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Virginia voters gave Democrats another special election win on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ, adding to a string of recent victories for the party in the Old Dominion.

Democrat Garrett McGuire will replace state Del. Mark Sickles (D), who has been tapped to be Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s secretary of finance, in the 17th House District.

The Tuesday contests are part of a series of special elections prompted as Spanberger, who was elected governor last year and inaugurated over the weekend, called on several state lawmakers to join her administration.

Democrats have the majority in the House of Delegates, where state lawmakers moved forward quickly this month with constitutional amendments on abortion access, mid-decade redistricting and other major issues.

Democrats were expected to win in the district, which went to former Vice President Kamala Harris by 43 points in 2024.

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The three highest-ranking heads of Roman Catholic archdioceses in the United States issued a strongly worded statement on Monday criticizing the Trump administration's foreign policy — without mentioning President Trump by name.

Cardinals Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington, and Joseph Tobin, archbishop of Newark, say America's actions raise moral questions.

"Our country's moral role in confronting evil around the world, sustaining the right to life and human dignity, and supporting religious liberty are all under examination," the statement reads. "And the building of just and sustainable peace, so crucial to humanity's well-being now and in the future, is being reduced to partisan categories that encourage polarization and destructive policies."

They continued, "We seek a foreign policy that respects and advances the right to human life, religious liberty, and the enhancement of human dignity throughout the world, especially through economic assistance."

The senior leaders cited the recent events in Venezuela, Ukraine and Greenland, which they said "have raised basic questions about the use of military force and the meaning of peace."

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A US federal judge has issued an order limiting the crowd control tactics that can be used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (ICE) towards "peaceful and unobstructive" protesters in Minneapolis.

Judge Katherine Menendez ruled on Friday night that federal agents cannot arrest or pepper spray peaceful demonstrators, including those monitoring and observing ICE agents.

The ruling comes ahead of planned weekend protests against the widespread immigration action in the city and follows the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent earlier this month.

The US Department of Homeland Security said it is taking measures to protect officers from rioters.

Minnesota officials earlier urged protesters expected to take to the streets this weekend to stay orderly and peaceful.

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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court gears up to hear arguments in a crucial case over the independence of the Federal Reserve, Trump v. Cook. But it won’t even be the first make-or-break moment the country’s main economic institution has had in the past few weeks.

President Donald Trump’s effort to seize control of the Federal Reserve and its power to set interest rates escalated last Sunday when Fed Chair Jerome Powell announced that he had been served “grand jury subpoenas” and threatened with “criminal indictment” related to cost overruns for the central bank’s building restoration project.

Powell immediately pushed back. The DOJ’s claim that he had lied in congressional testimony about the project was a mere “pretext” that needed to be seen “in the broader context of the administration’s threats and ongoing pressure,” Powell said.

“The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President,” Powell said.

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Donald Trump threatened to sue JPMorgan Chase on Saturday, citing an unsubstantiated allegation that major banks discriminated against him after the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot.

Trump announced the potential lawsuit in a post on social media, tying the threat to his criticism of a recent Wall Street Journal article that reported he had offered the JPMorgan Chase CEO, Jamie Dimon, the position of US Federal Reserve chair. Trump insists the report is inaccurate and says no such offer was ever made.

The president also reiterated his claim that JPMorgan Chase – the largest US bank – improperly cut off his banking access after the January 6 Capitol attack, without providing evidence. He also did not provide evidence for his often-repeated false claim that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him.

“I’ll be suing JPMorgan Chase over the next two weeks for incorrectly and inappropriately DEBANKING me after the January 6th Protest, a protest that turned out to be correct for those doing the protesting – The Election was RIGGED!” he wrote.

Trump has alleged that several banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, refused to accept his deposits following the events of 6 January 2021. Both institutions have strongly rejected those accusations.

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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. changed America for the better by helping our nation make progress toward achieving his dream of ending racism and ensuring equality for all. But as we honor King with a national holiday, President Trump is doing all he can to reverse the great civil rights leader’s historic accomplishments. 

Unfortunately, King’s dream, which he eloquently expressed in his speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, has yet to come true. Systemic racism has been diminished but still exists. Black Americans are suffering unjustly as a result.

For example, according to federal statistics, about 20 percent of Black households lived in poverty in 2024, compared with about 9 percent of white households. The median Black household annual income was about $56,000 in 2024, compared with about $88,000 for white households. The Black unemployment rate in November was 8.3 percent, compared with 3.9 percent for whites.

Yet instead of trying to narrow the gaps separating Black and white Americans, as King advocated, Trump is focused on eliminating supposed discrimination against white people — especially white men.

Trump issued three executive orders at the start of his second term declaring diversity, equity and inclusion programs to be “illegal and immoral discrimination.” This ended such programs in the federal government and successfully pressured many businesses, nonprofits and colleges to scale them back or end them.

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