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President Biden’s adviser Susan Rice is being ordered to sell a $2.7 million stake in the oil pipeline company Enbridge — after the Biden administration decided to allow the firm’s Line 3 pipeline project. The Office of Government Ethics ordered Rice to divest from the company on July 9, according to filings first reported by Fox Business. Although Biden has broadly taken action against oil pipelines, most notably canceling the Keystone XL oil pipeline, his administration has continued to allow the Line 3 project, which would bring Canadian oil through Minnesota to Wisconsin. Environmental activists oppose the Line 3 project,...

Tuesday on CNN, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the Constitution of the United States of America was at stake in the 2020 presidential election. Pelosi said, “Let me just say I’m very proud of all of the Democrats who have put themselves forward. They show why they are running. They know what they are talking about and they know how to communicate with the electorate. The electorate, the people will decide who our nominee is, not anything from on high, and I do believe though that the way we won this last election, which was a message of simplicity for...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says he will not sell any of his shares in microblogging site Twitter Inc when it goes public, and expects the firm's IPO to hit the market later this year or in early 2014. The prince, a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah and owner of international investment firm Kingdom Holding, invested $300 million in the social media giant in late 2011. "Clearly the speed they're moving with shows that they would like to IPO sooner than later. I believe it will happen either this year or early next year," Alwaleed...

<p>WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department said Monday that it would sell its remaining ownership stake in insurance giant American International Group, effectively ending one of the largest bailouts of the financial crisis and turning a profit for taxpayers.</p> <p>The sale of the Treasury's remaining 234 million shares -- 15.9% of the company -- would add to the $15.1 billion in profit the government already has made on the bailout. The Treasury would still hold warrants in AIG after the stock sale.</p>

On this we can agree with President Obama: Everything he stands for is at stake in 2012. Obama told 500 fawning sycophants in Chicago that he is unrepentant about his policy agenda and intends to treat us to more of the same, much more, in a second term. Obama said, "Everything that we fought for is now at stake in this election." Lest there be no mistake, he repeated the message in the smaller settings of private homes. We can endlessly debate whether he is such a devoted ideologue that he's blind to his policy failures, whether he's willing to...

Lawmakers reach out to Toyota Jul. 23, 2009 WASHINGTON -- Members of California's congressional delegation are asking Toyota Motor Corp., officials what they could possibly do to help keep an automotive plant open in Fremont that employs 4,500 people. Toyota has decided to liquidate its stake in the California manufacturing plant, which it jointly operated with General Motors, a Japanese news agency reported Thursday. The plant was established in 1984. In their letter to Toyota President Akio Toyoda, lawmakers say the plant has been a great asset to the state's work force as well as to the company. They say...

Scientists to stake out world's hurricane nursery 14:26 27 July 2006 NewScientist.com news service Jeff Hecht A map of 2004 hurricane paths shows the point where each storm was recognised as a tropical depression. Almost all major hurricanes begin as low pressure wavefronts coming off the African coast (Image: US National Hurricane Center) Scientists will spend the peak of the North Atlantic hurricane season focusing a fleet of satellites, a dedicated research aircraft, and ground-based radars on belts of thunderstorms and low pressure moving westwards from the tropical African coast. The aim is to find out why and how about...

UNITED NATIONS - Zimbabwe's embattled and isolated leader said Friday that his government will take a stake in privately operated mining enterprises in the mineral-rich southern African nation, but he does not intend to nationalize the industry as he has commercial farmland. In a wide-ranging, exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Robert Mugabe claimed his people — including hundreds of thousands made homeless by a recent controversial slum clearance and others facing famine because of disastrous land reform — are "very, very happy." Mugabe, 81, who has ruled since a guerrilla war brought independence 25 years ago, said he plans...

READ THE LAWSUIT AT HILLCAP.ORG MIDI - TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART Hillary is dangerous She is very dangerous (Be afraid) Every day she's planning for that day that she will take the White House and her power back (Be afraid) Every day she calculates a new position and the next person she'll attack (Be afraid) Every day she works hard fooling voters that she is no Marxist (Be afraid) Every day she makes a clever move as she's getting just that much closer Be afraid...people Each and every day we're warning you Be afraid...people In 2008 we could...

MOSCOW, Russia dismantled its largest oil producer, Yukos, on Sunday by auctioning off the company's largest subsidiary to a little-known concern that registered as a last-minute bidder on Friday. Gazprom, the country's natural gas monopoly and the Kremlin-favored front-runner to buy the Yukos property, did not even make a bid.The mystery surrounding the winner - a company called the Baikal Finans Group that is registered in Tver, a medium-size city 170 miles northwest of Moscow - immediately raised suspicion among industry analysts. Advertisement An analyst, Christopher Weafer, the equity strategist at Alfa Bank, remarked after the auction results that "the...

SACRAMENTO - After pledging to reject money from special-interest groups, Arnold Schwarzenegger has accepted five- and six-figure donations from a wide array of businesses with a stake in some of the hundreds of bills the Republican governor must sign or veto by month's end. Schwarzenegger has tried to head off criticism of his fundraising by creating an ever-evolving set of restrictions that prevent certain groups from giving him money, but some of his recent donors have very specific agendas. • Last week, Schwarzenegger cashed a $5,000 donation from a pharmaceutical company days after signing a bill it co-sponsored that expands...

The Charlotte Observer Buddhist monk burns himself to death at temple Followers say act was a protest by man who wrote out final wishes ROBERT F. MOORE Staff Writer A Vietnamese monk, who had written his final wishes on a paper scroll, doused himself with gasoline and then burned himself to death as he kneeled in front of a Buddhist statue at a temple in east Charlotte Wednesday. Followers said Thich Chan Hy, 74, committed an act of self-immolation, a form of protest that first gained worldwide attention in Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, a monk set himself on fire...

Queen Mary ascended the throne of England in 1553. In subsequent years, she had at least two hundred people put to death (often by fire) for their religious convictions. To history she became known as "Bloody Mary," although, in truth, she killed far fewer people per year than her brutal father. The godliness of many of her victims made them stand out. Mary's father, King Henry VIII had separated the Church of England from the Roman Catholic church, but he had not reformed the church's practices or doctrines. On Henry's death, his young son Edward became King. Many of Edward's...

<p>The title of the "briefing and discussion" that was to be staged last Thursday in a wing of the U.S. Capitol in Washington was intriguing to anyone who has been following California's historic recall election.</p> <p>"American Democracy's Uncertain Future -- And Is California an Unsettling Vision of Our Democratic Destiny" implied that learned, serious people were to look beyond the hoopla surrounding the recall and seek the deeper meaning of what was occurring in the state.</p>

Turkey prepares to stake claim in Iraq's oil fields By Amberin Zaman in Ankara (Filed: 07/01/2003) Turkey, one of Washington's most important allies against Saddam Hussein, claimed yesterday that it may have a historical stake in Iraq's northern oil fields. Yasar Yakis, the foreign minister, said he was examining treaties from the early 20th century to see whether Turkey had a claim to the oil fields of the Mosul and Kirkuk provinces, which the Turks ruled during Ottoman times. In comments published yesterday in the Hurriyet newspaper, Mr Yakis said: "If we do have such rights, we have to explain...