Mel Gurtov: Where things stand with negotiations to end the Israel-Hamas war
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The New York Times reported Jan. 27 on three negotiating tracks that are being pursued simultaneously to end the Israel-Hamas war.
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Ben Cline plays the hits: Pretending immigration issue is a ‘Biden Border Failure’
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Sixth District Republican Congressman Ben Cline continues to try to look tough on immigration and border issues, in spite of his steadfast opposition to actually voting for real solutions.
U.S. House votes to pass Child Tax Credit, which would lift 16M kids out of poverty
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The U.S. House voted 357-70 on Wednesday night to pass, in rare bipartisan unity, an expansion of the Child Tax Credit, with the bill passing tonight increasing the refundable portion of the CTC to $1,800 for 2023, $1,900 for 2024, and $2,000 for 2025.
Spanberger, House Democrats push GOP to work together to address U.S. gun violence
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More than 43,000 Americans died from gun violence in 2023, and in case you were wondering, yes, gun deaths are a uniquely American problem.
Youngkin, Miyares bring Virginia into the thick of the southern border political stunt
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Virginia Republicans Glenn Youngkin, the governor, and Jason Miyares, the attorney general, are on board with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott defying the U.S. Supreme Court.
VCU Poll: Virginia would vote for constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights
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Virginia would vote yes, overwhelmingly, to back a state law codifying the reproductive freedoms that had been enshrined in Roe v. Wade before being overturned in the Dobbs decision in 2022.
Kaine: Virginia doesn’t want ‘legislators making women’s reproductive decisions for them’
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Republican politicians did their best to split hairs on abortion for half a century, using the desire of the religious far right to outlaw reproductive freedom to raise money and whip votes.
Robert C. Koehler: The need for understanding never stops
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I inhale the big, do-nothing shrug that always follows the annual posting, by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, of its global metaphor for Armageddon.
Cline, Good, Youngkin, Trump don’t actually want to solve their fake ‘border crisis’
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There was progress in the U.S. Senate on an immigration border enforcement deal, until Donald Trump decided that immigration is a good political issue for him to run on.
Mark Warner on Ukraine: A Russian victory puts U.S. troops in the line of fire
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The Fox News watchers are being fed a steady diet of, Ukraine isn’t any of our business. U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is sounding the alarm on that Putin-friendly notion.
