âIt is truly sad and dangerousâ: New England politicians condemn Trumpâs acquittal
By Shannon Larson Globe Staff,Updated February 14, 2021, 7:40 a.m.
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said that it is truly sad and dangerous that only [seven] Republicans voted to convict former president Donald Trump.Nicole Hester/Associated Press
Former president Donald Trump was acquitted in a 57-43 vote by the Senate Saturday during his historic second impeachment trial, clearing him of the charge that he incited the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol on Jan. 6 and leaving him free to pursue office again in the future.
Panel Selected to Determine New Honorees for Military Bases Named for Confederate Leaders
On 2/12/21 at 6:24 PM EST
Members of a panel to rename U.S. military bases currently named after leaders in the Confederate Army were announced Friday by U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committee.
Calls to change the names of the military bases began as protests against systemic racism occurred in 2020. Former President Donald Trump did not support the idea. In December 2020, Trump vetoed the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in part because of a provision that would require the bases to be given new names. President Joe Biden endorsed the idea of removing the names of Confederate leaders from the military bases.
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) on Wednesday asked Treasury Secretary
Janet Yellen to investigate the role nonprofit organizations played in the Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol Complex which disrupted the Senate’s confirmation of
Joe Biden as president.
“[T]he IRS’s regulation and enforcement related to 501(c)(4) organizations has been woefully inadequate in the post-
Citizens United era,” a letter to Yellen reads. “We urge you to undertake a careful review of what the IRS has done, reform its approach, and rein in abuse by ‘dark money’ organizations.”
The underlying Warren and Whitehouse argument is that the regulatory agencies tasked with enforcing disclosure requirements left in place by the Supreme Court’s 2010
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley on Monday renewed a bill that would tackle glaring disparities in racial equity while declaring structural racism a public health crisis.
The Anti-Racism in Public Health Act, which lawmakers originally introduced in September 2020, would require the federal government to begin developing race-conscious public health approaches through two programs within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“It’s clear that COVID-19 has exacerbated decades of disparities in health outcomes for Black and Brown people,” Warren said in a statement.
Alongside California Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Warren and Pressley said they’re pushing the bill again as the pandemic continues to lay bare centuries of structural racism, which has led to Black and Latinx people being nearly three times more likely than white people to contract COVID-19 and one to two times more likely to die from the illness.
Jan 28, 2021
BOSTON (
WBZ NewsRadio) Secretary of the Commonwealth Bill Galvin is calling for the New York Stock Exchange to temporarily suspend trading in GameStop, after a group of Reddit users fueled a frenzy in the company s stock earlier this week.
At the end of 2020, GameStop s stock was valued at nearly $19 per share. As of Thursday morning, the stock briefly jumped to $469.42 per share, later decreasing to the $230-240 range by the afternoon. This is unreasonable, it s irrational, it s also undermining the integrity of the marketplace, Galvin said.
The jump in the share value for the video game retailer was partially fueled by the subreddit group WallStreetBets. In response to the surge, TD Ameritrade and Robinhood both restricted trades for users on several stocks, including GameStop. The subreddit group was also temporarily locked.