Will Weissert

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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivers a work report during the opening session of the annual National People's Congress at Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Sunday, March 5, 2017.
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In this Feb. 21, 2017 photo, commuters, some wearing masks, walk to a subway station to a subway station during the evening rush hour in Beijing. Yet the city’s average reading of the tiny particulate matter PM2.5 - considered a good gauge of air pollution - is still seven times what the World Health Organization considers safe. A group of Chinese lawyers is suing the governments of Beijing and its surrounding areas for not doing enough to get rid of the smog.
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President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington.
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President Trump's Gold Card Visa Idea Would Provide $5M Path to U.S. Citizenship
Trump wants to raise the price of admission for U.S. investors.
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President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Scranton, Pa.
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A vehicle enters General Motor’s Lansing Grand River Assembly plant, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Lansing, Mich., just days before auto workers could potentially strike due failed contract negotiations.
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President Joe Biden, on screen at center, participates in a meeting with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, fourth from right, from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 26, 2022. The meeting comes as the Biden administration is seeking the cooperation of Asian allies such as South Korea to reinforce supply chains for critical components such as semiconductors.
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Korean Firm's $22B Investment Will Create Tens of Thousands of U.S. Jobs
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President Joe Biden speaks as he meets with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 12, 2022.
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Mexico Agrees to Invest $1.5B in 'Smart' Border Technology
The country will spend $1.5 billion over the next two years to make improvements.
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Electricians with IBEW Local 3 install solar panels on top of the Terminal B garage at LaGuardia Airport, Nov. 9, 2021, in the Queens borough of New York. President Joe Biden plans to invoke the Defense Production Act to increase U.S. manufacturing of solar panels while declaring a two-year tariff exemption on panels from Southeast Asia.
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Biden Waives Solar Panel Tariffs to Boost Production
Some say that solar is being slowed by supply chain problems due to an ongoing inquiry into possible trade violations.
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A banner encouraging workers to vote in labor balloting at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., March 30, 2021.
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Amazon Union Head, Others Meet at White House
They discussed growing efforts to form unions in the workplace.
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Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden departs after speaking at Alexis Dupont High School in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, June 30, 2020.
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Biden Wants US to Produce More Pandemic Supplies
The presumptive presidential candidate promises to shift production of key pandemic-fighting products “back to U.S. soil."
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In this image made from a Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018, video by KTRK-TV, Cody Wilson walks out of the Harris County Jail in Houston.
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Cody Wilson submitted his resignation to tend to "personal matters."
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Resident Engineer Steve Sherrill, with the US Army Corps of Engineers, shows how much height will be added to some of the levees and seawalls near a refinery Thursday, July 26, 2018, in Port Arthur, Texas. The oil industry wants the government to help protect some of its facilities on the Texas Gulf Coast against the effects of global warming. One proposal involves building a nearly 60-mile “spine” of flood barriers to shield refineries and chemical plants. Many Republicans argue that such projects should be a national priority. But others question whether taxpayers should have to protect refineries in a state where top politicians still dispute whether climate change is real.
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Sea Wall Would Protect Big Oil
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Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez, center, Mexico's consul general in Austin, waits to give testimony to the Committee on International Trade and Intergovernmental Affairs at the Texas Capitol, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Austin, Texas. Officials from Mexico and Texas are urging the state's lawmakers to defend the North American Free Trade Agreement against President Donald Trump's administration, which has been wary of it.
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Rolando Pablos, the Texas secretary of state, said Texas-Mexico trade accounts for nearly $200 billion annually and that there is a "shared destiny" through deep family and cultural connections.
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