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The Texas legislator who stood for 11 hours in pink sneakers on Tuesday night to filibuster a bill that would have set strict new abortion limits for the state is a single mother and Harvard law grad who’s shown her grit before.The Fort Worth Democrat’s one-woman effort to talk down the measure placing stringent restrictions on abortion clinics was ended after state senators ruled that Davis had m...
Two new studies succinctly lay out the need for and the broad economic benefits of raising the federal minimum wage.The Kids Count Data Book finds that the number of children living in poverty jumped by 3 million from 2005 to 2011—years marked by stagnant wages—and now 23% of the nation’s children live in poverty.Meanwhile, a new report from the Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United shows that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour, as legislation in Congress would do, would boost more than half of the working poor in the United States out of poverty.
New England Patriots star tight end Aaron Hernandez was arrested Wednesday morning, more than a week after a body was found near his home in Massachusetts.Less than two hours after the arrest, the Patriots announced they were releasing Hernandez."A young man was murdered last week and we extend our sympathies to the family and friends who mourn his loss. Words cannot express the disappointment we ...
In a landmark ruling for gay rights, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law blocking federal recognition of same-sex marriages.The decision was 5-4, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy. It said that the law amounted to the “deprivation of the equal liberty of persons that is protected by the Fifth Amendment.”In a separate case, the court ruled that it c...
The mood will be muted Wednesday evening on Chalk Pond. The faces will be bathed in candlelight and bittersweet memories. On that New Hampshire waterfront, Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan once exchanged vows — in necessary privacy — with her wife, Karen. Earlier this year, Morgan's ashes were sprinkled there. Hours after the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, Karen Morgan ...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act – the law that denies more than 1,000 federal benefits to same-sex married couples – may dramatically transform the legal status and financial standing of hundreds of thousands of gay Americans, according to political advocates and policy analysts.The top court Wednesday overturned the third section of the 1996 law — know...
