Kim Lyons, Pennsylvania Capital-Star Pennsylvania will now automatically register eligible residents to vote when they renew their driver’s licenses or ID cards at PennDOT driver and photo license centers, Gov. Josh Shapiro announced Tuesday. “When running for governor, I made a commitment to bring automatic voter registration to Pennsylvania,” Shapiro …
Read More »House GOP Spending Bills Falter As Congress Struggles To Avoid A Shutdown
Jennifer Shutt, Arkansas Advocate U.S. Senate Democrats said Tuesday they are preparing their own short-term spending bill that they believe will garner bipartisan support, a decision that could stave off a partial government shutdown — and as House Republicans failed to advance two spending bills. The Senate move would work …
Read More »Tuberville Opponents Plant Hundreds Of Signs Outside U.S. Capitol In Protest Of Blockade
Ashley Murray, Arkansas Advocate More than 300 signs dotted the lawn outside the U.S. Senate Tuesday, each bearing the name of a military nominee blocked this year by Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama in protest of a Pentagon abortion policy. Multiple Democratic senators delivered comments Tuesday at the sign …
Read More »Iran Releases 5 Americans In Prisoner Swap
Five U.S. citizens who had been detained by Iran have been released in a diplomatic deal brokered between the United States and Iran. This complex agreement involved the transfer of $6 billion in unfrozen Iranian oil assets and the release of five Iranians who were facing charges in the U.S. …
Read More »Trump Accuses ‘liberal Jews’ Of Voting To ‘destroy America and Israel’
Former President Donald Trump shared a post on his Truth Social platform that accused “liberal Jews” of voting to “destroy” America and Israel. The post, which appeared on the weekend of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, said, “Just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy America …
Read More »States Urged By Biden Administration To Rectify Underfunding Of Land-Grant HBCUs
Ariana Figueroa, Arkansas Advocate States engaged in decades of underfunding of land-grant Historically Black Colleges and Universities, leading to a more than $12 billion disparity with comparable white institutions, leaders of the U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Monday. “Unacceptable funding inequities have forced many …
Read More »Wisconsin GOP’s Impeachment Threat Against State Supreme Court Justice Is Unsupported By Law And Would Undermine Judicial Independence
Robert Yablon, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Derek Clinger, University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin’s April 2023 state Supreme Court election was historic. It was the nation’s most expensive judicial race ever, with over US$50 million in total spending, and it broke turnout records for an off-cycle spring election. Janet Protasiewicz, a Milwaukee …
Read More »Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Acquitted On All 16 Articles Of Impeachment
Zach Despart, The Texas Tribune The Texas Senate on Saturday acquitted Attorney General Ken Paxton of 16 articles of impeachment alleging corruption and bribery, his most artful escape in a career spent courting controversy and skirting consequences of scandal. No article received more than 14 of the required 21 votes …
Read More »Vice President Kamala Harris to NC A&T Students: ‘When you vote, it scares some folks.’
Lisa Sorg, NC Newsline This is what happens when the vice president of the United States visits Greensboro: Excitable German shepherds, restrained by their military handlers, sniff every duffel, trash can, and bathroom of a terminal at Piedmont Triad International Airport. Poised, yet nervy and as quiet as bats, Secret …
Read More »California Sues Big Oil Over Decades of Climate Destruction
The state of California on Friday filed suit against ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and Chevron, accusing the five oil and gas giants of a decadeslong campaign to mislead the public about the threat fossil fuels pose to the climate. The lawsuit makes California the largest economy on the planet to …
Read More »Grassley Says Calls To Defund The FBI Are ‘stupid’
Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Friday that Republican calls to shut down and defund the FBI were “stupid,” though he shared concerns about “political bias” in the agency. Many Republicans, including U.S. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Matt Gaetz of Florida and 2024 presidential …
Read More »Automakers’ Record Profits Not Shared With Workers, Biden Says As UAW Strike Launches
Jennifer Shutt, Michigan Advance President Joe Biden dispatched two senior administration officials to Detroit on Friday after the United Auto Workers union began a historic strike against the Big Three auto companies amid a contract dispute. “Over the past decade auto companies have seen record profits, including over the last …
Read More »UAW Launches Historic Strikes Against Big Three Automakers
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams The United Auto Workers union kicked off historic strikes against the Big Three U.S. car manufacturers early Friday morning after the companies failed to meet workers’ demands for adequate pay increases and benefit improvements. The initial wave of strikes hit select Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis …
Read More »Embracing Election Denial, Wisconsin Senate Republicans Vote To Fire Chief Election Official
Henry Redman, Wisconsin Examiner Moments after every Republican in the Wisconsin Senate voted to reject the confirmation of Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe to a second term, the observers in the gallery — a crowd made up of some of the state’s most prominent 2020 election conspiracy theorists and …
Read More »Judge Rules Trump’s 2020 Georgia Racketeering Case And 16 Others Severed From October Trial
Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder A Fulton County judge ruled Thursday that 17 defendants, including former President Donald Trump, will be tried separately from co-defendants Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, who are scheduled to go on trial on Oct. 23 for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. …
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