Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch Former President Donald Trump has kept a hold on his frontrunner position as candidates head back to the Iowa campaign trail, but new polling shows there could be room for others to gain footing in the field. A Fox Business poll of Iowa Republicans published …
Read More »Sanders Says He Opposes $886 Billion in Military Spending Amid Healthcare and Climate Crises
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Monday that he intends to vote against legislation authorizing $886 billion in military spending for the coming fiscal year, arguing the Pentagon budget should be cut in favor of investments in healthcare, education, housing, climate action, and other priorities. “As a nation, …
Read More »U.S. Sues Texas After Gov. Greg Abbott Declines To Remove Floating Border Barrier
Noah Alcala Bach, The Texas Tribune The U.S. Justice Department announced Monday it is suing Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott after the state declined to remove the floating barrier deployed earlier this month on the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass. The lawsuit, filed in an Austin federal court, alleges the …
Read More »USDA To Provide $33M For Agriculture Projects At 19 HBCU Land-Grant Institutions
Ariana Figueroa, Kentucky Lantern The U.S. Department of Agriculture Monday announced $33 million in funding to 19 Historically Black Colleges and Universities designated as land-grant institutions to support research and education projects. The funding through USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture will support 82 projects in sustainable farming practices …
Read More »Democrats Call For Raising FDIC Insurance Limits At Senate Hearing
Casey Quinlan, Idaho Capital Sun Members of the Senate banking committee explored the pros and cons of reforming deposit insurance last week, which has been a topic of debate among policymakers since the aftermath of bank collapses earlier this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, insures each depositor …
Read More »Alabama Voters Prep for Another Map Fight After Republicans Flout SCOTUS Ruling
Voters in Alabama are preparing for another legal battle after the state’s GOP-dominated Legislature and Republican Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday approved new congressional districts that critics say defy a surprising recent decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest map “is really a slap in the face, not only …
Read More »VP Kamala Harris On Florida’s Rewriting Of Black History Standards; ‘What is going on?’
Jackie Llanos, Florida Phoenix Outraged at the new Black history standards in Florida, Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday blasted what she called revisionist history promoted in the state’s African American history standards approved this week by top education officials. Just two days after the State Board of Education approved …
Read More »House Dems Slam ‘Racist Tropes’ in New Florida K-12 History Curriculum
Four Black Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday joined the growing chorus of critics opposing “racist tropes” in Florida’s new K-12 history curriculum, which includes teaching middle school students “the resurrection of one of the greatest lies America has ever told itself, that slavery benefited the enslaved.” …
Read More »Nikki Haley’s Attacks On Kamala Harris Keep Coming
Mel Leonor Barclay Originally published by The 19th Nikki Haley has spent months zeroing in on Vice President Kamala Harris, telling GOP primary voters that the real danger of electing an aging President Joe Biden is the prospect of Harris as president. “We can’t afford a President Kamala Harris. I …
Read More »Nebraska Teen Who Used Abortion Pills Sentenced To 90 Days
The case of Celeste Burgess, a Nebraska teenager who took abortion pills to end her pregnancy and disposed of the fetus with her mother’s help, has resulted in a 90-day prison sentence for the teenager and a potential five-year prison sentence for her mother. Burgess pleaded guilty to illegally concealing …
Read More »DOJ Threatens Texas With Legal Action Over Floating Barrier In Rio Grande
Rebecca Schneid, The Texas Tribune The U.S. Justice Department has threatened legal action against Gov. Greg Abbott over the 1,000-foot floating barrier that the state deployed in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass earlier this month. “We write to inform you … that the United States intends to file legal …
Read More »Biden: Tuberville Hold On Military Nominees Is ‘not only wrong–it is dangerous’
Ashley Murray, Nebraska Examiner President Joe Biden directly criticized Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Friday in a statement over the Alabama senator’s monthslong blockade of high-ranking military nominees in protest of the administration’s abortion policy for service members. “What Senator Tuberville is doing is not only wrong — it is dangerous,” …
Read More »VP Harris Slams DeSantis Over Florida’s New African American History Standards
Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a scathing keynote address at Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.’s national convention, criticizing the DeSantis administration in Florida for adopting new African American history standards. The state Board of Education’s recent decision on the standards has drawn criticism, with opponents arguing that they rewrite and …
Read More »Preparation For Pandemics, Natural Disasters Updated In Bill Passed By Senate Panel
Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder A U.S. Senate committee approved legislation Thursday that would update how the federal government prepares for and then responds to pandemics and natural disasters. The broadly bipartisan legislation moved through the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee following a 17-3 vote after members adopted two …
Read More »Takeaway’s From Democratic Presidential Candidate RFK Jr.’s Testimony To Congress
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared before Congress in a highly contentious hearing focused on federal government “censorship” of Americans’ free speech on social media. The hearing quickly devolved into tense exchanges between Democrats and Republicans over Kennedy’s controversial remarks on vaccines and the Covid-19 pandemic. One of …
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