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By: KDKA-TV News Staff HARRISBURG (KDKA) — Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has ordered all Commonwealth and United States flags to fly at half-staff to recognize the late former Vice President Walter Mondale. The order is effective immediately for Capitol Complex and Commonwealth facilities statewide, according to the Wolf administration. Mondale served as the Vice President during President Jimmy Carter’s time in the White House and passed away at the age of 93 on Monday. “My heartfelt condolences go out to the Mondale family, and to all those grieving the loss of former Vice President Mondale,” Wolf said. “He was a giant in American politics, one who transformed the nature of the vice presidency and reminded all of us that government should be a force for good in the lives of the American people.” The U.S. flag will be lowered until Mondale is interred, and the date for those arrangements has not yet been determined. The Commonwealth flag has flown at half-staff since March … [Read more...] about Gov. Tom Wolf Orders U.S., Commonwealth Flags To Half-Staff For Former Vice President Walter Mondale

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff warned of factual and legal issues in a Trump administration joint vehicle climate rollback issued with a Department of Transportation agency, an internal government watchdog said. A report from the office of the EPA’s inspector general raised the concerns about the interagency collaboration between the EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)  in a new report issued on Tuesday. The report said that EPA technical staff told leadership that they hadn’t seen about 650 pages of the 1,000-page rule before it was sent to the White House for review because of a “lack of interagency collaboration at the technical level.” ADVERTISEMENT The rule, which was primarily put together by NHTSA, had “numerous errors and inaccuracies” when it was submitted for interagency review, the inspector general said, citing comments by the EPA. The report said that then-EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler Andrew … [Read more...] about EPA staff warned of factual, legal issues in Trump vehicle climate rollback, watchdog says

The Biden administration on Tuesday issued an extension for free school lunch through 2022 as part of its effort to reopen schools safely amid the coronavirus pandemic. According to a press release, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will allow school meal programs to resume serving meals to students this fall and will extend the programs through the following year. The programs will also allow for flexible service that promotes social distancing as schools begin to reopen across the country. “USDA will remain relentless in ensuring our nation’s children get the critical nutrition they need,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Tom Vilsack USDA: Farm-to-school programs help schools serve healthier meals OVERNIGHT MONEY: House poised to pass debt-ceiling bill MORE said in the release. “States and districts wanted waivers extended to plan for safe reopening in the fall. USDA answered the call to help America’s schools and childcare institutions serve high … [Read more...] about Biden administration extends universal free school lunch through 2022

Eight innocent people were killed Friday at an Indianapolis FedEx facility, the latest in a deadly string of mass shootings across the country. There have been at least 156 of them already this year. Not since the Brady bill has a meaningful and lasting gun control measure passed Congress. That was 1993. Since then, hundreds of mass shootings have taken the lives of thousands of Americans. Nearly every congressional attempt since has failed. U.S. lawmakers couldn’t even agree on extending a ban on assault weapons and allowed it to expire. Ninety percent of Americans support increased background checks yet Congress sits on its hands. A key reason: the influence the gun lobby has over many U.S lawmakers. The National Rifle Association (NRA) grades politicians on their stance on guns and skillfully uses the grades to influence its members in key elections. It’s why we often hear the “now is not the time to debate gun control” (or something similar) mantra from … [Read more...] about We need laws to stop gun violence, but we need to stop glorifying it, too

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said that China is “trying to set the stage one day for a potential invasion and annexation of Taiwan, which would be a catastrophe for American interests.” And the U.S. “should be perfectly clear to the Chinese Communists, we will defend Taiwan if China tries to invade and forcibly annex it.” Cotton stated, “Joe Biden is showing weakness around the globe and our adversaries are probing and pressing. I mean, China is the biggest threat we face in the world right now, Bret, it’s not just a security threat, but an economic threat as well. What they’ve done in terms of kind of probing Taiwan’s airspace is, in my opinion, trying to set the stage one day for a potential invasion and annexation of Taiwan, which would be a catastrophe for American interests.” He added, “Bret, we should end the ambiguity. We should be perfectly clear to the Chinese Communists, we will defend Taiwan if China tries to … [Read more...] about Cotton: China Setting the Stage to Invade Taiwan, We Need to Be Clear We’ll Defend Taiwan