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A day after she attended an event at the White House in close proximity to President Joe Biden. “The Speaker is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is thankful for the robust protection the vaccine has provided,” Hammill said. “The Speaker will quarantine consistent with CDC guidance, and encourages everyone to…

President Joe Biden announced that he will nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. In the 2017 decision, Jackson refused to certify a proposed class of more than 5,500 current and former Black employees at Lockheed. Jackson ruled that the proposed class didn’t satisfy the requirement for commonality because the members…

Matthew has been found not guilty of unlawfully entering the Capitol after a judge found that he “reasonably believed” that police officers essentially let him into the building. It’s the first acquittal in the government’s sprawling prosecution of those who participated in the riots at the Capitol that temporarily halted…

Oil executives defended themselves in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday from charges by lawmakers that they are gouging Americans with high fuel prices. Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations are holding the hearing to grill companies on why gasoline prices remain…

The pause in payments affects over 36 million borrowers, who collectively hold over $1.3 trillion in student loan debt. “If loan payments were to resume on schedule in May, analysis of recent data from the Federal Reserve suggests that millions of student loan borrowers would face significant economic hardship, and…

The new pilot program will have $200,000 set aside for allocation after a unanimous vote by the Palm Springs City Council last week. The city stated that the program is only for individuals who meet a poverty threshold. Former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio, a Republican who served as…

The recession call the first from a major bank reflects growing concern that the Fed will hit the brakes on the economy so hard that it will inadvertently end the recovery that began just two years ago. “We no longer see the Fed achieving a soft landing. Instead, we anticipate that a more…

The Reproductive Health Equity Act, which passed along party lines, will not alter abortion law in Colorado. Women can legally undergo the procedure at any point during pregnancy. It put into state statute that the legal access to an abortion shall not be denied or restricted regardless of federal actions…

The news comes as the foundation faces federal scrutiny for alleged misuse of donated funds – and comes on heels of criticism of co-founder Patrisse Cullors The leaders of the Black Lives Matters organization allegedly laid out a whopping $6 million that was donated to the activist group to buy…

Twitter is appointing Musk to the company’s board of directors. He’ll be of value as both a “passionate believer and intense critic” of the social network, according to chief executive Parag Agrawal. An SEC filing shows that Musk will serve as a Class II director (that is, not top-tier) with a term that expires…