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Tensions were High as Representatives Debated Allegations Against the Southern Poverty Law Center

Tensions were High as Representatives Debated Allegations Against the Southern Poverty Law Center

by Olivia Ardito | May 28, 2026 | Featured, Politics, Social Justice, Topics

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing last Wednesday examining claims that the Southern Poverty Law Center had funded the very hate groups the center aims to dismantle. Tensions were high as Republicans and Democrats fired back at each other....
Democrats and Republicans express bipartisan concern regarding loan caps for graduate nursing degrees

Democrats and Republicans express bipartisan concern regarding loan caps for graduate nursing degrees

by Matthew Junkroski | May 28, 2026 | Education, Featured, Social Justice

WASHINGTON — Of the five minutes Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla, had to question Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon about the 2027 Department of Education budget, he spent four of them expressing his concerns about how a new rule creating a federal cap on student...
Bipartisan Support for Increases to the ‘Indian Health Service’s’ FY27 Budget

Bipartisan Support for Increases to the ‘Indian Health Service’s’ FY27 Budget

by Olivia Ardito | May 7, 2026 | Featured, Health, Health, Politics, Social Justice

WASHINGTON, D.C. – There was rare bipartisan support to increase funding for the Indian Health Service’s (IHS) proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2027 on Thursday in the House Appropriation Committee’s Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related...

Texas is Center Stage During National Muslim Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill

by Olivia Ardito | May 6, 2026 | Faith, Ethics + Spirituality, Politics, Social Justice

  WASHINGTON, D.C. – With more than 1000 Muslims traveling to the nation’s capital last week for the 11th National Muslim Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill, Texas was cited as a state of increased Islamophobia.  Hosted by the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations, this...
Child sexual abuse survivor bill on hold in Senate committee

Child sexual abuse survivor bill on hold in Senate committee

by Elena Tittel | Apr 30, 2026 | Featured, Social Justice

WASHINGTON, Apr 30 (UPI) – Spectators became teary-eyed Thursday after a Senate Judiciary Committee delayed a vote on a landmark proposal to allow child sexual abuse survivors to speak out against their perpetrators. Dubbed “Trey’s Law,” the...
Durbin, Hawley attempt bipartisan push to strip social media giants of lawsuit shield

Durbin, Hawley attempt bipartisan push to strip social media giants of lawsuit shield

by George Alexandrakis | Apr 15, 2026 | Politics, Social Justice

WASHINGTON — Senators Richard J. Durbin, D-IL, and Josh Hawley, R-MO, joined survivors of online sexual exploitation on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol Tuesday to call on Congress to stop shielding big tech companies from any legal repercussions for harmful posts by...
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