Voters were reportedly turned away at a polling site in Detroit early on Election Day due to missing voting machines. A local ABC station reported that the voters were not able to vote at a polling location set up at Martin Luther King Jr. High School shortly after the polls opened because the precinct was ill-prepared. …
New York State Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi (D) defeated Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) on Tuesday, securing a victory for House Democrats in a closely watched contest. Brindisi, 39, toppled Tenney in New York’s 22nd Congressional District, flipping a district that President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back…
Advocates for strengthening personal data protections welcomed Sen. Ed Markey’s introduction Friday of the Privacy Bill of Rights Act as “necessary to ensuring that fairness, privacy, and civil rights flourish in the internet age.” “Senator Markey’s Privacy Bill of Rights Act sets a strong, rights-based standard for consumer privacy protection under federal law that goes…
Members of a climate advisory panel disbanded by President Donald Trump in 2017 launched an independent network on Thursday to help communities across the country with science-based guidance to tackle the challenges of a rapidly warming world. “We live in an era of climate change, and yet many of our systems, codes, and standards have…
The World Health Organization on Wednesday released guidelines on screen time for young children, recommending no “sedentary screen time” for one-year-olds and curbed access for older kids. For the guidelines, the Washington Post reported, the “WHO drew on emerging—but as yet unsettled—science about the risks screens pose to the development of young minds at a…
More than 400 former federal prosecutors asserted in a statement published on Medium Monday that President Donald Trump would face multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice if he did not hold his current office. “We recognize that prosecuting obstruction of justice cases is critical because unchecked obstruction… puts our whole system of justice at…
In a major immigration speech in Nevada on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders condemned President Donald Trump’s ongoing “dehumanization of undocumented people” and outlined his alternative agenda, which calls for an end to mass immigration raids and a ban on for-profit detention centers. “The time is long overdue for us to stand up and to tell…
Sen. Jon TesterJonathan (Jon) TesterSenate confirms Trump’s watchdog for coronavirus funds Montana barrels toward blockbuster Senate fight The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip MORE (D-Mont.) is the projected winner in Montana, surviving a race that tightened in the final weeks amid heavy campaigning by President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in…
A blue wave that washed over Republican-held suburbs across the country in last week’s midterm elections has reshaped the nation’s political map. Deep dissatisfaction with President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’…
Democrat Gina Ortiz Jones on Tuesday ended her bid to oust Rep. Will HurdWilliam Ballard HurdHouse Republicans hopeful about bipartisan path forward on police reform legislation House GOP delays police reform bill The Hill’s Morning Report – Trump’s public standing sags after Floyd protests MORE (R-Texas), acknowledging that she had come up short in the nail-biting…