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May 28 2023
News
Debt-Ceiling Deal Reached Days Before Default Deadline
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Ky.) and President Joe Biden reached an agreement, in principle, to raise the debt ceiling for two years on Saturday night, potentially averting a national economic crisis.
Early reports of the deal suggest that non-defense-related discretionary spending would be capped at a 1 percent increase until 2025, pushing the next contentious round of negotiations
National Review (News)Jun 20 2023
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Idaho teen arrested after 5 cows found shot to death
SWAN VALLEY, Idaho (ABC4) — An Idaho teenager was arrested after a local rancher discovered that five of his cows had been shot and killed. Sunday, June 18, a rancher in the Swan Valley area called the authorities after he discovered his cows had been shot dead. Deputies with the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene. According to a press release from the BCSO, nearby
ABC4 UtahJul 03 2023
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More Than 2,000 Chicago Basements Flooded After ‘Unprecedented’ Rainfall: Officials
More than 2,000 Chicagoans called city officials to report their basements flooded as a result of Sunday’s “unprecedented” deluge, which dumped nearly 9 inches of rain on Chicago, officials said Monday. Another 500 people called the city’s 311 system to report that streets were impassable because of water, said Rich Guidice, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s chief of staff. The “full force” of
WTTWJul 03 2023
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Harvard’s Admissions Is Challenged for Favoring Children of Alumni
Harvard students and supporters marched through Harvard Square during a rally on Saturday to oppose the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmation action. After the Supreme Court banned race-conscious affirmative action, activists filed a complaint, saying legacy admissions helped students who are overwhelmingly rich and white. It’s been called affirmative action for the rich: Harvard’s
New York Times (News)Feb 20 2023
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New Mexico law signed to help wildfire, flooding recovery
FILE - Smoke from the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire drifts over Las Vegas, N.M., on May 7, 2022. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday, Feb. 20, 2023, signed a law to use zero-interest loans to help local governments in the arid, Southwest state repair or replace public infrastructure damaged by wildfires or subsequent flooding. (Robert Browman/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)
Associated PressJun 29 2023
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Supreme Court: 'Eliminating Racial Discrimination Means Eliminating All of It'
The Supreme Court handed down a definitive ruling against the use of racial preferences in college admissions, declaring in a 6-3 decision on Thursday: “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” The syllabus opinion in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College notes that any exceptions to that principle — based on the Equal Protection Clause
Breitbart NewsJul 03 2023
Analysis
The self-inflicted voting machine misinformation crisis looming over 2024
The federal government is about to change its certification guidelines for voting machines — and election officials across the country are bracing for a wave of misinformation that erodes trust in the 2024 election.
Election officials are not-so-quietly freaking out that this long-awaited technical overhaul of voting machine guidelines later this year will be weaponized against them.
PoliticoJun 22 2023
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Rep. Smith Aims to Make IRS Hunter Biden Testimony Public
Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has scheduled a meeting for Thursday morning to review claims made by multiple IRS whistleblowers regarding the handling of the Hunter Biden probe, and then to make public their testimony and evidence.
"Ways and Means Committee members have received multiple whistleblower reports of misconduct at the IRS and
Newsmax (News)Jun 22 2023
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Former Democrat Nashua State Representative Arrested On Child Sexual Abuse Image Charges
Stacie Marie Laughton, 39, of Derry was arrested on Thursday on four felony counts of distribution of child sexual abuse images. Limited information was available at post time but Sgt. John Cinelli, the public information officer for the Nashua Police Department, said the case came to light on Tuesday when officers were sent to a local facility for a juvenile matter. “They spoke with reporting
Patch.comJul 28 2023
Analysis
The Colorado Provides Drinking Water to 40 Million People. Do They Know What Utah Does To It Upstream?
From the water, the White River canyon was a scene worthy of Ansel Adams. Swallows darted in and out of mud houses packed on the underside of the soaring sandstone cliffs. A lone elk wandered the hillside, while sheep noshed along the water, tended by a man on a horse striking an iconic Western pose up on the ridge. But then, as we drifted peacefully around a bend, the stench of oil and other
Mother Jones