DHS Security Mayorkas defended the administration's handling of the encounters and apprehensions at the southern border and reduced interior enforcement
The mayor announced last week she would only grant interview requests from reporters of color "on the occasion of the two-year anniversary" of her inauguration. The lawsuit wrongly suggests Lightfoot had announced an ongoing policy.
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The Senate advanced a bill to increase American competitiveness against China Thursday, clearing the 60-vote threshold needed to limit debate after multi-hour, last-minute deliberations brought Republicans on board and kept the legislation from being blocked.
The bill, titled the United States Innovation and Competition Act and led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Indiana Sen. Todd Young, his GOP co-sponsor, is intended to increase economic pressure on China while aiding the U.S. in the race to produce high-power computer chips and other essential digital infrastructure. It passed 68 to 30.
Though the bill passed and has widespread bipartisan support, it seemed to be in danger of failure Thursday after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested that Republicans could block it due to the lack of GOP amendments.
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Lori Lightfoot last Tuesday said she would only give interviews to people of color
Her temporary policy, she said, was to draw attention to a lack of diversity
On Thursday, a white reporter from the Daily Caller suing Lightfoot in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
The lawsuit, filed by Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch, alleges that Thomas Catenacci was denied an interview by Lightfoot
The lawsuit claims Catenacci s First Amendment rights were violated, as well as his Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection
Tucker Carlson has described Lightfoot as a Nazi and monster and other journalists also reacted in anger towards the mayor s decision