The US Education Department’s civil rights enforcement arm is opening an investigation to determine whether Texas’ ban on school mask mandates is preventing school districts from “considering or meeting the needs of students with disabilities.”
Trump’s letter to Georgia secretary of state
More than 10 months after the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump is still trying to claim victory in Georgia, a state that flipped from Trump in 2016 to Biden in 2020. Since just days after he lost, Trump has been tossing out debunked conspir…
New York Times: Trump campaign was aware attorneys’ voting conspiracy theories were baseless, court documents show
Officials working for then-President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign were aware that the voting machine claims being pushed by pro-Trump attorneys were baseless, court documents obtained by The New York Times show.
‘I was coming to terms with dying:’ Survivors of shootings give Supreme Court justices first hand account of their experiences
Survivors of shootings are giving the Supreme Court justices a first hand account of their experiences in a brief filed Tuesday in a case that could impact concealed carry and Second Amendment laws across the country.
Texas governor signs bill tightening restrictions on abortion-inducing drugs
Abortion-inducing drugs in Texas will now be harder to obtain after the state’s Republican governor recently signed restrictive legislation into law, weeks after another strict abortion law went into effect in the state.
House passes bill to avert shutdown and suspend debt limit though Senate passage is unlikely
Democratic leaders are hoping to vote on Tuesday on legislation to prevent a government shutdown at the end of the month and suspend the nation’s borrowing limit, setting up a showdown with Republicans who insist Democrats should act alone to stave off…
Some parents are missing the September child tax credit payment
Though the Internal Revenue Service sent out the third monthly child tax credit payment last week, some families are still waiting for the funds.
Ohio Senate candidate who compared refugees to alligators is the grandson of refugees aided by resettlement organizations
An Ohio Senate candidate who has pushed strong anti-refugee messages against Afghans and others is the grandson of refugees from Europe who settled in the Cleveland area with the aid of at least two resettlement organizations in the years following Wor…
Biden administration sanctions cryptocurrency exchange in effort to cut off revenue to ransomware groups
The Biden administration on Tuesday imposed sanctions against a cryptocurrency exchange in one of the most direct US efforts yet to cut off revenue for ransomware groups that have cost the economy hundreds of millions of dollars.
If Biden fails this week, his entire domestic agenda is done for at least 15 months
It’s impossible to overstate the stakes of this week’s legislative horse-trading for the remainder of Joe Biden’s presidency. In fact, what happens this week on Capitol Hill will almost certainly make or break Biden’s entire first-term legislative agen…