By Paul LeBlanc Congress has just two weeks to ramp up negotiations on a number of key Biden administration agenda items before the end of the current work period threatens to halt any meaningful progress. Legislation addressing the infrastructure, voting rights and police reform will all be top of mind on Capitol Hill this week
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By Tori Mason The MLB All-Star Game exhibits some of the best players in the game, but an artist assured baseball legends will be honored long after the 9th inning. A stunning mural celebrating the Black trailblazers of America’s pastime was unveiled in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood Tuesday. In just four days, Dallas-based artist Jeremy
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By Veronica Stracqualursi Civil rights attorney Lee Merritt announced Tuesday that he’s running as Democrat for Texas attorney general, joining a competitive state race to take on Republican incumbent Ken Paxton. Merritt has become nationally known over the past few years for representing several families of Black men and women who have died at the
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By Chris Isidore US wholesale prices posted the biggest 12-month increase on record. That’s the bad news. But the US economy offered some rare good news on inflation Wednesday, too: Costs didn’t rise as much in June as they did in May, raising hopes that prices could be leveling off or even retreating in some
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By Kevin Liptak, Paul LeBlanc and Kate Sullivan President Joe Biden issued a dire and angry warning Tuesday that the very underpinnings of American democracy were under threat, calling an ongoing assault on voting rights the gravest challenge to American democracy since the Civil War. But he stopped short of embracing changes to Senate procedure
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by Richard J. Reddick More than a year after the pivotal moment where millions of Americans witnessed the murder of George Floyd at the hands of those charged with the responsibility to serve and protect — and about two weeks after the salutary news that his killer would pay with a 22.5 year prison sentence
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By Adam Renuart The Olympics have always held significance for USA basketball player Jewell Loyd — and not just as a sporting event. With a mother who used to run track, Loyd says, “We didn’t watch a lot of television growing up, but any time the Olympics were on, we would always watch it.” This
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By Eric Levenson and Gregory Lemos Cornel West, the eccentric professor, public intellectual and progressive activist, resigned from Harvard after a tenure dispute and accused the university of “spiritual rot” in a letter posted to his Twitter on Monday. “How sad it is to see our beloved Harvard Divinity School in such decline and decay,” he
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By Daniella Diaz and Ali Zaslav More than 38% of Democratic Senate staffers identify as non-Caucasian, an increase from the survey in 2020, where 34.8% of Democratic Senate staffers identified as non-Caucasian, according to a new survey released by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office Tuesday evening. According to the survey, 38.3% of Democratic Senate staffers
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By Priscilla Alvarez The Biden administration faces the possibility of another immigration headache, as it weighs whether to more widely reopen US borders in the near future — just days from the current travel restrictions expiring. An increase in migrants crossing the US-Mexico border became a political liability earlier this year, overwhelming border facilities and making
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