When a Michigan 94-year-old didn’t receive her absentee ballot, she took her civic duty to the next level.
California school board expected to vote on hybrid plan that excludes just 7th graders from in-person learning
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EXCLUSIVE: A California school district will vote this Thursday on whether to move forward with a controversial hybrid plan that excludes only seventh graders or to nix in-person learning altogether. The Oak Grove S...
House to vote on DC statehood bill during week of April 19
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Eleanor Holmes Norton, the D.C. delegate, said the House Oversight Committee will vote on her statehood bill on April 14 and then send the legislation for a full House vote the following week. "The week of April 19t...
Republican group spotlights state rules that make it ‘easier to vote and harder to cheat’
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The report from the Republican State Leadership Committee's (RSLC) Commission on Election Integrity, which was shared first with Fox News, was compiled in recent weeks by commission members from across the country. R...
Stephen Miller: ‘If cartels had a vote,’ they would back Biden border policies ‘unanimously’
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"We ended the process of human smuggling and trafficking that destroys lives, that leads to sexual assault, that leads to physical assault, and that finances the cartels, creating the cycle of violence and poverty," ...
Philadelphia 76ers’ Danny Green surprises 94-year-old fan with a signed jersey
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Philadelphia 76ers' shooting guard Danny Green surprised a 94-year-old fan with a signed jersey after seeing a tweet from the fan's granddaughter that went viral. After learning that her grandmother had spent the ...
Lawmakers in 47 states have introduced bills that would make it harder to vote. See them all here
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Lawmakers in all but three states have introduced bills aimed at restricting ballot access, according to a new tally by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. Their latest report finds 361 bills res...
Brown University undergraduates vote for reparations for descendants of enslaved people
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Over a decade ago, Brown University released a report with findings on its ties to slavery, and now undergraduate students have voted in support of reparations for descendants of enslaved people. The vote comes at ...
Maine GOP rejects censure of Sen. Susan Collins after her vote to convict Trump
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The Maine Republican Party's state committee on Saturday rejected a censure measure against Sen. Susan Collins, following her vote earlier this year to convict former President Donald Trump in his Senate impeachment...
Romney receives JFK ‘Profile in Courage’ award for impeachment vote
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Washington Republican Sen. Mitt Romney is this year's recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award for being the lone GOP senator to stand up to then-President Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial...
Haiti elections minister teases new gender rule for parliament, says disputed vote will go on
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Everyone seems to agree that Haiti needs change. The question of how to get there is tearing the country apart. After a tumultuous four years in office marked by mass protests, political gridlock, gas shortages, ec...
The shameful vote by 172 Republicans
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Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program "The Dean Obeidallah Show" and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @DeanObeidallah. The opinions expressed in this commentary ...
House to vote on joint resolution to remove ERA deadline
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The House is pushing forward with a joint resolution to remove a deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, after a recent federal court ruling said the deadline for the ERA expired long ago. Proponen...