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FOX 24 US The Roberts Court finally achieved its years-long goal of killing the Voting Rights Act Wednesday, publishing a ruling that, the liberal justices say, will make proving racial discrimination in redistricting virtually impossible. “Under the Court’s new view of Section 2, a State can, without legal consequence, systematically dilute minority citizens’ voting power,” wrote Justice Elena Kagan in her dissent. “Of course, the majority does not announce today’s holding that way. Its opinion is understated, even antiseptic,” she continued. “The majority claims only to be “updat[ing]” our Section 2 law, as though through a few technical tweaks. But…

FOX 24 US This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. As an asylum-seeker living in the U.S., Jasmir Urbina worried as she watched violence break out amid the military-style immigration sweeps across the country. Then she read about legal residents being arrested at immigration court and wondered when federal agents would set their sights on her city. Urbina had fled Nicaragua in 2022 and legally resided with her husband, a fellow asylum-seeker, in New Orleans while reporting to immigration agents for check-ins…

FOX 24 US The last time President Donald Trump lost an election, he fought back with a wild series of baseless legal challenges and protests that culminated in an assault on the U.S. Capitol. Since then, he has openly talked about his desire to cancel the upcoming midterms including declaring that “we shouldn’t even have an election.” And, after returning to office for his second term last year, Trump and his allies have made real efforts to target voting infrastructure by taking control of influential election offices, attempting to seize and purge voter rolls, and raiding Fulton County, Georgia’s election…

FOX 24 US As the Trump administration puts the finishing touches on its plans to bury the remains of USAID, it’s running into a final problem.  It plans to use money that Congress appropriated for global health to cover the costs of shutting down USAID, Senate Democrats said in a Friday letter. That means redirecting funds meant for fighting HIV, malaria, and more to instead pay for the aftermath of the agency destruction, a move that the letter describes as an “illegal impoundment.” The Democrats, led by the Senate Appropriations Committee’s State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee’s Ranking Member Sen. Brian…

FOX 24 US Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said Sunday he will drop his blockade and get onboard to confirm Kevin Warsh’s nomination to chair the Federal Reserve after the Justice Department dropped an investigation into current central bank chief Jerome Powell. “I have been clear from the start: the U.S. Attorney’s Office criminal investigation into Chair Powell was a serious threat to the Fed’s independence, and it needed to end before I could support Kevin Warsh’s confirmation,” Tillis said in a social media statement Sunday. The sham investigation came out of the U.S. attorney’s office in the District of Columbia,…

FOX 24 US This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published by The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The Italian prime minister and leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, Giorgia Meloni, has made fostering ties with foreign leaders a central part of her political strategy. A few years before winning Italy’s 2022 general elections, she started cultivating ties with the U.S. and European conservative world as part of a broader political rebranding effort aimed at projecting a more moderate image at home and gaining legitimacy abroad. She subsequently became…

FOX 24 US In yet another loss for president Trump and his floundering gerrymandering blitz, Virginia voters approved a Democratic-led redistricting measure on Tuesday that will likely give Democrats four additional congressional seats and a chance to take control of the U.S. House this year.   With 97% of the vote in, the measure had passed with 51.5% approving and 48.5% voting against it. State and national Democrats celebrated Tuesday’s win, which still has to face a number of hurdles as legal challenges to the proposal continue to play out in court.  “Virginia voters have spoken, and tonight they approved a…

FOX 24 US For the publisher of a book that is both derided as racist drivel and lauded as deeply influential among Trump administration immigration restrictionists, there’s nothing more valuable than being able to claim you’ve been cancelled. In this case, far-right activists are alleging censorship after Amazon briefly delisted a paperback version of the Camp of the Saints. It’s an influential anti-immigration tome; the edition whose paperback version disappeared from Amazon had an introduction penned by a fellow at a think tank that helped devise Project 2025. The reason for and extent of that delisting remains unclear. It doesn’t…

FOX 24 US This story was originally reported by Grace Panetta of The 19th. Meet Grace and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is the latest member of Congress to resign, effectively avoiding a vote to expel her.  The Florida Democrat announced her resignation just before the House Ethics Committee was set to vote Tuesday afternoon on whether she should face expulsion after she was found guilty of over two dozen ethics violations last month.  “After careful reflection and prayer, I have concluded that it is in the best interest of my constituents…

FOX 24 US President Donald Trump’s own words were repeatedly used against him Tuesday during a bumpy confirmation hearing for Trump’s Federal Reserve Chair nominee Kevin Warsh. During a two-and-a-half hour Senate Banking Committee hearing, the risk poised by the president to Federal Reserve independence loomed large as Democratic and Republican senators pressed Warsh on Trump’s own statements about pressuring his next Fed Chair to embrace politically influenced monetary policy. At stake is the credibility of Warsh and the Federal Reserve at large, the stability of the entire global financial system, and the cost of living for people in the…