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Political handful hanging over 2024. joining me now is nbc news washington correspondent yamiche alcindor. i teased it a moment ago. in nebraska, one of the cosponsors of the bill abstained, a republican, tell me why he did not vote, and why he ended up killing that bill? >> a fascinating situation in nebraska. on thursday, this bill to restrict abortions after six weeks of pregnancy failed to get the 33 votes it needed to advance. it fell one vote short as you said, when republican state senato...

On April 14th members of the Cook Islands rainbow community assembled at parliament with colourful flags and cautious optimism. It turned out to be the day they’d been working toward for the last twelve years. Parliament removed laws prohibiting consensual sex between men, striking out sections of the Crimes Act that had been on the books since the turn of the 20th century.

April 18, 2023 Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, cosponsored a bipartisan resolution to recognize

Senate with 30 cosponsors, enough to override the expected veto. we are winning with school choice. its popular among republicans, democrats and independent voters. paul: including florida which is a pioneer in school choice but this year they are expanding it. tell us how they are moving that reform forward. >> governor desantis signed into law house bill one, this expands the existing programs to all things regardless of income or background or zip code. now in florida all families have the ri...

In response to the introduction of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) in the Senate, the following statement can be attributed to NAB President and CEO Curtis LeGeyt: NAB commends the ongoing leadership of Sens. Klobuchar, Kennedy and their bipartisan cosponsors with the reintroduction of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act. In the current media landscape, local news outlets - including local television and radio stations - are at the mercy of a handful...

Then i would discuss this. i think that - we are doing more than one thing. assault weapons ban is one thing. expanded background checks i the second thing and then theres a third thing we call the charleston loophole all three of these pieces of legislation are going forward. i know they are not going to get anywhere what we call regular order it may be that we will b forced to go and discharge the petition to get this done. i just think we need to make - the american people would like to see u...

Addressing employment access inequality is relevant to the HIV response. In 2021 HIV prevalence among transgender people in India was 3.8%, almost 20 times the national average. A study commissioned by India’s National Human Rights Commission found that in 2017 just six percent of transgender people were formally employed in either the private or non-governmental organisation

This twist about throughout th history of the united states now, in these glaring an horrific and cruel ways, les than a year after the suprem court issued its ruling in dobbs. >> professor ziegler, youve traced how the republican party, as professor goodman just said back at the roe v. wade stage. was not in this rabid anti abortion position that theyre in now and certainly, the establishment of the republica party wasnt were seeing something interesting in south carolin with this bill, the num...

I am sure you are as strict as i was about the fact that congressman jim jordan is supporting this new plan. i wonder what that tells you about this plan. >> it is a return today trump and stephen miller playbook. its also a drastic departure from decades of u.s. humanitarian leadership. i think its just important to understand that asylum is the last and only hope for thousands of desperate families fleeing violence and persecution, so subjecting them to arbitrary rules after they made such a g...