It is the first major expansion to U.S. oil processing in nearly a decade, adding the equivalent of a mid-sized refinery, and coming online as scheduled at a time when U.S. President Joe Biden has been urging refiners to produce more fuels, or face penalties.

Millions of Americans are “crying out for someone to push back against today’s woke culture,” Cameron said.

The loan, which was approved by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, would be the first by Washington to a U.S. mining project for lithium, a key ingredient used to make electric vehicle batteries.

The University of Southern California has said it does not plan to ban the word ‘field’ after the school received backlash from news that one of its departments was banning the word.

With a prewar population of 10,000, Soledar has been transformed into an apocalyptic wasteland, like so many other cities, towns, and villages in Ukraine since Russia invaded its neighbor 11 months ago.

Russia on Thursday released a U.S. Navy veteran who had crossed into its Kaliningrad exclave in the first weeks of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last February, former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson, who met the man at the border in Poland, said in a statement.