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Apr 17 2023
News
US man charged for shooting Black teen who approached wrong house
A Kansas City homeowner is accused of shooting 16-year-old Ralph Yarl after the teen mistakenly rang the wrong doorbell. A white man in the United States has been charged with two felonies after he allegedly shot a 16-year-old teenager who mistook his home for another. The 85-year-old homeowner, Andrew Lester, now faces charges of felony assault and armed criminal action for the shooting,
Al Jazeera
May 27 2023
News
Negotiators strike tentative debt ceiling deal with White House
The White House and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) have come to a tentative agreement over the debt ceiling, taking the first step to overcome a major hurdle to avoid a default on the country's loans, a source familiar confirmed to the Washington Examiner. The deal comes after McCarthy spoke with President Joe Biden on the phone for roughly 90 minutes Saturday night as the two leaders sought to
Washington Examiner
May 27 2023
News
Texas House Impeaches Its Scandal-Ridden Attorney General
The Texas House of Representatives voted to impeach the state’s embattled attorney general, Ken Paxton, on Saturday—just days after investigators levied wide-ranging corruption allegations against the state’s top lawyer. Paxton is accused of breaking a litany of laws in office, including an egregious allegation that he requested $3.3 million in state funds to settle a whistleblower lawsuit
Daily Beast
May 27 2023
News
Ken Paxton - Full Texas House Advances Articles of Impeachment
For the first time in state history, lawmakers consi8dered impeaching the sitting attorney general. Paxton is accused of 20 counts of misconduct, a range of criminal acts that include disregard of official duty, misapplication of public resources and obstruction of justice. For a full list of the impeachment charges, click here. For nearly a decade, Texas Republicans largely looked the other
Daily Kos
May 27 2023
News
Texas attorney general faces impeachment vote by state House
The Texas House is scheduled to vote on Saturday whether to impeach state Attorney General Ken Paxton, a conservative firebrand and ally of former President Donald Trump who has been accused by his fellow Republicans of abuse of office.
Debate is set to start at 1 p.m. CDT (1800 GMT). If impeached, Paxton would be removed from office pending a trial in the Senate, where his wife, Angela
Reuters
May 26 2023
News
Supreme Court restricts EPA's ability to protect US waterways
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The scope of a landmark law to protect America’s waterways has been shrunk by the US Supreme Court, which has sided with an Idaho couple who have waged a long-running legal battle to build a house on wetlands near one of the state’s largest lakes. In a ruling passed down on
Mother Jones
May 25 2023
News
The high-stakes debate over how the US defines “antisemitism”
Swastikas painted on walls. A hostage crisis at a synagogue in Texas. The rapper Ye tweeting, “I’m going death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.”
“The rise in antisemitism is astonishing, never before seen in this country,” Liz Sherwood-Randall, the White House’s homeland security adviser, told the Council on Foreign Relations on Wednesday. “We’re not only seeing the kind of antisemitism that led
Vox
May 27 2023
Analysis
Why the Ukraine-US divergence may deepen
For Ukraine, perhaps the only challenge equal to waging war against its enemy on the battlefield is managing tensions with its friends away from it. On Monday, the Belgorod region came under attack in one of largest cross-border raids into Russia over the course of the war. Two pro-Ukraine and anti-Kremlin Russian groups, the Russian Volunteers Corps (RDK) and the Liberty of Russia Legion (FRL
UnHerd
May 29 2023
Opinion
On Memorial Day, let us remember the fallen as Lincoln did
Memorial Day’s name seems a bit ambiguous compared with its more precise object. To memorialize means to preserve the memory of or to commemorate. We do that with all sorts of persons and events. The monuments and statues around Washington, D.C., and across the country memorialize. Funerals do so as well for the dearly departed. Nearly any holiday, sacred or secular, calls on us to reverently
Washington Examiner