As a government shutdown looms, Senate Republicans are faced with the fact that they do not have enough votes to pass the stopgap spending bill, while Senate Democrats grapple with whether or not to support the House GOP bill, but this vote will also illustrate how much power Congress is willing to cede to President Trump says Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy lecturer Dan Lamb.

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House Republicans narrowly pushed through a budget plan last night, the first step in securing President Trump’s legislative priorities, but not without consequence says Cornell University professor David Bateman. 

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Climate and environment legal scholar, Leehi Yona, comments on a lawsuit filed by California against ExxonMobil, which accused the fossil fuel company of deceiving the public about plastic recycling. 

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Heather Murray, the associate director of the Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic and the managing attorney of the Clinic’s Local Journalism Project, comments on a temporary restraining order requiring a local newspaper, The Clarksdale Press Register, to delete an editorial critical of city officials. 

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Tech mogul Elon Musk announced that he and President Donald Trump are in the process of shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a move that would cause global calamity says Cornell University professor Chris Barrett. 

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While U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared to favor the idea that religious parents can remove their children from public school lessons that include LGBTQ themes, this situation prompts reflection on the boundaries of religious liberty in a pluralistic society says Cornell University professor Landon Schnabel. 

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Climate and environment legal scholar, Leehi Yona, comments on a Montana Supreme Court ruling that affirmed youth plaintiffs have a right to a “stable climate system.”

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A group of Elon Musk-led investors are offering $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, raising the stakes in his battle with Sam Altman.

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Jimmy Carter, America’s 39th President, has died; he was 100. Though he only served one term as president, Carter’s stances on foreign policy and energy have helped shape the world we live in today says Cornell University professor Ruth Lawlor.

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Buz Barstow, a physicist using synthetic biology to build sustainable energy technologies, comments on China's move to ban exports of rare minerals to the U.S.

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