POLITICS

Biden EPA Gave a Social Justice Group $20 Million To Replace Lead Pipes and Restore Wetlands. The Group Has Experience With Neither.

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The Biden Environmental Protection Agency gave a little-known social justice advocacy group $20 million to restore wetlands and remove lead pipes in hundreds of homes. The group has no experience doing either of those things. The EPA awarded the grant to Democracy Green in December as part of a $1.6 billion environmental justice initiative—the Climate Justice Community Change Program—championed by

Trump administration expected to seek to let Idaho enforce strict abortion ban

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Washington — The Trump administration signaled Tuesday it will move to let Idaho enforce its strict abortion ban, even in the treatment of pregnant women suffering medical emergencies, a dramatic reversal from the previous administration in a closely watched lawsuit. The state’s largest hospital system said it could be forced to airlift women out of

Rep. Al Green Ejected From House for Heckling Trump During Speech to Congress

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House Speaker Mike Johnson said Green should be censured by the House over his actions. Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was removed from the House chamber on Tuesday night after disrupting President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress. Green rose to speak and shook his cane toward the president about four minutes into the speech, but

Poll on Trump’s 2025 joint address to Congress finds large majority of viewers approve

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A large majority of speech watchers approved of what they heard from President Trump’s joint address to Congress Tuesday night.  The viewership was heavily Republican — historically a president’s party draws more of their own partisans. This was no exception, and they liked what they heard. This CBS News/YouGov survey interviewed a nationally representative sample