With the push for federal voting rights legislation blocked in Congress, President Biden is facing mounting pressure from civil rights groups to enact new criminal justice policies — or risk failing to deliver another key promise to Black voters.Activists had hoped the momentum from the nationwide outrage over George Floyd’s killing by a police officer,…Continue Reading
Ernest Siva is one of the last remaining oral historians of the Indigenous Serrano language. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times) Native American culture and history have long been ignored or romanticized as vestiges of a lost people — or both.The Serrano people of Southern California have seen their Indigenous language nearly vanish. But tribe member Ernest…Continue Reading
MEXICO CITY — Journalist Lourdes Maldonado López stood before the Mexican president at a televised news conference and pleaded for help.“I fear for my life,” she told President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that morning in Mexico City in 2019, explaining that she was locked in an acrimonious labor dispute with Jaime Bonilla Valdez, then a candidate for…Continue Reading
The Biden administration has expanded the types of degrees that can qualify international students for a three-year work permit after graduation in an effort to grow U.S. competitiveness in math and science fields.The Department of Homeland Security added 22 new degree programs to its list of fields that make graduates eligible to work up to…Continue Reading
Posted January 24, 2022 at 12:30pmHouse Republicans’ constitutional challenge to COVID-19-related proxy-voting rules finally ran out of steam Monday, when the Supreme Court declined to hear Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s appeal of lower court rulings that dismissed the case.Dozens of House Republicans and several constituents filed the lawsuit in May 2020 to stop Speaker Nancy…Continue Reading
Posted January 24, 2022 at 11:29amWhen Ken Gross embarked on building a political law practice at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom in the 1980s, most firms represented either Republican or Democratic candidates. He envisioned a nonpartisan venture, catering mostly to corporate clients, and helped spearhead a model that grew more common on K Street…Continue Reading
Posted January 24, 2022 at 6:00amANALYSIS — President Joe Biden and Democrats have spent weeks stubbing their own toes and Donald Trump has repeatedly pounced — providing the frame for an evolving 2024 presidential campaign.Sure, the former president has stubbed his own, most recently with a racially tinged rally in Arizona and by contradicting his own…Continue Reading
Former Ambassador to Germany under the Trump administration, Ric Grenell, told “The Count” on Newsmax about the Ukraine crisis: “We don’t have any good choices. But the reality is that the leaders of Russia and China and a whole bunch of other places smell weakness.”RIC GRENELL: Where to begin? This is such chaos. It’s important…Continue Reading
OPINION: The former president and the Senate Minority Leader are in a no-holds-barred fight…Continue Reading
France’s case against Ottawa academic Hassan Diab in connection with a bombing outside a Paris synagogue 40 years ago will go to trial in 2023 — more than five years after he was set free due to a lack of evidence.French authorities have not yet requested Hassan Diab’s extradition to France to stand trial in person.…Continue Reading