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House Moderates Thwart Budget until Infrastructure Package is Approved

August 13, 2021 Maja Popovska

House moderates have threatened to filibuster a multi-trillion dollar budget measure until party leaders approve the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure proposal, according to The Hill. On August 23, House Democrats were planning to return to Capitol […]

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Democratic Senators Discuss Marijuana Legalization

July 14, 2021 Maja Popovska

Three senior Democratic senators in the United States released a discussion draft of a measure on Wednesday that aims to legalize marijuana on a federal level, allowing adults to buy and possess up to 10 […]

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Pandemic Drug Overdose Up by 30%

July 14, 2021 Maja Popovska

Statistics revealed on Wednesday, quoting health experts, a record number of Americans died of opioid overdoses last year as epidemic lockdowns made accessing treatment difficult and traffickers mixed more narcotics with a strong synthetic opioid. Drug […]

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Poll Shows Black Americans Regain Police Confidence Slightly after George Floyd

July 14, 2021 Maja Popovska

Following the shooting of George Floyd in 2020, Black American adults’ trust in police appeared to have dipped to an all-time low, but it looks to have rebounded. As per the findings of a Gallup […]

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GOP Focusing on Harris As Major Political Target

July 14, 2021 Maja Popovska

As the midterm elections approach, Republicans on the campaign trail are focusing on Vice President Harris as their top political target, The Hill reports. The assaults on Harris come as Republicans struggle to identify President […]

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Joe Biden seeks to resume student loan payments
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Biden Fires Trump Admin SSA Appointee

July 10, 2021 Maja Popovska

President Joe Biden sacked Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul, a Trump administration appointee, after Saul refused to quit, according to The Hill. Saul’s position was terminated, according to a White House official. The Washington Post was the […]

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Trump Jr. Urges Tester, Manchin to Dispute Biden’s Nominee for ATF

July 10, 2021 Maja Popovska

Donald Trump Jr. is urging voters to oppose President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, including Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and John Tester, The Hill reports. Biden’s ATF candidate, […]

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Missouri Registers Worst COVID Outbreaks in U.S.

July 10, 2021 Maja Popovska

In Missouri, where the coronavirus is causing one of the worst outbreaks in the US, upwards of half of the population has not received the COVID-19 vaccine, The Hill reports. While some regions of the […]

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Joe Biden seeks to resume student loan payments
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Washington Fails to Deliver Half of 80mn Doses Promised to Other Countries

July 1, 2021 Maja Popovska

By more than half, the United States fell short of President Joe Biden’s target of providing 80 million COVID-19 vaccinations to other countries by the end of June, Newsweek reports. According to the Associated Press, […]

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Trump Organization Claims Indictment Is An Attempt to ‘Smear’ The Ex President

July 1, 2021 Maja Popovska

An indictment against one of the Trump Organization’s long-serving workers was rejected by the Trump Organization as a political attempt to smear former President Donald Trump. On Thursday morning, the corporation’s chief financial officer, Allan […]

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GOP Calles on Britney Spears to Testify on Her Conservatorship

July 1, 2021 Maja Popovska

Britney Spears was called to appear before Congress by a group of Republican legislators on Wednesday, as the singer fights to get her father removed from her conservatorship, The Hill reports. Spears finally broke her […]

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COVID-19 ‘Surge Teams’ to Tackle New Delta Strain

July 1, 2021 Maja Popovska

Authorities reported Thursday that the White House is preparing COVID-19 “surge teams” to send to communities with low vaccination rates to help tackle the particularly virulent delta mutation of the coronavirus. The teams will collaborate […]

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House Ethics Committee Drops Rep. Foxx Fine over Security Check Failure

July 1, 2021 Maja Popovska

Representative Virginia Foxx, who challenged the Capitol Police’s claim that she failed to complete a security check before entering the House chamber, received a $5,000 punishment from the House Ethics Committee on Thursday, The Hill […]

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McConnell Advices Biden Put Pressure Democrats on Infrastructure Plan

June 28, 2021 Maja Popovska

Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the United States Senate, requested President Joe Biden on Monday to persuade the two top Democrats in Congress to drop a proposal to tie a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure […]

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U.S. Supreme Court Overturn Verdict on Using Excessive Police Force

June 28, 2021 Maja Popovska

The parents of a homeless man who died in police custody in Missouri were given new hope on Monday when the United States Supreme Court dismissed their complaint accusing cops of using excessive force in […]

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UN Human Rights Chief Urges Governments to Do More to Eradicate Systemic Racism

June 28, 2021 Maja Popovska

The UN’s human rights head is urging governments to do more to eradicate discrimination, violence, and systematic racism against people of African origin throughout the world and to “make apologies,” including through reparations The Hill […]

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Massachusetts Police Investigates Shooting of Two Black People as Hate Crime

June 27, 2021 Maja Popovska

After uncovering “troubling white supremacist terminology” in the suspect’s handwriting, authorities are investigating the deadly shooting of two Black individuals in Winthrop, Massachusetts, on Saturday as a hate crime. According to ABC News, the suspected […]

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Manchin Confident Biden Infrastructure Proposal Will Get Congress Votes

June 27, 2021 Maja Popovska

Senator Joe Manchin believes President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure proposal is going to get “absolutely” enough votes in Congress, Newsweek reports. As the discussions progressed, support for the infrastructure package fluctuated. Following the president’s erroneous implication […]

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GOP Senators Accept Biden Walk-back on Infrastructure

June 27, 2021 Maja Popovska

On Sunday, three Republican senators said they welcomed President Biden’s clarified statements on an infrastructure plan, in which he pulled back an earlier statement in which he indicated he would consider signing a bipartisan bill […]

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Trump Org Has Until Monday to Make a Case: NY Prosecutors

June 27, 2021 Maja Popovska

Prosecutors in New York have given the lawyers of former President Donald Trump until Monday afternoon to make a case for why the Trump Organization should not be prosecuted, The Washington Post reports. The Manhattan […]

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Chris Wallace Pushes Biden Aide on Police Defunding

June 27, 2021 Maja Popovska

Chris Wallace of “Fox News Sunday” questioned a top assistant to President Joe Biden about the country’s growing crime rates and how requests from some progressives to cut funding to police departments may have caused the […]

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