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Jun 10 2022
Headline Roundup
Jan. 6 Committee Holds First Prime-Time Hearing on Capitol Riot
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot held its first public hearing on Thursday evening.
The hearing featured new witness testimonies and unreleased video footage in an attempt to uncover the "culmination of an attempted coup" by former President Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said in his
MarketWatch HuffPost National Review (News)Aug 26 2012
News
Obama: Romney locked into 'extreme positions' on economic, social issues
President Barack Obama said Mitt Romney has locked himself into "extreme positions" on economic and social issues and would surely impose them if elected, trying to discredit his Republican rival at the biggest political moment of his life.
Fox News DigitalApr 18 2013
News
Obama's Gun Failure Leaves Him Seething
WASHINGTON -- It ended in a flash. Months of work aimed at revamping the nations gun laws prompted by one of the worst shooting tragedies in U.S. history met an inglorious conclusion on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday. Every single measure pushed by President Barack Obama -- expanded background checks a strengthened federal gun trafficking statute limits on assault weapons and high-
HuffPostFeb 01 2024
Headline Roundup
House Passes Expanded Child Tax Credit Bill
On Wednesday, the US House of Representatives passed a $78 billion expanded child tax credit bill.
Key Details: The bill passed with bipartisan support by a vote of 357-70. It now goes to the US Senate, where it will need 60 votes to pass. The legislation, entitled the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act, was crafted by House Ways Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-MO)
Washington Examiner NBC News Digital The HillOct 15 2014
News
Supreme Court leaves its mark on the midterms
The Supreme Court sure looks like it’s fine-tuning the rules for the 2014 election. Over the past three weeks, the justices gave Ohio the green light to cut early voting by a week, let North Carolina end same-day voter registration and blocked Wisconsin from implementing a new voter ID law.
PoliticoJun 02 2015
News
FIFA President Sepp Blatter Is Stepping Down
Sepp Blatter announced Tuesday that he is stepping down as FIFA president as the world's soccer governing body continues to be embroiled in scandal and controversy.
"I appreciate and love FIFA more than anything else, and I only want to do the best for football and for FIFA," Blatter said during a press conference.
Blatter said a new president will be elected "as soon as possible
HuffPostJan 11 2013
Opinion
Obama's spending problem
Second terms, untainted by re-election posturing, often reveal a president's true governing philosophy. In the case of President Obama, two recent revelations have confirmed all we may need to know about his agenda for the next four years.
William BennettMay 20 2013
News
How the IRS seeded the clouds in 2010 for a political deluge three years later
In early 2010, an Internal Revenue Service team in Cincinnati began noticing a stream of applications from groups with ÂÂpolitical-sounding names, setting in motion a dragnet aimed at ÂÂseparating legitimate tax-exempt groups from those working to get candidates elected.
Washington PostMay 19 2013
News
Virginia pick compared Planned Parenthood to KKK
The newly minted Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia once compared Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan and bemoaned black voters “slavish devotion to the Democratic Party  past statements that are likely to inflame the culture-war politics of the states 2013 elections.
PoliticoNov 04 2019
News
There is no single “black vote.” There are many.
Black voters are getting a significant amount of attention these days.
In many ways, it’s a welcome development: After years of helping Democrats secure crucial election victories, black voters are being recognized as an influential voting bloc. This was perhaps most notable in 2008 and 2012, where their increased turnout helped deliver the White House to Barack Obama, the nation’s
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