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• Black leaders commemorate 70 years of Brown v. Board with call to action

  17-05-2024 23:57 via thehill.com
  
  Some of the nation’s most prominent Black political leaders and advocates celebrated the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education Friday by calling for more to be done to end present-day segregation. Many Black leaders have expressed concerns over limitations on Black history and diversity, equity and inclusion programs and the Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action in schools. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) marked the milestone of the cas
  
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• Farah Griffin: Trump talked about executing people at several White House meetings

  15-06-2024 18:28 via thehill.com
  
  Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin said former President Trump talked about executing people multiple times at White House meetings.Farah Griffin joined Mediaite’s Aidan McLaughlin to discuss her time in the Trump administration and what she thinks a second Trump term could look like.McLaughlin asked Farah Griffin, now a co-host on “The View” why she thinks several powerful Republicans, like former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and former At
  
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• Biden, Trump step up outreach to Black men

  15-06-2024 18:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden and former President Trump are ramping up their messaging toward Black male voters, underscoring the political power the demographic will hold in November.Though Black voters overwhelmingly identify as Democrats, concerns that Black men are leaving the party have circulated since 2020, when Trump secured 12 percent of Black voter support. Now, some observers say Black men could decide the presidential winner in November. “I don't know your pathway to victory witho
  
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• Biden campaign unveils gun control ad after Supreme Court invalidates bump stock ban

  15-06-2024 17:45 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden’s reelection campaign dropped a new ad Saturday highlighting his administration’s work on gun violence prevention, just a day after the Supreme Court invalidated the Trump-era prohibition on bump stocks.In the 30-second ad, shared with The Hill, Biden blames former President Trump for the conservative-leaning court’s decision on Friday.The Biden administration-has defended the regulation, which banned the device that converts s
  
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• Former Capitol Police officer calls GOP lawmaker’s embrace of Trump ‘disappointing’

  15-06-2024 16:22 via thehill.com
  
  Former Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell slammed Republican lawmakers for welcoming former President Trump with open arms in closed-door meetings earlier this week, as Trump touted having a "great relationship" with the House and Senate GOP.In an interview with MSNBC's Jason Johnson, Gonell — who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection — called their embrace of Trump "very disappointing."“All the sacrifices that we did on January 6 to keep those same member
  
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• Biden administration's immigrant detention moves highlight strained system

  15-06-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  The administration is shaking up federal immigration detention and enforcement amid a push to cut costs systemwide and increase detention capacity to implement President Biden’s new asylum policy.The bombshell cost-cutting plan came out Monday, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the closure of the South Texas Family Residential Center, a 10-year-old detention facility better known as Dilley.Advocates are reporting other cost-cutting measures — in particular, the
  
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• Johnson vows to take Garland contempt case to court after DOJ snub

  15-06-2024 04:07 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that the House will take their contempt of Congress case against Attorney General Merrick Garland’s to court, after the Justice Department (DOJ) refused to pursue charges.“It is sadly predictable that the Biden administration’s Justice Department will not prosecute Garland for defying congressional subpoenas even though the department aggressively prosecuted Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro for the same thing,” Johnson said in a statement, r
  
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• Graves, key McCarthy ally, opts against seeking reelection in Louisiana

  14-06-2024 23:30 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) announced on Friday that he will not run for re-election in November, capping off months of speculation over whether the Louisiana Republican would run for another term after redistricting impacted his House seat.Graves — who has served in the House since 2015, was a key ally of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and played a key role in last year’s negotiations to suspend the debt limit — revealed his retirement after the Supreme Court ruled la
  
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• US places sanctions on 'extremist' Israeli group for disrupting, destroying Gaza aid

  14-06-2024 23:02 via thehill.com
  
  The U.S. State Department announced it would impose sanctions on Tzav 9, designating it a“violent extremist Israeli group" that has been "blocking, harassing and damaging" convoys carrying humanitarian aid.The U.S. imposed sanctions on the group, which has ties to Israeli settlers and army reservists, after a series of sabotage efforts on aid going to Gaza. “For months, individuals from Tzav 9 have repeatedly sought to thwart the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, including b
  
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• Watch live: Trump gives special address on 78th birthday

  14-06-2024 23:00 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Trump is making a special 78th birthday appearance for fans in his “Club 47” group at a venue near his Mar-a-Lago residence in West Palm Beach, Fla.Congressional Republicans feted the party’s presumptive presidential nominee on Thursday during Trump’s first post-Jan. 6, 2021, visit to the Capitol.Should Trump return to the White House, he would be on track to edge out President Biden as the Oval Office’s oldest occupant by the end of his second adm
  
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• GOP Rep. McMorris Rodgers suggests reforms to boost NIH

  14-06-2024 22:14 via thehill.com
  
  Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee, unveiled a set of proposals aimed at reforming the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in order to help the U.S. "maintain its innovative edge" against adversarial countries.The proposal recommended regularly conducting a congressional mandated review of the "NIH’s performance, mission, objectives, and programs" as well as introducing term limits on the directors of Institutes and Centers under the
  
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• Biden ‘fully behind’ G7 agreement amid spat over abortion language

  14-06-2024 21:56 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden is supportive of the wording in the Group of Seven (G7) communique about reproductive rights, according to officials, despite controversy over whether world leaders would include abortion in their statement at this year’s summit in Italy.“He stands fully behind the language that that made its way into the final communique. He felt strongly about the language that that made it through,” a senior administration official told reporters.Earlier on Friday, Reute
  
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• DOJ declines to prosecute Garland after congressional contempt vote

  14-06-2024 20:49 via thehill.com
  
  The Justice Department (DOJ) issued a determination Friday that Attorney General Merrick Garland committed no crime in failing to meet the demand of House Republicans who subpoenaed audio of President Biden’s conversation with special counsel Robert Hur. The determination is in line with a Wednesday memo from the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel that stated Biden’s claim of executive privilege over the tapes protected Garland from prosecution. That memo was drafted hours befo
  
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• GOP effort to restore Confederate 'Mammy' monument narrowly defeated

  14-06-2024 18:40 via thehill.com
  
  A Republican-led effort to restore a confederate statue featuring a Black “Mammy” in Arlington cemetery was narrowly defeated late Thursday afternoon. The restoration of the “Reconciliation Memorial” was introduced by Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), but failed to pass in a 230-192 vote. Twenty-four Republicans voted against restoring the monument. No Democrats voted in favor of the restoration. The statue, first unveiled in 1914, features a woman with a crown of
  
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• Watch: VP Harris speaks at 100 Black Men of America event

  14-06-2024 18:30 via thehill.com
  
  Vice President Harris spoke in Atlanta Friday at the annual conference of the mentoring organization 100 Black Men of America Inc. The visit is part of ongoing events for Harris that the White House is calling the Economic Opportunity Tour. Atlanta is the first stop on the tour, reflecting Georgia’s importance for the electoral count in November.Harris has become a leading campaign surrogate in President Biden’s outreach to the Black community. That demographic might make a big diff
  
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• VP Harris speaks at 100 Black Men of America event: Watch live

  14-06-2024 18:30 via thehill.com
  
  Vice President Harris is delivering a speech in Atlanta Friday at the annual conference of the mentoring organization 100 Black Men of America, Inc. The visit is part of ongoing events for Harris the White House is calling the Economic Opportunity Tour. Atlanta is the first stop on the tour, reflecting Georgia’s importance for the electoral count in November.Harris has become a leading campaign surrogate in Biden’s outreach to the Black community. That demographic might make a big d
  
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• Bowman: Hillary Clinton's support for challenger not a 'major endorsement'

  14-06-2024 18:30 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) says he isn't bothered by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's decision to endorse his Democratic primary challenger, Westchester County Executive George Latimer."I definitely wouldn't call it a 'major endorsement,' with all due respect," Bowman told CNN host Laura Coates in a Thursday night interview.
  Bowman went on to list some notable endorsements he has received from colleagues in both chambers."I mean, we are endorsed by sitting U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren
  
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• Bowman: Hillary Clinton support for challenger not a 'major endorsement'

  14-06-2024 18:30 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) says he isn't bothered by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's decision to endorse his Democratic primary challenger, Westchester County Executive George Latimer."I definitely wouldn't call it a 'major endorsement,' with all due respect," Bowman told CNN host Laura Coates in a Thursday night interview.
  Bowman went on to list some notable endorsements he has received from colleagues in both chambers."I mean, we are endorsed by sitting U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warr
  
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• House GOP approves mammoth annual defense bill with culture war amendments

  14-06-2024 17:11 via thehill.com
  
  The House on Friday approved its version of the annual defense policy bill that includes a number of controversial culture-war amendments, setting the stage for a showdown with the Democratic-controlled Senate over legislation that typically enjoys bipartisan support.The chamber cleared the $883.7 billion measure — known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) — in a largely party-line 217-199 vote. Six Democrats voted in favor of the measure, while three Republicans op
  
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• Biden: Recent acts of antisemitism in New York 'abhorrent'

  14-06-2024 16:22 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Friday condemned a recent spate of antisemitic acts in New York, including vandalism and a demonstration outside an exhibit honoring the victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel."The horrific acts of Antisemitism this week – including a demonstration celebrating the 10/7 attack, vandalism targeting Jewish homes, attacks on Jewish faculty at college campuses, and harassment of subway riders – are abhorrent," Biden posted on X. "Antisemitism doesn't just threaten
  
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• Pelosi: Harris is 'safeguard' if GOP challenges election

  14-06-2024 16:08 via thehill.com
  
  Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Vice President Kamala Harris will be a "safeguard" if President Biden wins the 2024 presidential election and Republicans challenge the results.
  “Remember that we will have the vice president that day,” Pelosi said in an interview with The Washington Post. “That’s a safeguard.”Pelosi also threw cold water on the idea that congressional Republicans would challenge the result, as they did when Biden defeated President Trump
  
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• Watch live: Jeffries holds press conference

  14-06-2024 15:30 via thehill.com
  
  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is holding a news briefing Friday morning, following former President Trump's first visit to Capitol Hill since the January 6 riot.
  The press conference is slated for 9:30 a.m. EDT.Watch the live video above.
  
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• Watch: Jeffries holds press conference

  14-06-2024 15:30 via thehill.com
  
  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is holding a news briefing Friday morning, following former President Trump's first visit to Capitol Hill since the January 6 riot.
  The press conference is slated for 9:30 a.m. EDT.Watch the live video above.
  
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• House panel blocks lawmakers from getting pay raises

  14-06-2024 04:45 via thehill.com
  
  Legislation that could have ended a years-long freeze on pay raises for lawmakers was changed to uphold the pause as it passed out of committee on Thursday.The House Appropriations Committee sent the annual spending bill to fund the legislative branch to the floor for consideration with a 33-24 vote. The House is expected to take up the bill in July, as leaders press on with an aggressive schedule to pass all 12 funding bills before August recess.Notably absent from the initial version of the me
  
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• Wisconsin Republican defends Trump: ‘There was nothing I found offensive’

  14-06-2024 04:07 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) defended former President Trump after reporting surfaced that he called Milwaukee a “horrible city” in a closed-door meeting with Republicans earlier Thursday."Well, he said nothing that I considered an insult to Milwaukee,” Grothman, who was in the meeting with Trump, said on NewsNation’s “The Hill,” when asked about the remarks.“He made it clear we had to do better in Milwaukee, as we have to do in many of the big cities in
  
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• Comer investigating news-rating group

  14-06-2024 01:54 via thehill.com
  
  House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) announced on Thursday he is launching a probe into a news-rating system that seeks to guard against misinformation by scoring news and information sites based on their reliability, trustworthiness and financial conflict of interest.Comer said the probe will focus on “the impact of NewsGuard on protected First Amendment speech and its potential to serve as a non-transparent agent of censorship campaigns.”In a letter to NewsGuard&rsqu
  
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• Jan. 6 panel chair: 'How dare Trump show his face' on Capitol Hill?

  14-06-2024 00:55 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who chaired the committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, sharply rebuked former President Trump for returning to Capitol Hill on Thursday — the first time since that infamous day.“After inciting a deadly insurrection that defiled the halls of Congress, how dare Trump show his face on these grounds? Congressional Republicans allow him to waltz in here when it’s known he has no regard for democracy,” Thomps
  
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• Majority of Republicans vote down Greene's anti-Ukraine aid proposal

  14-06-2024 00:34 via thehill.com
  
  A majority of Republicans joined with Democrats on Thursday to vote down Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) amendment to the annual Defense bill that called for preventing any funds in the legislation from going toward assistance for Ukraine.The chamber voted 74-343 on Greene’s measure for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with all support coming from Republicans. Most Republicans — 138 of them — voted “no.”The amendment specifically
  
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• Majority of Republicans vote down Greene anti-Ukraine aid proposal

  14-06-2024 00:34 via thehill.com
  
  A majority of Republicans joined with Democrats on Thursday to vote down Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) amendment to the annual defense bill that called for preventing any funds in the legislation from going towards assistance for Ukraine.The chamber voted 74-343 on Greene’s measure for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with all support coming from Republicans. Most Republicans — 138 of them — voted “no.”The amendment specificall
  
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• House GOP adds culture war amendments to annual defense bill

  14-06-2024 00:07 via thehill.com
  
  House Republicans added a host of culture war amendments to the annual defense bill on Thursday, complicating the traditionally bipartisan measure's path to final passage later this year.
  Among the additions to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) approved on Thursday was a measure to block a Biden administration policy to reimburse service members for the travel costs when obtaining an abortion. The amendment, led by Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas), is a top priority for conservatives an
  
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