With Friday Treasury Action, There Goes The 'No New Sanctions' Clause Of The MOU

US Govt. Lab Launches Advanced Battery Lab To Help Power Grid Authored by Georgina Jedikovska via Interesting Engineering, The US has recently launched a new battery production line, which is expected to help researchers develop safer and cheaper energy storage technologies for the electric grid. PNNL's new prismatic cell line will allow researchers and industry partners to create, test and demonstrate real-world prismatic cells at an industrially relevant scale. (Andrea Starr/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)  The new line is housed at the Grid Storage Launchpad (GSL), a 93,000-square-foot research facility. It is run by...

Israeli attacks across Gaza on Monday killed at least six Palestinians as the IDF continues its constant violations of the US-backed ceasefire deal. According to Al Jazeera, at least two people were killed by a drone strike targeting a vehicle in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, and two others were killed by a strike on tents […]

GOP Uses Kavanaugh's Own Playbook To Take Another Swing At Birthright Citizenship Last month, the Supreme Court struck down Trump's executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship. Justice Kavanaugh joined that majority in striking down the order, but he also filed a separate partial dissent, and his reasoning did Republicans a favor. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority in Trump v. Barbara, a 5-4 decision joined by Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, Barrett, and Jackson, and leaned on the 1898 case U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark to hold that the 14th...