The DOJ asked the Supreme Court on Tues. to reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev He was sentenced to death for the bombing that killed three. However, a federal appeals court overturned the death sentencing last summer
Harris invites all female US senators to have dinner at Naval Observatory
Vice President Kamala Harris, the nation's highest-ranking woman in government, is hosting a first-of-its-kind dinner at the Naval Observatory Tuesday evening for her female colleagues in the Senate -- a show of bipartisanship in a deeply divided Washington. Harris invited all 24 of the country's female senators -- 16 Democrats and eight Republicans.
When three Black trans community leaders co-founded the world's first legally recognized transgender district, they did so with one core idea: to create a space for trans people, by trans people. With this in mind, Compton's Transgender Cultural District was born in San Francisco in 2017.
Russian President Vladimir Putin indicated on Friday that he’d be willing to talk about a potential ‘prisoner swap’ between two former U.S. Marines, Trevor Reed and Paul Whelan, for Russians being held in the U.S. "In any real court system in the world, there’s no way he would have been convicted,” said his father, Joey Reed.The group included Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D- Calif., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
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