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.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... As the special election to fill New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District heats up, an important area of bipartisan common ground has emerged: Both Democratic Rep. Melanie Stansbury and Republican Sen. Mark Moores are emphasizing their support for repealing New Mexico’s tax on Social Security income. During the last two legislative sessions, nine bills were introduced to repeal this tax, sponsore...

By CAROLINE SIMON | CQ-Roll Call | Published: May 6, 2021 WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — President Joe Biden is calling for $1.2 billion in border infrastructure spending for the next fiscal year as his administration works to address record-high migration numbers at the U.S.-Mexico border. But Democratic and Republican lawmakers have vastly different ideas of what that funding should look like, teeing up a partisan battle when the narrowly divided Congress considers its annual spending bills. In a preview of his fiscal 2022 budget request released last month, Biden called for moder...

It is beyond dispute that Hutu militants carried out a deliberate, coordinated, and pre-planned assault to eliminate the Tutsi as a group.

Washington in bid to rejoin UNHRC to go after rights violators MalaysiaNow 25/2/2021 © Provided by MalaysiaNow The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that the US will seek to rejoin the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). President Donald Trump withdrew the US in 2018, after accusing the UNHRC of hypocrisy and bias against Israel, the Washington Examiner reports. Elections for three-year membership on the 47-member council are due at the UN General Assembly in October. “The US is committed to a world where those who commit human rights abuses are held accountable,” S...

As millions of Texans experience continued power outages amid extreme winter weather,...