New sanctions bill (DASKA) won't hurt Kremlin or Putin says author Drew Johnson.
Russia plans to meddle in the 2020 election, according to a statement jointly issued by the...
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton is celebrating Friday's House passage of a bill to make Washington D.C. America's 51st state.
After managing the debate on the District of...
Wednesday, Senate Democrats blocked the weak police reform bill the "Justice Act" advanced by Republicans in the wake of mass protests after the murder of George Floyd.
The...
Black Republican lackey Sen. Tim Scott is being used by Republicans to promote JUSTICE Act--a do little legislative response to the calls for seriously addressing racist police violence....
The NAACP supports the U.S. House's "George Floyd Justice in Policing Act."
All across our nation, people are beginning to speak out about the horrors and brutality of law...
Isn't it time America's bloated military budget, like current calls regarding American policing, is defunded?
In late May of this year, President Donald Trump’s special...
Wednesday, Congress held oversight hearing on "Policing Practices and Law Enforcement Accountability."
Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)...
The 'Justice in Policing Act of 2020' has been unveiled by Congressional Democrats.
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten released the following...
George Floyd's murder: Minneapolis City Council has banned the use of chokeholds and neck restraints.
Minneapolis police would be banned from using neck restraints and...
Donald Trump's presidency has been one of wall-to-wall madness.
Nick Miroff’s story in the Washington Post carries the headline “People are sawing through and climbing...
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has unveiled proposals to reform policing.
Sanders outlined a sweeping set of policy reforms to be adopted in Senate Democrats’ legislative...
The Trump administration continues to use the cover of the COVID-19 crisis to advance a host of nativist policies.
In a must-read article in the LA Times, Molly O’Toole...
The HEROES Act which passed the U.S. House last night includes $25 billion for the USPS which has been struggling due to COVID-19.
Since its creation by the Second...
Last evening, the House of Representatives approved the HEROES Act, a major bill that strengthens the nation’s response to COVID-19.
"We salute Speaker Pelosi and the...
Breonna Taylor was murdered by Louisville Kentucky police--now they want to prosecute her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, for attempted murder.
The March 13th murder of...
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