Artist known for Lakeland murals a featured guest at Latino-themed gathering for creators Gabriela Jaxon, a graduate of Harrison School for the Arts, was invited to join a discussion as part of Meta’s Dale Tú Summit in Los Angeles. 05/16/2024 - 10:15 pm | View Link
Suburban schools becoming less white, more Latino 70 years after Brown decision Suburban schools are seeing dramatic surges in segregation as white enrollments fall and Latino enrollments jump, according to two reports and an Axios review of federal data. Why it matters: As the U ... 05/16/2024 - 9:30 pm | View Link
Suburban schools becoming less white, more Latino Suburban schools are seeing dramatic surges in segregation as white enrollments fall and Latino enrollments jump, according to two reports and an Axios review of federal data. Why ... 05/16/2024 - 9:30 pm | View Link
Angeles Investors Unveils Top 100 Hispanic and Latino Venture Startups at Q2 Summit Event & Awards SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Angeles Investors, a leading investment community dedicated to finding, funding, and growing the most promising Hispanic and Latino startup ventures, is ... 05/16/2024 - 7:04 pm | View Link
Latinos found jobs and cheap housing in a Pennsylvania city but political power has proven elusive A federal lawsuit argues the way representatives are elected to a local school board in Pennsylvania's coal region is unfairly shutting Latino voters out of power. 05/16/2024 - 6:17 pm | View Link
Who is Hispanic? | Pew Research Center The term is not well known among the population it is meant to describe. In a 2019 Center survey, only 23% of U.S. adults who self-identified as Hispanic or Latino had heard of the term, and just 3% said they use it to describe themselves. However, awareness and use of the term varied across subgroups of Hispanics. 05/10/2024 - 6:44 am | View Link
Bipartisan group asks Biden to stand in way if international court goes ... Latino 18 senators push to fund immigration court children’s docket by Rafael Bernal. 2 days ago Latino / 2 days ago Latino Biden to tighten national security, public safety asylum screenings ... 05/10/2024 - 5:32 am | View Link
Latino History | National Museum of the American Latino Latino history in what is now the United States goes back even before early Spanish colonization. As part of the largest ethnic group in the United States, Latinas and Latinos have significantly contributed to the nation’s identity and have played a vital role in shaping American culture. The Latino population in the United States has grown ... 05/10/2024 - 5:18 am | View Link
Facts on Latinos in the U.S. There were 62.5 million Latinos in the United States in 2021, accounting for approximately 19% of the total U.S. population. In 1980, with a population of 14.8 million, Hispanics made up just 7% of the total U.S. population. For more, read the accompanying blog post, “ 11 facts about Hispanic origin groups in the U.S. ”. 05/10/2024 - 3:59 am | View Link
Hispanic Americans | Definition, History, People, & Population Hispanic Americans, people living in the United States who are descendants of Spanish-speaking peoples. Since most Hispanics trace their ancestry to Latin America, they are also often called Latinos. Hispanics make up the largest ethnic minority in the United States, forming more than one-sixth of the country’s population. 05/10/2024 - 1:07 am | View Link
New York prosecutors trying to convict Donald Trump for falsifying business records face a formidable challenge: They have to convince a jury to trust the word of a convicted perjurer.
The credibility of Michal Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, dominated the fifth week of the former President’s trial. Cohen’s testimony lies at the heart of the charges that Trump allegedly directed a scheme to hide hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election and lied on business forms to conceal campaign finance violations.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
A “deal” allegedly offered by Donald Trump to Big Oil executives as he sought $1 billion in campaign donations could save the industry $110 billion in tax breaks if he returns to the White House, an analysis suggests.
The fundraising dinner held last month at Mar-a-Lago with more than 20 executives, including from Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Occidental Petroleum, reportedly involved Trump asking for large campaign contributions and promising, if elected, to remove barriers to drilling, scrap a pause on gas exports, and reverse new rules aimed at cutting car pollution.
Congressional Democrats have launched an investigation into the “ethical, campaign finance, and legal issues” raised by what one Democratic senator called an “offer of a blatant quid pro quo,” while a prominent watchdog group is exploring whether the meeting warrants legal action.
But the analysis shared with the Guardian shows that the biggest motivation for oil and gas companies to back Trump appears to be in the tax system, with about $110 billion in tax breaks for the industry at stake should Joe Biden be re-elected in November’s election.
Biden wants to eliminate the tax breaks, which include long-standing incentives to help drill for oil and gas, with a recent White House budget proposal targeting $35 billion in domestic subsidies and $75 billion in overseas fossil fuel income.
“Big oil executives are sweating in their seats at the thought of losing $110 billion in special tax loopholes under Biden in 2025,” said Lukas Ross, a campaigner at Friends of the Earth Action, which conducted the analysis.
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If Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had any shame or scruples, he would have resigned already as a result of the corruption reported on by ProPublica. That’s not counting his refusal to recuse himself from cases that his coup-plotting wife has stuck her nose into. Nor the dark money she has received to promote causes he rules on.
At the very least, Thomas now has some ‘splaining to do about that ultra-luxury RV he purchased with the help of one of his rich pals.
On this day in 1967, singer-songwriter Glen Campbell recorded one of his signature hits, “Gentle on My Mind” at Hollywood’s Capitol Recording Studio.
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Attention space nerds!
Donald Trump brain went into system overload yet again while on stage a few days ago; he slurred, made up nonsensical words and sounded like his cerebral cortex was shutting down. The man AIN'T WELL.
Trump shouldn't be speaking in public, much less running to be leader of the free world (though, should he win, it'd be leader of the kinda, sometimes free world at best, totalitarian America at worst).