This time, with so few days to act — and a feeling among Democrats that there is little need to investigate what happened, since most members of Congress heard Trump speak to his supporters and were in the Capitol when the mob broke in — impeachment is going straight to the House floor...
By February 1917, the war had taken a massive toll on Russia — both in the loss of human lives and in the form of a severe nationwide famine. When a metalworking plant closed, resulting in the loss of many jobs, strikes and protests broke out. Russia was in a state of chaos. The ...
Library of Congress 4. The Great Purge In 1936, Stalin initiated "The Great Purge," aiming to rid the Communist Party of some of his biggest detractors and rivals. Hundreds of thousands of people initially were arrested by Stalin's NKVD (the secret police). Many were executed or sent ...
Many of those tools are old. Existing immigration laws already grant the government vast power to deport. Those laws state that many immigrants have a right to an immigration court hearing before an immigration judge, but the law also provides ways to carry outdeportations outside of immigration...
NTEU National President Doreen Greenwald said Trump’s action “is a dangerous step backward to a political spoils system that Congress expressly rejected 142 years ago, which is why we are suing to have the order declared unlawful.” Trump ended the Secret Service detail assigned to former natio...
Many men cringe at the idea of dating women who are more than a few inches taller than they are. Imagine, then, how a man would feel about dating someone 100 times his size. For the male pillow octopus, being dwarfed by your mate is simply a way of life. Full-grown male pillow oct...
With the Revolutionary War raging for over a year, the Second Continental Congress appointed a committee of five men to draft what would become known as the Declaration of Independence. The five men were Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston. Th...
Since then, several Democrats in Congress have put pressure on the Harris campaign to invite such a speaker, with some citing last night’s appearance by the parents of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin. “Just as we must honor the humanity of hostages, so too must w...
The two large self-funders have helped out national Republicans immensely by allowing them to focus their resources elsewhere. The GOP can probably afford to let Scott get outspent some in Florida, a state that is trending red. As one of the richest members of Congress, ...
In 1973, Congress enacted legislation to addresscost-of-living adjustments (COLAs). COLA adjustments forSocial SecurityandSupplemental Security Income (SSI)benefits were instituted so that the payments keep pace with inflation.7 For example, in December 2022, the COLA was 8.7% due to the high lev...