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Tim Swain, a Republican candidate for Senate in South Carolina, called House Bill 1464 the “strongest election integrity bill in the nation,” in a statement on Twitter. Georgia has begun to follow the lead of several other states hitting back at private entities who have dumped dark money into election…

The ruling implements a temporary pause while two separate lawsuits filed by parents in July arguing the district violated their religious liberty and subverted their rights. “States and the District are free to encourage individuals including children to get vaccines,” Judge Trevor McFadden wrote in his ruling . “But they cannot transgress…

It doesn’t appear that Beijing has provided any military assistance or violated the economic sanctions on Russia. China does not want to take a position on Ukraine that could undermine Russia, said Scott Kennedy of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank. It doesn’t appear that Beijing has provided…

The United States is sending secretly acquired Soviet air defense equipment to Ukraine according to WSJ. The report said, citing US officials, that the Soviet air defense equipment includes SA-8, which the United States acquired so it could examine Soviet technology at the time. The S-300 is not one of the air defense systems being sent to Ukraine,…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) accused the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) inspector general of having staged a photograph which the watchdog used to show allegedly poor conditions at a New Mexico migrant facility. The report found that the Torrance County Detention Facility in Estancia, New Mexico, which is privately run under contract…

NATO’s decision not to enforce a no-fly zone, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll of adults released today. Democrats say 58 – 30 percent, independents say 57 – 30 percent, and Republicans say 47 – 38 percent that they approve of NATO’s decision not to enforce a no-fly zone…

On Wednesday, DHS Deputy Secretary John Tien asked employees “to consider stepping forward to support the DHS Volunteer Force,” citing large numbers of migrants at the southwest border, according to an email seen by Axios. The email seeks general support for U.S. Customs and Border Protection and help with data entry.…

“On March 15, 2022, data on deaths were adjusted after resolving a coding logic error. This resulted in decreased death counts across all demographic categories,” the data tracker said. The CDC did not return multiple requests for comment. Prior to the fix, the CDC’s data had been used as the basis for…

China’s muted response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has hardened views within the Biden administration that President Xi Jinping may be moving closer to supporting Moscow as the conflict continues, according to several people familiar with the matter. Even as the Chinese government publicly voices some support for the Ukrainian…

And half of the country (exactly 50%) said that they “strongly disapprove” of Biden. His numbers touched this this bad for a day in January. An earlier version of this story said they hadn’t slipped below 39% disapproval. At this stage of his presidency, former President Donald Trump had a 47% approval…