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Manchin, UMWA president call for job preservation, creation as priority for energy transition
As the country transitions from fossil fuel to renewable energy, preserving current jobs and creating new ones for coal miners must be a priority, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and United Mineworkers President Cecil Roberts said at a National Press Club virtual Headliners event Monday. “Ensuring our coal miners aren’t left behind as America transitions to a cleaner energy future is one of my top priorities," Manchin said. Manchin, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, called for funding research into carbon capture and sequestration as well as incentives to encourage …
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Southern Poverty Law Center president says Trump, social media fueled surge in far-right, white nationalist ideology
Far-right extremism and white nationalist sentiment in the United States have reached a boiling point, Margaret Huang, president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) said Friday at a National Press Club Headliners event. “We’re facing a crisis of far-right extremism and deep threats to our democracy," Huang told National Press Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews. "We all saw this threat on January 6 when the pro-Trump mob led by white nationalists and other far-right extremists rampaged through the Capitol in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College votes…
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Damage from gun violence extends beyond the victims to whole communities, "Children Under Fire" author says.
Author John Woodrow Cox with a photograph of Tyshaun McPhatter. Photo by Alan Kotok. A child is shot in America every hour on average, John Woodrow Cox, author of "Children Under Fire: An American Crisis," told a National Press Club virtual audience at the Headliners event Monday. Gun fire has killed about 30,000 children and teenagers over the last decade, Cox told NPC President Lisa Nicole Matthews. According to the medical journal Pediatrics, firearm-related injuries take more childhood lives annually than all children’s cancers combined, making it the second highest cause of death…
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Kalb kept his cool as CBS Moscow correspondent during Cuban Missile Crisis
As the CBS News Moscow correspondent in the thick of the Cold War, Marvin Kalb remembers well what was happening during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. But while the rest of the world saw it as an anxious moment when the world was close to nuclear war, Kalb said he was more serene. Kalb was talking to former National Press Club President Mike Freedman about his latest book, Assignment Russia, a personal memoir about his days as a foreign correspondent. With a Ph.D. in Russian studies within reach and fluent in the Russian language, he was headed toward an academic career. And…
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Fauci sees high vaccination rate, possible low infections by summer
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, explains his coronavirus forecast in a National Press Club online interview. Photo:Christy Bowe Anthony Fauci, the nation's top authority on the coronavirus pandemic, said Tuesday that Covid-19 could be under control by summer if Americans keep taking precautions and get vaccinated. The rate of infection has "plateaued," said Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and now President Biden's chief medical adviser, in a National Press Club virtual Headliners event. There…
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Scientists laid groundwork for COVID vaccine over 30 years, says AAAS president
National Press Club Board member Deborah Silimeo moderated a virtual Headliners event Monday featuring Sudip Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Photo: Al Teich. Sudip Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, can pinpoint the exact 2005 study that laid the groundwork for the large-scale development and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines — a celebrated feat of science that promises to stamp out a global pandemic. The study was one of a wave of pioneering studies that won federal funding as Congress, between 1993 and 2003,…
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Then and now -- a big difference in D.C. baseball, say veteran observers
Former Club President Michael Freedman, left, author Fred Frommer, center, and former announcer Phil Hochberg contrasted D.C. baseball past and present April 1. Photo: Joe Luchok. Still giddy over the Washington Nationals’ World Series championship 17 months ago, baseball fans in the Nation’s Capital were disappointed by the April 1 announcement that the team’s much-anticipated 2021 opening game was postponed because of the coronavirus. In the past, though, the disappointment might not have been as pronounced. For nearly a century, baseball in D.C. was either abysmal or non-existent, and …
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Journalism Institute honors The Atlantic’s Ed Yong pandemic coverage with investigative journalism award
Ed Yong, the staff writer at The Atlantic who has been covering the coronavirus and its impact, will receive the National Press Club Journalism Institute’s 2020 Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for Investigative Journalism. Yong’s in-depth analytical writing has explained, week after week, everything from the mask debate to long-haulers to how the coronavirus has seeped into America’s fault lines, and why the United States has been hit more severely than most other countries, with one-quarter of the world’s confirmed COVID‑19 cases and deaths, but just 4 percent of the global population. He has…
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CBS News President Susan Zirinsky to receive 2020 Fourth Estate Award Nov. 18
Susan Zirinsky, president and senior executive producer of CBS News, will receive the National Press Club's highest honor, the Fourth Estate Award, on Nov.18. Zirinsky is the 48th recipient of the award, which recognizes journalists who have made significant contributions to the field. “Susan Zirinsky is the personification of journalistic perseverance, tenacity, and integrity,” Club President Michael Freedman said. “Like the best of those before her at the network of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, Susan leads by example, displaying the courage of her convictions and making a…
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Presidential debate organizers make adjustments to meet pandemic challenges
Like many of the big public events planned for 2020, this year’s presidential debates have been forced to meet the historic challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic. That’s according to the co-chairs of the Commission on Presidential Debates, all three of whom discussed what Americans can expect this year at a virtual National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker Sept. 1. “It’s very, very clear that the coronavirus has thrown us a curveball, as it has almost everyone else in every walk of life,” commission co-chair Frank Fahrenkopf Jr. said. “It’s a different world that we’re walking into, but…
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