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DNC hopeful Chris Jones: It’s time to modernize our Democratic Party

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. We need to modernize and catapult the national Democratic Party, and with an actual rocket scientist.  In 2022, I announced my Democratic candidacy for governor of the Republican-dominated state of Arkansas. I recognized that our odds were slim, but the calls for a better Arkansas could not go unanswered and my Republican opponent, Sarah Huckabee Sanders — crony of Donald Trump […]

todayJanuary 9, 2025 1

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Does Trump have the authority to rename ‘Gulf of Mexico’? Obama did it first, but for this noble reason

President-elect Donald Trump had many scratching their heads when he shared an unexpected proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico — the stretch of seawater connecting the U.S. south, Mexico and parts of the Caribbean — the “Gulf of America.” “[It] has a beautiful ring,” Trump said during a Tuesday press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. He continued, “The Gulf of America. What a beautiful name.” The incoming 47th president of the United States argued the […]

todayJanuary 9, 2025 1

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LA Mayor Karen Bass and Democrats face criticisms over California wildfires

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing criticism from political opponents amidst the California city’s deadly wildfires that have left at least two people dead and many homes and businesses badly burned. Bass, who was out of the country in Ghana at the start of the wildfire disaster, was on the ground Wednesday with local authorities and California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif. “The impact of these fires and winds are devastating,” Mayor Bass wrote on X, […]

todayJanuary 8, 2025 1

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NAACP President: With two weeks until Inauguration Day, we’re calling on Biden to take urgent action

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio In 2020, when he was officially declared as the next president of the United States, Joe Biden sent a clear message to Black America: I have your back. Now, with less than two weeks to go until Inauguration Day, President Biden still has the opportunity to cement his progressive legacy, and deliver on three critical promises he made to our community. First, […]

todayJanuary 8, 2025

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Trump asks Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case in New York

 President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in his hush money case in New York. Trump’s lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court Wednesday after New York courts refused to do postpone the sentencing by Juan M. Merchan, the judge who presided over Trump’s trial and conviction last May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Merchan has indicated he will not impose jail time, fines or probation. Trump’s attorneys have pointed to the Supreme Court’s ruling […]

todayJanuary 8, 2025 1

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Higher Social Security payments coming for millions of people from bill that Biden signed

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday signed into law a measure that boosts Social Security payments for current and former public employees, affecting nearly 3 million people who receive pensions from their time as teachers, firefighters, police officers and in other public service jobs. Advocates say the Social Security Fairness Act rights a decades-old disparity, though it will also put strain on Social Security Trust Funds, which face a looming insolvency crisis. The bill rescinds two provisions — the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset — […]

todayJanuary 8, 2025

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Biden administration says Sudan rebel force committed genocide, imposes sanctions on group’s leaders

The Biden administration said Tuesday that a Sudanese paramilitary group and its proxies are committing genocide in a civil war with the country’s military that has killed tens of thousands of people, leveling sanctions on the group’s leader and affiliated companies. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the conflict, which began nearly two years ago and is considered the world’s biggest current humanitarian catastrophe, had escalated beyond a war crimes and ethnic cleansing determination he made in December 2023. Blinken said […]

todayJanuary 8, 2025 1

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Harris returns love to ‘extraordinary’ Jimmy Carter with eulogy after winning his vote in 2024 election

Vice President Kamala Harris paid tribute to former President Jimmy Carter as his casket was laid inside the U.S. Capitol rotunda on Tuesday, remembering the 39th commander-in-chief for his humility, commitment to diversity, and revolutionary actions to advance environmental policies. America’s first female, first Black woman, and first South Asian vice president said the works of President Carter, who died at 100 years old on Dec. 29, will “echo for generations to come.” “Jimmy Carter established a new model for […]

todayJanuary 7, 2025 1

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VP Harris announces rule eliminating medical debt from credit reports; highlights Black couple’s inspirational story

Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday announced a ruling from a federal consumer agency that will remove medical debt from credit reports for millions of Americans.  Building on previous efforts to address the rising cost of living for Americans and following President Joe Biden’s pledge to address the impact of healthcare debt, Harris, on behalf of the Biden-Harris administration, announced the final rule by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  “No one should be denied economic opportunity because they got sick […]

todayJanuary 7, 2025