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‘Homegrowns are next’: Trump provokes fears for Black US citizens with legally dubious deportation proposal

After the Trump administration deported hundreds of undocumented migrants accused of being violent gang members to El Salvador, President Donald Trump on Monday appeared to imply he will explore deporting U.S. citizens who commit violent crimes. “We also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they’re not looking, that are absolute monsters,” Trump told reporters inside the Oval Office while hosting El Salvador President […]

todayApril 14, 2025

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‘Ethnic cleansing’: Trump’s proposal to takeover Gaza sparks bipartisan outrage, call for impeachment

President Donald Trump‘s shocking proposal for the U.S. to take over the Gaza Strip, displace nearly two million Palestinians, and turn the territory into an “economic development” has been met with bipartisan outrage and pushback. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., the only Palestinian-American serving in Congress, quickly slammed Trump’s plan and called on her colleagues to publicly call out the president. “Palestinians aren’t going anywhere. This president can only spew this fanatical bullshit because of bipartisan support in Congress for funding […]

todayFebruary 5, 2025

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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries slams Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ proposal and ‘tax scam’ when ‘America is too expensive’

House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., slammed President-elect Donald Trump‘s proposal to annex Greenland and Canada and rename the Gulf of Mexico. “We are not sent to Washington to invade Greenland, rename the Gulf of Mexico or seize the Panama Canal by force,” said Jeffries during his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill. The House Democratic leader clarified that he and his congressional colleagues were instead elected to lower the high cost of living that American voters made clear […]

todayJanuary 9, 2025

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Kamala Harris’ proposal for home care could be game changer for Black Americans

Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled a new economic and health care proposal on Tuesday during her appearance on “The View” seeking to make at-home elder care more affordable. Addressing the challenges of the “sandwich generation” of Americans caring for children and their elder parents, the Democratic presidential nominee announced a plan to expand Medicare services to include at-home elder care as a benefit for the first time. “I took care of my mother when she was sick, who was diagnosed […]

todayOctober 10, 2024 1

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Congresswomen press FDA on why a proposal to ban hair-straightening chemicals is delayed

Two U.S. House members who first pushed the Food and Drug Administration in 2023 to investigate the health risks of hair straighteners used primarily by Black women are now asking the agency why it has twice delayed its target date to propose a ban on products containing formaldehyde, which studies link to increased rates of cancer. Democratic Reps. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Shontel Brown of Ohio pressed the FDA in a letter to finalize the proposed rule for banning […]

todayAugust 29, 2024

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Tenn. Rep. Justin Jones slams proposal to ban lawmakers booted for behavior as ‘retaliatory’ and ‘racist’

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republicans in the Tennessee House voted Monday to advance a bill that would prevent local governments from reappointing state lawmakers who were expelled due to behavior. The proposal is one of several restrictions being considered after the GOP’s high-profile expulsion proceedings last April against Democratic state Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson. It would bar what happened after: Jones and Pearson were reappointed and quickly went back to work. One of the Legislature’s staff attorneys expressed […]

todayFebruary 27, 2024