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
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Is Texas About to Turn Latinos Into Single-Issue Voters? In the days after the November election in 2020, I traveled from Laredo, Texas, down along the Rio Grande into one of the great heartlands of Mexican America, a place locals proudly refer to by its ... 04/14/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
One in Four Latinos Forced to Sell Belongings to Afford Housing, Study Finds Less than half of Latinos in the U.S. say they can easily afford their housing payments, leaving them needing to make sacrifices in their daily lives ... 04/9/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
40 percent of US Latinos want a cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war: Poll About 40 percent of U.S. Latino adults believe the U.S. should push for an immediate cease-fire in Israel’s war with Palestinian militant group Hamas, according to a new poll. An Ipsos-Axios poll, ... 04/9/2024 - 12:01 pm | View Link
Opinion: Haley voters could be key for Biden Barack Obama got it right. He refused to be held captive to his party’s left wing. He adopted a strenuous policy of border enforcement, even as some Latino activists threatened to withhold their ... 04/9/2024 - 11:08 am | View Link
“This week, one presidential candidate has called the other a loser, made fun of him for selling Bibles, and even poked fun at his hair,” the New York Times reports.
“That kind of taunting is generally more within the purview of former President Donald J. Trump, whose insults are so voluminous and so often absurd that they have been cataloged by the hundreds.
Following the indictment of Donald Trump’s allies over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Arizona, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer told Margaret Hoover that those efforts came “quite close” to succeeding.
Said Richer: “I think we put ourselves in a pretty perilous situation.”
“The Biden administration is reversing course on its plan to ban menthol cigarettes, after the White House weighed the potential public-health benefits of banning minty smokes against the political risk of angering Black voters in an election year,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Donald Trump suggested someone is purposely keeping him a “freezing” courtroom for his hush money criminal trial.
Said Trump: “We have another day in court, in a freezing courthouse. It’s very cold in there, on purpose I believe.”
“All charges have been declined against the 57 people arrested in connection to the Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas,” the Austin American-Statesman reports.