Tag: domestic abuse
‘Death sentence for women and families’: US court blocks domestic violence...
The court ruled that the law prohibiting people with domestic violence restraining orders from owning guns "fails to pass constitutional muster," and that the ban is an outlier "that our ancestors never would have accepted."
The Violence Against Women Act is unlikely to reduce intimate partner...
But the fact is that the criminal system supported by the act isn’t stopping intimate partner violence.
‘Horrific:’ Sessions says survivors of domestic and gang violence will no...
"In what world does the United States turn its back on people who have suffered persecution, trauma, and extreme distress from domestic or gang violence?"
Congressman suspended after indicted for domestic abuse
In a legislative session before his arrest, Corley ironically voted for a bill supporting harsher sentences for domestic violence offenders.
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Trump-GOP tax bill delivers $5 trillion to billionaires while slashing aid for working families
The legislation extends Trump-era tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy, adds new corporate giveaways, and revives controversial provisions targeting civil society, while gutting Medicaid and SNAP.
Poof! It’s gone
The America we once knew...gone!
What are Erik Prince’s plans for the second Trump administration?
New plans from Erik Prince, a persistent figure in America’s private military complex, signal a wider push to privatize government functions in Trump’s second term.
NOAA will stop tracking costs of climate crisis-fueled disasters in wake of Trump cuts
The agency said updates will no longer be made to its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database by the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), and that this information—which stretches back 45 years—would be archived.
GOP Medicaid cuts would drop millions from coverage while boosting tax breaks for the...
New Republican plan could strip 8.6 million Americans of healthcare while permanently enriching the ultra-wealthy through revived 2017 tax breaks.