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The House passes a bill to give parents a boosted child tax credit and businesses tax relief
Families that are covered under the legislation could see their 2023 taxes cut by $680.
Juliana Kaplan,Ayelet Sheffey…
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Passing at home, failing abroad: Grading Mike Johnson's first month as speaker
Mike Johnson has been speaker of the House for just under a month. Business Insider issued a report…
Madison Hall
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Republican senator says 'it will be embarrassing' if the Senate fails to pass gun legislation after mass shootings
Texas Sen. John Cornyn said another failure would "feed the narrative that we can't get things done…
Brent D. Griffiths
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Republicans want to cut billions of dollars for energy projects as part of their legislation to raise the debt ceiling
Some Midwestern Republicans demanded that the bill keep Biden's tax credits for ethanol production,…
Eliza Relman
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Getting just 2 bills signed into law is enough to make Sen. Jon Tester the most effective legislator so far this year
Two bills authored by Tester, both dealing with veterans' affairs, are among the mere 12 bills sign…
Bryan Metzger
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Russian legislators are targeting transgender people. It's the latest move that copies GOP talking points from the US
A new Russian bill banning gender affirming care is not unlike legislation being proposed and enact…
Chris Panella
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City officials in Brazil unanimously voted to pass a bill that was secretly written by ChatGPT in just 15 seconds
The bill's sponsor revealed in an X post that the legislation was entirely written by OpenAI's Chat…
Joshua Zitser
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As anti-abortion legislation passes nationwide, enforcement problems loom as state attorneys vow not to prosecute abortion-related crimes
Michigan's Attorney General and District Attorneys in Louisiana and North Carolina have vowed not t…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Montana's House speaker is preventing a transgender legislator from speaking about bills on the House floor
The Montana House speaker is refusing to recognize a transgender legislator until she apologizes fo…
Madison Hall
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Democrats offer outrage and F-bombs after Uvalde school shooting — but no viable gun safety legislation that can pass Congress
Democrats were heavy on profanity but offered few legislative proposals that could pass Congress an…
Kayla Epstein,John Haltiwange…
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The Texas town where James Byrd Jr. was dragged to his death in 1998, sparking national outrage and new federal hate crime legislation, wants to 'move on'
A Washington Post report describes a town that in many ways has sought to move forward while downpl…
John L. Dorman
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Sinema says she doesn't support lowering the Senate filibuster threshold to pass voting-rights legislation
In a speech on the Senate floor, the Arizona Senator said that Democrats changing the filibuster wo…
Grace Panetta
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McConnell attacks Biden as 'profoundly unpresidential' for calling on Congress to change Senate rules and pass voting rights legislation
"I have known, liked, and personally respected Joe Biden for many years. I did not recognize the ma…
Oma Seddiq
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The House managed to pass a bill avoiding a government shutdown just days before funding runs out
With the help of Democrats, Speaker Johnson passed his "laddered" approach to keep funding intact b…
Ayelet Sheffey,Juliana Kaplan
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California legislature passes bill aiming to protect children from abusers during custody disputes
Piqui's Law would bar family court judges from ordering children into many "parental alienation" tr…
Olivia Gentile
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Japan plans to raise the age of consent from 13 years old in an overhaul of sex crime legislation
The age of consent in Japan has not changed since 1907. The proposal is part of a wider push to ove…
Isobel van Hagen
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House passes bill to protect abortion rights in response to the Supreme Court leaving Texas' 6-week ban in place
"When this court embraced this shameful Texas law, they brought shame to the United States Supreme …
Oma Seddiq
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Florida legislators want to give DeSantis another $10 million to keep shipping migrants across the country
The bill would expand DeSantis' immigration program that he previously used to move migrants from T…
Chris Panella
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Spanish teens say people are making AI-generated nudes of them and passing them around their schools
A Spanish town is experiencing a growing number of teenage girls receiving AI-generated photos of t…
Thibault Spirlet
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Russian soldiers who desert their posts could face up to 10 years in jail under legislation that passed the lower house of parliament a day before Putin announced 'partial mobilization'
Russia's State Duma passed a new law on Tuesday that toughens punishments for soldiers deserting th…