Unveiling the World's News
Larry Summers, former U.S. secretary of the treasury and former president of Harvard University, called for the Western governments to “seize” Russian government assets held in international banking institutions to “support” Ukraine and other countries during an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria aired on Sunday.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is planning on focusing the Senate Budget Committee, which he now chairs, on climate in the 118th Congress.
The New Hampshire Senate race is a “tossup” between Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Republican Gen. Don Bolduc, according to Politico, which updated its forecast Friday in favor of Republicans, along with races in Washington State and New York.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) published a lengthy report this week on the importance of physical activity in keeping the world healthy, concluding that sedentary lifestyles are responsible for as much as $27 billion in needless healthcare costs a year and urging governments to implement coherent national policies to promote exercise, including “mass” events.
President Joe Biden ordered the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to not enforce mask mandates at airports in light of a judge’s order on Monday that declared mandates on federal airplanes illegal.
Consumers are coping with inflation by piling debt onto their credit cards, but that debt will become more expensive when the Fed hikes interest rates to fight inflation.