New Mexico Town Becomes “Sanctuary City for the Unborn”
The city of Hobbs, NM passed an ordinance that would ban abortions within the Texas border town despite state law. The all-male Hobbs city commission voted 7-0 to pass the so-called “sanctuary city for the unborn” ordinance, which blocks abortion clinics from operating there. It marks a first for a town in a state controlled […]
Pelosi: Attack on Husband Will Affect Retirement Decision
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Monday on CNN that the brutal attack on her husband would factor into her decision about when to retire from Congress. Appearing in her first televised interview since the October 28 incident, Pelosi said, “For me, the really hard part” was knowing that she was the intruder’s intended victim. […]
Lawsuit Over Pennsylvania’s Mail-in Ballot
Two federal lawsuits have been brought by voter advocacy groups, Democratic organizations and the Senate campaign of Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) against Pennsylvania state and county election officials, seeking to revive a previously vacated argument that throwing out mail-in ballots with missing or incorrect dates violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The suit follows […]
Houston Among 64 Jurisdictions DOJ Agrees to Monitor
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday announced it will be sending inspectors from its Civil Rights Division to monitor polling locations in 64 jurisdictions across 24 states on Election Day, including in Harris County, TX where Houston is located. Leaders in Harris County had requested help after the state government in October said it […]
Eli Lilly: Some Staff Want to Transfer Over State’s Abortion Ban
The Financial Times (FT) is reporting that Big Pharma company Eli Lilly has had employees request transfers from its Indiana operations after that state approved a bill to ban most abortions there. An Indiana judge has temporarily halted the ban for now. However, in an interview with FT, CEO David Ricks said the new restrictions […]
Census: Predominantly White Neighborhoods No Longer the Norm
The 2020 census has revealed a significant demographic shift in America’s neighborhoods over the past 30 years. For the first time in U.S. history, most white Americans do not live in predominantly white communities. According to the 1990 census, 78% of white people lived in predominantly white neighborhoods back then, where at least 4 out […]
UN Chief Drops Warning at Climate Summit
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told dozens of leaders gathered Monday for international climate talks, “Cooperate or perish,” and warned them that the world is “on a highway to climate hell.” His remarks came at this year’s UN climate conference, known as COP27. More than 100 world leaders are set to speak over the […]
Report: 24 States Could Backslide on Climate Post-election
TIME Magazine has posted an in-depth report, looking at “the high-stakes local races that will shape the trajectory of the country’s efforts” to address climate change. It notes that in the first two years of the Biden Administration, the federal government has approved hundreds of billions of dollars to tackle the issue. And much of […]
Houston Awaits DOJ Response to Request for Election Oversight
One day before Election Day, Houston officials were waiting for word on whether the U.S. Department of Justice would send inspectors to oversee its voting process. On October 20, Harris County, TX officials, where Houston is located, requested federal election monitors from the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. The request was sparked by the state of […]
News Recap: They Said It on Sunday
In case you missed ’em—here’s what the newsmakers said on the Sunday morning talk shows. Talk Beyond the Issues Ahead of Election Day Both parties were playing it safe, it seemed, sending out a lot of the same politicos as last week on the final Sunday morning before Election Day. And many of the top […]
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