The COVID-19 National Emergency is officially over. President Joe Biden signed an order ending the March 13, 2020 national emergency declaration made by his predecessor Donald Trump. While the administration has been relaxing enforcement of pandemic guidelines for some time now, the end of the emergency status will have significant …
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T he afternoon of May 21, 2020, Yolanda Irving was relaxing in her bedroom in East Raleigh, North Carolina. The city was in the throes of the Covid-19 pandemic, so her three kids milled around the apartment. Irving’s teenage daughter, Cydneea, was in her room across the hall, and her …
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On a recent Tuesday morning, 16-year-old Jennie Li skipped class at Nashville’s Hume-Fogg High School to attend a rally in the Capitol demanding action on gun violence. As she explained, the murder of three children and three adults at the neighboring Covenant School had left her scared and heartbroken, but …
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Former Tennessee state Reps. Justin J. Pearson and Justin Jones said Sunday on Meet the Press that they each plan on returning to the state legislature. The Tennessee House of Representatives on Thursday voted to expel the two Black Democratic lawmakers, while failing by a single vote to oust Rep. …
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James Trusty, an attorney representing former President Donald Trump regarding his alleged mishandling of classified documents, didn’t condemn his client calling out the wife and daughter of the judge overseeing his criminal trial in Manhattan over a hush money payment. Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 34 felony counts of …
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Republicans in the Tennessee state house who voted Thursday to expel from the legislature two Black Democrats (while narrowly failing to do the same to a white colleague) were in the wrong, former Republican senator Scott Brown said Sunday on CNN State of the Union. Brown, who represented Massachusetts from …
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David Koresh was a man ahead of his time. After the calamitous 1993 fire at Waco, Texas, which saw 76 of Koresh’s followers killed after a long FBI siege, the cult leader turned from a freak and a nobody to a saint of the far right, which saw the tragedy …
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Following the news of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ unethical friendship with GOP megadonor Harlan Crow, more details about the Texas real estate mogul have emerged, including a report that Crow is an avid collector of Adolf Hitler items. The Washingtonian on Friday resurfaced a 2014 article by the Dallas …
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More than two decades after its approval, Federal Texas Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ordered the Food and Drug Administration to suspend authorization of the abortion medication mifepristone nationwide within the next seven days. In a separate ruling, issued an hour after the Texas decision, Washington District Court Judge Thomas O. Rice …
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The first time I can remember hearing the name Ken Cuccinelli, it was in 2016. The one-time Ted Cruz adviser had just dramatically thrown his credentials on the ground of Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena in what Breitbart — at the time perhaps the single most enthusiastically pro-MAGA media outlet — …
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