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New York has reached its target of giving at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to 70 percent of its adult residents, Spectrum News reported, citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The benchmark has been touted by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the number the Empire[Read More…]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in the event that Republicans take back control of the Senate, it would be “highly unlikely” that a Supreme Court nominee picked by President Joe Biden would be confirmed in 2024. “I think in the middle of a presidential election, if you have a[Read More…]
The Arizona legislature is ready to take action if the election audit taking place in the state’s largest county uncovers irregularities, a state senator said. “It’ll be our duty to act in whatever way is appropriate,” Arizona Sen. Wendy Rogers, a Republican who has been closely tracking the audit in[Read More…]
A federal judge in Wisconsin has halted the Biden administration’s debt relief program for minority farmers, issuing a restraining order that will freeze the $4 billion initiative while a lawsuit filed by a group of white farmers claiming discrimination proceeds. In late April, Republican Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller sued[Read More…]
On Friday, House Democrats introduced five new bills meant to chip away at the power of big tech companies, targeting a variety of practices that antitrust advocates say are stifling competition. These measures are the House Judiciary Committee’s historic, 16-month long investigation into the business tactics of companies like Apple,[Read More…]
Nickelodeon, the children’s network, debuted a video over the weekend featuring drag queen Nina West explaining the colors of the LGBTQ Pride flag, the latest in a series of materials aimed at explaining Pride month to Nickelodeon viewers, most of whom are children. The video, “The Meaning of Pride,” was[Read More…]
A new CDC study finds the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) reduce the risk of infection by 91 percent for fully vaccinated people. This adds to the growing body of real-world evidence of their effectiveness. This study is among the first to[Read More…]
Former Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday night that he doesn’t believe he and former President Donald Trump will ever see “eye to eye” over the Jan. 6 riot. In a speech to a Republican group in New Hampshire, Pence called Jan. 6 “a dark day in the history of[Read More…]
US Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday said the US hopes to work with Guatemala to address the causes of illegal migration by bringing “a sense of hope” to a country plagued by poverty and violence. Vice President Harris, on her first trip abroad since taking office, met President Alejandro[Read More…]
Kamala Harris snapped at Lester Holt on Tuesday when he asked why she has refused to the border in the 76 days since President Joe Biden put her in charge of the crisis. During a portion of the interview played by NBC’s “The Today Show,” Holt pushed Harris on why[Read More…]
