Senate Confirms Biden’s Election as Head of Bureau of Land Management

But Republican leaders based their opposition on his behavior during a tree planting incident in 1989, not his opposition to expanding oil and gas drilling. As a graduate student in Montana, Ms. Stone-Manning, now 56, wrote and mailed a warning letter to the United States Forest Service about her plan to install metal spikes in …

Tirzah’s One-of-a-kind Pop Embraces the Beauty of Uncertainty

Some pop artists amplify familiar, universal feelings: tender moments in love, the agonizing pain of heartbreak. But others want us to listen with different ears. They ask us to release control, to resist the urge to fully understand music – to linger in the experience of melody, emotion, and sound, even if we don’t fully …

Pelosi Hunts for Infrastructure Votes as Democrats’ Case on the Agenda

He was more in line with other Democrats on payables for the package and supported several rollbacks of the Trump-era tax cut in 2017; increasing the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 25 percent; set a top individual income tax rate of 37 percent to 39.6 percent; and raising the capital gains tax rate …

Scarlett Johansson and Disney Agree Over ‘Black Widow’ Payment

LOS ANGELES — Scarlett Johansson and Walt Disney Studios agreed Thursday in a legal dispute involving airtime compensation for the superhero movie “Black Widow.” Terms were not disclosed. “I’m happy to have resolved our differences,” Ms Johansson said in a statement. “I am incredibly proud of the work we have done together over the years …