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Jun 23 2021
News
Democrats seek way forward after voting rights bill hits Senate roadblock
After nearly six months of watching Republicans relentlessly make it harder to vote in the US, Democrats suffered a major blow on Tuesday after GOP senators used a legislative maneuver to halt a sweeping voting rights and ethics bill.
The vote doesn’t kill the bill, but it marks one of the most significant setbacks for Democrats in Joe Biden’s presidency so far. Democrats heralded the
The Guardian
Nov 08 2012
News
Democrats see strengthened hand on pushing immigration
The election has strengthened President Obamas hand on immigration, and Dream Act organizers said it likely means a flood of hundreds of thousands of new applications for his nondeportation policy  but its not clear that anything has changed in the decade-long stalemate in Congress on the issue. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said Wednesday that he will insist the
Washington Times
Sep 03 2015
News
Kids Get Worst SAT Scores in a Decade
U.S. SAT scores hit their lowest level since the test was last overhauled in 2005, just ahead of the newest incarnation’s debut in 2016. The average score nationwide was a 1490 out of 2400 for the class of 2015, down 7 points from the previous year. The College Board reports the number of students deemed “prepared” for college—as measured by attaining at least 1550 on the SAT—has stagnated at
Daily Beast
Aug 05 2019
News
Mass Shootings
“29 people were killed and about 50 injured in less than 24 hours” in two mass shootings. “In the Texas border city of El Paso, a gunman opened fire Saturday morning in a shopping area packed with thousands of people during the busy back-to-school season. The attack killed 20 and wounded more than two dozen, many of them critically. Hours later in Dayton, Ohio, a gunman wearing body armor and
The Flip Side
Jun 11 2020
Analysis
A Major Obstacle to Police Reform: The Whiteness of Their Union Bosses
The president of Minneapolis’s police union called George Floyd a “violent criminal” and those protesting his killing by a police officer a “terrorist movement.” A union chief in Baltimore once said Black Lives Matter activists were a “lynch mob”; one in Philadelphia referred to them as “a pack of rabid animals.” Another has labeled St. Louis’s democratically elected prosecutor, who is black
The Marshall Project
Mar 23 2021
News
‘A conversation that needs to happen’: Democrats agonize over ‘defund the police’ fallout
As Democrats turn toward defending their congressional majorities next year, the party is running headlong into one important piece of unfinished business: the bitter debate over whether protesters’ push to defund the police seriously damaged their prospects in 2020.
Nearly five months after Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) angrily scolded her colleagues in a widely leaked call for
Politico
May 19 2020
News
Crucial Latino voters seek more attention from Biden
Like many Puerto Ricans, Wilson Rivera holds President Donald Trump responsible for what he sees as the U.S. government’s inadequate response to Hurricane Maria, the 2017 storm that devastated the island and forced Rivera to relocate to central Florida.
“He has to go,” he said of Trump.
But the 34-year-old school teacher is not sold on Joe Biden, Trump’s presumptive Democratic
Reuters
Apr 13 2015
News
What Marco Rubio Would Need to Do to Win
Mr. Rubio will try to position himself as a next-generation conservative who can unite the Republican Party, impressing moderates while satisfying social conservatives and galvanizing the Tea Party fiscal hawks who helped elect him to the Senate in 2010. His fluent Spanish certainly will not hurt him with Hispanics. Admirers see Mr. Rubio as a charismatic speaker with an optimistic message,
New York Times (News)
Sep 17 2020
Fact Check
Trump fuels spread of altered Biden video, tweeting it twice
A video altered to make it appear as though Democratic president candidate Joe Biden played a song disparaging the police was viewed more than 4.5 million times on Twitter by Wednesday afternoon, its spread fueled by President Donald Trump, who tweeted it — twice.
The video, which appears to show Biden playing a controversial song by the rap group N.W.A. during a campaign trip to
Associated Press Fact Check
Sep 01 2020
News
California companies to be required to name minority, LGBTQ leaders under bill heading to Newsom
The California Legislature late Sunday sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill that would direct public corporations headquartered in California to appoint minority or gay representatives to their boards of directors. Companies that don’t comply with the law could face fines between $100,000 and $300,000, according to the bill.
“Corporations have money, power and influence,” said bill author
The Sacramento Bee