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☆ Harris recalibrates policy stances as she adjusts to role atop Democratic ticket
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Arit John | Kayla Tausche | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —As the burgeoning Kamala Harris campaign works behind the scenes to refine its policy platform, the vice president has increasingly found herself clarifying which of her positions have shifted over the years. A Harris campaign official said Monday she no longer supports a fracking ban. Single-payer health careHarris’ campaign also confirmed this week that the vice president no longer supports a single-payer health care system. As vice president, Harris supported a bipartisan border bill that would have ramped up enforcement at the US-Mexico border. In June 2024, the White House announced a crackdown on asylum claims meant to continue reducing the flow – a policy that Harris’ campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, indicated would continue under a Harris administration.

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☆ The Stranger in Seattle Gets a New Owner, With Plans for Expansion
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Katie Robertson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For decades, many American cities had at least one thriving alternative-weekly newspaper chronicling the local art and music scene and reporting on the community. Many of those publications withered in recent years, but two of the country’s best known alt-weeklies, The Stranger in Seattle and The Portland Mercury, now have plans for expansion. Mr. Walkinshaw declined to disclose the financial details of the purchase, but he said that he was the majority shareholder. Index will keep a 20 percent stake in the company. A group of about 20 individual investors helped finance the deal, Mr. Walkinshaw said.

Persons: Brady Walkinshaw, Walkinshaw Organizations: The Portland Mercury, Democratic, Portland Mercury, Index Newspapers Locations: Seattle, Washington State

☆ Italy's Meloni vows to 'relaunch' cooperation with China
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni vowed on Sunday to "relaunch" cooperation with China, signing a three-year action plan during her first official visit to Beijing since taking office. The Italian leader said her five-day trip was a "demonstration of the will to begin a new phase, to relaunch our bilateral cooperation." Later in the day Meloni said that an industrial cooperation memorandum signed by Italy and China includes strategic industrial sectors such as electric mobility and renewables. Meloni, who sees Chinese investment as a way to spur Italy's anemic economic growth, will meet Xi and China's top legislator, Zhao Leji, third in the leadership hierarchy. Meloni is expected to raise Chinese overcapacity with Chinese officials, as well as Chinese economic support for Russia in its war with Ukraine.

Persons: Giorgia Meloni, Meloni, Premier Li Qiang, Xi, Qiang, Zhao Leji, Leonardo, Gabbana Organizations: Italian, Premier, Xi Jinping's, Pirelli, ENI, Russia Locations: China, Beijing, Rome, Italy, Ukraine

☆ Sheila Jackson Lee, long-serving Democratic congresswoman and advocate for Black Americans, dies at 74
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Michelle Shen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Sheila Jackson Lee, a longtime Democratic congresswoman from Texas who was an outspoken advocate for Black Americans for decades, has died. Jackson Lee announced in June that she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty ImagesDuring her congressional tenure, Jackson Lee was an outspoken advocate for progressive interests and Black Americans. “Congresswoman Jackson Lee was a patriot and a fighter to the very end. She will be deeply missed by all who knew her,” Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Steven Horsford and members of the Congressional Black Caucus said in a statement following her death.

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☆ Five jailed for up to 34 years for murdering Ecuador’s presidential candidate
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Reuters —A court in Ecuador on Friday handed down prison sentences for five people found guilty of murdering presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. Journalist and former legislator Villavicencio was shot while leaving a rally in August 2023, becoming the most prominent victim of Ecuador’s spiraling violence. Both Angulo and Castillo were sentenced to 34 years and eight months. One of the hitmen died at the scene of Villavicencio’s murder and seven other suspects - mostly Colombian citizens - were murdered in October while being held in prisons on pre-trial detention. Villavicencio’s friends and family have decried multiple delays and urged investigation into who ordered the killing.

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☆ New Jersey Democratic power broker pleads not guilty to state racketeering charges
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

New Jersey businessman and co-owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer, George Norcross walks to Judge Patricia McInerney's courtroom at City Hall in Philadelphia. The New Jersey Democratic power broker charged with racketeering by the state attorney general pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges he threatened people whose properties he sought to take over and orchestrated tax incentive legislation to benefit organizations he controlled. "My client emphatically states that he is not guilty," Norcross' attorney Michael Critchley told Judge Peter Warshaw. A longtime kingmaker in southern New Jersey, Norcross often wielded influence through back channels. His brothers are lobbyist and co-defendant Philip Norcross — who pleaded not guilty on Tuesday as well — and U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross, a former state legislator who is not charged.

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☆ AI is amplifying social media disinformation — and making Big Tech civilly liable may be the key to stemming it
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

AI-generated so-called deepfakes are only exacerbating the problem and making it easier than ever to spread disinformation and misinformation via social media. Social media companies are protected from civil liability under a US lawSocial media has largely gone unregulated since its birth nearly three decades ago. So what's been the struggle for the government to address the issue of disinformation and misinformation on social media head-on? Related storiesMcQuade proposed amending Section 230 in order to hold social media companies accountable under certain circumstances. Major social media companies have their own misinformation policiesMany major social media companies, including Meta, TikTok and X, have their own policies when it comes to tackling misinformation and disinformation.

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☆ China coast guard detains Taiwanese fishing boat near frontline islands, Taiwan says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Eric Cheung | Nectar Gan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Taipei, Taiwan CNN —China’s coast guard detained a Taiwanese fishing vessel and its five-member crew near the mainland’s southeast coast on Tuesday night, according to Taiwan authorities, in the latest flare-up of tensions in waters around a group of frontline islands controlled by Taipei. In a statement, Taiwan’s coast guard said the fishing boat, Tachinman 88, was intercepted by two Chinese coast guard vessels near the Kinmen islands, which lie just miles from the Chinese city of Xiamen. China coast guard officers boarded the fishing boat and then escorted it to a nearby Chinese port, the statement said, adding that three Taiwan coast guard vessels answered a call for help but retreated to avoid conflict when they were outnumbered by their Chinese counterparts. The Taiwan coast guard demanded the immediate release of the boat and crew members. In late February, Chinese coast guard officers intercepted and boarded a Taiwanese tourist boat for inspection, an unprecedented move that startled Taiwanese passengers.

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☆ In South Carolina, 3 G.O.P. Senators Fought an Abortion Ban. They Lost Their Races.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Kate Zernike | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Last year, the five self-proclaimed “Sister Senators” from South Carolina were awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award after they joined together across party lines to block the legislature from passing a near-total abortion ban. But a prize from the nation’s most storied Democratic family may not be the best calling card in Republican primaries in the red-state South. All three of the Republican women in the group of five — the others were a Democrat and an independent — faced primary challenges, and all three have now lost. State Senator Katrina Shealy, who was the only female member of the chamber after she won in 2012, failed to win a runoff on Tuesday against the son of a former legislator. The two others lost earlier this month: Penry Gustafson lost by a 64 point margin; Sandy Senn lost by 33 votes, small enough to trigger a recount, but conceded the race before that.

Persons: “, John F, Katrina Shealy, Penry Gustafson, Sandy Senn Organizations: Kennedy, Republican, Democrat Locations: South Carolina

☆ Opinion: Call it ‘Make America Chaste Again.’ And it’s a losing message for the GOP in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Opinion Karen Finney | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

In a recent television interview, Trump said he was considering restricting access to birth control and leaving the decision to the states. Taking to social media, Trump falsely claimed that neither he nor the Republican Party supported imposing restrictions on or banning birth control. The plans call for again attacking birth control through executive action, including threatening access to IUDs and emergency contraception. In Arizona, GOP Senate Majority Leader Sonny Borrelli absurdly suggested that women could simply hold “an aspirin between their knees” as birth control. In Iowa, legislation falsely conflated birth control with abortion to block the approval of over-the-counter birth control pills.

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The Hong Kong and Beijing governments have repeatedly denied the national security law is suppressing freedoms, arguing it has ended chaos and “restored stability” to the city. Since the national security law came into effect in 2020, civil groups have disbanded, and independent media outlets have been shut down. They are the first defendants to be acquitted in a national security law trial in Hong Kong. But that strategy is in doubt after another local national security law enacted earlier this year curtailed access to reduced sentences for guilty pleas. “It’s absolutely clear that the national security law reduced the independence and the autonomy of the judiciary.

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☆ Trump Elevates a Conservative ‘Warrior’ on Education
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( Alexandra Berzon | Michael C. Bender | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ms. Donalds was singled out for opening a charter school in Florida. He is just a “poor kid from Brooklyn,” he said, who made good by doggedly pursuing his interests. He urged the group to do the same: “Be bold.”Mr. Donalds’s career is a testament to his advice. His interests — in overhauling public education, evangelical Christianity and electing Donald J. Trump — have propelled a rapid political ascent. A backbencher congressman in only his second term, Mr. Donalds, 45, has fast become a prominent surrogate for Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign and a conservative media regular, serving up earnest and on-message defenses of the former president.

Persons: Byron Donalds, Erika, Donalds, “, ” Mr, ”, doggedly, Mr, Donald J, Trump Organizations: Republican, Truth & Liberty Coalition Locations: Florida, Brooklyn

☆ New York State Sen. Andrew Gounardes on recently introduced internet child safety bills
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailNew York State Sen. Andrew Gounardes on recently introduced internet child safety billsNew York State Sen. Andrew Gounardes, D-26, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the legislator's fight for online safety, the issues with some of the social media algorithms at hand, and more.

Persons: New York State Sen, Andrew Gounardes, York State Sen Organizations: New York State, York State

☆ Jamaal Bowman may be the most endangered Squad member. He doesn't seem alarmed.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

Advertisement"He was recruited by AIPAC to run against us because we called for a permanent cease-fire," Bowman said of Latimer. In January, Bowman lost the support of the liberal pro-Israel group J Street over his rhetoric on Israel. Like Bowman, Latimer has a blunt and direct speaking style that sometimes leades to gaffes, such as his invocation of the racist lynching of Emmett Till when commenting on the sexual misconduct allegations against then-Gov. When asked about Bowman's charge of racism, Latimer pointed to his appointment of Ken Jenkins, a Black man, as his deputy county executive. Bowman and Latimer have known each other for nearly four years, first meeting for coffee after the congressman's 2020 primary victory.

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☆ Ted Cruz, Better Known For Derailing Bills, Tries on a New Hat: Legislator
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Kayla Guo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Senator Ted Cruz is rebranding — at least for now. But for the first time this week, Mr. Cruz, now the senior Republican on the Commerce Committee, embraced a wholly unfamiliar role: managing a major piece of legislation on the Senate floor. It came as Mr. Cruz, who is running for re-election in November, is trying to moderate his reputation in Texas and present himself as capable of bipartisanship. That involved protecting the package from the sort of legislative and procedural bombs he has lobbed proudly throughout his career. “I will admit that I’ve had a couple of chuckles about it,” Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the top Republican on the Appropriations Committee, said with a smile.

Persons: Ted Cruz, Cruz, “, I’ve, Susan Collins of Organizations: Texas Republican, Affordable, Republican, Commerce, Federal Aviation Administration Locations: Texas, Susan Collins of Maine

☆ Marjorie Taylor Greene dares Mike Johnson to kick her off committees again: 'Badge of honor'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

House Speaker Mike Johnson might start cracking down on Republicans who defy him. MTG, who's forcing a vote to try to oust Johnson this week, doesn't seem to mind. AdvertisementRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is daring House Speaker Mike Johnson to kick her off of her committees again. Speaker Mike Johnson is talking about kicking Republican members off of committees if we vote against his rules/bills. Related storiesA person familiar with Johnson's remarks told Business Insider that they were hypothetical and referred to changes that House Republicans may make under the next Congress, rather than in the immediate future.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Johnson, —, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Chuck Schumer, Biden’s, It’s, Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 ( Organizations: Service, Georgia Republican, Republican, Republicans

☆ Boebert continues stoking controversy amid intense battle to keep her job
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Melanie Zanona | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“It hasn’t encumbered her job performance,” GOP Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida told CNN. I’m not afraid of a challenge though,” Boebert told CNN before the House left for a two-week break. And unfortunately, I’ve had a front row seat,” Boebert told CNN. “I did it because we don’t have to have two separate elections and cost the taxpayers two separate elections,” he told CNN. And she’s probably made more jokes about her own stupidity in that movie theater than I’ve heard elsewhere,” one GOP lawmaker told CNN.

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☆ How Patty Murray Used Her Gavel to Win $1 Billion for Child Care
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Catie Edmondson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Senator Patty Murray got inspired to enter politics when a male state legislator derided her efforts to fight budget cuts to early education programs, calling her “just a mom in tennis shoes” — a remark she would proudly adopt as her campaign slogan. Tucked into the $1.2 trillion spending law Congress cleared last week was an additional $1 billion for a single year for child care and early education programs. Ms. Murray accomplished that feat against substantial political headwinds. Their agreement effectively froze expenditures on everything except the military, translating into deep cuts to social programs. But Ms. Murray, together with Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, her Democratic counterpart in the House, pushed Republicans to accept a 9 percent increase in spending for child care subsidies for low-income families, and a $275 million increase in spending for Head Start, the federal program for low-income preschool children.

Persons: Patty Murray, Murray, Biden, Kevin McCarthy, Rosa DeLauro Organizations: Democratic Locations: Connecticut

☆ The Homeowners Who Beat the National Association of Realtors
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Debra Kamin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Rhonda Burnett went to sell a home in 2016, she knew she would have to pay a commission to her real estate agent. Ms. Burnett was instructed to select one, and she picked 6 percent. “I shop sales,” Ms. Burnett, 70, said with a laugh. She spent three decades as a stay-at-home mother while her husband, Scott Burnett, 72, worked for a waste management company and spent 20 years working as a local legislator. But when I asked her if I could negotiate, she said, ‘No, you really can’t.’”

Persons: Rhonda Burnett, Scott Burnett, Burnett, “, Ms, “ I’m, ‘, ’ Locations: Kansas, Hyde, Kansas City

☆ Venezuela’s Democratic Hopes Dim as Opposition Is Blocked From National Vote
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Genevieve Glatsky | Isayen Herrera | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Then, it was supposed to be Corina Yoris, a little-known philosophy professor. But now, an opposition coalition has been blocked from fielding any candidate to run against President Nicolás Maduro in elections scheduled in July. The coalition of opposing political parties, the Democratic Unity Roundtable, had hoped that uniting behind a single candidate would make it a viable challenger to Mr. Maduro. But on Monday, a national electoral commission controlled by allies of Mr. Maduro used a technical maneuver to prevent the coalition from putting a candidate on the ballot. As a result Mr. Maduro, whose repressive rule has left Venezuela in financial ruin and helped push out roughly one-fourth of its population, is increasingly likely to hold onto power.

Persons: María Corina Machado, Nicolás Maduro, Maduro Organizations: Democratic Unity Roundtable Locations: Venezuela

☆ Tennessee Republican sued over post falsely identifying Kansas man as Chiefs parade shooter and 'illegal Alien'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Zoë Richards | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A Kansas man is suing Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., over social media posts that falsely identified him as an undocumented immigrant and one of the shooters in the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade that turned deadly last month. "At no time was Plaintiff an 'alien,' an 'illegal alien,' nor a 'shooter' and the assertions to the contrary were false and were circulated widely among Defendant's followers," the lawsuit states. Burchett in February posted an image of Loudermill on X, identifying him as "one of the Kansas City Chiefs victory parade shooters" and "an illegal Alien." Federal courts require cases seeking damages between people in different states, such as this one, to exceed $75,000. Although he was released and not cited or charged with a crime, the lawsuit states, his image began circulating on social media, eventually landing on Burchett's page.

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☆ Wyoming Bans Gender Transition Care for Minors
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-22 | by ( Amy Harmon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mark Gordon’s signature, Wyoming joins 23 other states that have passed partial or total bans on gender-affirming care in recent years. Wyoming’s bill, known as Senate File 99, was approved by lawmakers in both chambers earlier this month. Under the legislation, doctors, pharmacists and other health care providers who provide gender-affirming care could have their licenses suspended or revoked. As in other states, proponents of the measure have argued that the treatments in minors are relatively new, and that the long-term effects are not well studied. “I signed SF99 because I support the protections this bill includes for children,” Mr. Gordon said in a statement.

Persons: Mark Gordon’s, Anthony Bouchard, ’, Gordon, “, ” Mr, ’ ’ Sara Burlingame Organizations: Democratic Locations: Wyoming

LOS ANGELES (AP) — County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux is advancing to a May election in California to decide who will complete the remainder of the term of deposed former U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, which runs through January. Boudreaux will face state legislator Vince Fong in the May 21 special election in the 20th District. Boudreaux is the Sheriff of Tulare County in the state’s Central Valley. Republicans are expected to easily hold the seat, and the party’s fragile majority in the chamber was not at stake in Tuesday’s election. The district, which cuts through the Central Valley farm belt including parts of Bakersfield and Fresno, is the most strongly Republican House seat in heavily Democratic California.

Persons: Mike Boudreaux, Kevin McCarthy, Boudreaux, Vince Fong Organizations: ANGELES, U.S ., Republicans, Republican, Associated Press Locations: — County, California, 20th, Boudreaux, Tulare County, Bakersfield, Fresno, Democratic California

Republicans are expected to hold the seat easily, and the party’s fragile majority in the chamber is not at stake. The district, which cuts through the Central Valley farm belt including parts of Bakersfield and Fresno, is the most strongly Republican seat in heavily Democratic California. Fong and Boudreaux have advanced to the November election in that contest. The special election only covers the time remaining in McCarthy’s term, running through early next year. But there is an insider-outsider aspect to the race: Fong is McCarthy's handpicked choice and a product of his political operation, while the sheriff is not.

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CHICAGO (AP) — Voters are set to cast their ballots Tuesday to decide competitive U.S. House races during the Illinois presidential primary. Democratic incumbents in at least two Chicago-area congressional races are locked in energetic challenges in the strongly Democratic territory. “We plan on finishing what we started.”It’s a crowded five-candidate primary field, including Chicago City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin, a former Davis ally who now says it’s time for him to be voted out. “I’m running to use my knowledges, my expertise, my intellect.”He has backing from top Illinois Democrats. Also running are Chicago educator Nikhil Bhatia and Kouri Marshall, a former deputy director for Pritzker.

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