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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Earmarks $122 Million to Hire 1,000 New Teachers — Down From His Earlier $543 Million Plan
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s FY2027 executive budget sets aside $122 million to hire 1,000 teachers — a sharp scale-back from…
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Alabama Will Treat the S*xual Abuse of a Child Under 12 as a Capital Crime Starting October 1
Governor Kay Ivey signed HB 41, the Child Predator Death Penalty Act, making first-degree s*xual crimes against a child under…
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Starting June 14, a Nationwide “No Kings” Concert Will Counter Trump’s 80th Birthday on Flag Day
The “No Kings” movement is staging a nationwide June 14 concert called “Rise Up, Sing Out” — coinciding with President…
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Sanders Introduces Bill To Cap Super PAC Donations At $5,000 After Elon Musk Spent $290 Million To Elect Trump
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Summer Lee introduced a bill to cap individual super PAC contributions at $5,000, a limit…
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A Member of Congress Proposed Forcing Lawmakers to Pass a Cognitive Fitness Test — Should Congress Have to Take One?
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez proposed an amendment to create a cognitive-fitness standard for members of Congress. It was raised in…
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U.S. Begins Dismantling a $368 Million Ocean Monitoring Network That’s Tracked the Deep Sea Since 2016
The National Science Foundation has begun removing the $368 million Ocean Observatories Initiative, citing a leaner budget strategy as scientists…