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Vice President Kamala Harris said Monday that 10 million households have signed up for the Affordable Connectivity Program, which provides low-income Americans with a subsidy to help pay for broadband service. The subsidy was made possible through the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill Congress passed last year. In remarks at …

A Democratic candidate for mayor in Louisville, Kentucky, Craig Greenberg, was unhurt after someone shot at him in his office at the Butchertown Market Monday morning, police said. “I am blessed. My team is blessed. No one was physically injured today,” Greenberg told reporters during a press conference Monday evening. …

President Joe Biden called out the National Football League‘s (NFL) hiring practices in an interview that aired Sunday, saying it’s “just some generic human decency” to have more diverse leaders in the league. “The whole idea that a league that is made up of so many athletes of color, as …

President Joe Biden marked the fourth anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, with a message on gun control. Fourteen students and three educators were killed on Feb. 14, 2018, when a former student opened fire on campus with an AR-15 rifle. “On this difficult day, …

Rudy Giuliani, the attorney and former adviser to President Donald Trump, is in discussions with the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol and may agree to answer their questions, according to a New York Times report published late Saturday. Those negotiations could still fall apart, …

By Alexa Ura and Mandi Cai, The Texas Tribune Jan. 17, 2022 Texans will head back to the polls — from Feb. 14-25 for early voting and on election day, March 1 — for the 2022 primary election. Here’s an overview of what Texans need to know about casting a …

Former President Donald Trump has made tens of millions of dollars from his coffee table picture book that includes captions he personally wrote slamming his political enemies. Sales for Trump’s book ‘Our Journey Together,’ which went on sale in late November, reached $20 million in sales in less than two months, …

By Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune Feb. 10, 2022 Stricter voting rules enacted by Republican lawmakers last year continue to foil Texans trying to vote by mail in the upcoming primary, with hundreds of completed ballots being initially rejected for not meeting the state’s new identification requirements. The bulk of …

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill barring forced arbitration in workplace sexual harassment cases. The measure passed on a bipartisan voice vote. The House passed the bill with an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote earlier this week. It will now go to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. Sen. …

A long-awaited reform bill that would save the United States Postal Service about $50 billion over the next decade took a major step forward in Congress. The House on Tuesday, in a 342-92 vote, passed the Postal Service Reform Act. If approved by the Senate, the bill would be the …

President Joe Biden visited a heavily Republican rural stronghold in Virginia on Thursday to join Representative Abigail Spanberger, D-7th, to push Congress to take action on proposals to reduce prescription drug prices. He traveled to Germanna Community College in Culpepper, Va., to speak on work his administration has done to …

The Biden Administration is refuting claims made by a right-wing media outlet that crack pipes will be included in “safe smoking kits” handed out to underserved communities as part of a $30 million public health harm reduction grant package.  White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki denied the claim, which was first reported on by the Washington …

Amanda Becker Originally published by The 19th A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a bill Wednesday to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) — a 1994 law credited with significantly reducing intimate partner violence whose renewal was delayed over Republican objections to a proposed gun-safety provision. That provision …

The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol has issued a subpoena to former White House trade advisor Peter Navarro. The committee is seeking records and deposition testimony from Mr. Navarro, who, according to public reporting, interviews, and his own book, was involved in efforts …

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, and Congressman Mondaire Jones led over 40 Congressional Black Caucus members in calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to aggressively protect voting rights and fight against disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, voter purges, and other forms of voter suppression, vote dilution, and election subversion. “These …