#midterm-elections

#midterm-elections

The poll found that 12 percent of young voters said student debt relief was the only reason they voted.President Joe Biden greets students after speaking about student debt relief at Delaware State University in Dover, Delaware, on October 21, 2022.Oliver Contreras / AFP via Getty Images As President Joe Biden's student debt cancellation plan is held up in court, new polling finds that student debt relief was a major driver of votes in this year's midterm election - especially among young voters, who were crucial to delivering wins for Democrats in November.

The GOP-led house on Friday voted to advance controversial legislation aimed at providing parents with more information and control over what is being taught in public school classrooms.The Parents' Bill of Rights act narrowly passed in a vote of 213-208, with just five republicans - most of them members of the House Freedom Caucus - voting against it.

Georgians on Tuesday will decide whether Senator Raphael Warnock, the Democratic incumbent, or Herschel Walker, the retired football star nominated by Republicans, will represent them in the Senate next year.The coda to the midterm elections comes after an intense, monthlong runoff contest in which Democrats spent nearly twice as much as the G.O.P.

A federal appeals court has upheld several provisions of a restrictive election law in Florida that was passed by the GOP-controlled legislature in 2021.A divided panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed most of a ruling by a trial judge last year that said the provisions in question violated the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act by intentionally targeting Black voters.

The National LGBTQ Task Force's annual Creating Change conference was held, for the first time ever, in San Francisco.The conference took place from February 17-21, 2023, at the Hilton San Francisco.Upon arrival, participants were greeted by streams of rainbow colors installed on the interior steps leading from the hotel's main entrance into the main lobby interior.

Since competing creator programs on social media platforms have been falling flat, Snap's got a fresh influx of influencer demand on its hands.For example, creators complain that TikTok's influencer payout is paltry , while Meta decided to sunset its rewards program for Instagram Reels earlier this month.

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Associated Press I noticed something funny on Twitter today.I had Elon Musk appearing in my newsfeed.This might be a regular occurrence for most people on the social media platform, since he's a prolific tweeter, but Musk actually blocked me back in 2019.

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AP Elon Musk says he'll probably step down as the CEO of Twitter after he finds someone to take the role by the end of 2023.But I wouldn't bet on it.Musk was appointed CEO of Twitter in October 2022 after he purchased the company.

Politico executive editor Dafna Linzer will leave the publication this month, editor-in-chief Matt Kaminski told staffers in an email Thursday.Politico announced her hire last March, saying her "appointment is one of the critical steps we are taking this spring to position POLITICO for a great new era."

Sunday Night Football analyst Tony Dungy showed more life in a reply to a Daily Wire tweet than he did for the entirety of the Chargers-Jaguars game.In response to a video of Minnesota State Representative Sandra Feist pushing for menstrual products in all school bathrooms, the former NFL head coach jumped in the conversation on Wednesday with a now-deleted post about the whole "litter boxes in schools" hoax.

It's fair to say that many Republicans were hoping for a smoother opening day.Instead the House adjourned Monday without picking a speaker."The unsteadiness I see over there [in the House] concerns me.We get the majority, and then we start a circular firing squad," said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of Republican leadership.

The House of Representatives is expected to vote Thursday to try to override President Joe Biden's veto of a measure to overturn a retirement investment rule an effort that faces long odds in the narrowly divided chamber.Biden issued the first veto of his presidency Monday on a resolution to overturn a retirement investment rule that allows managers of retirement funds to consider the impact of climate change and other environmental, social and governance factors when picking investments.

Obama looking to position himself well in case government shutdown threatened Marco Rubio tries to turn tables on Obama, laying blame at his feet Republicans will likely use their recess to figure out how far to go with this fight Republicans are right in saying President Barack Obama's new economy road show is a rerun full of policy proposals and political attacks the country, and the GOP, have heard before.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks about Gmail features at the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, Calif., in May 2018.(Jeff Chiu/AP)Google plans to discontinue a pilot program that allows political campaigns to evade its email spam filters, the latest round in the technology giant's tussle with the GOP over online fundraising.

Republicans took control of the House on Tuesday, but who will lead the chamber remains uncertain.House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, center, takes his seat as he arrives for the start of the 118th Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 3, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Win McNamee / Getty Images Republicans have officially taken control of the U.S. House of Representatives following their narrow victory in the 2022 midterm elections - but who will lead the party is still in question, as GOP leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-California) failed to garner the votes necessary to become Speaker of the House on Tuesday.

The "Old Crow" is scratching back a little.Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)took an understated end-of-year victory lap over former President Donald Trump, saying his nemesis has been "diminished" by a seemingly unending string of legal and political setbacks."Here's what I think has changed: I think the former president's political clout has diminished," McConnell told NBC News.

Drew Angerer/Getty Images.As 2022 comes to an end, Fox News's dominance over the American cable news landscape remains total, with the network finding new ways to beat the competition.In terms of total day viewership, Fox News was the only one of the top three networks to grow year over year in both the key 25-54 age demographic and in terms of total viewers.

Fox News Digital had another successful month against its legacy media competitors in multiplatform minutes and multiplatform views, according to Comscore.In November 2022, Fox News Digital marked its 21st straight month as the No. 1 news brand in multiplatform minutes, reaching over 2.9 billion.That exceeded CNN.com's 2.47 billion multiplatform minutes and NYTimes.com's

Multiple U.S. regulators hit Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and chief executive officer of FTX, with fraud charges on Tuesday.(Ting Shen/Bloomberg)A trio of U.S. agencies filed a flurry of charges against disgraced cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried the day after he was arrested in the Bahamas at the request of the U.S. government.

Beijing and Riyadh say they will firmly support each other's core interests' during an official visit by President Xi Jinping to the kingdom.Saudi Arabia and China have reaffirmed their cooperation on the global oil market and the principle of non-interference in internal affairs during a visit aimed at deepening strategic relations, at a time when Washington's ties with Riyadh appear increasingly frayed.

WNBA player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, holds a picture of her team as she stands inside a defendants' cage before a court hearing in Khimki, outside Moscow, on Aug. 4. Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool/AFP via Getty Images President Biden says WNBA star Brittney Griner has been freed from a Russian prison.

Now that the U.S. Senate race in Georgia is over, the 2022 elections have finally ended.It is time to recognize that youth are voting to save our democracy.In the midterm elections in November, youth and women, because of the abortion issue and ongoing worries about the state of our democracy, voted in unprecedented numbers.