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After 47 years, Virginia lawmakers take first step toward ratifying Equal Rights Amendment (Daily Press)
Virginia lawmakers took a first step toward ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment Wednesday during a busier-than-usual opening day of the 2019 General Assembly.
In a packed committee room filled with supporters and opponents of a resolution that could give men and women equal rights under the U.S. Constitution, the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee voted 8-6 to bring the resolution to the full Senate. [Read More]
Dem Congresswoman Katie Hill: I Will Vote to Fund ‘Physical Barriers’ at Border (Mediaite)
Freshman Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) told CNN on Friday she will vote for some funding to go towards barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border.
“I just want a really straight answer here: will you vote for any money for a steel barrier,” CNN’s Poppy Harlow asked.
“I mean, I will definitely, I don’t know if it’s steel, I will vote for some money for physical barriers,” Hill replied. [Read More]
Ronald Reagan’s Farewell, 30 Years Ago Today — and His Everlasting Advice to America (Lifezette)
Thirty years ago today, Ronald Wilson Reagan, former actor, former seven-term president of the Screen Actors Guild, former two-term governor of California, and, for only two more weeks at that time, the 40th president of the United States, gave his last speech from the Oval Office of the White House. It was televised to millions of his fellow citizens.
Reagan looked handsome and fit, pretty much the same as he’d looked when he entered the office in 1981. He was once asked during the 1980 campaign about how Jimmy Carter had aged in office. Reagan replied, “It’s how you do the job. The way Carter does it, of course you would age.” [Read More]
D.C. marks 8th homicide in first eight days of new year (The Washington Post)
A 46-year-old man was fatally stabbed in Northeast Washington, officials said, bringing the number of homicides in the city to eight within the first eight days of the year.
The incident happened around 3:35 p.m. Tuesday in the 5300 block of Dix Street NE. When D.C. police officers arrived, they found a man who was later identified as Abdul Watts, of District Heights, Md., suffering from stab wounds.
Police said he was taken to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries. [Read More]
Police: ‘MS-13 associate’ pays gang $100 to have sex with trafficked 14-year-old girl (WJLA)
On Monday, an alleged MS-13 associate is scheduled to be tried in Montgomery County Circuit Court for reportedly paying to have sex with a 14-year-old girl, and then blackmailing the teen with compromising video he took of her.
According to court documents obtained by ABC7, the girl was a human trafficking victim within the ‘Pinos Locos’ clique of MS-13, which made the suburban town of Wheaton its hub for illegal dealings. [Read More]
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