Democrats target 31 GOP-held seats in aggressive campaign for House majority

Democrats are targeting 31 Republican-held districts in their fight to retake control of the House in 2024, signaling early plans to go on offense.

Virginia teacher shot by 6-year-old files $40M lawsuit after she says school ignored warnings

Abigail Zwerner said during an interview on NBC’s “TODAY” show two weeks ago that she is still in physical and emotional pain from the shooting.

Right-Wing Media Splits From DeSantis on Press Protections

Gov. Ron DeSantis’s war against mainstream media outlets is poised to wound even his boosters in the conservative press. Is the Florida governor biting the hand that feeds him?

Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina talks about indictment

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Pope to leave hospital after ‘eating pizza for dinner’

Pope Francis is expected to be discharged on Saturday from the Rome hospital where he is being treated for bronchitis, the Vatican has said.

Pope Francis ‘improving’ in hospital after quiet night, Vatican says

Pope Francis is “progressively improving” after he spent the night in a Rome hospital where he was diagnosed with a respiratory infection, the Vatican said Thursday.

A Betsy DeVos-backed group helps fuel a rapid expansion of public money for private schools

The American Federation for Children, founded by former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, said it spent $9 million last year to back “school choice” laws.

Watch: Tense moment unfolds as Dem clashes with Marjorie Taylor Greene over Nashville school shooting

A Florida congressman on Wednesday assailed Republicans who oppose gun safety laws in the aftermath of a school shooting in Nashville earlier this week that killed six people including three children.Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) noted that the Nashville shooting suspect used an AR-15, the assault rifle of choice for most mass shooters that was banned from 1994 to 2004.Moskowitz made his comments during a Committee on Oversight and Accountability meeting on crime in Washington D.C. “There are six people that are dead in that school including three children because you guys got rid of the assault weapons ban,” Moskowitz said during an exchange with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).RELATED: Lauren Boebert lashes out at gun bans: ‘We’re not a democracy so quit with that!’“Because you guys made it easy for people who don’t deserve to have weapons, who are mentally incapable of having weapons of war, being able to buy those weapons and go into schools.” Before the exchange with Greene, Moskowitz said it was absurd to focus on relatively minor crimes such as public urination and car theft amid an ongoing mass shooting epidemic that the nation is now experiencing.“You guys want to talk about DC public schools and crime? I don’t I don’t want to burst your bubble over there, but mass murder in schools is crime,” Moskowitz said. “You want to talk about 1,300 cars being stolen, 550 people have been murdered in school. Who cares about the cars? What about the kids?”IN OTHER NEWS: Trump-appointed judge blasted over his ‘remarkably childish’ attack on law professor”No hearing for them. 330,000 kids have experienced gun violence in this country. The number one killer of school aged children in this country. Gun violence. How do you think for the parents who have had to bury their kids who have had to decide what to put their kids clothes, but their kids when they buried them? Or kind of box they have to pick out for their child or for when they come home?”The exchange with Greene began after Moskowitz asked rhetorically whether anyone in the committee disagreed with his assertion that “murder in schools is murder.”“I’ll yield to anyone on this committee who disagrees that murder in schools is not murder,” he said. “Is there any question?”The far-right congresswoman from Georgia did not dispute Moskowitz’s characterization of school shootings being murderous, but instead cited her own lived experience and blamed the horrific incidents on gun laws.“I was an 11th grade and Joe Biden made our school gun free school zones,” Greene said. “One of the students in my school brought three guns to school and our entire school went on lockdown, because he was the only person with a gun. “There was no good guy with a gun to protect us kids at school.” Greene cited police who fatally shot the suspect in Monday’s shooting as an example of a “good guy with a gun” saving lives.“So, if you want to have a good talk about schools, and protecting children, we need to talk about protecting our children the same way we protect our president, the way we protect our celebrities,” Greene said.Moskowitz disputed the notion that an armed presence offers much deterrence, noting that in the aftermath of the 2018 Parkland, Florida shooting, he supported School Resource Officers at every school.“Did the good guys with the guns stop six people from getting murdered? No. But you know what? AR 15’s, have you ever seen what those bullets do to children? You know why you don’t hunt with an AR 15 with a deer, because there’s nothing left. And there’s nothing left as these kids when people go into school and murder them while they’re trying to read.“You guys are worried about banning books – dead kids can’t read.”Watch video below or at this link.
u201cu201cYou guys are worried about banning books u2014 dead kids canu2019t read.u201dnnu2014 Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) hits back at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) over gun safety following the Nashville school mass shootingu201d — The Recount (@The Recount)
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After #FreeBritney, Senate bill seeks reforms to guardianships

This post was originally published on this siteIt took Britney Spears years to fight a “protective” legal arrangement. A proposed new law calls for giving more rights to people in similar situations.

Do you feel better off than four years ago? Dems think so, GOP disagrees

This post was originally published on this siteRepublicans say they have a good argument to make when it comes to this classic election question: Are you better off than you were four years ago? Inflation is high, crime is up, stocks are flat or falling and immigration is out of control, GOP operatives say. But […]

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