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What would an election reform bill passed by the House do?
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    House passes election reform bill to curb future interference; 9 Republicans join Democrats.
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    The Presidential Election Reform Act, crafted largely by Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D] and Rep. Liz Cheney [R], passed 229-203. The legislation would alter the 135-year-old Electoral Count Act, which former President Trump and his allies focused on in their efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 race.
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    The bill would confirm that the vice president's role in overseeing the Electoral College count after each election is purely ministerial. Trump and his allies pressed then-Vice President Mike Pence to not green-light the electors submitted from certain swing states and pushed governors to send to Congress alternate slates of electors who backed Trump.
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    [The bill] would raise the threshold needed for electoral objections by lawmakers to receive a vote in Congress and it would mandate that governors transmit state results to Congress. Objections to some states' electors on Jan. 6, 2021 easily earned votes under the current standards, which only require one member each in [chamber] to back an objection. The new legislation raises that floor to one-third of each chamber.
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    Nine Republicans join all House Democrats to pass the Presidential Election Reform Act.
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    Improving the Electoral Count Act isn’t enough to protect voting rights and stop election subversion.
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What is in the legislative side deal between Sens. Schumer and Manchin?


    The permitting bill was the result of a [secret] deal between Manchin and Democratic leaders, which secured the senator’s vote for Joe Biden’s climate legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act, which Manchin held...

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Why does Florida want the Supreme Court to rule on its social media law?


    The Florida law [that made it illegal for sites like Facebook and Twitter to ban politicians] is blocked by an order from the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. A [similar] Texas law was reinstated by the US Court o...

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Will the West’s military support of Ukraine lead to a nuclear war?

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Context: Russia begins to mobilize reserve forces; Putin threatens willingness to use nuclear weapons.

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Unlikely - To be clear, nuclear holocaust is always a misunderstanding away. War involving great nuclear powers is a ripe and fertile field to grow such misunderstandings. But the intentional use of nuclear weapons in the former Soviet breadbasket is the last thing Putin wants. He needs this territory intact economically while removing western influence politically/militarily. The West's support has just protracted the killing. Russia was never going to back down.


Maybe - The mainstream understanding of Putin is that he's a barbaric madman who greatly underestimated the cost of the war and/or is completely ready to throw thousands into the meat grinder, but also that he has enough self-preservation to av...



Probably - If Putin is serious, he's going to hold a "vote" that is all but guaranteed to result in the annexation of the Ukrainian t...



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Why is the UK ending its ban on fracking?


    The ban was introduced in 2019 after tremors, and finally a magnitude 2.9 earthquake, were recorded near the U.K.’s only active fracking site, in the county of Lancashire. Nearly 200 locals reported damages t...

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How did the 16-year Cambodia genocide tribunal conclude?


    The rejection of the appeal that sought to clear Khieu Samphan, 91, of the genocide of minority Cham Muslims and ethnic Vietnamese in Cambodia also closes the book on one...

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