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Mar 6, 2025 - World

Over 300 people have been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, organisers said on Wednesday, with politicians saying they had put US President Donald Trump forward for the award.

Mar 6, 2025 - World

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) tried to regain control of the House floor Thursday as some Democrats protested the censure of Rep. Al Green (D-TX) by singing, "We Shall Overcome."The House adopted the measure with a 224-198-2 vote. Ten Democrats voted with Republican lawmakers to censure Green for his outburst during President Donald Trump's address to Congress Tuesday night. Green was removed from the chamber at the time so Trump could continue his address.After being ejected, Green told reporters, "I'll accept the punishment, but it's worth it to let people know that there are some of us who are going to stand up against this president's desire to cut Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security."ALSO READ: 'Absolutely unconscionable': Ex-Republican demands Trump removed from office after fightGreen told Raw Story exclusively, "[Trump] believes he has absolute immunity in all areas. And I think that he believes that the Office of the Presidency is something that allows him to do what he chooses with agencies that report to the Executive branch."Shortly after the vote Thursday, Johnson called for order before reading the censure adoption."The House will come to order! The House will come to order!" Johnson repeated, then tried shushing lawmakers who gathered on the floor."By its adoption of Rule 189, the House has resolved that Rep. Al Green be censured. That Rep. Al Green forthwith present himself up in the well of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure," Johnson said.Singing could be heard coming form the floor as someone screamed out, "Order!"Johnson continued, "And that Rep. Al Green be censured with public reading of this resolution by the speaker."As the singing grew louder, Johnson continued to bang the gavel, repeating, "The House will come to order" and "clear the well, please, the House has to continue its business."Johnson finally declared the House in recess when it became clear that the Democrats would not stop their musical protest.Green is now the 28th member of the House to be censured. The censure resolution called Green's protest, “a breach of proper conduct.”Watch the clip below via Fox News or click here.

Mar 6, 2025 - World

Move to expand landfill for US hazardous waste stirs disputes between leaders in Quebec and Montreal suburbThe proposed expansion of a Quebec landfill that accepts hazardous waste from the United States has ignited a turf war between the Quebec provincial government and local leaders, who say they oppose putting US trash into a local peat bog.Local leaders are protesting against the move – saying the province is capitulating to a US company in the midst of a tariff war between Canada and the United States. Continue reading...

Mar 6, 2025 - World

Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster emerging from a 4-year-old child who recently died of the infectious disease

Mar 6, 2025 - World

Congressional Republicans alarmed by the head-spinning speed with which Elon Musk has been upending the federal government are taking steps to gain back some control over the Department of Government Efficiency, according to a new report in Newsweek.So far, DOGE has shuttered whole agencies and recommended more than 200,000 job cuts, some of which have then been brought back in a haphazard fashion, confusing everyone involved. Republican lawmakers have gotten an earful about the chaos from their constituents, and the courts have taken up the legality of many of the cuts."For the first time since the initiative began, congressional Republicans are pushing to impose checks and balances on Musk and exert more control over DOGE's cuts," wrote Newsweek's Martha McHardy. "The move signals a growing effort by Republicans to reclaim Congress' authority over federal spending."Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate have met privately with Musk this week to "urge" him to redirect DOGE's cuts through Congress for approval, according to the report. ALSO READ: 'Absolutely unconscionable': Ex-Republican demands Trump removed from office after fightSen. Rand Paul (R-KY) reportedly met with Musk for over an hour and recommended that the cuts be processed as "rescission packages." Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) is also reportedly on board with the plan.According to McHardy, "A rescission package rescinds previously approved funding and requires only a simple majority vote in both the GOP-controlled Senate and House."Musk answered in the affirmative when asked whether he supported rescission packages, McHardy wrote. "He was also asked whether Congress should have a vote on DOGE's cuts, to which he replied, 'Well, they do have a vote on it,'" McHardy added.For now, there remains a definite disconnect between DOGE and Congress. McHardy wrote, "In a meeting with House Republicans, Musk distanced himself from the widespread federal firings, blaming department heads."In addition, "Musk told lawmakers that recently announced plans to cut to cut more than 70,000 jobs at the Department of Veterans Affairs 'wasn't a DOGE decision,'" she wrote.By requiring DOGE to work directly with Congress, Republican lawmakers are pushing for more accountability and less disruption as Musk looks to cut some $2 trillion from the federal budget.Read the Newsweek article right here.