U.S. Population Increase Was Second Slowest Ever
The numbers came in a release of census data that marks the official beginning of once-a-decade congressional redistricting battles.
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A man wearing a facemask walks past a sign encouraging people to complete the 2020 U.S. Census, in Los Angeles, California, August 10, 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (AP) The nation’s political center of gravity shifted further to the Republican-led South and West on Monday, with Texas, Florida and other Sun Belt states gaining congressional seats while chillier climes like New York and Ohio lost them.
GOP Group Is Rating Membersâ Response To Trumpâs Attempts To Overturn Democracy
The GOP Democracy Report Card gives grades to members of Congress based on whether they supported Trumpâs lie about the election being stolen from him.
WASHINGTON â While most conservative groups rate members of Congress on issues like opposing taxes and supporting gun rights, a new one is ranking them on a more fundamental metric: how they treated former President Donald Trumpâs attempt to overturn American democracy.
âItâs a sad sign of the times,â said Olivia Troye, a Trump White House official who has become an outspoken critic, now with the Republican Accountability Project. âItâs a very fundamental thing in our society. If youâre an elected official in our democracy, you should be pro-democracy.â
US lawmakers aggressively campaign for sending essential medical supplies to India
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Last Updated: Apr 27, 2021, 08:25 AM IST
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Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton said the Biden-Harris administration was making available supplies for vaccines, tests, PPE and ventilators to aid India in this time of crisis.
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Cutting across ideological lines, influential American lawmakers have come out in support of India, urging the Biden Administration to urgently provide all possible help to the country in its fight against COVID-19.
Describing India as one of the closest allies and foremost strategic partners, Congressman Adam Schiff, Chair of House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said when the COVID-19 pandemic pushed American hospitals to the brink of collapse, India came to America s immediate aid and supported it through this crisis.
April 26, 2021, 7:21 p.m. ET
The MAGA star Mark McCloskey, despite having no political experience, wants to be the next senator from Missouri.Credit.Illustration by The New York Times; Photographs by Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times and Angela Weiss, via Agence France-Presse Getty Images
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Don’t look now, but Mark McCloskey is eyeing a run for the open Senate seat in Missouri.
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that Mark McCloskey, the wealthy St. Louis lawyer who became a MAGA star after he and his wife, Patricia, brandished semiautomatic weapons at protesters marching past their mansion last June. Barefoot and defiant, the McCloskeys cut quite the figure. The video went viral, boosted by a retweet from former President Donald Trump.