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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 …

By Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune Jan. 28, 2022 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and seven other attorneys general filed a lawsuit Friday asking a federal judge to halt a Biden administration immigration program that allows some Central American children to legally migrate to the United States and reunite …

The United States saw substantial economic growth in the final three months of 2021 — and, for the entire year, saw the largest expansion in almost 40 years, the Commerce Department said in a report on Thursday. The department released its report showing how the economy performed in the fourth …

Hours after Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his impending retirement at the end of the current term, his colleagues on the bench, both current and former, released their statements about him. Read statements from Justices below: Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.: Justice Stephen G. Breyer is an energetic …

On Thursday, Congresswoman Jackie Speier (CA-14), Co-Chair of the Democratic Women’s Caucus, and Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12), Chairwoman of the Oversight and Reform Committee, unveiled a resolution recognizing that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) has met all legal requirements to be recognized as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. …

Justice Stephen Breyer, 83, was joined by President Joe Biden on Thursday as he announced his retirement from the United States Supreme Court in the White House’s Roosevelt Room. “I think he’s a model public servant in a time of great division in this country. Justice Breyer has been everything …

In its latest effort to control the spread of COVID-19, the White House announced last week that it would distribute 400 million high-quality N95 face masks to Americans in the coming weeks. The government also rolled out a website last week where households can order four free at-home COVID-19 tests. The …

by Alexis Marshall and Meribah Knight, Nashville Public Radio, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.   Series: Juvenile Injustice, Tennessee Where Kids …

United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y), and United States Representatives Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Katie Porter (D-Calif.) led more than 80 Senate and House colleagues calling on the Biden administration to release the Department of Education’s (ED) …

According to reporting from NBC News, United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring. The retirement will allow President Joe Biden to name a replacement to the nation’s highest court. During the 2020 campaign, Biden pledged to name an African American woman if he got the chance. “The two leading …