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Putting the Biden Proposal to Work: A Response to the Phenomenology of Conservation Laws in the 21st Century
How this idea is applied will vary from place to place, Dasgupta said, but now there is a vocabulary and method for addressing the underlying issues. The Biden proposal points to the fact that failing to account for nature’s bounty led to the destruction of our nation’s natural assets. Dasgupta called the proposal “a fine piece of work,” but he said that he wasn’t confident it would be put into effect, or that his ideas more broadly would be understood fast enough to prevent disaster. “We’re in a firefighting situation,” he said. Extreme weather events are happening regardless of when we speak.
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Morehouse students are divided over Biden
US President Joe Biden on Thursday invited black students at an Atlanta college to be his guests at the graduation ceremony, amid protests by students and alumni against his support of Israel in the Gaza conflict. Biden, who is set to address Morehouse College’s graduation ceremony, was criticised by alumni for his support for Israel in the conflict.
Michael Cohen is a key witness in the trial
US President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen on Monday told the jury in Trump’s trial that Trump instructed him to pay porn actress Stormy Daniels for her story of an affair. Cohen said that Trump asked him to ensure she did not talk about the affair during the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump is accused of paying Cohen to keep the story quiet.
There are new tariffs on imports of Chinese goods
US President Joe Biden has imposed import tariffs of 18% on Chinese goods worth $18 billion in order to “protect vital sectors of the economy and punish China for unfair trade practices”, The New York Times reported. “It’s quite difficult politically to reduce them,” Michael Froman, who was US Trade Representative during the Obama administration, said.
The people were waiting hours to see the trial
US President Donald Trump said that guests who attend his trial are not invited by his campaign. “Guests who attend court to support [him] are not invited by his campaign,” a Trump campaign official said. Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen has admitted to paying pornstar Stormy Daniels to stay silent about an affair with Trump in 2016 ahead of the presidential election.
The US is planning to increase tariffs on solar cells and computer chips from China
US President Donald Trump has ordered tariffs of up to 25% on $250 billion worth of Chinese imports to “protect American workers and companies from the dangers of a flood of unfairly traded products”. The move comes as the US and China have been in talks over the past few weeks over the trade dispute. China has said that it will take “appropriate countermeasures”.
Michael Cohen will testify against Trump in the trial
Former US President Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen has told the US Congress that Trump knew about the payment of $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of 2016 elections. Cohen said Trump also directed him to pay the money to Daniels so that her allegations of a sexual relationship with him wouldn’t be made public.