The Texas House of Representatives voted Tuesday to arrest the State Democrats who skipped out on the legislature and flew to Washington, D.C. Monday. The House Republicans voted 76-4 to send law enforcement to find and return absent Democrats “under warrant of arrest, if necessary”. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened Democrats Monday with arrest once…

President Joe Biden called bills aiming to curtail voting accessibility by state legislatures across the country a “21st century Jim Crow assault” Tuesday. The video above shows parts of the president’s Tuesday speech in Philadelphia. “This year alone, 17 states have enacted, not just proposed, but enacted 28 new laws to make it harder for Americans…

Former President Donald Trump blew away the competition in Sunday’s Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll, winning with 70 percent of the vote. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis came in second place at 21 percent. The rest of the contenders only got one percent or less of the votes each. The ones that got one percent…

President Joe Biden signed a sweeping executive order on Friday targeting tech, health care and other parts of the economy. What exactly is an executive order and can Congress or the Supreme Court do anything about it?

Authorities in Haiti said police killed three suspects in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and took 17 others into custody. The video above shows two of those suspects being arrested Thursday. It also includes the United States’ response to the assassination, from State Department Spokesman Ned Price. “Those who seek to accomplish their political…

Tuesday evening, the House of Representatives voted to remove Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol. The bill had bipartisan support, passing with a vote of 285 – 120. It will now move over to the Senate. Under the terms of the bill, a bust of Roger B. Taney, the former Supreme Court Justice who wrote the…

In a 6-3 ruling, Supreme Court reversed lower court rulings on challenges to two voting restrictions in Arizona Thursday. One rejects ballots cast in the wrong precinct. The other limits who can deliver ballots on someone else’s behalf to family, caregivers, mail carriers and elections officials. An appellate court struck down the restrictions as racially…

Gwen’s picks for Wednesday, June 30 include: Bill Cosby’s release from prison after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his sexual assault conviction The House of Representatives voting to form a Select Committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riots President Trump visiting the U.S.-Mexico border A deadline for phone carriers to implement technology that blocks robocalls…

Update (11/29/21): Nearly five months after Bill Cosby became a free man, prosecutors filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court Monday appealing the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision to overturn his conviction. Back in June, the court ruled a previous agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented Cosby from being charged. The only written evidence of such…

Thursday is the last day for the current Supreme Court session, and we could see several major rulings handed down before the end of the day. Perhaps the biggest surrounds two Arizona voting restrictions. One rejects ballots cast in the wrong precinct. The other limits who can deliver ballots on someone else’s behalf to family,…