Written by Lexx Thornton Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) and Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ) are set to introduce legislation this week that would instruct the Department of the Treasury to mint 400,000 silver dollar coins in commemoration of Charlie Kirk.  Since Kirk’s assassination two weeks ago, Republican lawmakers have sought to ensure that Kirk’s memory is
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Written by Lexx Thornton Priscilla Williams-Till wore a white T-shirt featuring a collage of old black-and-white photos of a young man and his mother as she spoke in front of a crowd in the Mississippi Capitol rotunda about the 1955 murder of her relative, Emmett Till. She told the crowd of lawmakers, family, and friends
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How Charlie Kirk is being memorialized — with many conservatives and white Christians, particularly evangelicals, emphasizing his faith and labeling him a martyr — has sparked debate among Black clergy, who are trying to square a heroic view of the 31-year-old with insulting statements about people of color that were key to his political activism.
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By Jessica Deckler The U.S. Department of Education opened the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form on Wednesday — one week before the anticipated Oct. 1 launch date. The early start may help more students gain college access, experts say. Completing the FAFSA is the only way to tap federal aid money for higher education, including federal student loans, work-study
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By Sahil Kapur and Bridget Bowman When Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow decided in February that she wanted to run for an open U.S. Senate seat, she conveyed her intentions to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. But the committee asked her to hold off, according to three sources familiar with the conversations. In that call and subsequent ones,
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Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work. The General Services Administration has given the employees — who managed government workspaces — until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. Those who
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