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Congressional Democrats, Civil Rights Leaders Call For Changes In The Senate Filibuster

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/13/2024 - 1:00am

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers and a coalition of civil rights leaders Tuesday urged Congress to reform the filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation next Congress.

“Voting rights, succinctly put, are preservative of all other rights,” U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Georgia Democrat, said at a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol.

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Biden Recaps Five Decades Of Disability Policy Work In Final ADA Commemoration As President

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/13/2024 - 12:00am

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Gov. Pillen Targets ‘Fake Meat’ In New Executive Order, Seeks Total Ban On Sales In 2025

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 7:00am

Gov. Jim Pillen (center) hosts a news conference at Oak Barn Beef in West Point announcing new regulations and future legislation to crackdown on “fake” or “lab-grown” meat in Nebraska on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Behind him are, from left: Hannah Klitz, co-owner and co-operator of the family led Oak Barn Beef; Jeanne Reigle of Madison, a livestock producer and 2024 legislative candidate; and Director Sherry Vinton of the Nebraska Department of Agriculture.
(Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)

WEST POINT, Nebraska — Gov. Jim Pillen and the Nebraska Department of Agriculture announced new regulations Thursday against “lab-grown meat” or “fake meat,” with Pillen eyeing 2025 legislation to prohibit the sale of such products within the state.

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Be Careful With Your Vote So We Don’t Vote Democracy Out Of Existence

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 6:00am

Ironic, isn’t it, that a system that provides so many advantages for its citizens also provides the means of its own demise.

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Trial Expected To Focus On Shooter's Competency In 2021 Colorado Supermarket Massacre

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 5:00am

Tributes cover the temporary fence around the King Soopers grocery store in which 10 people died in a mass shooting on April 23, 2021, in Boulder, Colorado.
(David Zalubowski / AP Photo)

DENVER (AP) — A man sitting in his van after fixing a coffee machine inside a supermarket in the college town of Boulder was the first person killed. In just over a minute, nine more people died in a barrage of gunfire inside and outside the store in 2021 as the shooter targeted and pursued people who were moving.

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Three’s A Crowd In Nebraska Abortion Amendment Lawsuits

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 4:00am

LINCOLN — Two was company and three is now a crowd of last-minute lawsuits filed in Nebraska against competing abortion amendment proposals.

More than 20 doctors supporting an abortion-rights amendment sued Friday to press the Nebraska Supreme Court to remove neither abortion amendment from the ballot or pull them both.

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How The 14th Amendment Prevents State Legislatures From Subverting Popular Presidential Elections

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 3:00am

Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election not only failed, but some of them also rested on a misreading of the U.S. Constitution, as our new analysis argues. The relevant constitutional provision dates back to just after the Civil War, and contemporaries recognized it as a key protection of American democracy.

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A Decision On A Major Policy Shift On Marijuana Won't Come Until After The Presidential Election

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 1:00am

A marijuana plant is visible at a medical marijuana dispensary in Egg Harbor Township, N.J., March 22, 2019.
(Julio Cortez / AP Photo)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A decision on whether to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in the U.S. won't come until after the November presidential election, a timeline that raises the chances it could be a potent political issue in the closely contested race.

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A 10-Year-Old Pointed a Finger Gun. The Principal Kicked Him Out of His Tennessee School for a Year.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 08/30/2024 - 7:00am

Kid doing a finger gun gesture.
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A 10-Year-Old Pointed a Finger Gun. The Principal Kicked Him Out of His Tennessee School for a Year.

by Aliyya Swaby

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A 10-Year-Old Pointed a Finger Gun. The Principal Kicked Him Out of His Tennessee School for a Year.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 08/30/2024 - 7:00am

A 10-Year-Old Pointed a Finger Gun. The Principal Kicked Him Out of His Tennessee School for a Year.

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Congressional Democrats, Civil Rights Leaders Call For Changes In The Senate Filibuster

Biden Recaps Five Decades Of Disability Policy Work In Final ADA Commemoration As President

Gov. Pillen Targets ‘Fake Meat’ In New Executive Order, Seeks Total Ban On Sales In 2025

Be Careful With Your Vote So We Don’t Vote Democracy Out Of Existence

Trial Expected To Focus On Shooter's Competency In 2021 Colorado Supermarket Massacre

Three’s A Crowd In Nebraska Abortion Amendment Lawsuits

How The 14th Amendment Prevents State Legislatures From Subverting Popular Presidential Elections

A Decision On A Major Policy Shift On Marijuana Won't Come Until After The Presidential Election

A 10-Year-Old Pointed a Finger Gun. The Principal Kicked Him Out of His Tennessee School for a Year.

A 10-Year-Old Pointed a Finger Gun. The Principal Kicked Him Out of His Tennessee School for a Year.

A 10-Year-Old Pointed a Finger Gun. The Principal Kicked Him Out of His Tennessee School for a Year.

A 10-Year-Old Pointed a Finger Gun. The Principal Kicked Him Out of His Tennessee School for a Year.

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