A Colorado campaign that’s trying to enshrine abortion rights into the state’s constitution has gathered enough signatures to put the issue on the ballot this November, CBS News has learned. To amend Colorado’s constitution, petitioners must gather 124,238 signatures from the state’s voters, including 2% of the total registered voters in each of Colorado’s 35
The Biden administration has finalized a rule that will facilitate wind and solar energy development in ‘identified priority areas’ on public lands. Wind and solar project developers on public lands will see an 80 percent drop in acreage rents and capacity fees under the Biden administration’s final Renewable Energy Rule, according to the U.S. Department
President Biden was in spin mode Wednesday when a reporter asked him to comment on data showing an uptick in the inflation rate. “We’re in a situation,” Biden said, “where we’re better situated than we were when we took office, where inflation was skyrocketing.” Nonsense. When Biden became president in January 2021, the inflation rate
The city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced tens of thousands of dollars in grants aimed at tackling racial justice through the arts. Included in the taxpayer-funded effort are theater performances for “exclusively black audiences,” the city said in a Monday press release. The Front Porch Arts Collective will receive a $7,500 grant to produce “BlackOut” performances
Nearly a quarter of adults disenrolled from Medicaid in the past year say they are now uninsured, according to a survey released Friday that details how tens of millions of Americans struggled to retain coverage in the government insurance program for low-income people after pandemic-era protections began expiring last spring. The first national survey of
Food manufacturers are not currently required to test final products for contaminants. The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is urging lawmakers to pass legislation mandating food manufacturers test for lead in their food products from overseas. Speaking to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Dr. Robert Califf said the FDA
Conservative legal advocate Leonard Leo was subpoenaed by the Democrat-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday as part of an inquiry into a series of alleged shortcomings among Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee—which is probing the alleged undisclosed travel and gifts to