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September 13, 2025
Republicans are trying to raise the bar for voters to amend their state constitutions
Sept. 13, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT A growing number of Republican-led states are moving forward with efforts to make it more difficult for citizen-led ballot initiatives to succeed. The latest move has come in Missouri, where the GOP-controlled Legislature gave final approval Friday to a bill that would significantly raise the threshold to amend the state constitution through that process. The legislation, once signed by the governor, will still need to be approved by voters. So far this year, lawm ...
Go to discussionWater failure at Guantnamo Bay affects U.S. migrant operations there
September 12, 2025 4:56 PM ET Several migrants sent by the United States to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, had to be relocated to another part of the U.S. naval base there because of a water supply failure, raising more questions about whether Guantánamo can accommodate the 30,000 migrants President Trump has said he wants to send there. Part of the naval base gets its drinking water from a treatment facility connected by an underwater pipeline, and the Justice Department notified a federal court on T ...
Go to discussionExclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as "vacation home," documents show
September 12, 2025 5:34 PM EDT Updated 8 hours ago WASHINGTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters. The document, dated May 28, 2021, was issued to Cook by her credit union in the weeks before she completed the purchase and shows that she had told the lender th ...
Go to discussionKeystone Kash Dined at Luxe NYC Eatery During Kirk Killer Manhunt
Updated Sep. 13 2025 2:53AM EDT Published Sep. 13 2025 12:51AM EDT FBI Director Kash Patel was reportedly dining out at one of New York City’s most exclusive restaurants on Wednesday night as the hunt for Charlie Kirk’s assassin unfolded. NBC News reports that Patel was dining at Rao’s Italian restaurant in East Harlem when he posted a series of bungled tweets that provoked widespread criticism of his handling of the investigation into Kirk’s murder. Posting on X at 6:21 p.m., Patel claime ...
Go to discussionHRC demands WSJ retract report linking Kirk shooting to transgender community
09/12/25 5:21 PM ET The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, is demanding that The Wall Street Journal retract its reporting incorrectly linking the shooter in conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination with the transgender community. Kirk, the 31-year-old co-founder of Turning Point USA, was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon while speaking at a Utah college. In the clamor of information related to Kirk’s killing, The Wall Street Journal, citing “an early b ...
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