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Racism charges fly at House hearing on coronavirus End-shutdown
WASHINGTON – Science author Nicholas Wade arrived on Capitol Hill Wednesday to testify on a Republican panel about the origins of the coronavirus, but instead faced questions about “A troubled legacy”, his controversial 2014 book on race and genetics, which Democrats pointed he had been endorsed by the notorious racist and anti-Semite David Duke, as […]
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House committee budgets rise as GOP plans US roadshows End-shutdown
WASHINGTON — When the House Ways and Means Committee traveled to Petersburg, W.Va., last month for its inaugural field hearing on “the state of the economy in Appalachia,” it met at the headquarters of a manufacturer hardwood whose chief executive has donated the maximum campaign contribution allowed to a Republican member of the panel. Your […]