Month: September 2020

Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum (D) withdrew his concession to Republican candidate Ron DeSantisRonald Dion DeSantisGOP tentatively decides on Jacksonville for site of convention DeSantis pushing to host Republican National Convention in Florida Florida bars and theaters to reopen starting Friday, DeSantis says MORE in the Florida gubernatorial race on Saturday as a recount in the state begins. […]

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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government began preparing for a possible pandemic as soon as it received the first alert about a mysterious cluster of pneumonia cases in China on New Year’s Eve. Trudeau is defending his government against accusations it didn’t act fast enough to warn Canadians about the danger […]

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Rep.-elect Lucy McBath (D-Ga.-06) DATE OF BIRTH: June 1, 1960RESIDENCE: Marietta, Ga.OCCUPATION: Gun control advocateEDUCATION: B.A., Virginia State UniversityFAMILY: Husband, Curtis First-time candidate and gun control advocate Lucy McBath pulled off an upset, defeating Republican Rep. Karen HandelKaren Christine HandelJon Ossoff to challenge David Perdue after winning Georgia Democratic primary The Hill’s Campaign Report: Bad […]

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The progressive group Justice Democrats rebuked Rep. Cheri BustosCheryl (Cheri) Lea BustosGOP pulls support from California House candidate over ‘unacceptable’ social media posts Republican flips House seat in California special election GOP’s Don Bacon and challenger neck and neck in Democratic poll MORE (D-Ill.) on Thursday after she said that the job of her party’s […]

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Israel is auctioning off classrooms it seized from the occupied West Bank last year, a move that one Palestinian advocate called “truly appalling.” The Guardian reported Friday on the auction, expected to be held in the next two weeks. “This is so shockingly cruel and brazenly defiant in the face of international law,” said James […]

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An activist who was put on trial for providing water and humanitarian aid to migrants in the American Southwest desert was acquitted Tuesday by a hung jury.  Scott Warren, a 36 year-old from Ajo, Arizona, who is a professor of geography at Arizona State University, worked with the humanitarian organization No More Deaths for years […]

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As part of a bold legislative package that would make public colleges and universities tuition-free, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday unveiled a plan to wipe out the $1.6 trillion in student loan debt that is saddling an estimated 45 million Americans. “In a generation hard hit by the Wall Street crash of 2008, it forgives […]

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In response to photos, news reports, and first-hand accounts of the horrific conditions inside Border Patrol detention centers in Texas, President Donald Trump on Wednesday fired off a tweet blaming migrants themselves for the abuse they are now enduring at the hands of his administration. “If illegal immigrants are unhappy with the conditions in the […]

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After experiencing firsthand how voter suppression impacts elections in her narrowly unsuccessful Georgia gubernatorial race against Republican Brian Kemp, Stacey Abrams on Tuesday launched an initiative aimed at bolstering voter protections nationwide ahead of the 2020 elections. “There are only two things stopping us in 2020: that people have a reason to vote, and that […]

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