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Former First Lady Michelle Obama says she hopes Americans are “finding joy in the smallest places” in a candid birthday post.

Late on Sunday, December 27 th, after initially raising concerns about the pandemic relief measure that had overwhelmingly passed Congress days before, President Trump signed the measure into law, ending a long political stalemate and beginning the process of sending financial relief to American families and small businesses, further aiding the American economy. As with the CARES Act enacted in March, this bill, the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021,” passed the House and Senate overwhelmingly, on a bipartisan vote of 359-53 in the House, followed swiftly by a 92-6 vote in the Senate...

Trump’s Years Close with Insurrection at the Capitol Matty Mendez On Jan. 6, 2021, the top story should have been the victories of Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossof of Georgia in a consequential Senate run-off, which awarded the Democratic Party with a majority of seats in the U.S. Senate. It should have been the news of President-Elect Biden’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Attorney General position, a gut-punch to newly-demoted Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.  On Wednesday afternoon, however, a mob of protestors, many adorned in Trump regalia, some armed, assembled in...

Women of color in Georgia showed up in record numbers to make their voices heard for 2020 Election The domestic worker movement reached Georgians by phone, doors, mail, and text a total of 5,856,426 times across the span of seven weeks. Author: 11Alive Staff Updated: 10:08 AM EST January 8, 2021 ATLANTA — Voter turnout from the 2020 Election proved to be record breaking with historic numbers of women of color voting. The domestic worker movement -- including Care in Action and their sister organization National Domestic Workers Alliance -- reached Georgians b...

Q&A: Sen. Jack Reed on what Democratic control would mean for the Senate Published Wed Jan 06 2021 19:22:51 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) by Ian Donnis U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, who has represented Rhode Island in the Senate since first winning election in 1996, is poised to become chairman of the Senate's Armed Services Committee. That's after Democrat Raphael Warnock and David Ossoff won run-off races in Georgia Tuesday; both Democrats and Republicans will have 50 seats, but Vice President-elect Kamala Harris could cast tie-breaking votes for Democrats. Reed spoke about the out...