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Posted inNation / World, Politics
Senate Democrats pass budget package, a victory for Biden
The estimated $740 billion package heads next to the House, where lawmakers are poised to deliver on Biden’s priorities.
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Posted inElections, Nation / World, Politics
Democrats could strip Iowa caucus of opening spot in 2024 campaign
Some Democratic rules committee members privately said that the party is leaning toward either New Hampshire or Nevada going first.
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World, Politics
Senate appropriators want $4 billion for ships the Navy didn’t seek
The fiscal 2023 bill requires the Navy to spend that $4 billion to build all or part of a destroyer, 2 amphibious ships, a cargo vessel and several troop-ferrying hovercrafts.
Posted inNation / World, Politics
Trump White House lawyers subpoenaed by Jan. 6 probe grand jury
The subpoenas to Pat Cipollone and Patrick Philbin suggest an intensifying Justice Department investigation into the events surrounding the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Green Party co-founder John Rensenbrink dies
An environmental advocate for more than 70 years, Rensenbrink dedicated his life to changing politics to benefit the natural world.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation / World, Politics
Collins-Manchin bill to protect electoral count endorsed at key hearing
The bill would reform the 1887 Electoral Count Act, which former President Donald Trump attempted to exploit in trying to overturn the result of the 2020 election.
Posted inNation / World, News, Politics
Primary takeaways: Abortion backlash in Kansas, Greitens’ collapse
Voters rejected a measure that would have made it easier to restrict abortion rights in red-state Kansas and repudiated a scandal-tarred former governor seeking a U.S. Senate seat in Missouri.
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Kansas voters protect abortion rights, block path to ban
Voters rejected a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution that would have added language stating that it does not grant the right to abortion.
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Texas man who stormed Capitol with gun gets more than 7 years in prison
Prosecutors said Guy Reffitt told fellow members of the Texas Three Percenters militia group that he planned to drag House Speaker Nancy Pelosi out of the Capitol building by her ankles.