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Texas’ top elections official told the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday its election monitors aren’t permitted in the state's polling places after the federal agency announced plans to dispatch monitors to eight counties on Election Day to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws.

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump threatened businesses that send jobs south of the border, while his own company that runs the Truth Social platform outsourced coding jobs to workers in Mexico, outraging some staff members.

According to a Pentagon audit, Boeing overcharged the Air Force on spare parts for a major cargo plane, including marking up the price of soap dispensers by 8,000%.

Cartel-affiliated gangs have created an industrial-scale extortion racket that involves kidnapping large numbers of migrants in southern Mexico as the U.S. pressures Mexican authorities to stop people from reaching the U.S. border.

Because I like data, here are my federal tax rates from 2015-2023. Taxable income and federal tax amounts are not shown due to privacy, but are shown in relative values on the graph.

The 2017 Trump law ended up being a tax hike for us, because we had previously itemized deductions that were either eliminated or reduced in 2018. The COVID child tax credits in 2020 temporarily lowered our taxes to their lowest point, but went up to their highest the next year. The Biden/Harris child care tax expansion in 2021 lowered our taxes back down to what they were before the 2017 tax law.

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A potential plan by Republican leaders to steal the 2024 presidential election. The plan involves delaying the certification of election results in key battleground states, potentially decreasing the overall number of electors appointed and allowing Donald Trump to win the presidency through a contingent election, whereby the House of Representatives, not the Electoral College, determines the president.

"Attention to all blacks who plan to vote for Trump," the sign outside New Era Baptist Church reads, "you are an ignorant stupid negro." The other side says, "Warning African Americans: A vote for Trump will put Blacks back to picking cotton."

It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened. Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.” She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s abortion ban.

The richest man in the world appears to have worked in the US without authorization. According to experts, if he did so and lied about it as part of the immigration process, he could be denaturalized.

Fox News' latest attempt to churn up negative stories about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz backfired immediately this week.

A new U.S. News And World Report survey of 2,500 Americans across the five most populous U.S. states (PA, TX, NY, CA, and FL) found that U.S. broadband prices continue to soar for most users. Most of the survey’s findings aren’t surprising; broadband access costs are reaching $100 for most users, and Americans continue to pay some of the highest rates for access in the developed world.

The world's richest man on Thursday joined the billionaire chorus calling for the firing of Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan, a consumer and antitrust champion whose aggressive actions against corporate consolidation have made her a target of prominent executives and Republicans in Congress.

RFK Jr. is saying he’s been promised power over major health agencies, and Trump officials believe his nonsense.

Reps. Tlaib, Bush and others tell the US president he "cannot continue to ignore the law without Congressional intervention" in letter obtained by Zeteo.

A Halloween parade in western Pennsylvania featured a float that depicted Donald Trump riding in a golf cart and Kamala Harris walking behind in shackles.

In summary, this nationwide study offers foundational geospatial insights into disparities of AD dementia prevalence across the US in relation to socioeconomic policies. The hotspots were more prevalent in states that did not adopt Medicaid expansion, had minimum wage policies at or below the federal level, were situated in the Deep South, and fell within the most vulnerable SVI quartiles. In contrast, cold spots were primarily found in states that adopted Medicaid expansion, had minimum wage policies above the federal level, were in the Western and Northeastern regions, and fell within the least vulnerable SVI quartiles. Based on our findings, we recommend that state policymakers prioritize socioeconomic policies to enhance access to care for vulnerable populations. For instance, healthcare providers and community organizations can allocate resources to hotspot regions and establish outreach programs to address the unique socioeconomic challenges, such as transportation barriers and limited healthcare access to mitigate the disparities. While our findings are centered on the US, the methodologies and insights derived from this study can serve as a baseline for other countries facing significant socioeconomic disparities in the prevalence of AD dementia. Future research should explore the causal relationships between socioeconomic policies and AD dementia to strengthen evidence for policy advocacy. Additionally, the incorporation of other socioeconomic variables such as housing quality, food security, and environmental variables in causal models could provide a more comprehensive understanding of the pathways linking policy to AD dementia prevalence.

Grocery store food prices increased 1.3% from September 2023 to September 2024, and increased 11% from 2021 to 2022 – the largest annual increase in 40 years.

The bounty itself reads that any person besides local and state government officials may sue a trans person using the restroom that aligns with their gender, with payments including “injunctive relief sufficient to prevent the defendant from violating the provisions of this ordinance; nominal and compensatory damages if the plaintiff has suffered injury or harm from the defendant’s conduct; statutory damages in an amount of not less than $10,000 for each violation of this ordinance; and court costs and reasonable attorney’s fees.”