Talks broke down on Friday but resumed later that night. A deadline to raise the borrowing cap is fast approaching. Republican negotiators rejected a White House offer to limit spending next year on both the military and a wide range of critical domestic programs as part of high-stakes negotiations over the federal debt ceiling, according to three people with knowledge of the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private talks. Republicans are pushing instead for higher defense spending and more significant domestic spending reductions, the people said, posing a challenge to White House negotiators aiming to resolve the debt ceiling standoff without agreeing to what they see as draconian changes to federal programs. During talks ahead of a deadline that could arrive in less than two weeks, Biden aides offered what they viewed as a key concession by proposing that Congress largely hold spending constant on a wide swath of domestic programs, including education, scientific research and housing aid. The president’s negotiators also proposed essentially holding military spending flat for next year. The president’s budget earlier this year sought major increases to both funded by higher taxes, and holding their funding constant instead would amount to a cut of as much as 5 percent due to year-over-year inflation.

Apple, Starbucks, Trader Joe’s and REI are accused of targeting union supporters after organizing efforts gained traction, charges the companies deny.

Ray Stevenson, the Irish actor who starred in films like “Punisher: War Zone,” “King Arthur,” the “Thor” films and shows like HBO’s “Rome” and the upcoming “Ahsoka” series,” died on Sunday in Italy, Variety has confirmed with his publicist. He was 58.

Spanish soccer has a racism problem, its football federation chief Luis Rubiales said on Monday, echoing criticism by Brazil after Real Madrid lodged a race crime complaint following insults hurled at their Brazilian forward Vinicius Jr.

A Philadelphia judge dismissed all charges Friday against a former city police officer accused of participating in the beating of a 28-year-old mother during civil unrest in October 2020 — but prosecutors quickly refiled the case to bring it back to court. The development came as Darren Kardos, 43, was set to be tried on counts including simple assault and reckless endangerment over the beating of Rickia Young, a Black home health-care aide from North Philadelphia who said she was driving to pick up her teenage nephew in West Philadelphia in October 2020, when she attacked by officers and pulled from her car after inadvertently getting caught between police and people protesting in the area. Police also separated her from her toddler, which contributed to the incident attracting national attention and criticism. Prosecutors said Friday that a key witness — another police officer — did not show up to testify after being subpoenaed, making it impossible for them to try Kardos. Young was not in court either, but Assistant District Attorney Lyandra Retacco said prosecutors had video evidence to put the case on without her testimony.

“I mean, it’s, it’s a little bit comical. Everybody who’s ever met me can tell you, I love all people, I love all cultures. You can tell by my past and all my travels and adventures around the world. I was actually planning a road trip through Africa before this happened.”

WHY ARIZONA (KVOA) - A well respected member of the Tohono O'odham community has been gunned down by Border Patrol agents. ... Mattia was shot and killed by Border patrol agents Thursday night. She said Mattia had called Border Patrol. "He called to request for assistance because there were multiple illegal immigrants who had trespassed into his yard and he wanted assistance getting them out of his property."

If you say you’re from Kentucky and you’re anywhere but Kentucky, you’ll find three common responses.

A low-cost, recyclable powder can kill thousands of waterborne bacteria per second when exposed to sunlight. Stanford and SLAC scientists say the ultrafast disinfectant could be a revolutionary advance for 2 billion people worldwide without access to safe drinking water.

Workers from a variety of industries urged Cal/OSHA's board to quickly pass new rules for hot, indoor workplaces.

Machaela Cavanaugh’s tear-and-rage-filled filibuster of a Nebraska anti-trans bill she knew would probably pass anyway. On an icy morning in February, Machaela Cavanaugh, a Nebraska state senator, woke up with strep throat at the Cornhusker Hotel. She took some cold medicine and drove to the Nebraska Capitol Building in Lincoln, where her colleagues, sitting at rows of black-walnut desks beneath a gold frieze depicting cattlemen and homesteaders arriving in the state, had gathered for the 33rd day of the 90-day legislative session. “I felt like shit and I got on the floor and I made a speech that I do not remember, except for that it circulated the internets,” she recalled. Among other things, she announced that she intended to “burn the session down to the ground.” Five weeks earlier, a Republican colleague had introduced LB 574, the “Let Them Grow” bill, which would ban transgender people under the age of 19 from seeking what it described as “gender altering procedures,” including puberty-blocking drugs, hormone therapy, and surgery. Like most of her colleagues, Cavanaugh hadn’t known much about the health-care needs of transgender people before the bill was introduced, but in the weeks since, she had talked to doctors, read papers, and listened to hours of testimony, and she had concluded that the proposal was ill-conceived, unscientific, and bigoted. She’d tried, and failed, to persuade her Republican colleagues to let it die in committee. Now, with Republicans outnumbering Democrats (and one progressive independent) in the Nebraska legislature 32 to 16, all she could do was filibuster. “I don’t care if the record just shows me hacking up a lung,” she said, flushed and hoarse. “I’m going to stand here, and I’m going to take every minute that I can. So get out your correspondence, do your taxes, make your lunch plans, plan your funeral.” She embarked on the first of the many digressions that would follow. “It’s always a good idea to plan your funeral,” she said. “Not because I think anybody is dying. Just it’s a good proactive thing to do in life.” She wore a black blazer and bright-yellow pom-pom earrings and talked for nearly three hours. “This body is going to have to make some choices,” she said. “You’re going to have to decide what your priorities are. My priority is protecting children. That’s it.”

A party TD claimed earlier this year that transgender issues were a bigger issue for the public. According to those responses, 414 emails containing the terms “eviction” or “eviction ban” were sent to the offices of 12 ministers and junior ministers between 1 January and 31 March of this year. In contrast, just 22 emails were sent to the offices of the same 12 TDs mentioning the terms “trans”, “transgender”, “transgenderism”, “gender”, or “sexuality”. A selection of correspondence about both issues was also released by some departments, which revealed that some of the emails received by TDs about “gender” issues related to topics such as gender equality and gender quotas.

A Wisconsin middle school teacher was arrested and charged with threatening his students and their families after he found two Nazi swastikas drawn on a notebook. David Schroeder, 46, allegedly told the class that he would send his daughter to their homes with a baseball bat and would “go scorched earth on them,” reported WISN. Prosecutors say that Mr Schroeder, a seventh-grade teacher at John Long Middle School in Grafton, Wisconsin, also told that class that “all Jews have guns” and that he had 17 in his basement and would “F*** them up.”

Description: Florida’s HB1521 will criminalize trans people in public restrooms for not abiding to the bathroom of their “sex,” determined “by the person’s sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, and internal and external genitalia present at birth.”

The spread of a police technology platform that merges public and private cameras with predictive policing, is sparking debates in towns across the U.S.

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The mother of an 8-year-old girl who died in Border Patrol custody says agents repeatedly ignored pleas to hospitalize her medically fragile daughter as she felt pain in her bones, struggled to breathe and was unable to walk. Mabel Alvarez Benedicks said in an emotional phone interview Friday with The Associated Press that authorities decided the girl’s diagnosis of influenza did not require hospital care. Anadith Tanay Reyes Alvarez died Wednesday after falling ill at a border station in Harlingen, Texas. It was the second child migrant death in U.S. government custody in two weeks.

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