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The House GOP on Wednesday voted to publicly censure California Democratic  Rep. Adam Schiff for his prominent role in Democratic investigations into former President Donald Trump. The resolution, which passed with a vote of 213-209, formally reprimands Schiff and instructs the House Ethics Committee to look into his actions. All …

Ariana Figueroa, Kentucky Lantern Harleigh Walker wants U.S. senators to understand she is a typical 16-year-old girl. She likes Taylor Swift. She enjoys being on her school’s debate team. And she listens way too loudly to music in her room. “I’m just trying to be a teenager in America,” she …

Natalia Contreras, Votebeat and The Texas Tribune Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have expanded vote-by-mail access for people with disabilities — specifically people who are blind or paralyzed and need assistance marking their ballot. Advocates say Abbott’s veto of House Bill 3159 is a …

Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams A new Florida law cracking down on undocumented immigrants, signed last month by far-right Gov. Ron DeSantis and set to take effect on July 1, has pushed thousands of workers to flee the state. Now even some capitalists who otherwise support DeSantis and the state’s GOP-controlled …

Grace Panetta Originally published by The 19th Democratic governors are pushing Congress to make significant investments in child care as the last pandemic-era federal child care subsidies are set to lapse this fall, pushing providers and parents into uncertain territory. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina led a June …

Samuel O’Neal, Pennsylvania Capital-Star A damaged stretch of Interstate 95 in Northeast Philadelphia will be reopened by the weekend, Gov. Josh Shapiro vowed Tuesday. “Based on the tremendous progress we have made over the last 72 hours and the time it takes the remaining steps, I can confidently state right …

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged Hunter Biden with the illegal possession of a handgun in 2018 and failure to pay roughly $1.2 million in federal taxes in 2017 and 2018. However, President Joe Biden’s son has reached a tentative deal with federal prosecutors to avoid jail time, according …

Jacob Fischler, Missouri Independent Former President Donald Trump is set to face a jury trial on federal charges of mishandling classified information, after the Miami judge overseeing the case signed an order Tuesday scheduling the trial to begin Aug. 14. U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon, whom Trump appointed to …

Jake Johnson, Common Dreams U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with leading Chinese officials, including President Xi Jinping, in Beijing on Monday in what was portrayed by both sides as an effort to ease increasingly dangerous tensions between the two nuclear-armed powers. Blinken met with Xi for roughly 35 …

Jennifer Shutt, New Jersey Monitor One year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, the courts rather than a divided Congress are leading the way on decisions on reproductive rights that would affect the entire nation. Congress has not enacted federal legislation to either preserve …

Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams On the eve of a Philadelphia rally hosted by labor leaders, the AFL-CIO and 17 unions on Friday endorsed Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for reelection in 2024. During the 2020 campaign and since taking office, Biden has pledged “to be …

Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams Stressing “the need to rebuild a stronger, more robust, and more equitable childcare system,” progressive U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren on Thursday reintroduced a bill to improve access to quality, affordable childcare—one of multiple childcare bills unveiled in Congress in recent days. The Building …

 James Barragán, The Texas Tribune On a late-September Wednesday in 2020, several of Attorney General Ken Paxton’s highest-ranking deputies walked into the FBI’s Austin office to make an explosive accusation: Their boss, one of the state’s most influential Republicans, appeared to be dirty. Paxton, they said, had personally directed his …

The Justice Department on Friday announced that the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) and the City of Minneapolis (City) engage in a pattern or practice of conduct in violation of the U.S. Constitution and federal law. Specifically, the Justice Department finds that the MPD: Uses excessive force, including unjustified deadly force …

Ashley Murray, Arizona Mirror Despite top U.S. military retirements beginning in less than a month, Sen. Tommy Tuberville refuses to budge on his blockade of hundreds of armed services promotions in protest of the Pentagon’s reproductive care policy instituted after the reversal of Roe v. Wade. The first-term Alabama Republican …