The House voted on Wednesday on a continuing resolution to keep the government funded and avoid a shutdown at the end of the month, just weeks before the November election. The vote failed, with Republicans striking down their own bill to keep the government open. The bill going down 202-220 …
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J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidate, headlined an evangelical conservative gala Monday evening in Atlanta. When speaking from the podium, Vance touted his Christian faith and insisted that he wanted the United States’ “public policy to be motivated by the wisdom of loving thy neighbor.” His calls for the …
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Something gnarly is festering in the highest ranks of New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ administration — and things might be coming to a head. On Saturday night, Adams’ top legal counsel Lisa Zornberg abruptly quit. “It has been a great honor to serve the City,” she wrote in a …
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Florida District Court Judge Aileen Cannon failed to disclose her attendance at several right-wing judicial seminars — including one that took place after she began overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case, which she ultimately threw out — in apparent violation of federal court rules. According to a Tuesday …
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On Tuesday, Senate Republicans blocked passage of the Right to IVF Act — a bid by Democrats that would federally protect access to in vitro fertilization treatments and mandate public and most private insurance companies to cover IVF and fertility care. This is the second time the GOP Senate has …
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A report by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions analyzed gun death data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which revealed that more than 48,000 people across the U.S. died from gun violence in 2022. Among those deaths, more than 2,500 children (ages one through nine) …
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For the second time in two months, Donald Trump was the target of “what appears to be an attempted assassination” on Sunday, according to the FBI. In July, a would-be assassin shot at Trump with an AR-15 during a campaign rally in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, apparently grazing his ear, before …
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After Secret Service Agents foiled a second assassination plot against former President Donald Trump on Sunday, right-wing billionaire Elon Musk waded into the fray in the grossest way possible. In response to a pro-Trump account asking why “do they want to kill Donald Trump?” Musk wrote to his nearly 200 …
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The town of Springfield, Ohio, has been forced to cancel a planned cultural festival over safety concerns as Republicans continue to level racist attacks against the town’s Haitian community. On Monday, the city announced that Springfield’s annual CultureFest, scheduled to take place Sept. 27 and 28, has been called off …
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The Miami Heat has announced its solidarity with Haitians amid the Trump campaign’s racist misinformation campaign. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance have repeatedly asserted the false claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating cats and other pets, which they based on a …
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