Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried on Tuesday announced a run for governor, setting up a primary between the only statewide-elected Democrat in Florida and Rep. Charlie Crist. Fried made the announcement in a video posted on Twitter where she attacks the Sunshine State’s “rigged system” and pledges to take on a range of issues that
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden will visit Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Tuesday to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre and announce new actions his administration will take to reduce the racial wealth gap as he commemorates one of the worst acts of racial violence in US history. The President will deliver remarks to memorialize the
Continue Reading The Supreme Court said on Tuesday that it won’t review a lower court opinion that awarded a $2 billion verdict in a case brought by a group of women who sued Johnson & Johnson after developing ovarian cancer which they say stemmed from exposure to asbestos in the company’s talc powder. There have been tens
Continue Reading The Supreme Court is staring at its self-imposed end of June deadline, but the justices have not yet released some of the most significant opinions of the term, including a challenge to the Affordable Care Act, the Voting Rights Act and a case on religious liberty involving a Philadelphia foster agency. Recent weeks have seen
Continue ReadingMichael Flynn, former President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, is claiming he didn’t endorse a Myanmar-style coup over the weekend despite video in which he appeared to support such an overthrow in the United States. For months, QAnon and Trump-supporting online forums have celebrated the deadly military coup in Myanmar and suggested the same
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Gun violence prevention activist Kina Collins announced Tuesday that she is launching a new Democratic primary challenge to Rep. Danny Davis in Illinois’ 7th Congressional District. Davis has been a target of progressive insurgents in recent cycles, winning each time while seeing his vote total slip. He fended off three challengers in 2020, including Collins,
Continue Reading After notching recent wins in their long hunt for material to help bring legal accountability to former President Donald Trump, congressional Democrats fear the Biden administration won’t be helpful when it comes to obtaining the documents they covet the most: Trump’s tax returns. Critics of the former President have demanded a response to what they
Continue Reading A special congressional election in New Mexico on Tuesday poses an early test of whether Republicans’ strategy of latching Democratic candidates to their party’s most progressive police reform proposals will help the GOP win control of the House in next year’s midterms. Democratic state Rep. Melanie Stansbury and Republican state Sen. Mark Moores are facing
Continue ReadingMichael Flynn, former President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, appeared to endorse a Myanmar-style coup in the United States on Sunday. For months, QAnon and Trump-supporting online forums have celebrated the deadly military coup in Myanmar and suggested the same should happen in the United States so Trump could be reinstated as President. Flynn
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Monday thanked the National Guard troops who were deployed at the US Capitol for the past several months as their mission ended at the Capitol grounds on Sunday. “Since the insurrection on January 6, thousands of proud service members, from states and territories all across our
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden on Monday issued a proclamation to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, when hundreds of Black Americans were killed by a White mob that attacked a prosperous Black neighborhood and burned dozens of city blocks to the ground. Biden proclaimed Monday to be “Day of Remembrance: 100 Years After
Continue Reading President Joe Biden released a proclamation for a day of remembrance for the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, calling on the American people “to reflect on the deep roots of racial terror in our Nation and recommit to the work of rooting out systemic racism across our country.” Read the proclamation below: One
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden honored those who died serving in the military in Memorial Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday. “Remember their sacrifice, their valor and their grace,” Biden said. “Remember their smiles, their loves, their laughter, their essential vibrant and transcendent humanity.” The President said: “We must honor their sacrifice by sustaining the
Continue Reading The Supreme Court will decide as early as this week whether to hear a constitutional challenge to the male-only registration requirement for the draft filed by a group called the National Coalition for Men. The group is asking the justices to reconsider a 1981 decision that upheld the Military Selective Service Act under which men
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Texas Republicans’ push to enact a slew of new voting restrictions was stymied — at least for now — by Democrats who walked off the state House floor late Sunday night, leaving majority Republicans without the quorum they needed to approve the bill in the final hours before a midnight deadline. Their move effectively killed
Continue Reading The Justice Department has added four new defendants to the federal criminal conspiracy case against Oath Keepers who allegedly prepared for and took part in the US Capitol riot, according to a new indictment made public in DC District Court on Sunday. The newly named Oath Keeper defendants are Joseph Hackett, who went by “Ahab,”
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden said Sunday that he will discuss human rights abuses with Russian President Vladimir Putin when they meet in Switzerland next month. “I’ll be meeting with President Putin in a couple of weeks in Geneva, making it clear that we will not — we will not stand by and let him abuse those
Continue ReadingTransportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that there needs to be “a clear direction” on infrastructure talks by the time Congress returns from its recess next week, calling ongoing negotiations over the administration’s sweeping proposal “encouraging” while stressing that the public expects action on the issue soon. “This week Congress is out of Washington, but
Continue Reading The Department of Education under the Biden administration is rescinding a Trump-era policy that restricted states’ access to records and information in policing student loan servicing companies. Richard Cordray, the head of the Federal Student Aid office, announced new guidance Friday that he argued would “make it easier” for state attorneys general and regulators to
Continue ReadingFor the first few months of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, the campaign seemed to be trundling along in search of a defining issue. Covid-19 numbers were dropping, Democrats in Washington delivered financial aid to head off a potential budget crisis and, with the outlook generally bright, the candidates’ plans — many of them
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