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Legislation that would create a federal exploratory commission on reparations for Black Americans was approved Wednesday by a House committee for the first time, setting up a vote by the full Congress if Democratic leaders […]

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Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) has signed a new $536 billion funding plan to speed up fire prevention projects across the state of California, as part of the efforts to prevent yet another devastating wildfire season […]

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Sarah Godlewski, the Wisconsin state Treasurer announced Wednesday that she will enter the race for the Senate, joining two other Democrats in the competition to take on Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) in 2022, informed The […]

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Nearly a year after President Joe Biden called for “real action” on police brutality as part of a pledge to fix U.S. racial inequality, he is coming up against the limits of presidential power, Reuters […]

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The Justice Department announced a “court-authorized operation” by the FBI to copy and remove “malicious web shells” from hundreds of U.S. computers in response to the massive cyberattacks against Microsoft’s Exchange Server, which the Big […]

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will start sending monthly payments to families from the new $3,000 child tax credit starting in July, The Hill reports. IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig confirmed the timeline during congressional testimony […]

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Arizona’s attorney general is suing the Biden administration, arguing its immigration policies are in violation of the National Environmental Protection Act — because illegal immigrants keep littering as they hop the border, according to New […]

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Protests continued for a third night outside the police station in Brooklyn Center, Minn., on Tuesday following the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright, The Hill writes. In footage captured by NBC News, droves of […]

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A use-of-force expert has told a US jury that the former police officer accused of the murder of George Floyd was “justified” in pinning him to the ground, BBC reports. Barry Brodd told the trial […]

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President Joe Biden will withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America that were coordinated from that country, several U.S. officials said Tuesday as quoted […]

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Sharon Parrott, the new president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) in an interview with The Hill last week said that she will focus on reducing poverty and inequality, and pointed that […]

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Russian authorities rebuked the U.S. on Tuesday calling the deployment of their ships in the Black Sea a provocation and warning them to keep them away from the Crimean Peninsula “for their own good,”, informed […]

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The Washington Post editorial board over the weekend called to establish term limits for Supreme Court justices, limiting them to 18 years on the bench, in an effort to ensure both Republicans and Democrats have “foreseeable, […]

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The Nevada Assembly took the first steps this week to establish the state as the new first-in-nation primary and leapfrog Iowa and New Hampshire in the 2024 presidential voting calendar, Fox News informed.  A Nevada Assembly […]

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“Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace on Sunday blasted Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for overstating the number of jobs that would be constituted by President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion-plus spending proposal, Fox News informed. Wallace noted that Buttigieg and other […]

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According to Republican Rep. Jim Jordan from Ohio the reason the media is not allowed to come near the migrant facilities is because the Biden administration does not “want the American people to know what’s going […]

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