The intelligence community predicts the Taliban would likely “roll back much of the past two decades’ progress” on women’s rights if the group again seized power in Afghanistan after U.S. troops left in September, according to a recently declassified report. The report, drafted by the high-level analytic unit within the intelligence community called the National Intelligence Council, was first revealed by Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire and longstanding advocate of women’s rights in Afghanistan.

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement would be a "great loss," as liberal groups wage a campaign for the 82-year-old to resign and make way for a younger liberal to take the seat while Democrats control the White House. Feinstein, California's senior senator and the oldest sitting senator at 87, has faced her own calls within her own Democratic Party to retire and make way for a younger progressive.

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President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci said Wednesday that the U.S. has a “moral obligation” to share coronavirus vaccines and supplies worldwide and end the pandemic.

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Liz Cheney says “In public statements again this week, former president Donald Trump has repeated his claims that the 2020 election was a fraud and was stolen. Trump is seeking to unravel critical elements of our constitutional structure that make democracy work — confidence in the result of elections and the rule of law. No other American president has ever done this.”

Facebook is upholding its ban of Trump. Are they doing the right thing?

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Jill Escher is the president of the National Council on Severe Autism, Immediate Past President of the Autism Society San Francisco Bay Area, and the mother of two children with nonverbal forms of autism, a son, 22, and a daughter, almost 15.

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Derek Chauvin's defense attorney has filed a motion seeking a new trial, and requests that the court throw out Chauvin's conviction for the murder of George Floyd.

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Rep. Liz Cheney's days as the No. 3 in House GOP leadership appear to be numbered, with speculation growing about her replacement and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy contending she has failed to do her job in driving the party's message to take back the majority. Cheney has grown increasingly isolated within her conference amid her feud with former President Donald Trump, a battle that intensified after she was one of just 10 Republicans who backed his impeachment on a charge of inciting the January 6 insurrection and as she's called out his lie that he actually won the 2020 election.

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Attend the rally at City Hall (Polk side) on Saturday, May 8, 11am

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Anyone, including Australian citizens, who arrives in the country after visiting India in the previous 14 days can face up to five years in jail, a $50,000 fine or both. On Monday, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison defended the move. Morrison pushed back against critics who said the new restrictions were racist because of their large impact on Australian citizens of Indian heritage. “This is about health,” Morrison said during a Monday interview, adding that he was “deeply, deeply concerned about the humanitarian crisis in India.”

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Rep. Liz Cheney made clear Monday that she will continue to publicly denounce former president Donald Trump over his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, imperiling her position in House Republican leadership as GOP members continue to rally around Trump.

“The 2020 presidential election was not stolen,” Cheney tweeted. “Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system.”

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