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The Independent UK · Mar 14, 2023

Texas GOP bill: Ban lessons on gender

The bill would create new rules on how gender and sexual orientation is taught

Salon · Mar 14, 2023

Commentary: QAnon has gone local, with strange repercussions in California’s Shasta County and beyond

The Shasta County, California, Board of Supervisors has “upended the county’s election process,” the Los Angeles Times reported last week, “canceling its contract with Dominion Voting Systems.” The county could opt to hand-count ballots instead, which would likely delay results and promote more suspicion of elections. One supervisor said he…

Los Angeles Times · Mar 14, 2023

Editorial: The budget and the debt: Speaker Kevin McCarthy must agree to raise the borrowing ceiling

President Joe Biden’s proposed budget for the federal fiscal year that starts on Oct. 1 would spend $6.8 trillion off revenues of only $5 trillion in taxes collected. The imbalance, a $1.8 trillion deficit, would get added to the national debt of $31.4 trillion that has been building since 1789.…

Tribune News Service · Mar 14, 2023

Editorial: Missouri succumbs to conspiracy theories by leaving group that fights voter fraud

Missouri has withdrawn from a national coalition of states focused on election integrity and has no plan to replace its services. Talk about bad timing. A contentious presidential election year is right around the corner. Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft must waste no time figuring out how Missouri will ensure…

Tribune News Service · Mar 14, 2023

Nicholas Goldberg: Who's more dangerous — Trump or DeSantis?

Who is more dangerous — Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis?

Los Angeles Times · Mar 14, 2023

South Carolina GOP bill could make abortion punishable by death penalty

Representative Rob Harris’s bill has so far attracted 21 co-sponsors

The Independent UK · Mar 14, 2023

Pence aide mocks White House for demanding he apologise to Buttigieg over maternity leave ‘joke’

‘Biden administration should spare America the faux outrage’

The Independent UK · Mar 14, 2023

Donald Trump blames Mike Pence for January 6 violence because he wouldn’t do what rioters wanted

Trump’s comments come two days after Pence says history will hold the former president accountable for January 6

The Independent UK · Mar 14, 2023

Democrats keep pushing to bolster California's role as an abortion sanctuary

Democratic lawmakers introduced a package of bills on Monday to further bolster California's role as an abortion haven after last year's repeal of the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Roe vs. Wade.

Los Angeles Times · Mar 14, 2023