A legal challenge filed in North Carolina Monday says that Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn should be disqualified from running for reelection to Congress in 2022 after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The complaint, which was first reported by The Associated Press, is being backed by James Exum …
Read More »At-Home COVID Tests To Be Covered By Insurers Starting Saturday
As part of its ongoing efforts to expand Americans’ access to free testing, the Biden Administration is requiring insurance companies and group health plans to cover the cost of over-the-counter, at-home COVID-19 tests, so people with private health coverage can get them for free starting January 15th. The new coverage …
Read More »South Dakota Sen. John Thune announces plans for re-election
South Dakota Republican Senator John Thune announced his plans for re-election in a tweet Saturday morning. Thune will be seeking a fourth term. pic.twitter.com/riLV3RU1v0— John Thune (@johnthune) January 8, 2022 “I’ve always promised that I would do the work, even when it was hard uncomfortable, or unpopular. That work continues, which is …
Read More »Treasury Department to reallocate $1B in pandemic rental assistance
The United States Treasury Department said Friday it would reallocate $1.1 billion in pandemic rental assistance from places where it went unused to states and cities with a higher need for the aid. California will receive about $50 million in reallocated funds, the most of any state. New Jersey will …
Read More »Sen. Ron Johnson announces re-election campaign despite pledging to only serve two terms
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson officially announced Sunday morning he will run for re-election and seek a third term in the U.S. Senate, despite at one time promising only to serve two terms. Today, I am announcing I will continue to fight for freedom in the public realm by running for …
Read More »New York City To Allow Noncitizens To Vote In Local Elections
More than 800,000 noncitizens and “Dreamers” could vote in New York City municipal elections as early as next year, after Mayor Eric Adams allowed legislation to become law on Sunday. In December, city legislators passed a measure to allow about 800,000 “green card” holders (permanent US residents) and so-called “dreamers” …
Read More »Here’s Why Rapid COVID Tests Are So Expensive and Hard to Find
by Lydia DePillis and Eric Umansky, ProPublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. A few weeks ago, a ProPublica reporter decided to test his kids for COVID-19. They had the sniffles, and with a grandparent set to visit he wanted to minimize the risk that they were infectious. This …
Read More »In 2021, almost twice as many women joined the workforce than men
Chabeli Carrazana Originally published by The 19th If the economic landscape of the first year of the pandemic was defined by the women leaving the labor force, the second year was marked by just the opposite. Nearly a million women — almost twice the number of men — returned to …
Read More »CDC recommends Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster for kids ages 12 to 15
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has endorsed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) recommendations to expand eligibility of Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster doses to kids 12 to 15 years old. CDC now recommends that adolescents aged 12 to 17 years …
Read More »Three Men Convicted of Murdering Ahmaud Arbery Sentenced to Life
The three white men who chased down and murdered 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery in broad daylight in 2020 have been sentenced. Travis McMichael, 35, and his father, Gregory McMichael, 66, will spend life in prison without the possibility of parole. Their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, 52, was sentenced to life in …
Read More »WATCH: Sen. Ted Cruz Cowers To Tucker Carlson Over Jan. 6 Remarks
On Wednesday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson called out Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) over remarks he made regarding the January 6 attacks. During a hearing with the head of the United States Capitol Police earlier that day, Cruz acknowledged the “solemn anniversary” of what he called a “violent terrorist attack on …
Read More »Florida Gov. DeSantis Let One Million COVID Tests Expire In Warehouse
In a press conference Thursday morning, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis admitted that state officials allowed around one million unused COVID-19 tests to sit in a warehouse and expire. The head of Florida’s Department of Emergency Management, Kevin Guthries, said, “We had between 800k and a million Abbott test kits in …
Read More »Biden Addresses The Nation One Year After January 6 Insurrection
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the nation on Thursday, marking the anniversary of the deadly January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump. Speaking from Statuary Hall in the Capitol, where Trump supporters violently surged, President Biden said the US …
Read More »Vice President Harris Was At DNC On Jan. 6 When Pipe Bomb Was Found
According to reporting by Politico, and later confirmed by ABC News, Vice President Kamala Harris was evacuated from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in Washington on January 6, 2021, minutes after a pipe bomb was discovered nearby. “She was there until she was evacuated,” said a White House official who …
Read More »Plessy, whose arrest led to ‘separate but equal’ posthumously pardoned
On Wednesday, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed the state’s first posthumous pardon for Homer A. Plessy, who was convicted of violating Louisiana’s Separate Car Act of 1890, the purpose of which was to ensure racial segregation as a means to promote white supremacy. Gov. Edwards was joined by descendants of …
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