2024 could be a historic year for Black women Senate candidates
There could be more Black women elected to the Senate in one year than have served in the entire history of the United States.
By Emily Singer - May 23, 2023There could be more Black women elected to the Senate in one year than have served in the entire history of the United States.
By Emily Singer - May 23, 2023President Biden dropped by the vice president's meeting with the heads of Google and Microsoft after the administration announced investments in artificial intelligence research.
By Associated Press - May 06, 2023President Joe Biden announced Tuesday morning that he and Vice President Kamala Harris are seeking a second term.
By Oliver Willis - April 25, 2023The order will create a White House Office for Environmental Justice and require several federal agencies to take steps to protect Americans from the effects of pollution.
By Associated Press - April 21, 2023Democratic governors are standing strong and adding protections, while Republicans are doubling down on restrictive bans.
By Rebekah Sager - April 18, 2023The Department of Health and Human Services has proposed an update to critical federal health privacy protections under HIPAA to safeguard patients who access abortion care and physicians who provide it.
By Rebekah Sager - April 12, 2023The Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements to be added to the Constitution, yet it remains unadopted.
By 19th News - March 16, 2023The Biden administration sent low-income families billions of dollars in funding to help them pay electric and heating bills.
By Oliver Willis - February 24, 2023Thousands of people across the country marked the historic date by protesting in favor of abortion rights.
By Associated Press - January 23, 2023Even with public opinion against them, Republicans are continuing to push measures to restrict abortion.
By Oliver Willis - January 20, 2023Murray will be third in the line of presidential succession, but is temporarily serving as the second in line since the next Speaker of the House has yet to be chosen.
By Associated Press - January 04, 2023The White House condemned the ‘cruel’ and ‘dangerous’ action to leave more than 100 migrants, including children, outside the vice president’s residence on Christmas Eve.
By Oliver Willis - December 29, 2022The Respect for Marriage Act offers federal protections for same-sex and interracial marriages, but does not automatically require states to issue marriage licenses for those unions.
By Associated Press - December 13, 2022President Joe Biden was to honor French President Emmanuel Macron with the first state dinner of his presidency Thursday evening.
By Associated Press - December 01, 2022The false claim was based on conservatives taking the vice president’s comments about the Biden administration’s racial injustice policy out of context.
By Oliver Willis - October 07, 2022The EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, funded thanks to the Biden-backed Inflation Reduction Act, has already earned praise from climate advocates.
By Oliver Willis - September 26, 2022The funds come from the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law that President Joe Biden signed last year.
By Oliver Willis - September 23, 2022President Joe Biden spoke of a hate ‘through-line’ that, along with racism, bigotry and violence, has long plagued the nation.
By Associated Press - September 17, 2022In August alone, the Department of Commerce gave over $634 million in funding toward improving internet infrastructure on Tribal land.
By Oliver Willis - September 01, 2022Every Republican in the Senate voted against the Inflation Reduction Act.
By Josh Israel - August 08, 2022Vice President Kamala Harris said the internet can be ‘a place of fear’ for many, especially marginalized people.
By Associated Press - June 20, 2022The Biden administration has introduced its strategy to build 500,000 charging stations for electric vehicles across the country in the next several years.
By Associated Press - December 22, 2021Democrats have been mobilizing their brightest national stars in hopes of staving off complacency in party ranks.
By Associated Press - October 23, 2021Clergy could face tens of thousands of dollars in ‘damages’ for discussing abortion with church members under Texas’s new extreme abortion ban.
By Josh Axelrod - September 15, 2021Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush are scheduled to attend ceremonies commemorating 9/11.
By Emily Singer - September 08, 2021‘We will not leave any stone unturned to save American democracy,’ said Marc Morial, head of the National Urban League.
By Associated Press - July 10, 2021Rep. Madison Cawthorn is spinning conspiracy theories about Biden administration immigration policies.
By Oliver Willis - July 01, 2021Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has attacked the Biden administration on Twitter at least 227 times over a so-called ‘border crisis.’
By Oliver Willis - June 23, 2021The vice president emphasized in particular the need to support minority- and female-owned small businesses as key to a robust economic recovery.
By Associated Press - June 15, 2021Rep. Burgess Owens briefly posted a tweet promoting Anna Paulina Luna’s run for Congress in Florida.
By Oliver Willis - June 14, 2021