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Riding the so-called parental rights movement, more Republican-led states are changing the way they fund K-12 education, making it easier for families to use taxpayer dollars to send their children to private schools.All families in Iowa, Utah, Arkansas and Florida regardless of their income will soon be eligible for thousands of state dollars each year to send their children to private K-12 schools after new legislation was passed during the first three months of this year.

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.

The White House is set to face another setback to its regulatory agenda on Wednesday with Senate Republicans poised to win bipartisan support for two votes, one related to solar panels made with Chinese parts, the second dealing with endangered species protections for the lesser prairie chicken.This comes after Republicans have succeeded in pushing legislation through Congress on a wide range of initiatives such as ending Covid-19 national emergency and rescinding the DC crime law occasionally using the Congressional Review Act, which allows them to repeal regulatory actions by the administration without needing 60 votes to overcome a filibuster.

Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders speaks during a hearing with former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 29, 2023, in Washington, DC.Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is embarking on his latest campaign to raise the federal minimum wage, setting up a potential legislative battle that could force conservative members of the Democratic caucus who voted against raising the minimum wage to shift or defend their position as they seek reelection.

The Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would rescind a second Biden administration policy, this time challenging an EPA rule that Republicans argue places a burden on the agriculture community by being too restrictive in defining what is a navigable waterway.The final vote was 53-43.The resolution, which cleared the House earlier this month, will now be sent to Biden's desk where he has already threatened to veto it.

In more than 120 countries, people who seek abortions are at risk of facing prison time, according to a new review published Monday.BMJ Global Health, a peer-reviewed journal, conducted the study which they called a "comprehensive global analysis" of the penalization of abortion.The study found that over 90 countries have maximum penalties of five years in prison for abortion-seekers, while 25 have sentences of between five and 10 years.

This nazi presence follows a similar drag story hour nazi protest that took place in March in Wadsworth, Ohio.Tennessee State Police stand between members of the Proud Boys and counter protestors during a protest against gender-affirming care by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, at the War Memorial Plaza in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 21, 2022.

The Nationals continue to play host to the N.L. Central as they prepare to face off with the Cubs for a four-game series.Washington has had an inconsistent two weeks, posting a 5-5 record which is the good news that they finished at .500.But they had a chance to make more progress as they had won two consecutive series before this past weekend, when the Nationals dropped two of three to the Pirates but managed to avoid a sweep and defeated the Pirates 7-2 on Sunday.

WASHINGTON When Senator Steve Daines, the leader of the Senate Republican campaign arm, quietly informed Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, that he intended to endorse former President Donald J. Trump, Mr. McConnell was fine with the idea.Mr. McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, is not on speaking terms with the former president, having abruptly turned against him after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Joe Biden is officially running for re-election, and his candidacy will put some Democratic voters those not only skittish about his age but also about his passion for policy in a vise: They recognize the threat from the leading Republican candidates, but they've been underwhelmed by Biden, who'd be 82 at the start of a second term.

"We told y'all we weren't going back!" said one reproductive justice activist in the state.Дмитрий Ларичев / iStock / Getty Images This week, the Women's Health Center of West Virginia - the lone abortion clinic in the state before Gov. Jim Justice (R) signed an abortion ban into law last September - announced that it will be opening a clinic roughly five miles from the state border in abortion-friendly Maryland.

A seemingly relentless series of severe storms, likely with deadly tornadoes, are forecast to rip across parts of America's Midwest and South over the next couple weeks, especially Friday, meteorologists said.An unusual weather pattern has set in, last week triggering the devastating tornado that hit Rolling Fork, Mississippi, and meteorologists fear this Friday will be one of the worst days, with much more to come.

The protesters called on Biden to reverse his approval of the massive Willow oil drilling project in Alaska.Climate demonstrators block a government vehicle from getting through the entrance to the White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Washington Hilton on April 29, 2023 in Washington, D.C.Samuel Corum / Getty Images Members of the corporate media were greeted by hundreds of climate action organizers Saturday night as they arrived at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. for the annual White House Correspondents Dinner.

More than two dozen House Republicans who recently welcomed multi-million-dollar clean energy manufacturing investments in their districts voted Wednesday to repeal the tax incentives that stimulated those very same projects.The clean energy tax incentives are among a slew of measures from the Inflation Reduction Act the Republican lawmakers voted to repeal as part of Speaker Kevin McCarthy's bill to cut government spending and raise the debt ceiling into next year.

A strong storm system Friday will bring the potential for severe weather to 30 million people from the Lower Mississippi Valley to the lower Ohio Valley.A tornado outbreak (is) possible across portions of the Mid-Mississippi Valley Friday evening, the Storm Prediction Center warned.The storms will be capable of producing strong to intense (EF-3+) tornadoes, with long-track tornadoes possible.

Severe thunderstorms were expected to sweep across parts of the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys on Friday, raising the risk of tornadoes, damaging winds and hail for millions of people, forecasters said.The storms were expected to ramp up across the region beginning in the afternoon and last through the evening hours, according to the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center.