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Retired Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a former national security aide who provided key testimony in President Donald Trump’s 2019 impeachment for dealings with Ukraine, has filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and two former aides, accusing them of witness intimidation and retaliation. Citing the Ku Klux Klan Act …

Candice Norwood Originally published by The 19th With the pending retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, President Joe Biden is poised to make good on his pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the nation’s highest court. There’s a lot we don’t know: who Biden’s choice will be, …

By Andrew Zhang, The Texas Tribune Feb. 1, 2022 U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called President Joe Biden’s promise to nominate a Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court insulting to Americans and the eventual nominee — a comment that sparked anger from those who say Cruz is missing the …

New Mexico’s junior U.S. Senator, Ben Ray Luján, 49, is recovering from surgery at UNM Hospital in Albuquerque after suffering a stroke on Thursday, his office has announced. Luján’s chief of staff, Carlos Sanchez, said the senator felt dizziness and fatigue Thursday morning and was evaluated at Christus St. Vincent …

A Kansas man who said God told him to visit President Joe Biden was apprehended outside a Hagerstown Cracker Barrel Friday for threatening to kill the president. According to charging documents, Scott Ryan Merryman told police in Independence, Kansas, on Jan. 25 that he was headed to Washington, D.C., to …

More than a dozen historically black colleges and universities reported bomb threats on the first day of Black History Month, marking the second consecutive day of threats at many of the HBCUs. Jackson State University, Howard University, Coppin State University, Mississippi Valley State University, Morgan State University, Alcorn State University, Tougaloo …

On Monday, United States Attorney General Merrick Garland released the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) new National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking. Rooted in the foundational pillars and priorities of the interagency National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking, which President Biden released in December, the Justice Department’s National Strategy is …

About six weeks after President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, he told his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to contact the Department of Homeland Security to ask if the department could lawfully seize voting machines in key swing states, according to a report in The New York Times. Giuliani contacted …

On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave full approval to Moderna‘s COVID-19 vaccine for people 18 years of age and older. The approval makes it the second vaccine to be fully licensed in the United States. The vaccine will be marketed as Spikevax. Moderna’s messenger RNA vaccine has …

Chabeli Carrazana Originally published by The 19th The monthly child tax credit payments may be over, but families now face a new hurdle: Filing for the remaining portion they’re owed. An estimated 40 million households will be applying for the benefit this tax filing season, which, thanks to a bevy …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) last week launched an initiative to save households billions of dollars a year by reducing exploitative junk fees charged by banks and financial companies. The federal agency, created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, is seeking consumers’ input on so-called junk fees …

Last year, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) reintroduced the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. If passed, the legislation would end cannabis prohibition by the federal government. The House of Representatives previously passed the MORE Act in December 2020 with bipartisan support, but the …

On Friday, President Joe Biden visited Pittsburgh to tout the importance of his $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal just hours after a bridge in the city’s Frick Park collapsed. A Port Authority bus and multiple private vehicles were on it during the collapse. Pittsburgh officials said ten people were injured, but no …

A Pennsylvania court on Friday ruled that the state’s two-year-old mail-in voting law is unconstitutional, agreeing with challenges by Republicans who soured on mail-in voting after then-President Donald Trump began baselessly attacking it as rife with fraud during his 2020 Presidential election campaign. According to a Commonwealth Court filing released Friday, the …

The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol has issued a new round of subpoenas, this time to 14 individuals who participated as purported “alternate electors” for former President Donald Trump. The committee is seeking information from individuals who met and submitted purported Electoral-College …