US politics

US politics

Luke Meisner, counsel for the American Kitchen Cabinet Alliance, told the hearings that Canada and Mexico have become conduits for products from China, circumventing the hefty countervailing duties the U.S. imposed on Chinese-made cabinets and materials in 2020. "China didn't leave the U.S. market, it just changed the return address," Meisner said. "We closed the front door for China. Canada and Mexico became the side doors."

By the numbers: Two-thirds of Americans - including majorities of independents and many Republicans - support preserving the 14th Amendment's guarantee of citizenship to those born in the U.S., the survey found. Roughly 8 in 10 Black Protestants favor keeping birthright citizenship, and solid majorities of Hispanic Catholics and Hispanic Protestants support it as well. Even among Trump's most supportive religious constituency - white evangelical Protestants - 53% say the Constitution's guarantee should stand.

And it argued that when ICE assaults members of Congress it still must be treated as an assault on ICE unprotected by Speech and Debate. The Government respectfully asserts that any assault upon a federal officer should qualify as an act that is "clearly non-legislative" given that such an act is clearly an "illegitimate activity." And it would be clearly non-legislative whether the arrest that triggered the assault took place outside the Security Gate or inside of Delaney Hall.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency-which handles services including citizenship applications, family immigration, adoptions, and work permits for non-citizens-started the contract with Palantir at the end of October, and is paying the data analytics company to implement "Phase 0" of a "vetting of wedding-based schemes," or "VOWS" platform, according to the federal contract, which was posted to the U.S. government website and reviewed by Fortune.

His choice to employ rhetoric invoking violence, even for political grandstanding, carries real and dangerous consequences. Our foremost responsibility is to ensure that courthouse employees and every member of the public entering the Birch Building are safe and can access the justice system without fear of becoming casualties in what Mr. Ogles has described as a war' on elected officials.

A state department cable dated 9 December sent to all US diplomatic posts said that typography shapes the professionalism of an official document and Calibri is informal compared to serif typefaces. To restore decorum and professionalism to the Department's written work products and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program, the Department is returning to Times New Roman as its standard typeface, the cable said.

Well, I'll tell you what. If I were his advisers, his political advisers, the people who actually go out and poll and do these things, I would be cringing watching this whole day unfold, because this was an exercise in denial. You know what his plus, plus, plus, plus, plus [is]? That's people looking at their bills. That's how they feel. You cannot jawbone people into feeling what their life experience is telling them isn't true.

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AI preemption would not apply to local infrastructure. That's a separate issue," Sacks wrote. "In short, preemption would not force communities to host data centers they don't want.

Crockett announced her Senate campaign at an event in Dallas, drawing parallels between her effort and Barack Obama's upstart 2008 presidential campaign. Her campaign played a video at the event featuring President Trump repeatedly referring to Crockett as a "low-IQ person." Driving the news: Her announcement came just hours after Texas Democrat Colin Allred said he was dropping out of the race, opting instead to run for a U.S. House seat.

It shaped my values and taught me what community really means. It's where I fought for marriage equality, where I served on the Salt Lake City Council and in the State Senate, and where I've spent my life working to make our state more affordable, more just, and more inclusive.

Monday was the deadline to file candidacies, and the battle among Democrats to represent the state in the U.S. Senate was thrown into turmoil on a day full of surprises. In the morning, Colin Allred the best-known Democratic hopeful, who lost last year in his attempt to unseat Ted Cruz dropped out of the race. And in the afternoon, Dallas congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, well-known for her rapid-fire viral clashes with Republicans in recent years, announced that she would run.

When concerned residents of the New Orleans metro area stepped out into the streets with their whistles and phone cameras over the weekend, ready to protest and document the Trump administration's unwelcome assault on immigrant communities, they faced both widespread digital surveillance by state and federal authorities and a vague state law that makes hindering federal immigration enforcement a crime punishable by up to one year of hard labor in a Louisiana prison.

Nearly two dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested nine employees at the car wash without giving them an opportunity to retrieve documents that could have proven they are allowed to work in the U.S., a manager said previously. The people detained ranged in age from a teenager to a 67-year-old man who recently lost his wife to cancer.