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<\/figure>After a high-profile<\/strong> incident in which a Black teen was punished over the length of his hair, Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) is pushing for federal protections against hair-based discrimination. In a tweet on Friday, Bush called on Congress to pass the CROWN Act, a bill designed to protect marginalized communities from hair-based discrimination in school…Read More \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n On Wednesday,<\/strong> House Republicans renewed their plan to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. It is part of a long attempt to pin the failures\u2014both real and imagined\u2014of the immigration system in the United States on supposed Democratic incompetence by warring against Mayorkas. And it would be an extraordinary step. No cabinet secretary has been impeached in 150 years…Read More \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Would a president<\/strong> who orders one of the country\u2019s most secretive and lethal military units to assassinate his political opponents be protected from criminal prosecution?That\u2019s the question at the heart of an alarming exchange during today\u2019s make-or-break hearing to decide whether Donald Trump should be immune from criminal prosecution over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. It arrived as all three judges in today\u2019s panel expressed…Read More \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n On January 8, 2023<\/strong>, a week after Brazil\u2019s former president (turned president again) Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva took office following the closest presidential election since the end of the country\u2019s over 20-year military dictatorship\u2014begun in 1964 by a coup partially supported by the United States\u2014a mob of supporters of defeated far-right President Jair Bolsonaro stormed, and vandalized, the center of the nation\u2019s main constitutional powers…Read More \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n The family of Ashli Babbitt, <\/strong>the January 6 rioter who was shot and killed by a Capitol Police Officer during the attack on the US Capitol, is suing the federal government for wrongful death. 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The legal battle went all the way up to the Supreme Court, which said on Friday that Idaho\u2019s law could go into effect\u2014at least until the court reviews the case in April…Read More \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n When Donald Trump\u2019s <\/strong>lawyers head to the Supreme Court next month, they\u2019ll be making their case to some familiar faces: three justices that Trump appointed.On Friday, the court agreed to hear the ex-president\u2019s appeal of a recent Colorado ruling that Trump, due to his role in fomenting the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, is prohibited by the 14th Amendment from running for office again. The case\u2014which could impact the presidential election…Read More \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n On Friday<\/strong>, ahead of the third anniversary of the January 6 Capitol attack, President Joe Biden delivered an impassioned campaign speech on what he framed as an urgent matter: This year, \u201cdemocracy is on the ballot.\u201d Much of the 30-minute speech\u2014delivered near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, and available to watch in full here\u2014stayed true to Biden\u2019s familiar brand of American patriotism…Read More \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n One student has died<\/strong> and four others, as well as an administrator, have been injured in Perry, Iowa early Thursday, in what appears to be the year\u2019s first mass school shooting. 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