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In a show of solidarity for arguably the most antisemitic member of congress, the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America is rallying around U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-12) after she was disciplined by her colleagues in a rare congressional censure.
The local chapter’s X account reposted the national organization’s screed over the U.S. House of Representatives vote last week to punish Tlaib.
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A super PAC funded by liberal megadonors and foundations announced a multi-million dollar push to register voters likely to support Democrats in 2024 state legislature elections.
Forward Majority Action on Monday announced the launch of its $25 million Battleground Voter Project, an initiative that aims to get people likely to support the Democratic Party registered to vote in the key states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas.
Protesters marching Monday to “Block Cop City” clashed with police, who used tear gas after the group blocked two lanes of traffic near the construction site of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-TN-07) recently announced a full Committee hearing examining “global threats to the U.S. homeland and our security interests abroad.”
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One of Mexico’s most prominent LGBTQ+ activists has been killed in an apparent knife attack in his home in the west-central state of Aguascalientes, the Mexican President announced Monday.
The escalation of the Gaza conflict has sparked calls to shun goods linked to the Jewish state
Lidl supermarkets have come under fire in France for allegedly trying to disguise the origin of products from Israel, local media reported over the weekend.
According to the reports, French netizens have spotted Lidl labeling Israeli avocados and pomegranates as being of African or even Spanish origin.
Israel’s PM declared that there is “no substitute” for “total victory” in Gaza
Islamist militants will pose a threat to the United States and Europe if Israel loses its current war with Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed, saying Western states would be next in line should his country fail.
While the prime minister acknowledged that Washington had been very supportive of Israel’s military action in Gaza, he rejected any calls for a ceasefire, insisting it would amount to a surrender to Hamas.
The Lebanese armed group has clashed with Israeli forces several times since fighting erupted in Gaza
Hezbollah will only step up its involvement in the conflict between Israel and Hamas if the Palestinian faction is completely eliminated in Gaza, a senior Hamas spokesman has said.
Speaking on Monday, Hamas’ representative in Beirut, Ahmed Abdul Hadi, said the allied militant group was not yet prepared to enter the fight, and would only escalate operations against Israel in the event of Hamas’ total defeat.
“Now is not the time,” Hadi said, as quoted by NBC News.
Trump aide told Georgia election case defendant ‘the boss is not going to leave’ White House: Report
Attorney Jenna Ellis informed Georgia prosecutors that one of former President Donald Trump’s top advisers told her after the 2020 election that “the boss is not going to leave under any circumstances.
The Aurus Senat will be the first Russian vehicle to be assembled in the Arab country and will later be joined by the Aurus Komendant SUV
Russia has started to assemble the domestic luxury car brand Aurus in the United Arab Emirates, Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov announced on Sunday.
Production started with the executive sedan, Aurus Senat, which was popularized as the official limo of Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to Manturov, there are also plans to expand manufacturing to Aurus Komendant SUVs at a later date, although no time frame was specified.
This is the ultimate rite of passage for Henrik Lundqvist, the King who officially ascended into Hockey Royalty upon his induction into the Hall of Fame here on Monday night.
On 1 November, Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valeriy Zaluzhny said in an interview that Kiev’s counteroffensive had reached a “stalemate”.
Dharamshala: As Tibetan schools in India celebrate Children’s Day today to honour the birth anniversary of India’s first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, on 14 November, Kalon (Minister) Tharlam Dolma Changra of the Department of Education, Central Tibetan Administration, sent a greeting message for the day. The Education Kalon, who has served over 37 years…
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Defense attorneys for David DePape, the man on trial for the attack of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in the couple’s San Francisco home, will call witnesses Tuesday as they argue DePape is not guilty of the crimes he’s been charged with.
The trial’s third day will start with a final witness from the prosecution, and defense attorneys say they hope to wrap up their case by day’s end. The case would then go to jurors.
Prosecutors say DePape bludgeoned Paul Pelosi in the early hours of Oct.
Does Hamas have a legitimate reason to attack Israel, and does Israel have a legitimate reason to respond in kind? Regardless of where one stands…
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Shakespeare once wrote the: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” Indeed, today, all the world is a stage….
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The Public Service Commission (PSC), CTA, announces a job vacancy for the post of Deputy Secretary. The interested applicants are requested to submit their required documents specified in the announcement with attestation to the following address by 4 pm on 13 December 2023. Read the detailed announcement in Tibetan here. Contact address &…
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There were rumors when Kristaps Porzingis was with the Knicks that he’d always be unsatisfied with not being the “face of the franchise” or becoming a secondary option.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to 30 million of the poorest Americans could be purged from the Medicaid program, many the result of error-ridden state reviews that poverty experts say the Biden administration is not doing enough to stop.
The projections from the health consulting firm Avalere come as states undertake a sweeping re-evaluation of the 94 million people enrolled in Medicaid, government’s health insurance for the neediest Americans.
In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the JoeBama Administration and Presidency. “This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. […]
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A former Fox News reporter who is refusing to divulge her sources could be held in contempt of court
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a case with potentially far-reaching press freedom implications, a federal judge in Washington is weighing whether to hold in contempt a veteran journalist who has refused to identify her sources for stories about a Chinese American scientist who was investigated by the FBI but never charged.
Dozens — or sometimes hundreds — of migrants pass through private property along the California-Mexico border daily, according to local landowners who say they feel helpless as human caravans cut through their land.
McDonald’s fans were gobsmacked after learning the key ingredient in Sweet ‘n’ Sour sauce…
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL. […]
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Democrats who were passing legislation at a historic pace will abruptly end their session Tuesday as they grapple with internal divisions and a temporarily deadlocked state House.
Lawmakers are adjourning nearly a month early and delaying key legislation until next year to ensure that new legislation will take effect making Michigan the fifth state to hold its presidential primary on Feb. 27.
The decision to end early also comes after two Democratic state representatives won mayoral races, erasing the House’s slim Democratic majority.
OPINION: As editor-in-chief of my student newspaper, I tried to publish a profile of an Israeli student facing terror. The fallout was typical. In the weeks since the Hamas invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, students and faculty at colleges across the U.S. have given way to the pressures of antisemitic, pro-Hamas voices, abandoning moral clarity and sound judgment.
Donald Trump is leading Joe Biden among independent voters, a new Cygnal poll found – the latest signal that Trump is gaining momentum less than a year out from the 2024 presidential election.
44 % of independents would vote for Trump, and 38 % would back Biden if the election were held today, the poll found. 18% of independents are undecided.
Trump’s favorability is six points higher among independents than Biden’s.
Wild big cats have long been rumoured to secretly stalk the British countryside.
Five American servicemen were killed in a helicopter crash during a training mission in the eastern Mediterranean this Veteran’s Day weekend.
The victims’ Blackhawk helicopter was conducting refueling training when an unspecified “emergency” occurred, the Pentagon said.
American troops killed
The victims were identified as Chief Warrant Officer 3 Stephen R. Dwyer, 38 of Clarksville, Tennessee, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Shane M. Barnes, 34, of Sacramento, California, Staff Sgt. Tanner W. Grone, 26, of Gorham, New Hampshire, Sgt. Andrew P.
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D
There is a usually good-natured rivalry between police officers and firefighters. Police officers say they are glad to serve because firefighters need heroes to look up to. They say that kids dressed as firefighters on Halloween can’t go to the door until a kid dressed as a police officer makes sure the scene is safe. All firefighters want to be cops, they just can’t pass the police exam. And so it goes.
“I have personally viewed the CCTV footage and it is crystal clear,” the attorney told the US Sun. “Edwin Castro purchased the winning Powerball ticket without question.
The FBI’s top brass labels agents with conservative views “disloyal” to the United States, according to new whistleblower evidence.
Insiders told the House Judiciary Committee that agents have faced retaliation and profiling based on their support of President Trump and past military service, the Washington Times reported.
Republicans are sure to cite the testimony as further evidence that the FBI has been politicized under President Biden.
The last government shutdown deadline ousted the House speaker. This week’s showdown could be easier
WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time Congress tried to fund the government to prevent a federal shutdown, it cost House Speaker Kevin McCarthy his job.
This time, new Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., appears on track for a better outcome Tuesday as the House prepares to vote on a stopgap package to keep the government running into the new year. If approved, the Senate would act next, ahead of Friday’s shutdown deadline.
After a scoreless second, the Oilers took control during consecutive power plays shortly before the midway point of the third.
DENVER (AP) — Prosecutors are finally set to lay out their case against a mentally ill man now deemed competent to stand trial in a mass shooting more than two years ago, accused of gunning down 10 people at a supermarket in a Colorado college town.
A judge planned a hearing Tuesday to decide if there is enough evidence for Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, who has schizophrenia, to go on trial in the March 22, 2021, shooting at a crowded King Soopers store in Boulder, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of Denver.
Authorities have not revealed if they know a motive for the shooting.
‘The idea is to expose students to an interdisciplinary framework that centers art and visuality, helping to destabilize our relationship to a future with incarceration imagined inside of it,’ professor says The University of California Santa Cruz plans to launch a certificate program next semester that advocates for prison abolition.
Despite ongoing advocacy and legislation to combat anti-Asian racism that arose after the pandemic, about a third of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders say they have experienced an act of abuse based on their race or ethnicity in the last year, including being on the receiving end of verbal harassment, slurs, physical threats or cyberbullying.
A new poll from AAPI Data and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds 15% of Asian American and Pacific Islanders specifically say they believe they have ever been the victim of a hate crime.
Dame Andrea Jenkyns, submitted a letter of no confidence in the Prime Minister to the 1922 Committee over his handling of the now-former home secretary.
New York congressman Brian Higgins is resigning his position.
A low-key moderate Democrat, Higgins has represented the Buffalo area in Washington since 2005. He cited frustration with political polarization in Washington D.C as his reason for leaving public office.
“It’s just a time for change, and I think this is the time,” he said.
“Congress is not the institution that I went to 19 years ago. It’s a very different place today,” he said. “We’re spending more time doing less. And the American people aren’t being served.
Dozens of Republican Congress members signed letters on Nov. 1 accusing five Ivy League universities of having condoned or failed to properly condemn antisemitism on campus. Rep.
At a cost of $250 million, Millennium Challenge 2002 was the largest and most expensive war game in Pentagon history.
With over 13,500 participants, the US government took over two years to design it.
The exercise pitted Iran against the US military. Washington intended to show how the US military could defeat Iran with ease.
Paul Van Riper, a three-star general and 41-year veteran of the Marine Corps, led Iranian forces in the war game.
Former House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said during a recent interview that he was considering not taking up a re-election campaign for the 2024 election cycle, according to The Washington Examiner.
McCarthy, who previously served as the House minority leader during the last Congress, won the speakership after more than a dozen rounds of voting, and only after acquiescing to a number of aggressively right-leaning lawmakers.
Trust in elections will never be restored when one side says fraud is a myth while making cheating easier.