Washington DC electoral votes voting representation Congress

D.C. votes for president but lacks a voting lawmaker

Washington, D.C., has three Electoral College votes in elections for president and vice president. Yet residents lack voting representation in Congress, the national legislature.

Languages preserve clues to a lost ancestor

No writing in Proto-Indo-European survives. Linguists rebuild parts of this lost language by comparing the languages that came from it and looking for sound changes that repeat in regular patterns. For example, English f can match Italian p in related words.

Renewable energy did not mean low CO₂

Renewable sources supplied effectively all of Iceland’s electricity and around 85% of its total primary energy. Yet in 2016, Iceland had the highest CO₂ emissions per person among EFTA and EU members, mainly because of transport and aluminium smelting.

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Washington DC electoral votes voting representation Congress

D.C. votes for president but lacks a voting lawmaker

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