice”, said […]
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The US Again Registers A Record Number of Corona Deaths in 24 Hours
In the United States, another record number of people have died from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours. Almost 4500 corona patients died in the last 24 hours in the most affected country in the world. The coronavirus has now been diagnosed in nearly 23 million people in the […]
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The First Contraction in US Employment Since April
Employment in the United States unexpectedly declined in December. According to the US Department of Labor, this is the first job decline since last spring’s major corona blow. In total, excluding agriculture, 140,000 jobs were lost, while economists on average had expected about 50,000 extra jobs. As a result, […]
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USA: Two Thirds of Distributed Corona Vaccines Still Unused
More than two-thirds of the corona vaccines distributed in the United States remain unused so far, US health officials said Monday. Governors of New York and Florida have already announced that they will punish hospitals for not using the available vaccines quickly enough. The federal government has now distributed […]
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Pelosi Re-Elected As Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Nancy Pelosi was re-elected as President of the US House of Representatives on Sunday. The 80-year-old Democrat won by a narrow majority in the new US Congress’s first session because five Democratic party members did not support her. Still, it was enough to beat her Republican opponent Kevin McCarthy. […]
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Growing Concern in the US About British Variant Coronavirus
The spread of a new variant of the coronavirus in the United States is of great concern among experts. That extra contagious variant has now surfaced in two states: California and Colorado. The vaccination of Americans is now going less smoothly than had been hoped. Experts warn that the […]
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Biden: Trump Vaccination Plan is Far Behind
US President-elect Joe Biden vowed on Tuesday that he would do his utmost to fight Covid-19 once he takes office. He said in a speech about the corona crisis from his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, that President Donald Trump’s vaccination campaign is inadequate. “The Trump administration’s distribution plan is […]