Category: Politics

Bank Executive Pay Could Be Seized for Failures Under Senate Bill Proposal

June 16, 2023
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The Senate Banking Committee will consider a bipartisan bill that would allow government regulators to seize compensation from executives deemed responsible for a bank failure. The committee’s chairman, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Sen Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the panel’s ranking Republican, came to a deal on June 16 after a wave of regional bank failures…

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Biden and Democrats Already Face Uphill Battle for Florida’s Hispanic Voters in 2024

June 16, 2023
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Over the past six years, Florida’s Hispanic and Latino voters appear to be abandoning the Democratic Party, and as the 2024 elections get closer, President Joe Biden, and all other candidates sporting the blue Democrat label, could be in trouble. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez recently noted a steady rightward trend among Miami-Dade voters over the…

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House Appropriator Shares Growing GOP Support to Cut DOJ, FBI Budget Amid Political Woes

June 16, 2023
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Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.), a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee that handles the budget for the U.S. Department of Justice, said Republicans are gathering in support to cut the department’s budget. Cline, who is a member of the staunchly conservative House Freedom Caucus, said members of the caucus are leaning on House Speaker Kevin…

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RFK Jr. Says He’s ‘Aware’ of Possibility CIA Could Assassinate Him

June 16, 2023
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Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he has to “be careful” in the midst of his 2024 campaign, seemingly making note of the deaths of his uncle and father. In light of the assassination deaths of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy in the 1960s, podcast host Joe Rogan…

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Biden Picks COVID-19 Vaccine Proponent as Next CDC Director

June 16, 2023
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President Joe Biden has tapped an aggressive promoter of the COVID-19 vaccines as the next director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Biden, on June 16, announced he’d chosen Dr. Mandy Cohen, the former top health official in North Carolina, to lead the CDC after the current director steps down this…

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Rep. Crenshaw Grills Doctor Over Failure to Name Any Study Citing Benefits of Transgender Surgeries for Children

June 16, 2023
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When asked by Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) at a House Committee hearing on Wednesday, Yale School of Medicine assistant professor Meredithe McNamara was unable to cite any medical study that would provide evidence of the benefits of transgender surgeries for young children. …

Cheryl Hines Straddles Dual Roles as Actress and Wife to Presidential Candidate RFK Jr.

June 16, 2023
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As Robert Kennedy Jr. makes the campaign rounds, his actress wife Cheryl Hines finds herself cast in a role she never dreamed of tackling—that of a wife of a presidential candidate whose views don’t necessarily match those of her husband’s. That was the main takeaway from a recent New York Times article where the Hollywood actress…

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EXCLUSIVE: Republican Letter Asks Blinken to Visit Taiwan En Route to China

June 16, 2023
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A group of Republican lawmakers is urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken to visit Taiwan as he travels to communist China. The lawmakers, led by Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.), say that the stopover is necessary to demonstrate that China’s communist regime cannot dictate the terms of U.S. alliances and partnerships, according to a copy of…

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Iowa Supreme Court Issues Rare 3–3 Decision, Declines to Reinstate Abortion Law

June 16, 2023
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The Iowa Supreme Court, in a 3–3 decision, declined to reinstate a six-week ban on abortions that was backed by the state’s governor. A 2019 district court nullified the state’s previous six-week ban on the procedure, with a Polk County District Court judge ruling that the ban was unconstitutional based on state and federal law….

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Lawmaker Decries State Dept. Report on Human Trafficking for Burying Rights Abuses in China, Cuba

June 16, 2023
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U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has aimed heavy criticism at the State Department 2023 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report (pdf), claiming that it falls short of highlighting the genocide and forced labor of the ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China, and the exploitation of Cuba’s “medical brigades.” On June 15, the State Department released its annual…

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