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(CNN) Republican-controlled legislatures around the country have moved to erect new barriers to voting for high school and college students in what state lawmakers describe as an effort to clamp down on potential voter fraud. Critics call it a blatant attempt to suppress the youth vote as young people increasingly bolster Democratic candidates and liberal […]
Judge suggests sanctions after lawyers for Fox News revealed that they may have misrepresented Rupert Murdoch’s role. A judge in the United States has rebuked a legal team representing Fox News, in the wake of revelations that lawyers may have withheld information and misrepresented the role of company co-founder
CHICAGO (AP) — The voting precinct could have been any one of hundreds throughout Chicago, except that these voters in the first round of the mayoral election were all wearing the same beige smocks. And the security at this polling place wasn’t intended to keep disrupters and campaigners out, but the voters in. When first-time […]
“You can’t have federal oversight if you don’t have a formula to determine which jurisdictions are the most egregious,” she continued “… And just when we thought it was bad enough … Alabama brought you another case: Merrill v. Milligan. But I am mighty afraid that this … Court will further gut the Voting Rights […]
(CNN) President Joe Biden will visit Alabama on Sunday to commemorate the 58th anniversary of the landmark Bloody Sunday march that galvanized the Civil Rights movement and helped lead to an expansion of voting rights. Biden’s stop in Selma comes as he and fellow Democrats struggle to pass their own sweeping voting rights measures, with […]
WILMINGTON, Del. — President Biden will travel to Selma, Ala., on Sunday to commemorate the anniversary of a violent attack on Black protesters by police officers, an event that electrified the civil rights movement and led to the creation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The president is expected to deliver a speech focused […]
WILMINGTON, Delaware, March 5 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden will press his case for stronger voting rights during a visit to Alabama on Sunday to commemorate the 58th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” when state troopers beat peaceful protesters who were marching against discrimination. Biden’s trip to Selma is his latest event aimed at underscoring his […]
U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Rachael Rollins as seen in a May 24, 2022, file photo. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald) U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins will co-lead a delegation of more than 30 other U.S. attorneys in Alabama to commemorate “Bloody Sunday,” the day a civil rights demonstration there fell into violence in 1965, as well as the […]
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch (left) stands next to Chief Justice John Roberts outside the court in 2017. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch (left) stands next to Chief Justice John Roberts outside the court in 2017. J. Scott Applewhite/AP The roots of the […]
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – The community can now vote for one of the 10 finalists in the ninth annual Black History Month Art Contest, according to UScellular and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Carolina. “Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Carolina members created original pieces of artwork representing influential Black STEM […]