Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder Sen. Lindsey Graham could soon be peppered with questions by Fulton County prosecutors to determine whether he encouraged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger or others to toss out ballots and manipulate election practices in order to influence the 2020 presidential election. U.S. District Court Judge …
Read More »Republican Midterm Candidates Are Trying To Rewrite Their History On Abortion. Here’s What That Means.
Shefali Luthra, The 19th Multiple Republican midterm candidates have removed from their campaign sites references to particularly strict anti-abortion stances, a shift from primary campaigning to the approaching general election and an indication of growing concern in the Republican Party over how to handle abortion policy post-Roe v. Wade. Arizona …
Read More »Florida Sues Feds Over Slow Response To DeSantis’ Drug Plan; Biden Already Has OK’d Cheaper Drug Prices
Issac Morgan, Florida Phoenix After Congress and President Joe Biden approved a massive spending bill to allow Medicare to negotiate cheaper drug prices with pharmaceutical companies starting in 2026, Florida has filed a lawsuit against the federal government over delays in the state’s own plan to import cheaper medicine from …
Read More »DACA Déjà Vu: Biden Reaffirms, Doesn’t Expand, Migrant Protection Program
Tristan Richards/Cronkite News, Arizona Mirror The Biden administration reaffirmed its commitment Tuesday to DACA, officially posting regulations to extend the 10-year-old program that has protected hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants. The rule, which takes effect Oct. 31, makes few changes to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and …
Read More »DOJ Releases Photo of ‘Top Secret’ Documents Seized From Trump’s Home
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday released a photo of classified documents it retrieved from Donald Trump‘s Florida home earlier this month, the latest disclosure in its investigation into the former president’s removal of secret government records from the White House following his 2020 election loss. …
Read More »Texas Monkeypox Death In Harris County Is First In U.S.
Stephen Neukam, The Texas Tribune Aug. 30, 2022 An adult Harris County resident who was diagnosed with monkeypox has died, marking the first publicly reported death associated with the virus in the U.S., health officials said Tuesday. The person was “severely immunocompromised,” Texas Health and Human Services officials said. State …
Read More »Former Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Dead at 91
Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union and a reformer who helped end the Cold War and lead his country from communism to capitalism, died Tuesday at 91, according to the Gorbachev Foundation. “Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev died this evening after a serious and long illness,” the Central Clinical …
Read More »Biden Touts Public Safety Policy In Visit To Pennsylvania
Patrick Abdalla, Pennsylvania Capital-Star President Joe Biden knocked defenders of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol while touting his recent public safety policy wins in a visit to Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday. “You can’t be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurrection,” Biden said. The president also referenced the FBI search …
Read More »Proud Boy Who Encountered Senator On Jan. 6 Sentenced To 55 Months In Prison
A Washington, D.C. man who joined the Proud Boys in the weeks after the 2020 election and heeded the group’s call to go to the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6 was sentenced Monday to 55 months in prison for obstructing the joint session of Congress. Federal prosecutors said Joshua …
Read More »Medicaid Program Expands Funding, But Future Remains Uncertain
Sara Luterman, The 19th The Biden administration recently announced approximately $25 million in grants to expand a Medicaid program that has allowed more than 90,000 disabled people and seniors to move out of institutional settings like nursing homes and back into their communities. Money Follows the Person is a demonstration …
Read More »Jackson, Mississippi Water System Is Failing, Will Be With No Or Little Drinking Water Indefinitely
Alex Rozier and Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today The drinking water system in Jackson — Mississippi’s largest city and home to more than 160,000 residents — is failing, state officials announced on Monday. Thousands of Jackson residents already have no or little water pressure, and officials cannot say when adequate, reliable …
Read More »Biden To Give Primetime Speech About ‘Soul Of The Nation’ On Thursday
The White House announced Monday that President Joe Biden will address the nation from Philadelphia’s Independence Hall later this week. A White House official said Thursday’s address in Philadelphia would focus on “the continued battle for the soul of the nation” and show how the president sees the central argument of his …
Read More »Abortion Access Is On The Ballot In November In These States
Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder Voters in at least three states will determine at the polls in November what abortion access looks like for their neighbors, colleagues, friends and family — becoming some of the first Americans to deliver their own verdicts on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe …
Read More »Judge Says Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Must Testify In Trump Election Probe
Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder A Fulton County judge has ordered Gov. Brian Kemp to testify in a special grand jury investigation into former President Donald Trump and associates’ attempts to interfere in the 2020 election. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled Monday that Kemp will appear before the …
Read More »Federal Judge Sides With Texas, Blocks HHS Guidance On Emergency Abortions
Jennifer Shutt, Ohio Capital Journal A federal district judge has granted the Texas attorney general’s request to temporarily block guidance from the federal government that says federal law protects health care providers who perform abortions to save the life or health of pregnant patients in emergency situations. Judge James Wesley …
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