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The House passed four police-funding bills on Thursday after extended negotiations between centrist and progressive Democrats. Should the bills pass the Senate, which many outlets doubt is likely, they would provide funding and grants to police departments for recruitment, training, investigative resources, mental health services, and more.

Outlets across the spectrum painted the police

On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about their companies' content moderation practices during the 2020 presidential election. Republican senators questioned the tech giants about content moderation and the purported censorship of President Donald Trump and conservative voices; Democratic lawmakers focused their

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin told reporters on Monday that a framework for Democrats’ social and climate spending bill “really should be” finished this week. “Having it finished with all the t's and the i's and everything you know crossed and dotted, that will be difficult from the Senate side because we have an awful lot of text to go through. But as far as conceptually we should. I really

The House of Representatives passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act on Wednesday in a party-line vote, with two moderate Democrats voting against it. The bill would ban chokeholds and alter qualified immunity for law enforcement nationwide. While one Republican—Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX)—voted for the bill, he later tweeted that he had “accidentally pressed the wrong voting button and