Today is tax day, and millions of Americans will have to show the government everything: their salaries and social security numbers, their expenses and their benefits, their profits and their losses. It’s like Uncle Sam is a peeping Tom, and he is every room in your house. And we gotta let him see it all, […]
Congressional negotiators say they have reached an agreement in principle to avert a government shutdown at the end of this week. The four lead bipartisan negotiators, emerging from talks Monday night, declined to get into details on how the agreement was struck, but when asked whether it included barrier funding and a resolution to the […]
Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules, according to people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence. White House ethics officials learned of Trump’s repeated use of personal email when […]
There was a celebratory feel to Larry Krasner’s inauguration as Philadelphia’s new district attorney, because, as Krasner phrased it, his ascension to the office was the culmination of a movement. It was a movement led by the disenfranchised, a movement stoked by activists, a movement that succeeded thanks to votes cast by people of color […]
Judge Faith Jenkins explains how Twitter is effect government for the first time.
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Courtesy of CNN Dot Com The bill that would extend unemployment benefits to people that are currently jobless passed a major hurdle in the Senate as it garnered the mandatory 60 votes for it to be up for discussion in Congress. Many Americans recently were hit with the news of the benefits coming to an […]
Ticktock. Ticktock. Just over a week remains. If the Democrats and Republicans don’t stop bickering and agree to how the U.S. should pay its…
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted Monday of corruption charges, ensuring a return to prison for a man once among the nation’s youngest big-city leaders.…
President Barack Obama issued a strong warning to Republicans on Monday that he will not negotiate over the debt ceiling or allow Republicans to…
Past its own New Year’s deadline, a weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a national “fiscal cliff” of middle class tax increases…
With lawmakers in Washington battling over the budget, many programs including President Obama’s anti-poverty initiatives may soon face dire cuts. House Republicans zeroed out all three parts of the president’s Neighborhood Revitalization Initiatives: the school-centered Promise Neighborhoods, the housing-focused Choice Neighborhoods and the law enforcement-oriented Byrne Criminal Justice Initiative. City Limits Reports: All three programs […]
