Nobody can beat The Hill at deadpan just-the-facts objective reporting on Congress, not even C-Span:
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Nobody can beat The Hill at deadpan just-the-facts objective reporting on Congress, not even C-Span:
Seemed to me that today in the UK House of Commons it was kinda like if a bunch of major Republican Senators called for Trump's impeachment
By Colin Dwyer & Frank Langfitt @ NPR.org, Sept. 3, updated 6 pm ET
[....] The announcement was the culmination of a dramatic day that saw a defection rob Johnson and his ruling Conservative Party of their single-seat majority in Parliament [....]
Right to work is a very simple concept. It simply means that no worker should be compelled to join or pay dues to a union just to get or keep a job. Twenty-seven states have now enacted and implemented right-to-work laws, with five joining in the last eight years.
After decades of pedophilia scandals this Catholic school is finally taking meaningful steps to protect children.
By Laura Kuenssberg, Political Editor @ BBC.com, Sept. 1
Buckle up. This next sentence is one that in normal political times (remember them?) might give any follower of politics palpitations.
Tory MPs who vote against the government in the Commons this week will be chucked out of the party and banned from standing for the Conservatives at the next election.
Senior sources in government are confirming that plan was agreed by the prime minister and his enforcers - the party whips - in the splendour of his country pile, Chequers, on Sunday. It's not just Westminster gossip - it is actually No 10's plan [....]
Just four states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Florida. Many analysts point to Wisconsin as the single state upon which the election could turn. By Dan Balz @ WaPo. Aug. 31 Dittoed by:
Analysis by Parker Asmann @ InsightCrime.org, Aug. 31
[...] Some experts estimate that more than 210,000 weapons are smuggled across the US-Mexico border each year.
The problem of US-sourced firearms finding their way into the hands of Mexico’s organized crime groups is a market issue. The United States has a glut of weapons — especially high-powered ones — and lacks strong control mechanisms. At the same time, criminal actors in Mexico are in constant search of such weaponry.
“Criminal actors in Mexico are using weapons to control whatever happens economically in their territory, and to dispute territory between each other,” John Lindsay-Poland, a researcher and activist at Global Exchange, told InSight Crime. “The demand side of the market has not changed, and dynamics on the supply side are really perfect to meet that demand.”
One of the most common ways that US firearms make their way into Mexico are through straw purchases [....]
The attack began as a traffic stop, the authorities said, and the gunman is dead
By Manny Fernandez, Neil Vigdor and Christopher Mele from Houston @ NYTimes.com, updated 8:36 pm
HOUSTON — Five people were killed and more than 20 others were injured in a brazen daylight drive-by mass shooting in the West Texas cities of Midland and Odessa on Saturday, as a gunman drove on the highways and streets opening fire on residents, motorists and shoppers, the authorities said.
The attack terrified two sister cities 20 miles apart with a combined population of 263,000 at the start of Labor Day weekend, just weeks after a gunman killed 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso.
Police officers and state troopers tried to keep drivers off the highways. A local university urged students and faculty to stay in their dorm rooms and offices. A television station in Odessa, KOSA-TV, evacuated their studio while they were covering the breaking news live on the air.
Three law enforcement officers were shot [....]
Even if we aren’t demented, our mental functioning deteriorates as we grow older. Age-associated declines in mental-processing speed, working and long-term memory, and problem-solving are well established. Conversely, distractibility increases. We cannot focus and stay with a project as well as we could when we were young. As we move slower with age, we also think slower.
The watchdog agency won't have enough members to legally conduct business - right in the midst of the 2020 campaign.
By Datunorro Clark @ NBCNews.com, Aug. 30
The nation's chief elections watchdog agency effectively shuts down on Saturday because it will no longer have enough members to legally meet and conduct business, prompting concern about whether the Federal Election Commission will be able to oversee how money is spent in elections and determine if campaigns are following the law.
With the resignation of Matthew Petersen, a Republican who served as the panel's vice chairman, taking effect on Aug. 31, the six-member FEC cannot reach its statutory four-member quorum, and critics argue that will leave the agency largely toothless ahead the 2020 elections.
"I think it's going to be a crisis in the electoral process," Ann Ravel, a Democrat and former commission chair whose seat is still unfilled after she resigned in 2017, told NBC News on Friday [....]
By Omar Haj Kadour and Hashem Osseiran in Beirut @ AFP, Aug. 31
Idlib (Syria) - US forces attacked jihadist leaders in Syria Saturday, the Pentagon said, in what a battlefield monitor called a missile strike that left at least 40 dead.
The US Defense Department said the attack targeted leaders of Al-Qaeda in Syria north of Idlib. It did not say what kind of weapon was used or give any details. The missiles targeted leaders of jihadist groups and allied factions near Idlib, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Syrian government air strikes on the jihadist-run Idlib region had stopped on Saturday, after the regime agreed to a Russia-backed ceasefire following four months of deadly bombardment, the monitor said [....]