In response to those who call the new bill “cruel and unusual punishment” and too harsh for first-time offenders, Barrow responded: “For me, when I think about a child, one time is too many.”
The Kentucky senate passed a bill that enables parents to collect child support before the baby's born. How will this impact Black families?
If passed, HB 1 would be law regardless of parental permission.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump tweeted about the new change for the state and thanked Minnesota legislators for "taking action to bring our queens home or to bring justice to their families."
The IRS has Beyoncé on the hook for almost $3 million, but the mogul says, "Aht, aht, aht!"
In September 2021, Minaj shared her reservations about the COVID-19 vaccine on Twitter, and Santos ran with it.🙄
Do celebrities have a right to protect their children from paparazzi or should they suck it up and deal with it as public figures?
(CNN Money) — After a grueling 20-hour session, lawmakers early Friday finished melding the House and Senate Wall Street reform bills, bringing Congress closer to passing the most sweeping changes to the financial system since the New Deal. Finishing at 5:39 a.m. ET, 43 lawmakers agreed to send to their respective chambers a final bill […]
(Washington Post) — President Obama urged the nation Tuesday to rally behind legislation that would begin changing the way the country consumes and generates energy, saying the expanding oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is “the most painful and powerful reminder yet that the time to embrace a clean energy future is now.” In […]
(HuffingtonPost.com) — — Hawaii legislators have passed a measure allowing a state agency to ignore repeated requests from a person or organization for President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. The measure approved Tuesday by the state Legislature would carve an exemption in the state’s public records law and allow officials to ignore all kinds of duplicative requests, […]
(Yahoo/AP) — Just hours after Congress passed an $18 billion bill to restore unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed, President Barack Obama made it the law of the land. The measure comes as welcome relief to hundreds of thousands of people who lost out on the additional weeks of compensation after exhausting their state-paid benefits. They now will be able to […]
(CNN) — President Obama is set to claim final victory on his top domestic priority Tuesday by signing into law a package of changes to the newly enacted health care reform bill. The signing ceremony at a community college in northern Virginia will culminate almost a year of fiercely partisan debate and a tortuous legislative […]