WASHINGTON (AP) — In the first presidential debate, Republican Donald Trump skimmed over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol, shifted blame for the violent mob siege and declined repeatedly to state unequivocally that he will accept the results of this year’s White House election. And President Joe Biden, who has said the work […]
Former President Donald Trump dominated the immigration portion of the presidential debate Thursday night, repeating lies and false narratives with little to no pushback from President Joe Biden, who seemed unprepared to refute much of the predictable immigration misinformation his opponent was peddling. For Jeffrey Thielman, who leads the International Institute of New England, an […]
Sheriff’s deputies in the Triangle area shot two men this month. The State Bureau of Investigation will be able to review body camera footage in only one of the cases. Wake County sheriff’s deputies wore body cameras during a June 18 incident in which a man they were trying to evict from an apartment got […]
A small group of Amarillo pro-choice advocates gathered at the Potter County Courthouse Monday to bemoan the second anniversary of the overturning of Roe v Wade and to speak about activation to fight for a woman’s right to choose. Courtney Brown, cofounder of ARFA speaks at a rally protesting the repeal of Roe V. Wade […]
Angela Farwig, a longtime advocate for early childhood education who leads Illinois Action for Children, believes the creation of the new Department of Early Childhood – signed into law Tuesday by Gov. J.B. Pritzker – will finally transform a system that has been historically undersupported. The new agency represents a major step forward in the […]
The number of federal student financial aid forms filed by graduating high school seniors is down compared to last year, after glitches and technical errors plagued the process. (Photo via Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Though the new version of the form to apply for federal financial student aid has had its fair share of highly […]
The number of federal student financial aid forms filed by graduating high school seniors is down compared to last year, after glitches and technical errors plagued the process. (Photo by sdominick/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Though the new version of the form to apply for federal financial student aid has had its fair share of highly […]
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump will address attendees at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “2024 Road to Majority” conference in Washington on Saturday — an evangelical group whose advocacy for a national abortion ban conflicts with Trump’s policy statements on the issue. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has walked a tight rope in […]
The number of federal student financial aid forms filed by graduating high school seniors is down compared to last year, after glitches and technical errors plagued the process. (Photo by sdominick/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Though the new version of the form to apply for federal financial student aid has had its fair share of highly […]
Donald Trump wants to eliminate taxes on tips, hoping to shore up support among service workers. Some aren’t impressed. “The call to end taxes on tips is just a misguided way of trying to fix a problem of uplifting the lower class,” said Elyanna Calle, 21, a manager and bartender at the Beer Plant, an […]
The number of federal student financial aid forms filed by graduating high school seniors is down compared to last year, after glitches and technical errors plagued the process. (Photo by sdominick/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Though the new version of the form to apply for federal financial student aid has had its fair share of highly […]
(Photo by sdominick/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Though the new version of the form to apply for federal financial student aid has had its fair share of highly publicized hiccups, U.S. Under Secretary of Education James Kvaal says the department has made a lot of progress in the past couple of months. The Free Application for […]