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‘A country that liberated slaves.’ Hawley minimizes racism’s role in US history
Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley pushed back against the national reckoning over systemic racism in a speech Friday, presenting the U.S. as a nation that had “liberated slaves” and positioning himself as leader of a new nationalist movement. Hawley addressed the American Conservative Union’s annual CPAC conference in Orlando and urged the crowd to embrace “a new nationalism” during a speech likely meant to serve as an audition for a future presidential run. He launched a critique of the reckoning that has taken place nationwide in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis last year....
The Kansas City Star
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Man is not deported after reporting to Philly ICE office for ‘final order of removal’
PHILADELPHIA – Christian M’Bagoyi walked into the Philadelphia ICE office as ordered on Friday morning, accompanied by his wife, Sarika, both uncertain if he would be walking out. Twenty-six minutes later he appeared — relieved and smiling that he wasn’t detained and deported — as two dozen supporters on the sidewalk broke into cheers and applause for the West African immigrant. He and his wife stepped immediately into the arms of Erika Guadalupe Nunez, a Juntos organizer, tears flowing in relief. “Thank you. The biggest thanks I can offer,” he told the crowd. “I think I would have been detain...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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A transgender flag and a personal attack: Illinois Democratic Rep. Marie Newman and Georgia Republican Rep. MarjorieTaylor Greene feud over LGBTQ rights
Rep. Marie Newman’s push for LGBTQ rights in the name of her transgender daughter has sparked a political feud with controversial Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia congresswoman who has espoused baseless conspiracy theories. The controversy featured dueling displays in the hallway of a congressional office building, a personal attack from Taylor Greene against the Illinois Democrat's daughter and an apology from Facebook after it mistakenly labeled a video posted by Newman as “hate speech.” All of it came in advance of the House’s vote Thursday to pass the Equality Act, which would ...
Chicago Tribune
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Pelosi slams Republicans for watering down Capitol probeHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Republicans on Thursday for trying to distract attention from the role of right-wing radicals in the Capitol siege. The California Democrat trashed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., for insisting that the commission study not just include the violence at the Capitol but also last summer’s racial justice protests. “We are talking about domestic terrorism,” Pelosi said. “That’s what we are trying to get to the bottom of. ... We’re not going to get into every case of mob violence.” Pelosi accus...
Tribune News Service
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House passes bill to provide long-sought legal protections for LGBTQ+ people
With little Republican support, House Democrats passed a bill Thursday that would lock in long-sought legal safeguards for LGBTQ+ people — but the historic measure faces stiff opposition in the Senate. The “Equality Act,” which tweaks existing civil rights law to spell out that sexual orientation and gender identification are protected characteristics that cannot form the basis for discrimination, passed the House in a 224-206 vote, with just three Republicans joining the chamber’s 221 Democrats in supporting the measure. Supports of the bill say the protections will ensure that LGBTQ+ people ...
New York Daily News
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Pelosi slams Republicans for watering down Capitol probe
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Republicans on Thursday for trying to distract attention from the role of right-wing radicals in the Capitol siege. The California Democrat trashed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., for insisting that the commission study not just include the violence at the Capitol but also last summer’s racial justice protests. “We are talking about domestic terrorism,” Pelosi said. “That’s what we are trying to get to the bottom of. ... We’re not going to get into every case of mob violence.” Pelosi accused McConnell of allowing Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., to di...
New York Daily News
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A transgender flag and a personal attack: Illinois Democratic US Rep. Marie Newman and Georgia Republican US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene feud over LGBTQ rights
Illinois U.S. Rep. Marie Newman’s push to pass a law that would ban discrimination against LGBTQ Americans has put her at the center of a feud with controversial Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, a pro-Trump freshman congresswoman from Georgia who has espoused baseless conspiracy theories. On Tuesday, Newman, a Democrat from suburban Chicago, took to the House floor urging for the passage of the Equality Act, which would prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. During an emotional speech, the freshman Democrat from suburban La Grange choked up as she talked abo...
Chicago Tribune
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A transgender flag and a personal attack: Illinois Democratic US Rep. Marie Newman and Georgia Republican US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene feud over LGBTQ rights
Illinois U.S. Rep. Marie Newman’s push to pass a law that would ban discrimination against LGBTQ Americans has put her at the center of a feud with controversial Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, a pro-Trump freshman congresswoman from Georgia who has espoused baseless conspiracy theories. On Tuesday, Newman, a Democrat from suburban Chicago, took to the House floor urging for the passage of the Equality Act, which would prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. During an emotional speech, the freshman Democrat from suburban La Grange choked up as she talked abo...
Chicago Tribune
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KU coach Les Miles, while at LSU, settled with intern who claimed harassment: report
A Louisiana newspaper is reporting that Kansas Jayhawks football coach Les Miles reached a previous settlement with a former LSU student who alleged Miles harassed her. The Times-Picayune and New Orleans Advocate, through anonymous sources, reported Wednesday that a student intern in the LSU athletic department had several years ago accused Miles, the LSU football coach from 2005-16, of “hitting on her.” Miles, when reached by The Times-Picayune and Advocate on Wednesday, said “That’s not true” when asked if he had “made advances” toward that student. The newspaper said Miles did not address q...
The Kansas City Star
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Marcus Hayes: Phillies should cut Odubel Herrera while they still can
PHILADELPHIA — Hand print markings on his girlfriend’s neck. I can’t get past it. That phrase chills me today as much as it chilled me in May of 2019. It comes from the police report concerning the domestic violence incident between burly Phillies outfielder Odubel Herrera and his petite girlfriend, Melany Martinez-Angulo at an Atlantic City casino. Herrera somehow remains a Phillie. He’s at spring training right now. I want him gone. Why? Try this. Put your hand around your own neck. Now squeeze. Harder. Hard enough to leave a mark. Now close your eyes. Imagine that hand belongs to a man nick...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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