Hochul issues emergency order for migrant crisis

[ad_1] The city and the state are preparing for another wave of migrants when the federal Title 42 immigration policy lifts. “It is a crisis situation, especially with the suspension of Title 42 on Thursday,” Hochul told reporters Tuesday on Long Island. “It’s no surprise that there will literally beContinue Reading

Why McConnell and McCarthy locked arms on the debt crisis

[ad_1] McConnell’s move helps McCarthy’s negotiating position — and perhaps just as importantly, it boosts his own standing within a Senate Republican conference that has shifted rightward, a lurch that sparked the first-ever rebellion against his leadership last fall. McConnell said Biden isn’t the first president he’s pushed to workContinue Reading

A new portrait of American teenagers in crisis

[ad_1] Broadly, the national survey, which is conducted biennially, revealed two important shifts in high school student demographics: Just over 49 percent of respondents identified as being part of a racial or ethnic minority group, compared to 48.9 percent in 2019 and 46.5 percent in 2017, and about 25 percentContinue Reading

Senate still not a savior in debt crisis

[ad_1] Tillis and his 48 Senate GOP colleagues are nonetheless praying that Speaker Kevin McCarthy can muscle through his opening pitch to give their party a modicum of leverage over the coming weeks. A McCarthy failure would make it much harder for 10 or more Republican senators to extract anyContinue Reading