Matthew Choi, The Texas Tribune U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday to resign over the administration’s border policy, promising to launch investigations next year that could culminate in impeachment. “We will use the power of the purse and the power of …
Read More »Student Loan Repayment Pause Extended By White House Amid Legal Battles Over Relief Plan
Ariana Figueroa, Pennsylvania Capital-Star The Department of Education announced on Tuesday it is extending the pandemic-era pause on federal student loan repayments until June 30 while legal challenges to the administration’s student debt relief program are fought over in the courts. The agency said if the student debt relief program …
Read More »Supreme Court Denies Trump’s Bid to Keep Tax Returns From House Committee
Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams In a blow to Donald Trump, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an attempt by the former president to prevent a congressional committee from obtaining his federal income tax returns. The high court’s brief unsigned order—which contained no noted dissents—came less than a month after …
Read More »Commentary: Congress Knows How To Slash Child Poverty. It Just Needs To Do It.
Juan Carlos Ordóñez, Oregon Capital Chronicle If you could prevent millions of children from falling back into poverty, would you? Most of us, I imagine, would answer “yes” without hesitation. But not Congress. For nearly a year, lawmakers in Washington, D.C., have dithered as the policy directly responsible for a …
Read More »Oregon Will Be First State To Make Affordable Health Care A Constitutional Right
Ben Botkin, Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon will be the first state in the nation to enshrine the right to affordable health care in its constitution. Ballot Measure 111 narrowly passed, with nearly 50.7% of voters in favor and 49.3% of voters opposed. The measure’s long-term impact on Oregon health care …
Read More »Democrats Stress Continued Importance Of Georgia’s U.S. Senate Race Despite Party’s Majority control
Ross Williams, Georgia Recorder With Senate seats in Arizona and Nevada going to Democrats, the party will be assured of a slim majority regardless of whether Herschel Walker defeats Sen. Raphael Warnock in next month’s runoff election, now less than three weeks away. When Warnock and fellow Democratic Sen. Jon …
Read More »Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Embraces “invasion” Language About Border, Evoking Memories Of El Paso Massacre
William Melhado, The Texas Tribune To many Hispanic and Latino Texans, the word “invasion” brings a particular horror to mind. It’s the same word the gunman in El Paso invoked in 2019 in a hate-filled manifesto about immigration — posted just before he killed 23 people. To many hardline conservatives …
Read More »LGBTQ+ Nightclub Shooting in Colorado Springs Probed as Possible Hate Crime
Julia Conley, Common Dreams A mass shooting that killed at least five people and injured at least 25 late Saturday at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado will be investigated as a hate crime, a local district attorney told reporters Sunday. “This will be investigated and is being investigated in …
Read More »Senate Democrats Make Last-Ditch Push For Pathway To Citizenship For Dreamers
Ariana Figueroa, Missouri Independent Democratic U.S. senators have set a December deadline for passing bipartisan legislation that would create a pathway to citizenship for more than 600,000 undocumented people who were brought into the country as children — but they don’t yet have enough Senate Republican votes to make it …
Read More »Elon Musk Reinstates Trump’s Twitter Account After Poll
Elon Musk has reinstated former President Donald Trump’s account on Twitter, nearly two years after Trump was banned from the social media platform for inciting violence. Trump’s account reappeared on Twitter on Saturday after Musk, the platform’s new owner, ran a poll on the social media site that showed narrow …
Read More »5 Killed, 25 Injured In Shooting At LGBTQ Nightclub In Colorado Springs
At least 5 people were killed and 25 others injured in a shooting late Saturday night at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs. Officers responded to 911 calls from Club Q in East Colorado Springs shortly before midnight and took a 22-year-old male suspect into custody, the Colorado Springs Police …
Read More »Calls for Ethics Probe Follow Bombshell Report of Right-Wing Attempts to Influence Supreme Court
Advocates for court reform on Saturday called for Congress to investigate allegations that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaked a 2014 ruling to a right-wing donor, after The New York Times reported on the claim by a former leader of the pro-forced pregnancy movement. Rev. Ron Schenck led an …
Read More »Judge Rules In Favor Of Georgia Early Voting In Senate Runoff On Saturday After Thanksgiving
Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder A Fulton County judge is clearing the path for Georgia’s local election officials to have the option of offering early voting on the Saturday after Thanksgiving ahead of the Dec. 6 U.S. Senate runoff. Late Friday afternoon, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox ruled in …
Read More »Georgia Set To Launch Work Requirements For Medicaid
Andy Miller and Sam Whitehead Georgia is set to become the only state to have work requirements for Medicaid coverage. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s reelection — and a surprising Biden administration decision not to appeal a federal court ruling — have freed the state to introduce its plan that would …
Read More »Democrat Adam Frisch Concedes To Rep. Lauren Boebert In Congressional Race
Quentin Young, Colorado Newsline The race between Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and Democratic challenger Adam Frisch in Colorado is over. During a live announcement Friday morning, Frisch said he had conceded the race, which remains exceedingly close but not likely to change in Frisch’s favor. “I just got …
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