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On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court issued a 6–3 decision to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases from the power sector using a specific provision of the Clean Air Act. Capping power plant emissions, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote on behalf of the majority, is a decision that “rests with Congress itself, or an agency acting pursuant to a clear delegation from that representative body.” The Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, the court ruled... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump was the big loser in Tuesday’s primaries, when voters rejected several of his handpicked candidates in Colorado. A week earlier, though, he was a winner—or at least deemed to have won a tactical victory, though not a resounding one: The first Republican who voted for his impeachment after the January 6, 2021, riot, Tom Rice, lost his bid for reelection. Of course, that same night, another South Carolina representative with a history of criticizing Trump, Nancy Mace, lived to fight another day. Читать дальше...

This week, the January 6 commission dominated the headlines with a surprise installment of its televised hearings, featuring former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson—whose eyewitness testimony included several bombshell revelations that spoke to President Donald Trump’s knowledge and intent on the day his rallygoers stormed the Capitol. But the commission may have a few more plot twists to come when it resumes its public hearings in July, thanks to British documentary filmmaker Alex Holder.

About one-third of Americans between the ages of 65 and 74 have lost at least some of their hearing, and after 75 that rises to nearly half. Most of these people don’t get hearing aids; indeed, among those with hearing loss age 70 or older, less than one-third have ever even tried hearing aids. Some of these older people are probably stubborn or in denial, but the biggest obstacle is cost. Hearing aids cost a fortune, and Medicare doesn’t cover them. Typically, a pair of hearing aids will sell for $4,000–$6,000. Читать дальше...