The decision by Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin to block their fellow Democrats from passing new federal voting-rights legislation clears the path for years of tightening ballot restrictions in Republican-controlled states. It also marks a resounding triumph for Chief Justice John Roberts in his four-decade quest to roll back the federal government’s role in protecting voter rights.
Roberts as much as anyone set in motion the events that have led to this week’s climactic Senate confrontation over voting legislation.
The Omicron variant is showing more signs that it is starting to burn out this week with the rate of case growth slowing in 44 states over the past two days.
National case growth is slowing as well, with the daily case average stagnating around 786,000 after rocketing in recent weeks.
While cases are still on an upward trajectory, the massive slowing in cases adds to the growing body of evidence that the new strain is starting to run out
Programm beinhaltet $ 5 Goldmünzen, $1 Silbermünzen und halben Dollar plattierte Münzen.
WASHINGTON, 3. Januar 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Die United States Mint (Mint) wird den Verkauf für das Baseball-Gedenkmünzenprogramm 2022 der Negro Leagues Baseball eröffnen 6 Januar beim Mittag EST. Dieses Programm erinnert an den 100. Jahrestag der Gründung der Negro National League, einer professionellen Baseballliga, die als Reaktion auf das Verbot afroamerikanischer Spieler aus den wichtigsten Baseballligen gegründet wurde. Öffentliches Recht 116-209 weist die United States Mint
The great divergence is rapidly expanding—and President Joe Biden’s window to reverse it is narrowing.
Since the 1960s, Congress and federal courts have acted mostly to strengthen the floor of basic civil rights available to citizens in all 50 states, a pattern visible on issues from the dismantling of Jim Crow racial segregation to the right to abortion to the authorization of same-sex marriage. But now, offensives by red-state governments and GOP-appointed federal judges are poised to retrench those
Ich bin seit langem erstaunt über die Fähigkeit der GOP, die neueste öffentliche moralische Panik zu erschnüffeln und entweder ein Keilproblem nach dem anderen zu identifizieren oder herzustellen, um die Unterstützung ihrer Wähler zu blockieren. Die Partei mag beim Regieren schlecht sein, aber sie ist sicherlich gut darin, Angst und kulturelles Unbehagen zu schüren, um ihren
The Omicron strain of COVID now makes up three per cent of all new US infections, the CDC has warned, as case numbers grew to 189 across 33 states, and the White House warned a ‘large wave’ of the strain is approaching.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that around one in 30 new Covid diagnoses are being caused by Omicron, with 97 per cent caused by the Delta strain.
The US only sequences one in five
Dr Gregory Poland (pictured) warns that there are 32,000 Americans alive right now who will be dead because of Covid by the end of the year, and do not even know it yet
The Omicron COVID-19 variant is now in half of U.S. states, after Arizona, Iowa, Michigan and Virginia joined the growing list on Thursday or Friday morning.
Now, 25 states have recorded at least one Omicron case.
While Omicron dominates headlines, the Delta variant continues its spread nationwide,
Das Münzdesign 2022 würdigt die Beiträge von Ely S. Parker.
WASHINGTON, 26. November 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Die United States Mint (Mint) hat heute offiziell das Design für den amerikanischen Ureinwohner 2022 bekannt gegeben $1 Münze. Der amerikanische Ureinwohner 2022 $1 Münze wird gedenken Ely S. Parker, ein Offizier, Ingenieur und Stammesdiplomat der US-Armee, der als Militärsekretär für Ulysses S. Grant während des US-Bürgerkriegs. Wann Robert E. Lee ergab sich bei Appomattox, Virginia, am Morgen des 9. April
Throughout his fiction and nonfiction, Francisco Goldman has mapped the many border lines that pervade his life. Some of his novels have mined his Central American family connections. His journalistic work has uncovered the genocidal policies of the US government and its Guatemalan government collaborators. Sometimes he has adopted the detached demeanor of a forensic investigator looking into horrible crimes.
Other times he has reveled in arch wittiness or an achingly sad prose
