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Alaska did not provide accessible voting for those with disabilities, US Justice Department alleges
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 minute agoThe state of Alaska has violated the Americans with Disabilities Act for not providing accessible machines for in-person voting, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday ...
Senate renews safety, staffing grants for fire departments
Newsday· 8 minutes agoSenate on Tuesday voted to renew a pair of federal grants that have provided dozens of Long Island fire departments with nearly $18 million in funding since 2020. By a bipartisan 88-2
Biden relaxes visa rules in pre-election immigration balancing act
AFP via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoPresident Joe Biden attempted a political high-wire act Tuesday by announcing a citizenship pathway...
Congress Just Passed The Biggest Clean-Energy Bill Since Biden's Climate Law
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoAll but two senators — Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) — supported the bill in...
50 years ago: When Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Notre Dame
Gannett via AOL· 2 hours agoLaws can't change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. "Morality cannot be legislated,...
Mass postal voting is endangering our democracy
Daily Telegraph· 7 hours agoThere was a time, not that long ago, when to qualify for a postal vote required absence from the constituency on election day or infirmity making it...
From 2000: Notre Dame's Hesburgh reflects on Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Movement
South Bend Tribune via Yahoo News· 56 minutes agoHesburgh on Monday told a story about a place where black people could not register to vote, had to...
Senate GOP blocks Democratic effort to ban bump stocks after Supreme Court ruling
The Hill via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoSenate Republicans on Tuesday blocked an effort by Democrats to pass a ban on bump stocks in the...
Vote delayed for federal court appointee who Mitch McConnell calls 'committed Marxist'
UPI· 3 hours agoA Senate confirmation vote to make U.S. Magistrate Judge Mustafa Kasubhai a federal trial judge in...
Alaska discriminates against voters with disabilities, Justice Department alleges
UPI· 47 minutes agoThe Justice Department on Tuesday unveiled findings that suggest the state of Alaska allegedly is in...