A federal watchdog will vote Thursday on calls from the Education Department to yank approval from an accreditor that oversaw the collapse of several national for-profit college chains.
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The time has come to tell Americans that
there is no escape from global responsibility, that they have to think beyond the protection of the homeland. They need to understand that the purpose of NATO and other alliances is to defend not against direct threats to U.S. interests but against a
breakdown of the order that best serves
those interests. They need to be told honestly that the task of maintaining a world order is unending and fraught with costs but preferable to the alternative.
So $1.7T today, $2.7T tomorrow, get used to it, there is no “escape from global responsibility” even if your citizens don’t have shelter, food, or healthcare. We can’t have the global order or the interest it serves breakdown.
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February 4, 2021 6:12 AM By Alex Ruoff and Brandon Lee
A group of lawmakers are trying to inject the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with new funds to launch a sweeping virus surveillance program to better track all new variants of Covid-19, an apparatus experts say the U.S. is sorely lacking.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) will introduce legislation later today to send the CDC $2 billion to conduct a nationwide sequence-based surveillance program and scale up efforts to track new Covid-19 variants. The money would go to support the CDCâs Advanced Molecular Detection Initiative and boost collaboration among public health groups. Reps. Ami Bera (D-Calif.) and Scott Peters (D-Calif.) will introduce a House companion today.