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The legislature's one-day session on Aug. 3 was initially supposed to be about overriding Gov. Roy Cooper's vetoes, but that's not what happened during the 10-hour meeting. Cooper had issued a proclamation calling for the session after he vetoed four bills from the regular session.
It's not the first time that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has faced the threat of extinction from federal and Congressional budget proposals, and perhaps not the last. But as CPB's chief executive officer told television critics at a recent meeting in Beverly Hills, anything is possible in the climate currently gripping Washington.
Many women's organizations commemorate Equal Pay Day, which this year was April 5. It meant that women, in general, would have had to work all of 2016, and until April 5, 2017, to earn the same amount of money that a White man earned in 2016. Few will recognize July 31, 2017, the day that the pay for African American women catch up to the 2016 earnings of White men-seven extra months.
North Carolina voters got less than half a loaf from three federal judges last week. The decision was just one more step in tweaking an election system that is hopelessly broken.
A flag flies in front of a store Aug. 3, 2017, in Nipton, California. American Green Inc., one of the nation's largest cannabis companies, announced it has bought the entire 80-acre desert town.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Aug. 8. The more I reflect on the concept of recognizing one's privilege while interacting in society, the more I realize that some world "leaders," in particular, are relatively poor at this. I will single out the 45th president of the United States as being extremely guilty of acknowledging his privilege.
Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., recounts his experience in Selma, Alabama, to a group of students gathered on the House steps on April 15, 2015. Fifty-two years ago this week, John Lewis of Georgia was a young activist, not the Democratic congressman he is today.
This undated file image provided by NASA shows the agency's outline for a journey to Mars. Following in the footsteps of Barack Obama, who threw his weight late in his presidency behind the idea of a landing on Mars, the Trump administration has gone on record supporting a manned trip to the red planet.
A bill in the special session of the Texas Legislature authored in part by state Rep. John Smithee, R-Amarillo, has been given an eye-catching headline - "rape insurance." Far from being "rape insurance" - as a Democrat opponent of the bill described it - what HB 214 does is help keep those who do not choose pay for an abortion from having to do so.
Writing of the rush by the conservative party, i.e., the GOP, to embrace the regrettable Donald Trump during the last election, the author is blunt and unsparing. No, these are not new complaints; they have been made repeatedly in recent years.
President Mike Pence. The words do not trip lightly off the tongue. But as special counsel Bob Mueller dives ever deeper into the murky waters of Trump family enterprises - and the campaign's possible collusion with Russia - a Pence presidency must be contemplated.
It sharply condemns conservatism for its role in a "culture of vicious dehumanization," not to mention its sins of incoherence, rejection of empirical fact and plain hypocrisy.
The Salt Lake Tribune Tanner Ainge, John Curtis, and Chris Herrod. During the 3rd congressional district candidate debate at the Covey Center for the Arts in Provo on July 11, 2017.
The fake news media is full of accounts about how President Trump's standing is slipping among his “base” - his most loyal supporters. There is absolutely no reason to think Trump's support has slipped in the slightest among those who like him best: the 144 million men, women and children of the Russian Federation.
North Korea's recent missile tests, and reports of its progress in nuclear warhead design have produced a volatile new urgency in U.S. policy. Threats of war are in the air.
I was probably six, and I'd misbehaved, so my punishment was an early dinner, early bath and early bedtime. I claimed innocence, then protested the minor nature of the infraction and then criticized the severity of the punishment.
Monday the Boston Globe published an opinion piece by history professor Niall Ferguson titled "The biggest threat to free speech? It's the left." Ferguson makes the case that left wing concerns about a Trump-inspired tyranny are overblown.
In 1969, this civil servant laid the blueprint for affirmative action as applied by the first Republican administration to accept it. As Nixon's assistant secretary of labor, he implemented the Revised Philadelphia Plan, which required companies to make efforts to hire minorities and women in order to receive federal contracts in naval shipping yards.