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Jefferson County Election Commission approves new Justice of the Peace district lines

The Jefferson County Election Commission met Wednesday evening to approve new districts for each Justice of the Peace due to less population in Pine Bluff and rural areas in the county across the Arkansas River. The redistricting was done to even out population numbers within ...
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Garland, under GOP attack, defends memo on violent threats against school board officials

(WASHINGTON) -- A Senate hearing grew heated on Wednesday as Republicans repeatedly demanded Attorney General Merrick Garland retract and apologize for a memo he issued earlier this month aimed at addressing a rise in threats against school board officials around the country. In an oversight hearing ...
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Manchin raises concerns over billionaires’ tax as Democrats scramble to close social spending deal

(WASHINGTON) -- Democrats on Wednesday scrambled to close the deal on President Joe Biden's landmark social spending legislation, focusing on new ways to pay for the package, including a billionaires' tax the White House said the president supports. At the same time, they were hoping to ...
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Biden stumps for McAuliffe in Virginia ahead of gubernatorial election

(ARLINGTON, Va.) -- Headlining a rally Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden was the latest national Democrat to campaign in Virginia for gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe, joining a long list of prominent figures in the party who've descended on the commonwealth to mobilize voters against ...
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Manchin speaks out about his tough bargaining with Biden, fellow Democrats

(WASHINGTON) -- "I don’t know where in the hell I belong," Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat, said Tuesday when when asked about possibly switching parties amid his stubborn bargaining with frustrated fellow Democrats and President Joe Biden. Manchin said people approach him "every ...
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Senate confirms Cindy McCain, former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake as ambassadors

(WASHINGTON) -- Three of President Joe Biden’s major nominees were confirmed to ambassadorships by the Senate on Tuesday. Former Sen. Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican who left office in 2019, was confirmed as ambassador to Turkey, while former Democratic Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico ...
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Border agents seen in controversial photos on horseback not yet questioned: Source

(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Border Patrol agents at the center of a controversy stemming from their use of horses to block Haitian migrants from entering the U.S. have not yet been questioned more than a month after the incident took place, according to a ...
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Parents brace for more limited Child Tax Credit in Democratic dealmaking

(WASHINGTON) -- Brihanna Sims, a 27-year-old school bus driver and mother of a 7-year-old daughter, faces a financial pinch each summer when the number of routes are scaled back. In summer 2020, classes held virtually because of COVID-19 meant even fewer routes and more strain. ...
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Obama hits campaign trail ahead of gubernatorial elections in Virginia, New Jersey

(VIRGINIA) -- With just over a week to go until the last day of voting in Virginia and New Jersey, former President Barack Obama is joining each state's Democratic nominee for governor on the campaign trail Saturday, hoping to motivate the party's base to ...
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Former Giuliani associate Lev Parnas found guilty of unlawful campaign donations

(NEW YORK) -- Soviet-born businessman Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, was found guilty Friday of making unlawful campaign donations totaling more than $350,000 to two pro-Trump super PACs and a GOP congressman in 2018, acting as a straw donor for a ...
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Supreme Court to take up Texas abortion law but declines to block it

(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court will take up the Texas abortion law on the merits next month in a rare highly-expedited case that could definitively resolve the fate of its six-week ban and unprecedented enforcement mechanism. SB8 will remain in effect for the near future ...
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In push to get deal, Biden pulls back curtain on spending negotiations with Democrats

(WASHINGTON) -- For reporters in Washington, it’s a frequent refrain from President Joe Biden on the status of negotiations with lawmakers on his domestic agenda: "I won’t negotiate in the press." But Thursday evening marked a shift from the strategy of playing his cards close ...
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