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President Biden Says Arms Shipments Headed to Ukraine Within Hours of Signing Foreign Aid Package

C-SPAN: President Biden announces he has signed the $95.3 billion foreign aid package that the House passed over the weekend and that the Senate passed Tuesday night. The president says the law is an investment in the security of Ukraine, Europe and the U.S. He says that despite the protracted and difficult path of passing the legislation, the U.S. got the job done and he thanks those members of…

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Supreme Court Hears Case on Idaho Abortion Ban & Emergency Care

C-SPAN: Supreme Court heard oral argument in Moyle v. United States, a consolidated case on whether a federal law allowing for emergency abortion health care at hospitals preempts states’ bans on nearly all abortions.

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In Memoriam: Rev. Cecil Williams

Co-Founder of Glide Memorial Church Dies at 94 Click here for the report. Source: San Francisco Examiner Statement from Vice President Kamala Harris Reverend Cecil Williams was a beacon of light and love. In all he did, Reverend Williams was guided by his faith. He fought for the rights and dignity of all people. He led re-entry programs for those leaving prison, provided clothing and housing…

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President Biden Grants Clemency to 16 Individuals

Click here to review the list of those pardoned. Source: U.S. Department of Justice (Office of Public Affairs)

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Tainted Shields: Former New Mexico Sheriff’s Office Deputy Pleads Guilty to Violating Civil Rights of Arrestee

  A former sheriff’s deputy, Michael A. Martinez, 34, pleaded guilty today to violating the civil rights of a female arrestee by sexually assaulting her inside his patrol car and to obstructing justice by attempting to destroy his patrol car’s WatchGuard DVR system, which had recorded footage from his patrol car’s internal cameras of the sexual assault. “Police sexual violence targeting women in…

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AG Garland & ATF Director Dettelbach Dedicate 'The Faces of Gun Violence' Exhibit at Inaugural Gun Violence Survivors’ Summit

Attorney General Merrick Garland and Director Steven Dettelbach of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) dedicated a new “Faces of Gun Violence” exhibit today at a ceremony hosted during ATF’s Inaugural Gun Violence Survivors’ Summit. The exhibit honors and memorializes those whose lives have been tragically lost to gun violence. “As we remember those we have lost to gun…

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Israeli Nationalism: Creating the New International Anti-Semitism; Conflating Anti-Zionism with Anti-Semitism

  By Steven Jonas “Israeli Nationalism” is not a commonly used term. But I think that it is a useful one. It conflates the Expulsionist Zionism that has been central to the policies of the Israeli Right since the post-World War I days of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, with the “One State Solution” which is the policy of the current Netanyahu-led coalition (of the Rightist and further-Rightist) Israeli…

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Kathy Hochul Gives National Guard Update Amid Pressure on Columbia Protests

Click here for the report. Source: Newsweek via Microsoft Start

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Mayor Adams Releases Executive Budget for Fiscal Year 2025

NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today released the City of New York’s balanced $111.6 billion Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Executive Budget. Mayor Adams’ budget builds on the administration’s actions, since last fall, to stabilize the city’s fiscal outlook, and has positioned the city to backfill long-term programs that had only been funded with temporary stimulus funds while making the…

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House Speaker Johnson Calls for Columbia University President to Resign

Click here for the report. Source: The New York Daily News

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Women Held at Rikers Say They Were Sexually Assaulted During Routine Medical Exams

Click here for the report. Source: Gothamist

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Chuck Schumer Privately Warns Pakistan: Don’t Kill Imran Khan in Prison

The Intercept_: Supporters worry Khan’s life is in danger and with good reason: The military has a long history of killing deposed leaders. Click here for the report.

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Woman, 23, Left Paralyzed and on a Ventilator After Eating 'Canned Soup' Contaminated with Deadly Bacteria

The Daily Mail: Claudia de Albuquerque Celada, 23, originally from Brazil, was on a work exchange program in Colorado when she became infected with botulism. Click here for the report.

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What Is Really Going on at Columbia University?

SLATE: Amid arrests and dark warnings about Jewish students’ safety, an editorial at the campus newspaper offered a far different view of the crisis. Click here for the report. Image source: Public Domain

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Senate Debates Foreign Aid Package, Vote on Final Passage Expected

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Senator Minority Leader McConnell Holds News Conference on Foreign Aid Package

C-SPAN: Senate Minority Leader McConnell (R-KY) holds a news conference as the Senate continues work on a foreign aid package that the House passed over the weekend. The $95 billion measure includes money for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Click here for video.

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The SCOTUS Reports: Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney Oral Argument

C-SPAN: The Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the case Starbucks v. McKinney, appealing a National Labor Relations Board ruling that said it must reinstate seven workers at a Memphis, Tennessee, store who lost their jobs during a campaign to unionize.

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