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Democratic Senate candidate smokes marijuana in new ad highlighting disparity and reform
Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(NEW ORLEANS) -- Progressive activist and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Gary Chambers Jr. smokes marijuana in a field in New Orleans while tal...
Jan 18, 2022
Bipartisan group of senators meet with Ukraine President Zelenskyy as Russian troops amass on border
iStock/malerapaso(NEW YORK) -- A bipartisan group of seven U.S. senators arrived in Ukraine Monday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other officials in what they say is a show of commitme...
Jan 17, 2022
SCOTUS blocking of vaccine mandate 'a setback for public health': Vivek Murthy
Oliver Contreras/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court's decision to block the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test requirement for large private businesses is a "setback...
Jan 17, 2022
Clyburn asks senators 'which side are you on?' for voting rights
Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., on Sunday asked his colleagues in the Senate who are set to vote on voting rights legislation Tuesday: "Which side are you o...
Jan 17, 2022
Migrant's arrest under 'Operation Lone Star' ruled unconstitutional
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images(AUSTIN, Texas) -- The arrest of an Ecuadorian migrant under Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's initiative "Operation Lone Star" was ruled unconstitutional by a Texas county judg...
Jan 15, 2022
Oath Keepers leader makes 1st court appearance following arrest on seditious conspiracy charge
Aaron C. Davis/The Washington Post via Getty Images/FILE(WASHINGTON) -- The leader of the Oath Keepers militia group, who was indicted Thursday on a series of charges including seditious conspiracy in...
Jan 15, 2022
Hamse Warfa makes US history as 1st Somali American presidential appointee
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The White House announced this week that Hamse Warfa will join the Biden administration, making him the first Somali American presidential appointee in U.S. hi...
Jan 15, 2022
Advocates launch hunger strikes, hold events throughout US to push for voting rights
Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Un-PAC(WASHINGTON) -- Advocates are taking action across the country as they hope to pressure members of Congress to pass voting rights legislation by Martin Luther King J...
Jan 15, 2022
Some states move to protect abortion rights in face of challenge at Supreme Court
Walter Bibikow/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- While the U.S. Supreme Court considers a case that could potentially overturn Roe v. Wade, some states are enacting or discussing protections for reproductiv...
Jan 15, 2022
You can now order your government-supplied free at-home COVID tests
Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration launched COVIDTests.gov on Tuesday, the website Americans can use to request free at-home rapid COVID tes...
Jan 14, 2022
