“It oughta be left to the states,” McConnell said of voting rights protection. “There’s no point in having ... a debate in the U.S. Senate about something we ought not to do.”
Walton ousted a four-term incumbent to win Buffalo's Democratic mayoral primary. She'll be the first woman, socialist, and abolitionist to hold the job.
Though Democrats failed to advance debate on the “For the People Act,” the West Virginia senator is ready to introduce an alternative.
A Navy training document asks, “Anarchists, socialists and neo-nazis represent which terrorist ideological category?”
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Yes, the FBI used stings to entrap Muslims after 9/11. But there's no evidence the U.S. Capitol riot was the FBI's idea.
In a mayoral campaign focused on policing and public safety, candidates have promised to limit the authority of the next person to run the NYPD.
The proposals would offer fossil fuel companies cash to build out carbon capture technology, propping up the liquid natural gas industry.
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We should let science and evidence prevail while recognizing that science, like other disciplines, is shaped by competing interests.
Republicans join Democrats to repeal the 2002 resolution that authorized the invasion of Iraq.
The fiscal year 2022 proposal includes $3.8 billion for the ultrafast weapons, but some arms control experts question their effectiveness.
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