Author: Myles Ulwelling

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Speaker Mike Johnson will not send the House’s articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate this week as previously planned. Republican senators have requested more time Tuesday to build support for holding a full trial. The sudden change casts fresh doubts on the proceedings, the historic first impeachment of a Cabinet secretary in roughly 150 years. House Republicans impeached Mayorkas over the Biden administration’s handling of security and immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. Democrats, with control of the Senate, are expected to swiftly dismiss the charges against Mayorkas, arguing they do not rise to impeachable offenses.

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Vice President Harris will visit Arizona on Friday “to continue her leadership in the fight for reproductive freedoms,” the White House announced just after the state’s Supreme Court upheld a near-total abortion ban. The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld an 1864 law that made performing an abortion a felony, including only a narrow exception to…

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A report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released on Tuesday found that faculty diversity in higher education is lagging behind student diversity. The report, titled “Higher Education: Employment Discrimination Case Referrals between Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Could Be Improved,” discovered that while diversity has grown over the years, it is still not…

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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) unveiled legislation on Tuesday that would require companies using copyrighted material to train their generative artificial intelligence models to publicly disclose all of the work that they used to do so. The bill, called the “Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act,” would require people creating training datasets – or making any significant…

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