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Rubio urges FBI to investigate Cuba’s ties to US-based anti-embargo group Bridges of Love

MIAMI — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is urging the FBI to open an “immediate” investigation into a U.S. anti-embargo group whose members recently met Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel, claiming that they are acting as unregistered foreign agents of the Cuban government.

Miami Herald

Democrats confident about budget vote as GOP plans amendments

Senate Democrats are confident about passing their health care, climate and tax package, as Republicans plot amendments they’ll offer to it.

Roll Call

Senators slated to take up bill to expand security support to Taiwan amid high-stakes Pelosi visit - Roll Call

A Senate panel plans to take up a bill that would expand security aid to Taiwan even as Speaker Pelosi has angered China with her visit there.

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Sen. Warnock cites 'bipartisanship,' avoids Biden in Georgia

Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock is running for his first full Senate term, pitching himself as a lawmaker willing to do whatever it takes to help his state

The Independent UK

US senators call for sanctions on Russian oil sales to China

Senator Marco Rubio wants the U.S. to sanction China’s purchases of oil and other energy supplies from Russia in an effort to cut off funding for that country’s war against Ukraine.

Tribune News Service

Biden holds off on climate emergency

Biden has not declared a national climate emergency — a step some Democratic officials and activists have urged

Salon

Biden announces new climate change actions but holds an emergency declaration in reserve

On July 20, 2022, President Joe Biden traveled to a former coal-burning power plant in Massachusetts that is being converted into a manufacturing site for offshore wind power equipment. Biden announced millions of dollars in funding for climate change measures, including upgrading infrastructure, weatherizing buildings and installing cooling in homes.…

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Marco Rubio Says He Won't Vote To Eliminate the Defense of Marriage Act, But His Explanation Makes No Sense

Rubio says states should decide marriage laws, but DOMA is a federal law that overruled state regulation.

Reason

No, same-sex marriage is not "settled"

Most powerful voting bloc in the nation pushes the Republican Party into contentious culture wars before midterms

Salon

Swing-state Democrats embrace law enforcement to hit GOP on crime

Dems have gone on the offensive by linking rising crime rates to gun violence.

Axios

Mary McLeod Bethune becomes first Black American honoured by their state at National Statuary Hall

The statue of educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune replaces a statue of a Confederate general

The Independent UK

Black educator Mary McLeod Bethune honored in Statuary Hall

Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod Bethune has became the first Black person elevated by a state for recognition in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall

The Independent UK

Michael Hiltzik: With a noxious family leave proposal, GOP pretends it's still pro-women despite antiabortion laws

Having achieved its long-held goal of eviscerating women's reproductive health rights, the Republican Party is now hard at work pretending that it's about to enter a new era of pro-women and pro-family policy.

Los Angeles Times

Cuban Exiles, Lawmakers Commemorate Anniversary of July 11 Protests

One year after major pro-democracy protests swept the communist island, dissidents and leaders in the Cuban-American community remain hopeful that change is coming.

Reason

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Salon

Marco Rubio's "cruel" paid leave plan

"The surviving spouse will have to send a big fat check to the SSA," explained policy analyst Matt Bruenig

The Independent UK

US under pressure to speak out against ‘cynical’ Iran-Belgium prisoner swap plan

Demonstrations in DC and pressure from Capitol Hill fails to budge Blinken

The Independent UK

Voices: It’s going to be incredibly hard for Democrats to protect abortion rights

A new CBS poll found that 50 per cent of Democratic voters said that the decision makes them more likely to vote in the midterms

The Independent UK

Post Roe: Dems challenge GOP to show they care for mothers

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn national protections for abortion has set off a contest between Democratic and Republican lawmakers over whose policies would do more to help vulnerable mothers and children

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Tribune News Service

Editorial: A devastating defeat for the rights of women

Overturning Roe v. Wade is not the first time the Supreme Court has driven a dagger into the heart of human rights and further divided a deeply troubled nation. But not since the 19th century have there been other decisions so dreadfully indefensible and consequential.

The Independent UK

‘Roe is on the ballot’: Can Democrats fire up their base on abortion rights or is it too late?

Democrats want to mobilise their voters to protect abortion rights. But voters have multiple concerns like inflation and gas prices on their minds.

The Independent UK

Afghan national freed from Guantanamo Bay after 15 years

The U.S. Defense Department says an Afghan prisoner held in U.S. custody for nearly 15 years has been released from the Guantanamo Bay detention center

Axios

GOP's gas tax flip-flop

Several Republicans who've bashed Biden's calls for a gas tax holiday have backed similar state or federal moves previously.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Florida Sens. Rubio, Scott reveal how they’ll vote on bipartisan gun bill

WASHINGTON — Florida Republican Sens. Rick Scott and Marco Rubio each said on Thursday that they would vote against a bipartisan gun-control bill in the Senate, opposing the measure even though both men have shown a willingness in the past to support additional gun restrictions.

Salon

GOP turn on McConnell over gun reform

Fourteen Republicans are coming under the wrath of their own party for breaking ranks on common-sense gun reform

The Independent UK

Comedian zeroes in on the ‘dark’ humor of US politics, GOP leaders with satirical websites

Writer and creator Toby Morton, 51, never really focused on politics in his work, he tells Sheila Flynn. But the ‘insanity’ of the past few years gave him the idea to make satirical sites for high-profile Republicans – drawing the ire (or subscription) of their camps

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