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WASHINGTON – An attempt to reinforce Americans’ access to contraception failed Wednesday when U.S. Senate Republicans blocked a bill from advancing toward final passage. The 51-39 procedural vote required at least 60 senators to move forward, but fell short after GOP lawmakers said the measure was too broad as well as unnecessary. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Maine Sen. Susan Collins, both Republicans, broke with their party and voted to advance the legislation. Democrats argued during debate on the 12-page bill that it would provide a safety net should a future Supreme Court overturn two cases that ensure married and…
Julia Nikhinson/AP Former President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Trump Tower on May 31, 2024, in New York. CNN — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday again suggested he would try to prosecute his political opponents if he’s reelected as he railed against his criminal conviction in New York. “It’s a terrible, terrible path that they’re leading us to, and it’s very possible that it’s going to have to happen to them,” Trump said in an interview with Newsmax. Trump faces the possibility of a prison sentence after he was convicted last week on 34 felony counts…
Kirk, the group’s founder and apparently the Trump campaign’s newest canvasser, is a model of the new student conservativism: He has impugned the character of Martin Luther King Jr. and questioned whether MLK Day should be a federal holiday, implied that affirmative action is allowing unqualified Black pilots to fly planes, and expressed “impatience for American Jews that have put up with the anti-white sentiments the last decade.” Turning Point USA’s national field director was fired after texting another TPUSA employee, “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Like fuck them all.… I hate blacks. End of story.” The organization also has been…
The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on a bill that would guarantee access to contraception nationwide, as Democrats seek to draw a contrast with Republicans in the run up to November’s elections.The bill – the Right to Contraception Act – would enshrine into federal law a right for individuals to buy and use contraceptives, as well as for health care providers to provide them. It would apply to birth control pills, the plan B pill, condoms and other forms of contraception.The legislation is expected to fail to advance in a procedural vote because of opposition from Republicans, who have…
A jury of my peers agrees that the pizza served in our 1980s grade school was better than any other. When I made my case — Exhibit A was a shared photo of those cheesy, rectangular pieces fresh from an industrial oven — my hometown classmates lit up at the memory. Pizza Day fueled an underground economy. Lunchroom hustlers charged sugar cookies, ice cream or chocolate milk in exchange for their slices. Or they might cut a deal for the candy and gum that other child entrepreneurs sold between classes. In this heyday, the school’s halls featured a bustling economy…
Topline The outcome of the presidential election likely hinges on six purple states President Joe Biden won in 2020—but he trails former President Donald Trump in all of them, according to RealClearPolitics’ polling averages, with less than six months before the November general election. President Joe Biden speaks about his Investing in America agenda, at Gateway Technical College in … [+] Sturtevant, Wisconsin, on May 8, 2024. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images Key Facts Arizona: Trump leads by four points, according to Real Clear Politics’ polling average that shows him beating Biden (who won the…
WASHINGTON — In an election-year effort to put Republicans on record on reproductive rights issues, Senate Democrats are holding a vote Wednesday to move forward with legislation designed to protect women’s access to contraception.The test vote comes as the Senate has abandoned hopes for doing serious bipartisan legislation before the election and as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democrats are trying to instead spotlight issues that they believe can help them win the presidency and keep the Senate in November. A similar vote on ensuring nationwide access to in vitro fertilization could come as soon as next week.Neither bill…
PARIS — President Biden arrives in France on Wednesday to join world leaders in commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day, an election-year visit where he plans to draw on the memory of allies united against tyranny to highlight the stakes of his campaign and draw a pointed comparison with Donald Trump.Biden will join more than two dozen heads of state descending on Normandy along with dozens of World War II veterans, some more than a century old. They will honor troops from the United States, Canada and Britain who landed in France on June 6, 1944, in an offensive that…
U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX), Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Lawrence Tabas and former GOP U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Bartos at the Trump campaign’s office opening in the Holmesburg neighborhood of Philadelphia June 4, 2024 (Capital-Star photo by John Cole)PHILADELPHIA — Former President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign opened its first office in Pennsylvania on Tuesday in a former optician’s office in Philadelphia’s Holmesburg neighborhood. “It’s important to recognize that we need new leadership in America, we need new leadership in Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Lawrence Tabas said at the office opening in Northeast Philadelphia. “Bidenomics has been a failure.” The event,…
While former President Donald Trump’s conviction is injecting new uncertainty into this year’s White House race, the verdict is also starting to roil potentially equally consequential races: those for key Senate seats.Republican Senate candidates released ads Monday savaging Montana Sen. Jon Tester and Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, the chamber’s two most vulnerable Democrats this cycle. And top GOP officials are even going after former Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan who represents the GOP’s best shot at winning a deep-blue Senate seat after he issued a statement calling for respect for the legal process rather than reflexive support for the former…