U.s. senate race articles
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Nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain could roil Nevada U.S. Senate race
More than 3.5 million pounds of highly radioactive nuclear waste is buried on a coastal bluff just south of Orange County, near an idyllic beach name-checked in the Beach Boys’ iconic “Surfin’ U.S.A.” Spent fuel rods from the closed San Onofre nuclear power plant were supposed to be sent to a long-planned federal repository in Yucca Mountain in Nevada, about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. But vociferous opposition from a broad, bipartisan coalition of political, business, environmental and...
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Patriots in the U.S. Senate? Really? Meanwhile, it’s party time in Kyiv
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, April 24, 2024 The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed the $95 billion foreign aid package for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan … with more than $60 billion of that pot of taxpayer money going to Ukraine. The aid package breezed through with a vote of 79-18. In the House, Democrats after voting […]
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U.S. ambassador insists security pact with Australia, U.K. won't spur a nuclear arms race
The AUKUS alliance was forged in 2021 to address shared regional concerns about China's rising power.