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May 13, 2024 – Harsh political rhetoric about immigrants and anti-immigrant actions can damage parent-child relationships in Latino families and in turn lead to a significant increase in mental health problems for the children in those families, according to a study led by researchers at the George Washington University.  “Our research suggests that restrictive immigration […]

May 13, 2024 – Dispensing abortion pills through the mail works as well as requiring patients to get them in person from a clinic or doctor’s office, according to new research from UC San Francisco, which comes as the Supreme Court is considering whether to disallow the practice. Researchers found that using a mail-order pharmacy […]

WASHINGTON, May 6, 2024 – Following a meeting of the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees, the U.S. Department of the Treasury—joined by Departments of Health and Human Services and Labor, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the Social Security Administration—released the annual Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports. “Social Security and […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. May 6, 2024 – Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, announced that she sent letters to the leadership of the House Committee on Appropriations urging appropriators to fund provisions that would address our nation’s worsening housing and homelessness crisis, support small, minority-owned businesses, and to […]

May 6, 2024 – The Southern economic development model has failed to create shared prosperity in the region, according to a new Economic Policy Institute report. In fact, this model was deliberately designed to do the opposite—to extract the labor of Black and brown Southerners as cheaply as possible. This report examines the racist roots of […]

WASHINGTON (May 2, 2024) — Today, PRRI is releasing a new survey examining Americans’ attitudes toward the legality of abortion, views on abortion pills, and how much abortion matters to voters, two years after the leak of a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization) reversing the landmark 1973 Roe v. […]

Phoenix, AZ, May 1, 2024 – Governor Katie Hobbs released the following statement after the Arizona Senate voted to repeal of the 1864 total abortion ban: “Today, I am glad to see the Senate answered my call and voted to repeal Arizona’s 1864 total abortion ban, and I look forward to quickly signing the repeal into […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today released research showing that 15 million Americans still have medical bills on their credit reports despite changes by Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. The 15 million Americans disproportionately live in the South and low-income communities. Collectively, they have more than $49 billion in outstanding medical bills […]

Question Presented: The Special Counsel’s request to treat the stay application as a petition for a writ of certiorari is granted, and that petition is granted limited to the following question: whether and if so to what extent does a former president enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts […]

WASHINGTON, April 25, 2024 — House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement on the changes to the Community Project Funding guidelines: “When I created the Community Project Funding process last Congress, we put in place transparency and accountability requirements that ensured the process was an avenue for Members of Congress to […]

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.) joined Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) in introducing a resolution designating April 2024 as “Preserving and Protecting Local News Month.” The resolution recognizes local news as a public good that serves an essential function in American democracy. “Millions of Americans count on the local news to help them […]

NEW YORK, April 16, 2024 — The number of individual books banned by schools is soaring to a record level, according to a new PEN America report Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis. The report documents over 4,000 instances of book banning during the first half of the current school year – more than in the entire […]

BOSTON, April 16, 2024 –  – Today, the Department of Education released proposed rules that would provide federal student loan debt relief to four categories of borrowers: Under the proposal, millions of borrowers who owe more now than they did when they began repayment would have some or all of the amount that their balance has grown […]

WASHINGTON D.C. April 8, 2024 — Today, Common Cause filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the United States urging the court to decide Donald J. Trump v. United States expeditiously in order to avoid perceptions of political bias and to allow a lower court trial of the former president on conspiracy and […]

World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza. The WCK team was traveling in a deconflicted zone in two armored cars branded with the WCK logo and a soft skin vehicle. Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit as […]

March 28, 2024 – Samuel Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF, 32, of Stanford, California, was sentenced today to 25 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $11 billion in forfeiture for his orchestration of multiple fraudulent schemes. Bankman-Fried, who was the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the cryptocurrency […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A federal judge in San Francisco granted the Center for Countering Digital Hate’s motion to dismiss and strike all claims in a lawsuit brought against it by Elon Musk and X Corp. In its lawsuit, filed on July 31, X Corp. sought to blame CCDH for “tens of millions of dollars” in lost advertising revenue […]

Washington, D.C. March 26, 2024 — Today, Representatives Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) introduced the Tribal Community Protection Act, legislation to address the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) on tribal lands by encouraging record sharing between tribal and state/local law enforcement. Of the missing persons included in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons […]

March 26, 2024 – Today, the High Court in London granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange another hearing in his extradition to the United States. The court ruled that on three of the nine grounds Assange’s legal team asked to appeal on, the United States must provide “assurances” to the court, and if the court does not find […]

“The oral arguments in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA are an urgent reminder that the Supreme Court could radically reshape the US abortion access landscape yet again. It’s not even been two years since Roe v. Wade was overturned, and Guttmacher’s new findings underscore just how much is at stake in this case. Medication abortion has risen from […]