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The House ethics committee has opened an investigation into the embattled and controversial Republican congressman George Santos, AP News reported. The freshman Republican lawmaker admitted to lying about his résumé in his campaign to represent […]

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Fox News has imposed a “soft ban” on former president Donald Trump appearing on the channel, The Independent reported. Trump’s inner circle is reportedly complaining about the soft ban.  It comes even as the broadcaster […]

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The House Ethics Committee extended its investigation into Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over allegations that she violated congressional rules by accepting “impermissible gifts” at the 2021 Met Gala, NBC News reports. The Democratic Congresswoman from New […]

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The gender pay gap is not closing. Women have earned roughly 82 percent as much as men for the last 20 years. A recently published Pew Research Center analysis found that women’s median hourly earnings […]

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Donald Trump does not have absolute immunity from civil suits seeking damages over his alleged incitement of the January 6 Capitol attack, the U.S. justice department said in a court filing, POLITICO reported. It could […]

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Former Vice President Mike Pence declined to say whether he would back Donald Trump if his former boss were to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024, AP News reports. Twice given a chance to […]

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Teachers across the U.S. are struggling to make enough money while affording to live in the districts they serve, The Guardian reports. Research by the Economic Policy Institute’s Sylvia Allegretto found that public school teachers […]

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is continuing to wage his culture war, POLITICO reported. This week he wrested control of a Walt Disney Company-controlled county district.  And his choices for who will help control Disney offered […]

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Over the past three months, hundreds of young girls attending different schools in Iran have become overpowered by what are believed to be noxious fumes wafting into their classrooms, with some ending up weakened on […]

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A book signing event in Florida for Gov. Ron DeSantis turned ugly. DeSantis is being labeled a “tyrant” by the far-right after Trump supporters were reportedly barred from a book signing staged by the Florida governor. […]

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Moscow is offering a sum of up to 350 dollars to Palestinian refugees residing in Lebanon using Russian entities to recruit them to sign up to join the ongoing war it’s waging in Ukraine on […]

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An expelled white student is suing a historically Black college for $2 million, alleging he was racially discriminated against.  The student has sued Howard University for racial discrimination, citing “pain, suffering, emotional anguish, and damage […]

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The Republican Party has racialized the Ohio derailment disaster. The derailment of a 50-car freight train carrying toxic materials earlier in February shattered daily life in East Palestine, Ohio, and sent a pall of black smoke […]

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House Republicans are eyeing $150 billion in spending cuts that reflect a hardline drive to target education, healthcare, and housing as they push forward in talks on the federal debt ceiling. The money is particularly […]

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Nikki Haley, a Republican candidate for the presidential election, deviated from the Washington establishment on foreign aid and pledged to cease sending billions of taxpayers’ money to “anti-American countries and causes,” Fox News informed. In […]

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This month, Democratic socialists in Nevada expressed their fury after Democratic state lawmakers in their state passed a resolution denouncing the “horrors” of socialism, and the state party declined to criticize them, Fox News informed. […]

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A Republican state representative’s bill is under fire from critics at one Idaho news outlet, who claim that it would “disastrously” overstuff the state’s school boards with partisan hacks, Fox News informed. House Bill 171, […]

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Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ broken relationship with the mainstream media could get even worse, POLITICO reports. The contentious Republican governor has encouraged Florida’s Republican-dominated Legislature to weaken state laws that have long protected journalists […]

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The GOP descended on Iowa this week. Over the course of three days in Iowa this week, the political pitfalls and opportunities of the state already became apparent, POLITICO reported. After a slow start, Republican presidential […]

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The GOP’s 2024 presidential field has an inertia problem, Axios reports. At the front is former president Donald Trump, who is described as a wounded candidate. Republicans privately fear that Trump will lose to President […]

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Right-wing extremists committed all ideologically driven mass killings identified in the U.S. in 2022, ADL reports. A new report about murder and extremism in the U.S. found that all extremist-related murder and mass killing was […]

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Former President Donald Trump has been instructed by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson to participate in the questioning regarding two lawsuits filed against the Justice Department and FBI by two former officials who claim […]

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Chief election officials in several states want to make it illegal for someone to knowingly spread false information about an election. The move raises questions about first amendment protected speech.  The Democratic secretaries of state for […]

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When Donald Trump was president, he proudly rolled back environmental protections, as well as rail regulations. In the aftermath of the toxic train derailment in Ohio, Trump’s record of rollbacks is coming into focus.  Trump visited […]

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A former member of the far-right Proud Boys told a jury that the group viewed the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol as the start of the “next American Revolution.” The Proud Boys […]

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Venture capitalist Vivek Ramaswamy announced that he would run for President of the United States.  Ramaswamy launched a firm last year to pressure companies to abandon environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) initiatives, and is […]

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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat to suspend participation in the last remaining nuclear arms treaty with the U.S. represents a blatant attempt to divide opinion over the war on Ukraine by raising the specter of […]

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