The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday by the Biden administration. ... Notably absent from Biden's policy, however, is any mention of transgender athletes. read more
Recent protests blocking roadways over the Israel-Hamas war has led to Democrats looking to team up with Republicans in California to increase the penalty for protestors. Monday, the Assembly Transportation Committee passed Assembly Bill 2742 on an 8-5 vote, with four Democrats siding with Republicans to push it through. read more
The Biden administration has finalized a new rule set to make millions of more salaried workers eligible for overtime pay in the U.S. read more
The House voted Friday in a bipartisan manner to advance a key foreign aid package, a significant step in sending aid to Ukraine and Israel and setting up a final vote as soon as Saturday. read more
Less than a week after the arrests of more than 100 protesters at Columbia, administrators at some of the country's most influential universities were struggling, and largely failing, to calm campuses torn by the conflict in Gaza and Israel. ... "We're all a united front," said Malak Afaneh, a law student protesting at University of California, Berkeley. "This was inspired by the students at Columbia who, in my opinion, are the heart of the student movement whose bravery and solidarity with Palestine really inspired us all."
Neoliberal orthodoxy holds that economic freedom is the basis of every other kind. That orthodoxy, a Nobel economist says, is not only false; it is devouring itself. read more
David Pecker, the former chairman of the National Enquirer's parent company, is expected to be the first witness called by the Manhattan district attorney's office in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, according to a person familiar with the plans. read more
Speaker Mike Johnson's torturous path to embracing Ukraine aid is the result of many factors: high-level intelligence briefings as a House leader, his faith, the counsel of three committee chairs named Mike, and a realization the GOP would never unite on Ukraine. This story is drawn from interviews with more than than a dozen lawmakers and staff, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Johnson's evolution. read more
Steve Benen: Last fall, Democrats wanted to pass a security aid package. Republicans responded that they'd support such a bill, but only if Democrats agreed to add conservative provisions related to immigration and border policy. Democrats agreed to the GOP's demands, negotiated a bipartisan border bill, and packaged the two policies together. Republicans, acting at Donald Trump's behest, killed the compromise plan they demanded. Republican leaders eventually agree to pass a security aid package without immigration and border reforms. read more
The United States informed the government of Niger on Friday that it agreed to its request to withdraw U.S. troops from the West African country. It is the culmination of a military coup last year that ousted the country's democratically elected government and installed a junta that declared America's military presence there "illegal." read more
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