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Oct 23 2014
News
Tea Partier’s scary extremism: Joni Ernst carries a gun in case the government decides “my rights are no longer important”
Joni Ernst, the Tea Party Republican taking on Democrat Bruce Braley to succeed the retiring Sen. Tom Harkin, declared at a 2012 NRA rally that she carries a gun to defender herself against the government, “should they decide that my rights are no longer important.”
Salon
Dec 12 2023
News
Harvard’s board: We unanimously stand in support of President Gay
Embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay has gained the unanimous support of the university’s board, Harvard’s highest governing body said in a statement Tuesday, giving Gay significant cover to remain in her position after a tumultuous week in which many donors and politicians have called for her ouster.
“As members of the Harvard Corporation, we today reaffirm our support for
CNN Business
Dec 29 2023
News
Ohio’s Republican governor vetoes trans care restriction and sports ban
Ohio’s governor vetoed a bill Friday that would have restricted both transition-related care for minors and transgender girls’ participation on school sports teams.
Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto makes him one of only two Republican governors to veto a restriction on gender-affirming care, alongside Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson in 2021, and one of only three Republican governors to veto a
NBC News Digital
Feb 02 2018
Opinion
OPINION: Why ‘The Memo’ matters so much – Has our government become weaponized against an opposing political party?
Democrats have mounted a full-scale partisan attack against the release of a congressional memo that reportedly accuses the FBI of surveillance abuses and political bias in action that led to the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential Election
Fox News (Opinion)
Dec 20 2023
News
Kansas business owner pleads guilty to illegally supplying Russia with avionics
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A Lawrence business owner has pleaded guilty to illegally supplying Russia with avionics equipment despite tightened export controls. The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Tuesday, Dec. 19, that Cyril G. Buyanovsky, 60, of Lawrence, pleaded guilty to his role in a years-long conspiracy to bypass national export laws as he filed false export forms with the U.S.
WIBW 13
Dec 16 2023
News
Probation ordered for boy, 13, after plea in alleged plan for mass shooting at Ohio synagogue
A 13-year-old Ohio boy accused of planning a mass shooting at a local synagogue has been ordered to spend a year on probation. The Canton Repository reports that the Plain Township boy pleaded true, the juvenile equivalent of guilty, on Friday to misdemeanor counts of inducing panic and disorderly conduct. Authorities said that a “detailed plan to complete a mass shooting” at Temple Israel in
San Diego Union-Tribune
Dec 17 2023
News
Pennsylvania passes laws to overhaul probation system – Metro Philadelphia
Sign up for our Daily Email newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest local news throughout Philadelphia. More criminal records in Pennsylvania can be sealed from public view and fewer people might be kept on probation or in county jails, under legislation signed by Gov. Josh Shapiro last week. Both bills passed the House and Senate with large majorities amid a flurry of end-of-year action.
Metro Philadelphia
Dec 14 2023
News
The union comes to Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory in Vermont
The staff at the Waterbury factory — which is often open to the public for tours and includes a “graveyard” for decommissioned flavors — is the second group of employees of the ice cream brand to organize. Workers unionized earlier this year at a retail shop in Burlington, the city where Ben & Jerry’s was founded. About 70 percent of the approximately 95 employees at the plant voted to
The Boston Globe
Dec 19 2023
News
Trial over North Dakota’s pipeline policing suit set
BISMARCK, N.D. — A court fight over whether the federal government should cover North Dakota’s $38 million in costs of responding to the lengthy protests of the Dakota Access oil pipeline years ago near its controversial river crossing will continue as a judge said the case is “ripe and ready for trial.” The state filed the lawsuit in 2019, seeking $38 million. The lawsuit’s bench trial was
Minnesota Lawyer
Dec 19 2023
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Texas Gov. Abbott Signs Illegal Crossing Law as US Senate Wrangles
Texas is effectively attempting to take greater control of border enforcement, as Gov. Greg Abbott signed a new law Monday criminalizing undocumented crossings. Meanwhile, negotiations on further funding for border security continue in the U.S. Senate. NTD spoke to Andrew Arthur, a resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, to parse out the legal and political
NTD