Politics
Rachael Rollins was given the latest in a series of setbacks in her nomination process to be the first Black woman U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts after Senate Republicans disingenuously described Boston's DA as being "pro-crime."
While Sen. Tim Scott has gotten the bulk of the blame for police reform failing, Bridgett Floyd, George Floyd's sister, said she doesn't "feel that Biden is stepping up as the President and doing the right thing."
The rhetoric following the failure to pass police reform placed the blame squarely on Democrats embracing "defund the police" language, but two law enforcement groups have joined those who suggest that's a lie pushed by Sen. Tim Scott.
One of the more telling responses to the humanitarian crisis at the nation's southern border has been how right-wing conservatives have embraced Border Patrol despite -- or because -- its agents used horse reins to whip Haitian migrants.
Polls in recent months have shown Americans, including those identifying as Republicans, support allowing the federal government to negotiate lower drug prices.
The House committee has issued its first batch of subpoenas for four of ex-President Donald Trump's close advisers and associates, some of whom were in contact with him the day of the Jan. 6, Capitol riot he helped instigate with his months-long "stop the steal" propaganda campaign.
Despite a seemingly neverending string of tragedies that have left its people desperate for help, data shows that the U.S. grants asylum to Haitians at the lowest rate among people from any other nationality who are similarly seeking refuge.
Rhode Island State Rep. Anastasia P. Williams is under fire for saying the state's own homeless and poor populations should be prioritized before the state starts housing Afghan refugee "strangers."
Despite still-fresh images of white men on horseback rounding up Haitian migrants in Texas, the Biden administration is on the hunt for a new contract to operate a migrant detention facility at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
“We really also want to engage folks in our advocacy [work] which is really preparing them to understand and advocate to pass laws, like the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act, because all of this is connected.”
Republican candidate for Nevada's lieutenant governor, Mack Miller, was violently thrown out of a Clark County Committee meeting where a resolution declaring misinformation on the COVID-19 vaccines a public health crisis was announced.
In a stunning reversal, Haitian migrants who gathered in Texas to seek asylum were reportedly not facing deportations and being allowed to stay in the U.S. after outrage grew from Border Patrol agents on horseback appearing to whip them.
