Coalition on immigration bill clears first tests The bipartisan coalition behind a contentious overhaul of immigration laws stuck together on a critical early series of test votes Thursday, turning back challenges from conservative critics as the Senate Judiciary Committee refined legislation to secure the nation's borders and offer eventual citizenship to millions living illegally in the United States. More
Republicans to back Obama's student loan plan House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans. More
Obama to open middle-class jobs, opportunity tour Aiming to show he's still focused on creating jobs, President Barack Obama is beginning a series of quick trips around the country to resurrect ideas from his State of the Union address that became overshadowed by the intense debates over gun control, immigration and automatic spending cuts. More
GOP boycotts health care advisory board House and Senate Republican leaders told President Barack Obama Thursday that they will refuse to nominate candidates to serve on an advisory board that is to play a role in holding down Medicare costs under the new health care act. More
Is Texas About to Turn Latinos Into Single-Issue Voters? In 2020, more than 813,000 Latinos showed up to vote in Arizona. While some Latino communities in Arizona saw a rightward shift, it was much more muted than it was in Texas; some areas even shifted ... 04/16/2024 - 5:33 am | View Link
Latinos are voting more in line with White, non-Hispanic blue-collar workers: ex-GOP strategist Mike Madrid In an interview with The Latin Times, Madrid reflects on the strategies each party must adopt to secure the support of the largest minority group in the US ... 04/15/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Paterson is 70% Hispanic, but few Latinos run for City Council. A group is taking action Only three incumbents on the nine-member council are Latino. One advocacy group is trying to awaken the city's "silent" majority. 04/15/2024 - 9:16 pm | View Link
People with disabilities love this program. Why are Latinos underrepresented? Latinos have remained underrepresented in a California program that has been lauded for giving people with disabilities more freedom to decide what they need. 04/14/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Latinos' Degree Completion Rate Plateaus Despite Decade of Accelerated Progress: Excelencia in Education CEO Latinos make strides in college degree attainment in the U.S., but lag behind other groups, says Deborah Santiago ... 04/14/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Former President Donald Trump railed against the gag order Judge Juan Merchan put in place that bars Trump from talking about witnesses, jurors, prosecutors' staff, court staff and the family members of court staff and prosecutors.
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Rare is the member of Congress who represents a district that voted for the other party’s nominee for President. Gerrymandering has rendered those political survivors harder to find than unicorns while reducing the truly competitive House districts to so few they fit on a single whiteboard in strategists’ offices.
The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday by the Biden administration.
The new provisions are part of a revised Title IX regulation issued by the Education Department, fulfilling a campaign pledge by President Joe Biden.
Colorado lawmakers have again rejected a bill that would have allowed supervised drug-use sites to open in willing cities — the third time in a year legislators have killed the proposal.
On Thursday night, two Democratic senators joined with the Senate Health and Human Service Committee’s three Republicans in voting to kill House Bill 1028, two weeks after it passed the House.
With Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson struggling to hold onto the gavel in the face of eternal rebellion from some of his party’s most intransigent far-right members, Politico thought it would be a good idea to call up former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to ask him about the situation.