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Chauvin verdicts ‘will be’ tipping point in policing reform: Rep. Karen Bass
(WASHINGTON) -- The House Democrat playing a key role in negotiations over policing reform in Congress, said Thursday she feels "tremendous positive momentum" that a bill will be passed in the wake of the Chauvin verdicts earlier this week. "I will tell you we've been ...
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Sen. Tim Scott to deliver GOP response to Biden’s joint address to Congress
(WASHINGTON) -- Sen. Tim Scott will deliver the Republican response to President Joe Biden's joint address to Congress next week. The announcement comes as negotiations over policing reform have taken center stage on Capitol Hill. The senator from South Carolina has been the lead negotiator ...
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Republicans unveil $568 billion counteroffer to Biden’s infrastructure plan
(WASHINGTON) -- Republicans unveiled a $568 billion infrastructure framework Thursday -- their answer to President Joe Biden's far more expansive $2 trillion package. The newly released GOP framework focuses exclusively on "core" infrastructure items like roads and bridges, broadband, airports, waterways, rails, ports and public ...
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Anti-Asian hate bill clears Senate with bipartisan support
(WASHINGTON) -- The Senate voted 94-1 in favor of an amended bill aimed at combatting the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes. Sponsored by Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, the legislation takes relatively modest steps to equip law enforcement and communities to better deal with the rise ...
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House passes DC statehood bill, now it heads to Senate and faces uphill battle
(WASHINGTON) -- A bill for D.C. statehood passed the House on a vote of 216-208 and heads to the Senate, where it has 45 co-sponsors but an uphill battle for passage. This is the second time the bill has passed -- the first time was ...
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What Biden has done on climate change has activists applauding — and waiting
(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden said last year the nation was facing four “historic crises all at the same time" -- the pandemic, the related economic crisis, the need for racial justice and the “undeniable realities and accelerating threats of climate change.” At the time, ...
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Pelosi offers equal subpoena power, even partisan split on Jan. 6 commission
(WASHINGTON) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has agreed to allow both Democrats and Republicans equal subpoena power and has conceded to an even partisan split on the 9/11 style commission that would investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, backtracking from an ...
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White House climate adviser says US needs to be humble going into Earth Day summit
(WASHINGTON) -- White House national climate adviser Gina McCarthy said the United States needs to be humble going into this week's Earth Day summit after four years away from global climate negotiations while President Donald Trump was in office. "There's no question that that we ...
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Biden’s USPS board nominees aren’t likely to oust embattled postmaster DeJoy, insiders say
(WASHINGTON) -- Critics of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy hoped Thursday's confirmation hearing for President Joe Biden's three nominees to the U.S. Postal Service's governing board would mark the beginning of the end for the embattled mail chief. But even if Biden's picks are approved by ...
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Hillary Clinton to co-author new thriller, “State of Terror”
(NEW YORK) -- Hillary Clinton is taking on the thriller genre for her next book. This fall, Clinton and her long-time friend, Canadian mystery novelist Louise Penny, will publish their book, State of Terror, a political-mystery novel that follows a novice secretary of state. "Writing a ...
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Biden seeks to slash carbon emissions in half by 2030
(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden will announce a new goal on greenhouse gas emissions Thursday -- calling on the U.S., by 2030, to slash emissions by 50-52% from record-high 2005 emission levels. Biden is set to make the announcement during his global climate summit kicking ...
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Iowa governor urges residents to get COVID-19 vaccines as demand falls in 43 of 99 counties
(DES MOINES, Iowa) -- Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has urged residents to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as more than 40% of the state's counties are seeing a decrease in demand for doses. Out of Iowa's 99 counties, 43 have declined some or all of their ...
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