Tag: passed

Zelenskiy thanks Johnson, Schumer for helping get US aid bill passed

(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed his gratitude on Thursday for the U.S. aid bill for Ukraine during calls with U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Zelenskiy said on X that he had thanked Johnson, a Republican, who had been blocking a vote on the bill, “for his […]

Photos of 2022 southern China floods passed off online as 2024 deluge

Severe floods in southern China’s Guangdong province claimed the lives of four people and forced the evacuation of more than 100,000 in April 2024, however, online posts have shared old photos of record flooding there in 2022. The earlier crisis left some Chinese towns submerged by floodwaters and forced hundreds of thousands of people to […]

Congress passed a TikTok bill. Will the US really ban the app?

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would require TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the social media platform or face a total ban in the United States. The Senate passed it less than a week later. Joe Biden signed it a day after the Senate voted yes. TikTok is facing its biggest existential threat […]

What passed and what failed

The Iowa Capitol in springtime. (Photo by Kathie Obradovich/Iowa Capital Dispatch) As Iowa lawmakers ended the 2024 legislative session, Republican leaders said they passed their priorities, including changes to Iowa’s Area Education Agencies, many K-12 education initiatives and income tax cuts. “Iowa has set a course for transformation, and it was the driving force of […]

The Kansas Legislature Unanimously Passed a Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Bill

The Kansas Legislature unanimously passed a bill overhauling the rules for when police can seize property under a practice known as civil asset forfeiture. The Kansas House and Senate voted 120-0 and 35-0, respectively, to send S.B. 458 to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s desk earlier this month. Among its provisions, the legislation would make offenses […]