Buenos Aires, Argentina Argentina’s Senate approved a bill to legalize abortion Wednesday in an historic vote seen as a major victory for abortion rights advocates in the Catholic-majority country.
House passes DC statehood bill to make district 51st state after heated floor debate
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The strictly party-line vote in the House was 216 a 208, with all Republicans rejecting the statehood bill, dubbed H.R. 51. The legislation has the support from President Biden but faces long odds of passing in the ...
Border crisis: Sens. Cornyn, Sinema to introduce bipartisan bill targeting migrant surge
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The bill would address the Biden administration’s ability to handle the surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, attempt to streamline migrant asylum claims in a "timely" manner and deter those unlikely to be app...
Oklahoma governor signs bill to protect drivers who hit rioters, as protesters try breaking into Senate
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The group was protesting, in part, one bill that increases the penalties for blocking roadways and grants immunity to motorists who kill or injure protesters on the road. Another bill seeks to limit doxxing of police...
Harris casts first tie-breaking vote for a Biden nominee after Senate splits on Pentagon pick
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Vice President Kamala Harris cast her first tie-breaking vote related to a Biden administration nominee on the Senate floor Wednesday evening, voting to advance the nomination of Colin Kahl to be the Pentagon's unde...
Los Angeles City Council approves motion to replace mandatory homeless cleanups with ‘voluntary compliance’
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The motion instructs the Bureau of Sanitation and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority to develop new standards for hygiene by offering trash pickups, mobile showers, tent exchanges and more services. "When o...
Tennessee moves toward requiring cremation or burial after abortion
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The legislation passed the state House along party lines 69-22 Monday and 27-6 in the Senate. It now heads to the desk of Republican Gov. Bill lee for signature. Under the bill, certain abortion providers must provi...
Virginia governor signs bill legalizing marijuana possession starting this summer
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Gobernador de Virginia. Ralph Northam on Wednesday signed a bill legalizing simple possession of marijuana beginning this summer, making it the first Southern state to do so and accelerating a revamp of cannabis laws that hav...
New York state legislature passes bill that would automatically restore voting rights to people on parole
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The New York state legislature passed a bill on Wednesday that would automatically restore voting rights to people convicted of a felony once they are on parole. The bill is intended to improve upon a 2018 executiv...
Arizona House passes bill that would stop some voters from automatically receiving mail-in ballots
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The GOP-led Arizona House on Tuesday passed legislation that would make changes to the mail-in voting process in the state, including stopping some voters from automatically receiving ballots. The bill, a part of th...
Senate Republicans set for earmark showdown as some lawmakers decry ‘wasteful spending’
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The discussion will happen at a regularly scheduled conference meeting, with a series of secret-ballot votes likely. None of the decisions made in the meeting will be binding on members, but they will indicate where ...
Conservative Black leaders defend Georgia voting bill, hit ‘biased news media’ coverage
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Media pundits such as MSNBC's Joy Reid have followed President Biden's lead and referred to the Georgia measure as a modern form of "Jim Crow." But the conservative leaders pushed back against critics of the law who ...
The number of Black women mayors leading major cities to reach historic high. Here is why they are winning
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A new wave of Black women are breaking barriers as they ascend to mayoral seats in cities with deeply rooted histories of racism and inequality. El martes, Tishaura Jones will be sworn in as the first Black female...