Tag: Politico

Daily news – January 27, 2022 a.m.

GEOPOLITICS & WORLDS Sulla crisi russo-ucraina. Tracy Wilkinson per Los Angeles Times: U.S. refuses to budge on Ukraine in response to Russian demands - Politico:...

Biden eyes Strategic Petroleum Reserves crude oil release in coming days (Ben Lefebvre, Politico)

The Biden administration is expected to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves in coordination with other nations in the coming days in a...

How an ancient harvest practice pushed EU’s new farm reform to the edge (Eddy Wax, Politico)

Brussels is trying to push its agricultural sector into a greener, modern era, but a technique farmers have been using for thousands of years...

Big tech’s critics flocking again to Oracle’s home on the Hill (Emily Birnbaum, Politico)

The movement inside Congress to curb tech titans like Amazon and Google is drawing energy from an unlikely hub of anti-Silicon Valley fervor: a...

Biden-successor chatter grows and Harris isn’t scaring off anyone (Eugene Daniels, Alex Thompson, Politico)

President Joe Biden says he intends to run for reelection in 2024. But not all Democrats believe him. Nor are they convinced his No....

Biden-Xi virtual summit tentatively set for Monday (Phelim Kine, Nahal Toosi, Politico)

The much-anticipated virtual summit between President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping is tentatively scheduled for the evening of Nov. 15, a U.S....

Russia/Ukraine – Kremlin saber-rattling in Ukraine: How the West should react (Politico, Brookings)

STEVEN PIFER Over the past week, Russia has reinforced its military presence on the Crimean peninsula, moved military units close to the Russia-Ukraine border and...

(USA/Politics) Biden administrations supports court’s restrictions for biofuel exemptions (The Hill)

RACHEL FRAZIN The Biden administration announced on Monday that it supports limits set by a court last year on when small oil refineries can get...

(USA/Politics) Democrats question TV carriers’ decisions to host Fox, OAN and Newsmax, citing ‘misinformation’ (Politico)

JOHN HENDEL Two House Democrats pressed a mix of cable, satellite and streaming providers on Monday about their decisions to carry Fox News, One America...

(USA/Russia) Biden readies his first major penalties on Russia (Politico)

NATASHA BERTRAND The U.S. is preparing to respond to Russia’s poisoning and jailing of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and is expected to coordinate a...

(USA/Politics) Democrats plot their Plan B to save minimum wage hike (Politico)

CAITLIN EMMA and AARON LORENZO Democrats are scrambling to piece together a backup plan that could save their minimum wage hike from getting tossed out of President...

(USA/Politics) DeSantis crushes Rubio, Scott in Florida GOP poll (Politico)

MARC CAPUTO In Florida’s shadow Republican primary for president, Gov. Ron DeSantis is starting to dominate his once-better-known home state colleagues, Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/22/desantis-rubio-scott-florida-poll-470892

(USA/Israel/Saudi Arabia) How Biden Will End the Trump Sugar High for Israel and Saudi Arabia (Politico)

AARON DAVID MILLER and RICHARD SOKOLSKY Elections have consequences. And nowhere are the consequences of Joe Biden’s election more worrisome than in Jerusalem and Riyadh. In the...

(USA/Politics) ‘A double standard going on’: Democrats accuse GOP and Manchin of bias on Biden nominations (Politico)

LAURA BARRÓN-LÓPEZ and CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO Women’s rights activists and allied Democrats are growing increasingly vocal about what they call the unfair targeting of women and people of...

(USA/Politics) Trump taunts don’t shake McConnell’s hold on Senate GOP (Politico)

BURGESS EVERETT Sen. Rick Scott challenged the certification of Donald Trump's reelection loss, bashed Trump's second impeachment trial and recently spoke with the former president...

(USA/Politics) Trump to attend RNC spring donor summit (Politico)

ALEX ISENSTADT Donald Trump has confirmed his attendance at the Republican National Committee’s upcoming spring donor retreat, as the former president reemerges following his departure...