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AG Garland to announce federal probe into policing practices in Minneapolis
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Attorney General Merrick Garland will announce Wednesday that the Justice Department is launching a "pattern or practice" investigation into the Minneapolis polic...
Apr 21, 2021
Why youth climate change activists are pushing Biden to do more
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- The faces of climate change activism have been dominated by young people in recent years, from Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg to thousands of...
Apr 21, 2021
Just 12 megadonors accounted for 7.5% of political giving over past decade, says report
NoDerog/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- As the cost of federal elections rises almost every year, just 12 megadonors from both sides of the aisle -- at least eight of whom are billionaires -- made up a combined...
Apr 21, 2021
'The New Jim Crow': Republicans and Democrats at odds over voting rights
SeventyFour/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Partisan divides were on full display Tuesday morning as the Senate Judiciary Committee discussed a wave of restrictive voting legislation introduced in statehouses a...
Apr 20, 2021
Lawmakers react to Chauvin verdict with relief, calls for policing reform
uschools/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- As the verdicts were being read in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin on Tuesday evening in Minneapolis, 56 Black members of Congress huddled together on C...
Apr 20, 2021
Biden, Harris speak on the Chauvin verdict
Oleg Albinsky/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris each made a point of saying that there's still work to be done while delivering remarks on the trial of Derek C...
Apr 20, 2021
Democrats block GOP move to censure Waters for Chauvin comments
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- House Democrats on Tuesday successfully killed a privileged resolution brought forth by Republicans that would have censured Rep. Maxine ...
Apr 20, 2021
Biden says he's praying for 'the right verdict' in Chauvin trial
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- President Biden weighed in on his hopes for a verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the first time Tuesday, after speaking with George Flo...
Apr 20, 2021
After pledging not to build up Trump's border wall, Biden's intentions remain unclear
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- For years, Nora Garza and her husband Delfino have fought with the Justice Department and Army Corps of Engineers over 30 acres of land near t...
Apr 20, 2021
Alarmed by "Tiger King," senators propose ban on private ownership of big cats
Kbytes/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The hit show Tiger King has triggered not only a huge fan following but now a proposed law to ban private ownership of so-called "big cats." A group of bipartisan Senate law...
Apr 20, 2021
