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Apr 23 2024
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Nine GOP Sens. Flip Votes to Help Pass Foreign Aid Bill
Ten senators – including nine Republicans – changed their position from two months ago to help advance in a procedural vote Tuesday – and finally pass – the $95 billion foreign aid package. The Senate advanced the measure 80-19 before passing it in a final vote late Tuesday night 79-18. President Joe Biden has vowed to fast-track signing the legislation into law. Nine GOP senators who
Newsmax (News)Apr 21 2024
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Prison director killed in attack as Ecuador votes in referendum focused on crime
The director of an Ecuadorian prison known as “El Rodeo” was killed Sunday in an attack that came as millions of people in the country headed to the polls for a referendum focused largely on President Daniel Noboa’s war on crime. The official was identified in a news release by Ecuador’s national prisons agency SNAI as Cosme Damián Parrales Merchán, the director of the Manabi region prison,
CNN (Online News)Apr 17 2024
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Voters shock CNN when they reveal who they're voting for after saying Trump is unfit for office: 'But I'm voting for him'
Democrats love to harp on Donald Trump's moral fitness, arguing his criminal proceedings and moral character render him unfit for the presidency. CNN correspondent Gary Tuchman recently spoke with voters in Roberts County, Texas, where he discovered that voters agree with that argument. But at the end of the day, those same voters admitted they will still support Trump over President Joe Biden
The BlazeApr 19 2024
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UAW vote at Tennessee plant will test resurgent labor movement
Carmakers and labor leaders are closely watching for results to be released on Friday in a seismic union election that could supercharge organizing in the nation’s auto sector and demonstrate the strength of a resurgent labor movement through a victory in the South, a region typically resistant to unions. As many as 4,300 employees at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, are voting on
ABC News (Online)Apr 16 2024
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Romney open to voting with Democrats to dismiss Mayorkas impeachment
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is willing to vote to dismiss impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as long as time is given to debate the articles, he told Axios. Why it matters: A bipartisan vote to quickly squash the articles of impeachment would be a clear indictment of the GOP's historic impeachment, which has been years in the making. What he's saying: "I
AxiosApr 16 2024
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Tennessee Volkswagen Workers To Begin Voting On UAW Membership
Yolanda Peoples is ready to get the vote started. The 13-year veteran and her co-workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee begin voting Wednesday on whether to join the UAW. “Everybody was just ready to get the game to a vote and once they announced the vote, everybody's like, yes,” said Peoples in an interview. If enough of the more than 3,000 workers vote yes during the three
ForbesApr 23 2024
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North Carolina voting law declared unconstitutional for discriminating against Black voters
Felons in North Carolina who have not completed their full sentence, including probation time, are barred from voting in North Carolina elections. An 1877 law further restricted these voters by imposing an up to two-year sentence in prison if they attempted to vote, even if they believed they re-gained eligibility. The law was challenged by the North Carolina A. Philip Randolph Institute and
Asheville Citizen-TimesApr 23 2024
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Federal judge rules DAs can’t prosecute disenfranchised probationers for mistakenly voting
North Carolina district attorneys cannot prosecute people on supervision for felony convictions if they mistakenly cast a ballot before regaining their right to vote, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The reason, according to a ruling issued by District Judge Loretta C. Biggs: the underlying law was enacted to discriminate against Black North Carolinians — and continues to do so today. Plus, that
Yahoo NewsApr 12 2024
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House votes to reauthorize spying bill that enabled the FBI to violate Americans' rights. Only 59 Republicans voted 'no.'
The House voted 273 to 147 Friday in favor of reauthorizing the surveillance bill that has been exploited by the FBI hundreds of thousands of times to spy on American citizens. Only 59 Republicans reportedly voted against renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The bill is now headed to the Senate, where it will likely be passed before the April 19 deadline, to the
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