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New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams says he wants to "revisit" the city's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for city workers, which has drawn resistance from some unions. "We need to revisit how we're going to address the vaccine mandates," Adams said on MSNBC on Wednesday. While saying he did not want to "Monday morning quarterback" current Mayor Bill de Blasio, who put the mandate for city workers into effect, Adams said, "what I'm going to encourage him to do is to sit down with the unions."

In an Esquire on-line article on June 10, 2009, Charles P. Pierce asked "What if Obama's out of his mind?" In one paragraph, he led off with: "Listen to him. He's talking in what seems to be a glossolalic deluge of issues. One plan a week, each thrown out there while we're still digesting the previous one. He's moving too fast for us to keep up with him. He's talking a private language, to himself, like crazy people do....." At the time, relatively early in the administration, it was tempting to think that Obama may be a little overzealous in...

A federal appeals court ordered energy regulators Wednesday to consider ordering stiffer penalties for power companies that manipulated the market and caused blackouts during the 2000-2001 energy crisis. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's 2003 handling of some of the fallout from California's energy crisis was "arbitrary, capricious and an abuse of discretion." The state has sought reimbursement for an estimated $8 billion to $10 billion paid by consumers and businesses for overpriced power. FERC ordered energy companies, including several subsidiaries of bankrupt Enron Corp., to pay about $3 billion for market manipulation....

DACHAU, Germany (Army News Service, April 25, 2006) – More than 200 Soldiers and family members of the 1st Infantry Division and U.S. Army Garrison Franconia visited the Dachau concentration camp April 20 and experienced one of history’s most horrific landmarks. The Dachau concentration camp was the first of many the Nazis established, and it stood as a model for those that followed. While not intended to be an extermination camp like the more infamous Auschwitz camp in Poland, documentation shows that approximately 30,000 prisoners were killed in Dachau. Thousands more died from disease, starvation and suicide. More than 200,000...