Jennifer Selin, Wayne State University As the Jan. 6 committee’s hearings pass their halfway point, they have brought new details to light that explain the events of the attack on the Capitol and place them in context of a larger effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. In the first …
Read More »CDC Recommends Pfizer, Moderna Covid Vaccines For Children Under 5
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Saturday that children as young as six months old receive Covid-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. The move follows a unanimous vote earlier in the day by an advisory panel of outside experts known as Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or …
Read More »‘Certifiably Crazy’: Jan. 6 Panel Highlights How Team Trump Pushed Pence to Overturn Election
Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams Thursday’s public hearing of the House January 6 committee focused largely on former President Donald Trump’s futile attempt to convince Mike Pence, his vice president, to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. “There was no basis in the Constitution or laws of the United …
Read More »Senate Passes Bill To Help Veterans Exposed To Toxic Burn Pits
A bill expanding health care and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic military burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan passed the U.S. Senate on Thursday in an overwhelmingly 84-14 bipartisan vote. The bill eases and expands access to health services and disability benefits for veterans who were exposed to toxic …
Read More »Effects Of Gun Violence On Kids Probed By Senate Committee
by Ariana Figueroa, Nebraska Examiner The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday examined the public health effect that gun violence has on children. “Guns are killing our kids at a devastating rate,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chair of the committee, said in his opening statement. The hearing followed the May …
Read More »FDA Advisers Recommend Pfizer, Moderna COVID Vaccines For Kids Under 5
Parents of children under 5 are one step closer to vaccinating their young kids against COVID-19 after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s outside vaccine panel recommended emergency use authorizations of two COVID-19 vaccines Wednesday. The 21-person Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted unanimously to recommend the FDA …
Read More »Pence Was Within 40 Feet Of Mob Inflamed By Trump, Jan. 6 Committee Reveals
by Jacob Fischler, Missouri Independent June 16, 2022 The private and public conflict between Donald Trump and Mike Pence over certifying the 2020 election results put the vice president within steps of the Jan. 6 attackers, the U.S. House committee investigating the insurrection said Thursday. As the mob approached the …
Read More »Did The Assault Weapons Ban Of 1994 Bring Down Mass Shootings? Here’s What The Data Tells Us
Michael J. Klein, New York University A spate of high-profile mass shootings in the U.S. has sparked calls for Congress to look at imposing a ban on so-called assault weapons – covering the types of guns used in both the recent Buffalo grocery attack and that on an elementary school …
Read More »Biden Directs Federal Agencies To Protect LGBTQI+ Rights Under Attack In GOP-Led States
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday aiming to curtail conversion therapy, expand health care access and promote safe learning for LGBTQI+ people. The order is meant to counter laws in Republican-led states that restrict the rights of LGBTQI+ kids and their families. A senior administration official referenced Texas …
Read More »Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Joins White House As Senior Adviser
Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has been tapped to join the White House as a senior aide. Bottoms will replace Cedric Richmond and take on the role as director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. The Hill reported Richmond left the White House last month. According to …
Read More »Congress Votes to Expand Supreme Court Security
A bill providing security protections for the family members of Supreme Court justices is headed to President Biden’s desk as the nation braces for the high court to release decisions in high-profile cases on abortion and gun rights later this month. The Supreme Court Police Parity Act passed the House …
Read More »Trump Spread Claims Of Election Fraud Debunked By His Own Legal Team
by Jacob Fischler, Idaho Capital Sun June 13, 2022 Former President Donald Trump planted the seeds for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by continually promoting theories that he lost the 2020 election through fraud, even though top advisers and officials told him there was no evidence to …
Read More »Bipartisan Senate Deal On Gun Control Met With Praise From Biden, Democrats
by Ariana Figueroa, Missouri Independent June 13, 2022 The White House and Democratic leaders expressed support Monday for a framework on gun control legislation that 10 Senate Democrats and 10 Senate Republicans, including U.S. Roy Blunt of Missouri, agreed to over the weekend. The second-deadliest school shooting in a decade …
Read More »Jan. 6 Hearing Offers Yet More Proof That ‘Trump Lied’ and ‘He Knew He Lied’
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Donald Trump’s incessant and frequently outlandish lies about the 2020 election were in the spotlight Monday as a special House committee laid out its case that the former president’s falsehoods about widespread voter fraud were pivotal in catalyzing the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on …
Read More »Will It Be ‘every state for themselves’ As The Federal COVID Cash Dries Up?
by Jennifer Shutt, Pennsylvania Capital-Star State and local health departments remain in limbo over whether they’ll need to single-handedly fund their own COVID-19 vaccines and treatments as a stalemate in Congress drags into its fourth month. The Biden administration has raised alarm bells about the risk of inaction after sending …
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