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Someone in the U.S. Senate cut the words “white nationalists” from a measure in the defense authorization - after the House passed it. As the measure’s purpose is keeping white nationalists out of the military, we should know who in the Senate wants them in.
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Trump and Republicans only "expanded" the child tax credit for wealthy families. They left out 26 million children whose parents work hard but whose companies don’t pay them enough.
The 2017 tax bill, Trump’s main domestic achievement, doubled the maximum credit in the two-decade-old program and extended it to families earning as much as $400,000 a year (up from $110,000). The credit now costs the federal government $127 billion a year — far more than better-known programs like the earned-income tax credit ($65 billion) and food stamps ($60 billion).
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The Supreme Court refused to review a Kentucky law that compels abortion providers to insert a transvaginal probe, describe the fetus, point out its organs, and play the sound of its heartbeat. So the law stands.
Kentucky physicians are now legally obligated to penetrate many women seeking abortions with a transvaginal ultrasound and describe the fetus in extreme detail while playing its heartbeat.
This is how women’s reproductive rights will be whittled away - not in one fell swoop, but little by little and piece by piece.
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Making America dumber every day. Ignorance and hate are not virtues except for today's Republicans.
The little-known Genealogy Program administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services allows genealogists, family historians and other researchers to obtain citizenship and alien registration files, visa applications and other records documenting the lives of deceased immigrants who arrived in the United States between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries.
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Betsy DeVos will go down in history as the worst Education Secretary to ever hold that office.
These borrowers — more than 200,000 of them — say some for-profit colleges lied to them about their job prospects and the transferability of credits. They argue they were defrauded and that the Education Department should erase their federal student loan debt under a rule called "borrower defense."