Richard Engel looks at how China’s coal-powered industrialization has resulted in heavy pollution, and how China hopes to restore its blue skies with a new…
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GOP trolls Obama on his birthday — with tweet about Trump’s job numbers
Barack Obama turned 56 years old Friday — and the former president received lots of birthday greetings from Democrats, celebrities and other supporters.
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Cheap solar allows developing areas to electrify and skip coal
Janis Mackey Frayer, NBC News correspondent, looks at how the dropping price of solar energy is changing life in developing areas of the world.
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Trump vouches for McMaster: ‘We work very well together’
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Missed climate goals a legacy of US politics
Richard Engel traces the history of U.S. efforts to address climate change, from the creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change during the…
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Trump touts ‘historic’ bill to curb legal immigration
President Trump on Friday touted newly unveiled GOP legislation aimed at curbing legal immigration as “historic,” in an effort to promote the controversial measure.”Just this week, we announced a historic immigration bill to create a merit-…
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Trump defends McMaster in wake of criticism on the right
President Trump is defending his national security adviser H.R. McMaster in the wake of criticism from those in the nationalist wing of his political coalition.“General McMaster and I are working very well together,” Trump said in a…
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Mueller requests White House documents on Flynn: report
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office has reportedly asked the White House to hand over documents in relation to President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn.Mueller is looking into whether Flynn, whose consulting…
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Sarah Sanders takes over White House press secretary Twitter account
Sarah Huckabee Sanders took over the White House press secretary Twitter account from the resigning Sean Spicer on Friday with a message thanking her predecessor for building up the followers.”Thank you @SeanSpicer for the 2 million…
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Chicago to sue Trump administration over funding threat
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel (D) plans to push back against the Trump administration’s policy withholding public safety grant money from so-called sanctuary cities by filing a federal lawsuit claiming it is illegal for the federal government to…
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