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State of the Union: How progressives responded to the soft launch of Biden’s 2024 run

Speech was Biden’s opportunity to soft launch 2024 campaign

The Independent UK · Feb 8, 2023

In tweaking Florida’s secretive migrant flights program, lawmakers ask little, reveal less

MIAMI — Florida lawmakers gave preliminary approval to a measure that would not only expand Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ability to relocate migrants anywhere in the country but would allow his administration to hand out millions of dollars in no-bid contracts to companies to carry out the secretive program without disclosing…

Miami Herald · Feb 8, 2023

Gov. Greg Abbott tells state agencies to stop considering diversity in hiring

In a memo written Monday and obtained by The Texas Tribune, Abbott’s chief of staff Gardner Pate told agency leaders that using diversity, equity and inclusion policies in hiring violates federal and state employment laws, and hiring cannot be based on factors “other than merit.”

The Texas Tribune · Feb 8, 2023

1st Florida voter fraud case goes to trial in Tampa, ends with split verdict

TAMPA, Fla. — The trial of the first of about 20 people to be arrested in Florida on charges that they committed voter fraud by casting a ballot in the 2020 presidential election ended with a split verdict in a Tampa courtroom Tuesday night.

Tribune News Service · Feb 8, 2023

US President Joe Biden vows to 'rebuild America' and 'finish the job' in State of the Union address — as it happened

US President Joe Biden used his annual State of the Union address to call for tax reform and gun control, and how he plans to tackle the country's opioid crisis.

ABC News · Feb 8, 2023

House oversight panel clashes at hearing on border security

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on a House oversight panel traded barbs Tuesday at a hearing over the Biden administration’s policies at the U.S.-Mexico border, as Democrats accused their Republican colleagues of fueling inflammatory rhetoric against migrants.

Tribune News Service · Feb 8, 2023

‘Hot air’: Marjorie Taylor Greene in State of the Union balloon stunt

Republican extremist appears to reference Chinese surveillance dirigible by parading halls of Congress with white balloon

The Guardian - US · Feb 8, 2023

Raheem Taylor executed for killing girlfriend and her three kids in horror shooting

Raheem Taylor, 58, was convicted of the 2004 killings but has always claimed his innocence with his lawyers claiming there's enough evidence to at least postpone the execution

Daily Mirror · Feb 8, 2023

AOC and Sanders call McCarthy’s bluff on Social Security and Medicare cuts

The House speaker has said that the two entitlement programs are ‘off the table’ in debt limit negotiations

The Independent UK · Feb 8, 2023

North Carolina Senate approves 'Parents’ Bill of Rights' along party lines, with GOP supermajority

RALEIGH, N.C. — Using their new supermajority in the state Senate for the first time Tuesday, North Carolina Republicans pushed along party lines to restrict what schools teach and how they can treat LGBTQ students.

Tribune News Service · Feb 7, 2023