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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 […]

Boise, ID – A summary judgment ruling in Idaho District Court yesterday will prevent the state of Idaho from authorizing wolf trapping and snaring in grizzly bear habitat during non-denning periods. The decision will stop trapping and snaring in Idaho’s Panhandle, Clearwater, Salmon, and Upper Snake regions between March 1 and November 30 on public […]

Washington, DC, March 15, 2024 — House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Ranking Member Jim Himes (CT-04) today delivered the following opening statement at the Committee’s annual hearing on worldwide threats: -Remarks as Delivered- Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and welcome to our distinguished panel – and in particular to General Haugh and General Kruse, who are joining […]

Washington, D.C. March 15, 2024 – United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced new legislation to expand housing access for rural tribal communities: the Tribal Rural Housing Access Act. The legislation would direct the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to set aside 5% of certain Rural Housing Service (RHS) funds for Tribal Nations, tribally designated housing […]

MANCHESTER, NH – (March 14, 2024) The League of Women Voters of the United States (LWV-US), the League of Women Voters of New Hampshire (LWV-NH), and several individual New Hampshire voters have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire against Steve Kramer, Lingo Telecom, and Life Corporation, who together delivered robocalls […]

Washington, DC, March 13, 2024 — Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released a statement following his vote against the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act:  “Today I voted against legislation that would functionally result in a ban of TikTok, barring a difficult-to-achieve divestiture. The legislation gives […]

WASHINGTON (March 13, 2024)— A new national survey released by PRRI profiles the growing population of LGBTQ Americans and Americans’ views on LGBTQ rights across all 50 states, based on interviews with more than 22,000 adults throughout 2023 as part of its American Values Atlas. For the first time since PRRI’s American Values Atlas began […]

Remarks of President Joe BidenState of the Union Address As Prepared for Delivery The United States Capitol Good evening.  Mr. Speaker. Madam Vice President. Members of Congress. My Fellow Americans.  In January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation.  He said, “I address you at a moment unprecedented in the history of the Union.”  […]

The U.S. Department of Education (Department) today announced its office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) is imposing a $14 million fine as a result of a settlement agreement with Liberty University (Liberty) for material and ongoing violations of the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), including with […]

WASHINGTON (February 28, 2024)— As Donald Trump continues his march to become the Republican Party’s 2024 nominee for president, a new national survey released today by PRRI illuminates the important role Christian nationalism is playing in his primary successes. Throughout 2023, PRRI interviewed more than 22,000 adults on this topic as part of its American Values Atlas, providing — for […]

Washington, DC, February 22, 2024 –  Today, Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chair Nanette Barragán (CA-44) released the following statement in response to multiple reports that the White House is considering Executive Actions to restrict migrants who seek asylum at the Southern Border:  “We understand how frustrating it is that Republicans in Congress continue to block any funding requested by President Biden to […]