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Beyoncé Yeni Şarkısını Yayınladı
Amerikalılar Bağımsızlık Günü’nü kutlamaya hazırlanırken cumartesi sabahı en büyük sürprizle uyandı: Beyoncé’den yeni bir şarkı geldi. Süperstar şarkıcı, iki yıllık aranın ardından “Morning Dew (Donk)” adlı single’ını yayımladı. Bu parça, 2024 tarihli “Act II: Cowboy Carter” albümünden bu yana sanatçının çıkardığı ilk yeni müzik çalışması oldu.
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"I haven't been able to get this moment out of my head"
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Can Politics Handle Police Reform in 2020? An Expert Roundtable Original
The deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd at the hands of police officers earlier this year launched what might be the largest mass movement in American history. Public support of the Black Lives Matter movement spiked, and in city after city, day after day, crowds gathered around calls to change American policing. So far, little has changed. Police have continued to kill Black people at a higher rate than whites and high-profile officer shootings have continued to spark protests.
Christie tests positive for Covid-19 following Trump debate prep
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, front second from right, speaks with others after President Donald Trump announces Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court in the Rose Garden of the White House. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced Saturday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus, the latest high-profile ally to President Donald Trump diagnosed in the past 48 hours.
Mayor Booker saves woman in fire
Cory Booker saw flames pouring from the the building next to his home. Reason No. 1 to live next door to Newark Mayor Cory Booker: He just might save your life one day. Booker saw flames and smoke pouring from the second floor of the small apartment building next to his home late Thursday night after he returned from an interview with a local news program.
Telehealth expands but providers have questions
With help from Mohana Ravindranath (@ravindranize) Editor’s Note: Morning eHealth is a free version of POLITICO Pro eHealth’s morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 6 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day’s biggest stories. Act on the news with POLITICO Pro.
Rand Paul: Hands off my toilet
Rand Paul: Hands off my toilet 'Light bulbs, refrigerators, toilets, you name it,' Rand Paul said. | AP Photos If the federal government can support abortion rights, why can’t it also support light bulb choice, Sen. Rand Paul asked Thursday morning. And don’t even get him started about his toilet.
NRC infighting goes nuclear
Kristine Svinicki and Gregory Jaczko haven’t addressed one another in months, sources said. It's war at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko regularly faces the sharp end of Republican spears for his work to shut down the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, but his biggest clash appears not to be with Capitol Hill but with fellow NRC Commissioner Kristine Svinicki.
Jury out on green jobs, DOE loans
The projects’ woes don’t appear to be evenly distributed. | POLITICO/Nikko Duffy The Energy Department’s clean-energy loan program hasn’t yet yielded the kind of moonshot-style success that President Barack Obama envisions would transform the U.S. economy. But its results also go well beyond the $535 million collapse of Solyndra.
Coal companies join with Rick Perry to derail Trump nominee
Energy Secretary Rick Perry and major coal companies pushed against President Donald Trump's nomination of David Hill for Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Energy David Hill, a former Energy Department counsel, had criticized the Trump administration’s push to offer financial help to coal power plants.
Climate omens in SCOTUS Obamacare call - EPA’s GOP haircut - Climate Brazil-style - RFS drama
ON EPA, TO CHEVRON OR NOT TO CHEVRON: The legal logic the U.S. Supreme Court used to affirm Obamacare legislation Thursday, in King v. Burwell, could be a good omen for the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, Pro’s Eric Wolff reports. The suite of EPA rules at the heart of Obama’s climate program will not even be finalized until later this summer, but experts say it’s only a matter of time before they wind up in front of the high court.
Court puts Interior fracking rule in limbo - McCarthy, Reid, Schumer at LCV - DOE finalizes last Vogtle guarantee
With help from Eric Wolff, Elana Schor and Nick Juliano COURT PUTS INTERIOR’S FRACKING RULE IN LIMBO: The Obama administration’s fracking regulations, which had been set to take effect today, are on hold until August, thanks to a Wyoming federal judge who granted a stay late Tuesday as he continues to hear a challenge from industry groups and four states.
Bishop: Sen. Lee is getting an earful from Utah over lands bill
"There's quite a few people in Utah talking to him today," Rep. Rob Bishop said of Sen. Mike Lee. | Eli Lucero/Herald Journal via AP, Pool House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop said members of both parties are frustrated with Sen. Mike Lee's objection to the public lands package that stalled last night — and that his fellow Utah Republican was getting a lot of calls. "There are a lot of conversations that are going on right now with Sen.
Perry planning another trip to Saudi Arabia
Energy Secretary Rick Perry told reporters in September he informed the Saudis that being “perceived as very, very strong on non-proliferation was a most important message, globally.” | AP Photo/Petr David Josek Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Tuesday he is planning to make another trip to Saudi Arabia, just weeks after relations between the U.S. and the kingdom were roiled because of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey.
Jacky Rosen unseats Dean Heller in Nevada Senate race
Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen booted GOP Sen. Dean Heller from his seat in Nevada on Tuesday night, giving her party a Senate pickup out West. Heller conceded with Rosen at 50.8 percent of the vote to his 45 percent. The Associated Press subsequently called the race for Rosen. Heller was the only Senate Republican up for reelection this year in a state carried by Hillary Clinton in the presidential race two years ago, making him a top target for Democrats.
Ted Cruz wins reelection over Beto O’Rourke
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz locked in a second term Tuesday by defeating Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke, seeing off Democrats’ most aggressive attempt in decades to win a statewide office in Texas. Cruz had 51 percent of the vote to 49 percent for O’Rourke when three networks called the race with less than a quarter of the precincts reporting.
Billionaire Brawl: Warren Buffett vs. Sheldon Adelson in Nevada
Warren Buffett's Nevada energy utility is clobbering Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson in a power struggle over the fate of the state's electricity supply. The Omaha investor and the Las Vegas gambling magnate are on opposite sides of a Nevada ballot measure that could rattle the electric power industry: Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns NV Energy, a government-regulated monopoly that ranks as the state's largest utility.
Rick Perry’s coal rescue runs aground at White House
One of the Trump administration’s major efforts to prop up ailing coal companies has run aground in the White House, a setback to an industry that had hoped for a major resurgence after Donald Trump won the presidency.
Rick Perry’s coal rescue runs aground at White House
Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s proposals — which would also keep aging nuclear power plants operating — have riled up the oil and gas industry. | Cliff Owen/AP Photo Energy & Environment The White House has shelved the plan amid opposition from the president’s own advisers, according to four people with knowledge of the discussions.
Ex-energy official's $1.7 million gig draws fire
For five years, Dan Poneman was the Energy Department’s No. 2 administrator during a time when the agency steered hundreds of millions of dollars to a struggling nuclear company that has won the backing of both the Obama administration and top Republicans and Democrats in Congress. This month, he’s set to become the company’s president and CEO — a post that will bring him as much as $1.7 million a year.
Senate to run LWCF revival
Senate to run LWCF revival By DARIUS DIXON 10/02/2018 10:00 AM EDT With help from Anthony Adragna, Ben Lefebvre, Annie Snider and Alex Guillén SENATE SEEKS TO GIVE LWCF A PULSE: Two days after the Land and Water Conservation Fund expired, the Senate is taking its first concrete steps towards reviving it. The Energy and Natural Resources Committee this morning plans to mark up a bipartisan bill S.
House climate caucus set for major midterm rewrite
House climate caucus set for major midterm rewrite By DARIUS DIXON 10/01/2018 10:00 AM EDT With help from Alex Guillén and Daniel Lippman MIDTERMS SET TO SHAKE UP THE HOUSE CLIMATE CAUCUS: A “blue wave” in this fall's midterm elections could decimate a small but growing group of Republicans who are members of the House Climate Solutions Caucus — and many climate change activists aren’t exactly losing any sleep over that, Pro’s Anthony Adragna reports.
FERC nominee bows out
M.Scott Mahaskey/POLITICO FERC nominee bows out By DARIUS DIXON 10/01/2013 08:18 AM EDT President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission abandoned his quest Tuesday, complaining that the fight over his confirmation had become a “blood sport” for partisan attacks and opponents backed by the coal industry.
Medicare's diabetes prevention program slows to crawl
The diabetes prevention program was one of the crown jewels of the Obama administration’s efforts to reinvent health care. | AP Photo Medicare's diabetes prevention program slows to crawl CMS has refused to fund virtual programs, and has slowed implementation of the in-person programs over what officials say is concern about fraud.
How Trump has already scored a win on infrastructure
The Republican tax cut could spark the multibillion-dollar infrastructure program that almost nobody expected. Electric and gas utilities are finding themselves with vast amounts of excess cash as a side effect of last year's tax code rewrite — money that could easily total tens of billions of dollars, based on initial corporate filings.
Trump coal backer wins big under Perry's power plan
Trump coal backer wins big under Perry’s power plan The proposal is Rick Perry’s most aggressive step yet toward helping President Donald Trump reverse what he has denounced as former President Barack Obama’s “war on coal.” | Kevin Dietsch/Pool/Getty Images A proposal by Energy Secretary Rick Perry to alter the nation’s electricity markets would provide a windfall for a small group of companies — most strikingly one owned by coal magnate Bob Murray, a prominent backer of President Donald Trump.
Lamar Smith won’t seek reelection to House
Lamar Smith won’t seek reelection to House Rep. Lamar Smith said he will not seek reelection in 2018. | Getty Images Rep. Lamar Smith, the controversial chairman of the House Science Committee, announced Thursday that he will leave Congress when his term ends in 2018. The 16-term Texas Republican is one of the longest-serving members of the state’s congressional delegation, and has often tussled with academics, scientific organizations and government regulators since become Science chairman in 2013.
Perry: Fossil fuels help prevent sexual assault in Africa
Since taking the helm at the Energy Department, Rick Perry has said he doubted the scientific consensus that carbon dioxide was causing climate change. | AP Photo Energy Secretary Rick Perry suggested on Thursday that increasing fossil fuel use to spread electricity across Africa would help prevent sexual assaults there.
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FERC may have an August pulse
FERC may have an August pulse By DARIUS DIXON 08/07/2017 10:00 AM EDT With help from Esther Whieldon, Annie Snider, Alex Guillén and Eric Wolff AUGUST WATCH: Free of Congress, wilting from the heat and anxious for some vacation time before the kids are back in school, most of Washington's policy apparatus is likely to shut down now for the rest of August. But this summer may be different for FERC since the Senate approved two nominees last week.
Why are these billions in pipeline projects stalled?
Billions of dollars’ worth of shovel-ready infrastructure projects have been held up by a bureaucratic morass that President Donald Trump helped to create. Trump’s slowness to fill vacancies at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is one reason for a growing backlog of natural gas pipelines and a gas export terminal awaiting approval from the agency, which has been unable to conduct major business since February.
Paris deal foes to attend Trump's climate announcement
President Donald Trump will be joined at the White House Thursday by some of the most ardent foes of the Paris climate accord, in yet another indication that he most likely plans to announce the U.S. is withdrawing from the deal. The audience for the 3 p.m. Rose Garden event will include Thomas Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance — a group that has received some of its funding from billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch — and some of his policy staff.
All the ways Trump is shredding Obama's climate agenda
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All the ways Trump is shredding Obama's climate agenda By BEN LEFEBVRE, ESTHER WHIELDON, DARIUS DIXON, ALEX GUILLÉN and ANDREW RESTUCCIA 05/31/2017 04:45 PM EDT Updated 06/01/2017 03:38 PM EDT 2017-06-01T03:38-0400 President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris climate agreement on Thursday, dealing a major morale blow to the worldwide effort to head off the worst effects of global warming.
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Trump tabs 2 for Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Donald Trump plans to appoint Neil Chatterjee and Rob Powelson to fill two of the three vacancies in the FERC leadership. | AP Photo Trump tabs 2 for Federal Energy Regulatory Commission By Darius Dixon 05/08/17 10:11 PM EDT President Donald Trump on Monday announced he planned to appoint Neil Chatterjee and Rob Powelson to fill two of the three vacancies in the FERC leadership, according to an official White House statement.
Energy Department parts company with Trump appointee who called Muslims ‘maggots’
Sid Bowdidge had taken up residence this week in the director’s office of the Energy Department’s Office of Technology Transitions.
Perry: ‘I regret’ call to scrap Energy Department
"My past statements made over five years ago about abolishing the Department of Energy do not reflect my current thinking," Rick Perry plans to say. | Getty Rick Perry will repudiate his call to eliminate the Energy Department President-elect Donald Trump has tapped him to run when he appears at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday morning.
Contrite Perry regrets calling for abolishing Energy Deparment
Secretary of Energy-designate Rick Perry is sworn in before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee during his confirmation hearing on January 19. | John Shinkle/POLITICO Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry left the swagger at the door, taking a contrite stance at his nomination hearing for the top job at Department of Energy by disavowing his pledge to dismantle the agency.
State nominee Tillerson to get committee vote on Monday
The committee will vote on Rex Tillerson’s nomination at 4:30 p.m. in Dirksen 419. | AP Photo State nominee Tillerson to get committee vote on Monday By Darius Dixon 01/20/17 01:27 PM EST The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will vote Monday on President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the State Department, the panel announced Friday afternoon.The committee will vote on Rex Tillerson’s nomination at 4:30 p.m. in Dirksen 419.
Senate energy committee sets Perry hearing for Jan. 19
Senate energy committee sets Perry hearing for Jan. 19 By Darius Dixon 01/12/17 10:38 AM EST The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold its confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald Trump's Energy secretary nominee Rick Perry on Thursday, Jan. 19, the panel announced this morning.The hearing will kick off at 10:00 a.m. in Dirksen 366.
Obama creates new national monuments in Utah, Nevada
Bear's Ears National Monument will be located in southeastern Utah. | AP Photo Obama creates new national monuments in Utah, Nevada By Darius Dixon 12/28/16 05:31 PM EST President Barack Obama created two new national monuments on Wednesday, setting aside 1.65 million acres in southeastern Utah and southern Nevada, a move sure to anger Republicans who have sought to curb the power the outgoing president has wielded to protect record amounts of sensitive and historic lands and waters.
The selling of Rick Perry’s smarts
Energy & Environment He's no MIT physicist, but the ex-Texas governor’s supporters are pitching him as a serious policymaker who has the chops to lead the department. Former state and federal regulator Pat Wood, who has known Rick Perry for more than two decades, said Perry is “not a huge detail guy” and prefers to lean on his staff while he takes in the big picture.
Rick Perry on the issues
During his 2012 presidential campaign, Rick Perry vowed that he would scrap the office he’s now been tasked to lead. | Getty Rick Perry on the issues By Darius Dixon 01/19/17 05:19 AM EST Rick Perry will face a hodgepodge of bureaucratic and national security challenges if he is confirmed to run the Energy Department.
Trump picks Perry to lead Energy Department he once vowed to kill
Now Donald Trump has chosen the former Texas governor to lead the sprawling department, which oversees the security of the nation’s nuclear weapons and has played major roles in President Barack Obama’s climate agenda and nuclear deal with Iran. Three sources close to the transition confirmed the choice Tuesday. Conservatives had favored the former Texas governor for the job, viewing him as someone with management experience who would be willing to question the agency’s status quo.
Trump picks Rick Perry to lead Energy Department he once vowed to kill
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry arrives at Trump Tower, in New York City | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Trump picks Rick Perry to lead Energy Department he once vowed to kill Former Texas governor proposed eliminating the department when he was a 2012 presidential candidate.
Trump team’s demands fuel fear of Energy Department ‘witch hunt’
Donald Trump's transition team is asking for a list of Energy Department workers who have attended any United Nations climate change conferences in the past five years.
Trump team considering Sen. Joe Manchin for energy secretary
President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is considering Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia for the energy secretary job, according to three sources close to the discussions. The conservative Democrat “is being considered to show the coal people how serious Trump is about coal,” one source said. Manchin told POLITICO Thursday afternoon that he and his staff haven’t been contacted by Trump’s transition team and he didn't have any trips to New York City on his calendar.
Let the Kaines begin
Let the Kaines begin By Darius Dixon 07/25/2016 10:00 AM EDT With help from Esther Whieldon, Andrew Restuccia and Anca Gurzu ENTER, CITIZEN KAINE: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton unveiled her running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, Friday night, and made the campaign splash in person Saturday in Miami. Kaine, a Spanish-speaking Virginia senator and former DNC chief and governor, has been top-of-the-list in the Veepstakes for a good stretch now.
How Trump’s wall will hurt U.S. energy companies
Energy Donald Trump's pledge to build a 'big, beautiful wall' risks choking off a burgeoning energy partnership between the U.S. and its neighbor. At the least, a cooling of ties between the two nations could imperil continent-wide collaboration on energy data.
Moniz: Test results back up assurances on Iran deal
Skeptics have also focused on the difficulty of detecting the non-nuclear aspects of an illicit weapons program, such as explosives or centrifuges. Under the agreement, the 24-day warning time is only for sites that Iran has not declared as part of its nuclear program. For declared sites, inspectors would have to give only 24 hours’ notice, or two hours in some circumstances.
Hillary’s policies: TBD? - FERC leadership handover - Another busy day on the Hill - Greens, labor rally against TPP
Hillary’s policies: TBD? — FERC leadership handover — Another busy day on the Hill — Greens, labor rally against TPP By Darius Dixon 04/15/15 10:02 AM EDT By Darius Dixon With help from Alex Guillén, Darren Goode and Elana Schor Story Continued Below HILLARY’S POLICIES: TBD? Hillary Clinton’s campaign rollout has been slow to fill a large blank space in the center of her quest for the White House: What exactly she would do if she wins.
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