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May 24 2023
News
Texas to enforce immigration laws under bill passed by state Senate
AUSTIN, Texas — A sweeping border security bill that critics say would empower Texas law enforcement officers to enforce immigration laws passed the state Senate on Wednesday. The bill would create a new state crime of “improper entry from foreign nation” and establish a new border enforcement unit that would be permanently deployed along the Texas-Mexico border. The measure received approval
The Herald-Palladium
May 23 2023
News
Utah Mayor Plans To Challenge Mitt Romney In GOP Primary For Utah Senate Seat
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs announced plans to run for U.S. Senate next year and challenge first-term Republican Mitt Romney in what could emerge as a competitive primary battle in the deeply conservative state. Romney, 76, has not yet announced whether he plans to seek reelection, but his transformation from 2012 presidential candidate to a recurring critic of President
HuffPost
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
May 22 2023
News
Tim Scott secures another endorsement for President by a fellow senator
Things are getting interesting. Senator Tim Scott is set to launch his campaign for president and a fellow senator will be at the event to announce his endorsement for Scott. Senator John Thune of South Dakota and the number two Republican in the Senate is Scott’s second senate endorsement. Politico reports that Scott will launch his campaign Monday in North Charleston, S.C. The first senator
HotAir
May 30 2023
News
EU Is Beginning To Pay The Price Of Rising US-China Tensions
The European Union (EU), the U.S.' closest ally, is beginning to pay the price of the growing tensions between Washington and Beijing.
Last week, Germany, the EU's largest economy, reported an annual decline of 11.3% in its exports to the world's second-largest economy over the previous four months of 2023. Moreover, it helped push the German economy closer to a recession.
The
International Business Times
May 30 2023
News
The fate of Texas' impeached attorney general rests in hands of 31 state senators―including his wife
If the Senate removed Paxton, though, election law professor Quinn Yeargain writes in Guaranteed Republics that Abbott would be tasked with picking a replacement, and that this person would require the support of two-thirds of the Senate in order to be confirmed. Yeargain adds that a November 2024 special election would take place for the final two years of Paxton’s term should he be convicted
Daily Kos
May 30 2023
News
GOP senator criticizes debt-ceiling deal for allowing Biden appointee to waive direct spending plans
Conservative Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who is threatening to drag out the Senate’s consideration of legislation to raise the debt limit, says the regulatory reforms in the package are “a mere illusion.” Lee on Tuesday highlighted language in the bill that would empower the director of the Office of Management and Budget to waive the requirement that agencies submit plans to reduce direct
The Hill
May 30 2023
News
US men’s soccer to play Germany, Ghana in October exhibitions
CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. men’s soccer team will play exhibitions against Germany and Ghana in October. No. 14 Germany will play the 13th-ranked U.S. on Oct. 14 at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut, and No. 60 Ghana will face the Americans three days later at Geodis Park in Nashville, Tennessee, the U.S. Soccer Federation said Tuesday. The U.S. has an automatic berth for the 2026
Toronto Star
May 30 2023
News
US men's soccer to play Germany, Ghana in October exhibitions
CHICAGO — The U.S. men’s soccer team will play exhibitions against Germany and Ghana in October. No. 14 Germany will play the 13th-ranked U.S. on Oct. 14 at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut, and No. 60 Ghana will face the Americans three days later at Geodis Park in Nashville, Tennessee, the U.S. Soccer Federation said Tuesday.
The U.S. has an automatic berth for the 2026
Washington Post