It’s been a long, confusing few months, but the 2021 Democratic primary for mayor of New York City finally came to an end this week. On Tuesday night, the city’s Board of Elections released new results including previously outstanding absentee ballots. The final, unofficial tally placedEric Adams ahead of Kathryn …
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A record number of Americans are relying on Medicaid for healthcare coverage during the pandemic. Nearly 74 million people are currently enrolled on Medicaid, the highest number participating in the program on record, according to a report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). During the pandemic, from …
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Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed the section of the state’s budget that funds the Texas Legislature on Friday. It’s a move that Abbott threatened to make when state Democrats walked out of a legislative session, breaking quorum in order to block the passage of a restrictive voting bill from …
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An investigation into the Trump administration’s delay in sending nearly $20 billion in hurricane relief to Puerto Rico showed officials in the White House purposely blocked funds from reaching the devastated U.S. territory and obstructed the investigation itself. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Inspector …
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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has for weeks now been trying to fend off one of the most bizarre sex scandalallegations to ever befall a member of Congress. The man he has to thank, other than himself, is Joel Greenberg. When The New York Times reported last month that Gaetz was …
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The Daily Show released a devastating video montage of Fox News‘ Tucker Carlson sounding an awful lot like white supremacist mass shooters. The video used writings from the manifestos of the Christchurch, New Zealand and El Paso, Texas, mass shooters’ displayed in captions alongside matching video clips of Carlson spewing …
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Andrew Cuomo stressed that he is “not going to resign” during a conference call on Friday, and boy did he have his reasons why. The call came hours after several prominent New York Democrats called for the governor to step down following a rash of sexual harassment allegations. Cuomo told …
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Postal Service trucks aren’t the only thing getting a makeover. President Joe Biden is nominating a trio of Democrats to the USPS board of governors. If confirmed, these newcomers would give the board a left-leaning majority, with the power to oust notorious Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, whom a federal judge …
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A pretty big giveaway that nothing was going to come of the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump was that many of its jurors were complicit in the “high crime” with which the former president had been charged. Trump may have been the insurrection’s “inciter-in-chief,” but many Senate Republicans did …
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As the vaccine is slowly rolling out, January became the deadliest month of the pandemic in the U.S. At least 95,373 people died from Covid-19 in the first month of 2021, according to the COVID Tracking Project. As a result, cemeteries are struggling to keep up with demand as bodies …
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