Day: November 23, 2021

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George Clooney Allegedly Burnt Out Of Hollywood, Moving To Australia To Have Third Baby, Unverified Reports Say

Are George and Amal Clooney ditching Hollywood for a quiet life in Australia? Rumor has it, the couple might even be attempting for an additional child. Right here’s the newest from the tabloids. George Clooney ‘Burning Out’? Again in June, OK! reported George Clooney was bored with the humdrum of Hollywood. An insider informed the […]

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District That Banned LGBTQ Books Relents After Pressure From Students, ACLU

A school district in Kansas City, Missouri, has retreated from a policy of banning LGBTQ-themed books after a group of students and other organizations — including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) — demanded an end to the practice. The North Kansas City Schools District responding to complaints from parentsTwo books were removed earlier in […]

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Trump-Allied Lawyers Ordered to Pay $187,000 in Fees for Their Election Lawsuit

A federal judge in Colorado has ordered two Donald Trump-allied lawyers to pay a hefty fee for a lawsuit over the 2020 election that the judge had panned — and dismissed. The December 2020 lawsuit was dismissed in AprilTwo Colorado lawyers brought the case on behalf of the plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit. of the […]

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Subpoenas for Roger Stone, Alex Jones Expose Bizarre Underbelly of Jan. 6 Attack

Steve Bannon, Roger Stone and Alex Jones walked into a bar… there’s a joke somewhere in there, but I’m damned if I can put a finger on it. I will tell you this: If Bannon and Stone and Jones entered a plot to overthrow the national presidential election, then said plot is even more far […]

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Warren, Sanders Request 8 Million Student Loan Borrowers Be Moved Out of Default

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D.Massachusetts), has led an effort to ask the Department of Education for student loan borrowers to be moved out of default status before payments resume in February. Over 8 million people are currently in default on their student loans, according to Warren’s letter addressed to Education Secretary Miguel Cardonas, and over 93 […]

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Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic Is at the Center of Case That Could End “Roe”

Original publication by The 19th.This project was published in collaboration with The Guardian. Jackson, Mississippi — The Pink House wasn’t Tiara’s first choice. It wasn’t even her second. It was the only place that could help her. Tiara, who kept her full name secret for privacy, lives near Beaumont, Texas. She and her husband have […]

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Corporate Democrats Quiet as Military Budget Far Exceeds Cost of Biden’s Agenda

Right-wing Democrats who have spent the past several months griping about the cost of the Build Back Better Act — and lopping roughly $2 trillion off the bill’s top line — are facing growing pushback from progressive lawmakers and analysts as Congress gets ready to approve a military budget that’s far more expensive on an […]

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Hoping to Lower Pain at the Pump, White House Says It’s Opening Oil Reserves

Tuesday’s announcement by the Biden administration was that oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve will be released to lower gas prices in order to help Americans travel more during the holiday season. President Joe Biden will authorize the release of 50 million barrels of oilIn the hope that an increase in supply will lower gas […]

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Anti-History Laws Are Right’s Attempt to Control Our Memory

Picture Credit score: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Basis Amid a right-wing assault on instructing essential race concept, we converse in-depth with Pulitzer Prize–profitable journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the New York Occasions Journal’s 1619 Venture, which reframes U.S. historical past by marking the 12 months when the primary enslaved Africans arrived on Virginia […]

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Georgia GOP Redraws Political Map as Senate Democrats Do Nothing

Voting rights advocates within and beyond Georgia ramped up calls for congressional action after the Peach State’s Republican lawmakers became the latest to approve a gerrymandered political map intended to give the GOP a political advantage for the next decade. The following are some examples similar movesIn the state legislatures controlled by the GOP Ohio […]

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