Politics

House Approves Bill Aimed To Fight Childhood Poverty

CNN reports: The House voted on Wednesday evening to pass a $78 billion bipartisan tax package that would temporarily expand the child tax credit and restore a number of business tax benefits. The bill will next go to the Senate. House Speaker Mike Johnson currently oversees a razor-thin majority, but the bill passed with rare bipartisan support. The vote was …

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Haley: “If Texas Decides To Secede, They Can Do That”

ABC News reports: “If Texas decides they want to do that, they can do that,” Nikki Haley said in a Wednesday radio interview. “If that whole state says, ‘We don’t want to be part of America anymore,’ I mean, that’s their decision to make,” Haley said, though she also noted, “Let’s talk about what’s reality. Texas isn’t going to secede.” …

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Trump Judge Boots Disney’s Lawsuit Against DeSantis

The New York Times reports: In a victory for Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, a federal judge on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit filed by the Walt Disney Company claiming that Mr. DeSantis and his allies violated the First Amendment by taking over a special tax district that encompasses Walt Disney World. Disney said it planned to appeal the ruling. …

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Florida GOP Advances Bill On Abolishing Property Tax

Florida Politics reports: A controversial idea is again gaining ground in the Legislature: eliminating property taxes and replacing them with a new “consumption tax” tacked onto the sales of goods and services across the state. The change, said Republican Rep. Ryan Chamberlin, would put an end to what some have called “the most hated tax in America.” “I believe it’s …

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Zuckerberg Apologizes To Families Harmed By Meta

The Guardian reports: Following an intense line of questioning with Mark Zuckerberg, Republican senator Josh Hawley asked the Meta executive if he would like to apologize to families of victims who are sitting in the audience of today’s Senate hearing, many of whom hold photos of children they say died or were harmed due to his platform. Zuckerberg stood up …

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LIVE VIDEO: Johnson Delivers Speech On Border Deal

NewsNation reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, is expected to deliver remarks on a proposed border deal from the House floor. It will be his first floor remarks since he was elected. The proposal is the work of a bipartisan group of Senators, in an effort to reach a compromise that would include changes to border policy and enforcement in …

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FBI: Chinese Hackers Are Targeting US Infrastructure

NBC News reports: FBI Director Christopher Wray is expected to warn about the growing threat of Chinese cyberattacks against U.S. electrical grids and other infrastructure during an appearance Wednesday before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. “China’s hackers are positioning on American infrastructure in preparation to wreak havoc and cause real-world harm to American citizens and communities, …

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Ohio GOP Intros Bill Allowing Execution By Nitrogen

ABC News reports: Ohio lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow execution by nitrogen gas, a controversial practice critics call untested and lacking in evidence that it’s more humane than lethal injection, after Alabama became the first state to execute someone with nitrogen gas. Ohio state Reps. Phil Plummer and Brian Stewart, both Republicans, introduced legislation during a press …

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Rep. Cori Bush Denies Wrongdoing Amid DOJ Probe

Axios reports: Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) said Tuesday she is facing investigations by the Justice Department, Federal Election Commission and House Ethics Committee into the alleged misuse of campaign funds for personal security. Bush denied that she has used official congressional funds to pay for security, saying she has “used campaign funds as permissible to retain security services.” She also …

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Florida DMV Bans Gender Changes On Driver Licenses, Makes “Misrepresenting Gender” To The DMV A Crime

The Tallahassee Democrat reports: Transgender Floridians can no longer change the listed gender on their driver licenses. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles announced the change in a memo late last week sent to county tax collectors, where state residents can get licenses. “Permitting an individual to alter his or her license to reflect an internal sense …

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DeSantis: “Expel, Denaturalize, And Deport” Ilhan Omar

Florida Politics reports: “Expel from Congress, denaturalize and deport,” urged Ron DeSantis about U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is taking criticism from the Right for comments she made privileging Somalia over the United States. As Newsweek notes, Omar recently told a crowd of Somali American constituents that she was “Somalian first, Muslim second” and “here to protect the interests of …

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Rick Scott: My Dem Challenger Is A “Complete Liar”

“My opponent is a complete liar. She’s a socialist, she’s a liar and she’s a radical. I’ve been clear — I’m pro-baby, I’m pro-life. I think we have to have reasonable limitations for rape, incest and the life of the mother. In the Senate every Democrat has voted for abortion up until the moment of birth. She ought to say …

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Haley: Trump Suffers Mental Decline, That’s A Fact

“Are we really in this country going to have two 80-year-olds running for president? It is a fact that when you are their age you have mental decline. I don’t care who you are. You have mental decline. He didn’t just get me confused, he mentioned it over and over and over again. He’s not what he was in 2016. …

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Seattle Police And Fire Departments Raid Two Gay Bars

Seattle’s The Stranger reports: Marching into a gay bar to issue citations feels a bit vintage in 2024. Nevertheless, over the weekend, the Joint Enforcement Team (JET), which is a coalition of Seattle Police, Fire, the state Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB), and others, entered two gay bars, The Cuff Complex and The Seattle Eagle, and started looking around. And …

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Senate Dems Press Biden Admin To Deschedule Weed

NBC News reports: Senate Democrats are putting new pressure on the Biden administration to ease federal restrictions on marijuana in a new letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration on Tuesday as it considers rescheduling cannabis after it was federally classified more than five decades ago. The letter, from 12 senators led by Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and John Fetterman, D-Pa., and …

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Ohio AG To Consider Adopting Execution By Nitrogen

The Associated Press reports: Republican state Attorney General Dave Yost scheduled a news conference Tuesday to discuss “next steps to kickstart” Ohio’s capital punishment system. He has expressed support for the nitrogen gas method used for the first time in Alabama last week, when convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was put to death with nitrogen gas administered through a …

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Merrick Garland To Transfer Power During Back Surgery

Politico reports: Attorney General Merrick Garland will be out of commission this weekend due to back surgery and is going out of his way to make sure that there are no doubts about who will be in charge during his absence. The unusual, early announcement by the Biden administration’s top law enforcement officer is intended to avoid the storm of …

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Florida Bill Requires Homeless To Get Permit To Sleep

Florida Politics reports: Sen. Jonathan Martin’s legislation (SB 1530) would ban counties and municipalities from permitting public sleeping or public camping on public property without explicit permission via temporary permits, a move deemed by the bill language to fulfill an “important state interest.” Localities may designate certain public property for sleeping or camping with the sanction of the Department of …

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GOP Rep “Can’t Recall” Voting Against Infrastructure Bill After Presenting Giant Check For Small Business Project

The Insider reports: On Sunday, Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida was asked about federal funding she’s been bragging about bringing to her Miami-area district. It didn’t go so well. In an interview with CBS Miami on Sunday, host Jim DeFede asked Salazar about her votes against three bills: an omnibus bill to fund the government for 2023, the …

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Bolton Calls For “Disproportionate” Strikes On Iran

The Hill reports: Former national security adviser John Bolton called for “disproportionate” strikes inside Iran after a drone attack killed three U.S. service members in Jordan over the weekend. Bolton said Sunday night on NewsNation that the U.S. needs to carry out retaliatory attacks in the wake of the deadly drone strike. He said the U.S. needs to “impose enough …

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