President-elect Joe Biden plans to “immediately” introduce a sweeping immigration reform bill during his first days in office. The new legislation, currently being drafted by congressional Democrats and immigrant rights advocates, will include a pathway to citizenship for an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. Top Latino and immigrant advocacy groups …
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One day before the Georgia runoff elections, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris spoke with Janelle Monae about the massive stakes of electing Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff to the United States Senate. As Harris and Monae note during their 14-minute video chat, Democrats would effectively take control of the Senate …
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“We very well might see a post-seasonal — in the sense of Christmas, New Year’s — surge, and, as I have described it, as a surge upon a surge,” Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN’s Dana Bash. As families traveled and gathered for the holidays, they also likely spread the virus, …
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Multiple videos posted to social media on Saturday morning apparently show Trump supporters in trucks and cars harassing a Joe Biden and Kamala Harris campaign bus in Texas, causing the campaign to cancel a planned event in Central Texas. A Biden campaign spokesperson told Forbes that the Trump supporters “attempted …
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On Thursday, Donald Trump released a video from a coming interview that is set to air on Sunday with 60 Minutes. For days the president had claimed that he would release his team’s recording of the interview because he was treated with “bias, hatred and rudeness.” Before the interview officially …
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WASHINGTON —In a little-noticed ruling on Friday evening, the Trump administration rejected a petition by a coalition of labor unions that had asked the federal government to require passengers to wear masks on airplanes, trains, and other major forms of transportation. The Department of Transportation told the Transportation Trades Department …
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Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic reported on Thursday that President Trump doesn’t have quite as much respect for the military as he claims, to put it mildly. Goldberg lists several examples. The most prominent is an account of why, during a 2018 trip to Paris, Trump declined to visit the …
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Somewhat surprisingly, the Republican National Convention hasn’t shied away from addressing the coronavirus, which has killed over 175,000 Americans thanks largely to Trump administration incompetence. Unfortunately, the pandemic is being portrayed this week not as a crisis that is still very much ongoing, but as something President Trump’s decisive leadership …
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When it comes to voting rights in our pandemic election year, President Donald Trump has a habit of saying the quiet part out loud. In May, he tweeted that mail-in voting in 2020 would “LEAD TO THE END OF OUR GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY.” In June, he told Politico that the …
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New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit Thursday against the National Rifle Association and a number of its current and former executive leadership, claiming the non-profit organization is “fraught with fraud and abuse.” In the filing, the Attorney General alleges that improper management has cost the powerful gun …
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