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Dec 22 2022
News
Mike Lee, Title 42 drama holds up omnibus passage
An effort led by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) to maintain Title 42 is threatening efforts to pass a sweeping government funding bill before a shutdown deadline later this week.
Congressional negotiators on both sides say the biggest holdup is ongoing negotiations to decide what the voting threshold would be to pass the amendment.
Lee’s amendment to the bipartisan deal would cut funding
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Feb 03 2023
News
As Ukraine’s economy reels, Ukrainians find ways to soldier on
As the war with Russia grinds on, Ukraine’s economy is under pressure and dependent on foreign aid. The average Ukrainian faces an uncertain future, but is still finding ways to persevere.
Last January, Oleksandr Kachanovskyy and his family put all their savings into two big purchases: a new car and new furniture for their home in Mariupol.
A month later, Russia’s invasion
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Jan 05 2023
Opinion
If We Want Congress to Work Differently, We Have to Do Things Differently
Four years ago, six Democrats and six Republicans embarked on what seemed like an impossible mission—to make Congress work better for the American people. While that may sound like a plot description for a political parody about Capitol Hill, it is a precise assessment of a little-known committee that has defied the odds in Washington and consistently produced strong bipartisan results. As the
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Dec 29 2022
News
ACLU lawyer dismisses Title 42 as 'crutch,' claims people 'overstating' border crisis
Lee Gelernt, deputy director for the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, criticized Title 42 and claimed people are "overstating" what’s happening at the border.
Gelernt appeared on Wednesday’s "CNN This Morning" to discuss news that the Supreme Court ruled to keep the Trump-era immigration policy in place as it awaits an official hearing in February.
While several people
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Nov 28 2022
News
Cherokees ask US to make good on promise: A seat in Congress
The country's largest Native American tribe, the Cherokee Nation, is ramping up calls on the U.S. government to fulfill a promise made nearly 200 years ago.
The historic treaty, which forced the Cherokee people off their ancestral lands across the Southeast and onto the infamous Trail of Tears in 1835, was supposed to give them official representation in Washington in exchange.
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Apr 25 2022
Fact Check
Biden’s American Rescue Plan fueled inflation. So did post-COVID shortages
Jane Timken, a candidate in Ohio’s Republican U.S. Senate primary, casts herself as a "mom on a mission." She seeks to blend a pro-Trump agenda with a focus on kitchen table issues. In a recent ad, she targeted inflation and President Joe Biden’s policies.
"Joe Biden's wasteful spending has sent prices skyrocketing," Timken said in the April 13 ad. "Now, everything from groceries to gas
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Sep 19 2022
News
Taliban release U.S. engineer Frerichs as Biden approves swap for drug smuggler
Afghanistan's Taliban on Monday freed American engineer Mark Frerichs in exchange for Taliban-linked Afghan tribal leader Bashir Noorzai, after President Joe Biden granted clemency to the convicted drug smuggler who had been detained by the United States since 2005, officials said.
Frerichs, an engineer abducted in 2020 while working in Afghanistan, was exchanged at Kabul airport for
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Jan 11 2023
News
GOP opens long-promised investigation into Biden family
House Republicans on Wednesday opened their long-promised investigation into President Joe Biden and his family, wielding the power of their new majority to demand information from the Treasury Department and former Twitter executives as they laid the groundwork for public hearings.
“Now that Democrats no longer have one-party rule in Washington, oversight and accountability are coming
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