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Jimmy Williams The Federal Reserve reduced its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday, marking the first rate cut in over four years and lowering the key rate by 0.5%, to a range of 4.75% to 5%. This move follows a series of 11 rate hikes since March 2022 aimed at curbing …

Jimmy Williams The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected Speaker Mike Johnson’s proposal that would have temporarily funded the federal government while mandating that states require proof of citizenship to register to vote. The 220-202 vote highlighted deep divisions within the GOP and marked a key setback for Johnson …

Jimmy Williams Election officials in more than a dozen states, including Colorado, Georgia, and Massachusetts, received suspicious packages on Tuesday, prompting an investigation by the FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service. The packages, some of which contained an unknown substance, were mailed during a tense voting season ahead of the …

Jimmy Williams A man has been arrested following an alleged assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday. The FBI is investigating the incident as the second assassination attempt against Trump in just two months. The suspect, 58-year-old Ryan Wesley …

Marty Schladen, Ohio Capital Journal Terroristic threats continued against Springfield officials and public buildings over the weekend and into Monday. In the midst of them, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno called for the protected status of legal Haitian migrants in Springfield to be revoked and for them to be …

Kim Lyons, Pennsylvania Capital-Star A week after debating former President Donald Trump in the City of Brotherly Love, Vice President Kamala Harris returned to Philadelphia Tuesday for a wide-ranging interview with a panel at the National Association of Black Journalists at WHYY’s studio. Harris told the audience that there were …

Jennifer Shutt, Arizona Mirror The closely divided U.S. Senate gridlocked Tuesday over the best way to provide nationwide protections for in vitro fertilization, despite lawmakers from both political parties maintaining they want to do so. Republicans voted against advancing a Democratic bill that could have prevented states from enacting “harmful …

Jimmy Williams House Speaker Mike Johnson announced Tuesday that the House will vote on a six-month stopgap funding bill on Wednesday, tied to a controversial voter ID law. The continuing resolution (CR) is linked to the SAVE Act, which would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote. Johnson’s …

Kavitha Surana Series: Life of the Mother: How Abortion Bans Lead to Preventable Deaths More in this series In her final hours, Amber Nicole Thurman suffered from a grave infection that her suburban Atlanta hospital was well-equipped to treat. She’d taken abortion pills and encountered a rare complication; she had …

Jennifer Shutt, West Virginia Watch The presidential campaigns are rushing ahead this week without missing a beat, despite numerous law enforcement agencies investigating a possible assassination attempt Sunday on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, was looking to pick up an endorsement from the …

Orion Rummler Originally published by The 19th Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly made baseless claims that American schools are clandestinely performing gender-affirming surgeries on children. The claims are divorced from reality: Schools are not involved in the medical decisions that families of trans youth make to receive gender-affirming care. Surgeons, …

Jimmy Williams The Biden-Harris administration announced an additional $1.3 billion in federal investments for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) on Monday. This new funding brings the total federal support for HBCUs to more than $17 billion from 2021 through available data for 2024, setting a new record for federal …

Ashley Murray, North Dakota Monitor The presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump intensified in the days following their first, and likely only, debate, as both hit swing states with just over 50 days until the election. The Harris campaign rode a wave of momentum …

Jimmy Williams Former President Donald Trump escaped what the FBI is calling an apparent “attempted assassination” on Sunday afternoon while playing golf at his West Palm Beach course, close to his Mar-a-Lago residence.  This marks the second attempt on Trump’s life in recent months, following a previous attack during a …

Shauneen Miranda, Georgia Recorder President Joe Biden, in the last months of his four-year term, detailed his administration’s efforts in seeking to advance opportunities and equity for Black communities on Friday during the White House’s first-ever brunch in celebration of Black Excellence. The event came as the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation hosted …