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FILE - Abortion-rights protesters cheer at a rally following the United States Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, federally protected right to abortion, outside the state capitol in Lansing, Mich., June 24, 2022. Voters in several states have used the citizen initiative process to protect access to abortion and other reproductive rights in the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a nationwide right to abortion. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Opinion: Two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, I am stronger and angrier

by Lillian Cheesman

| June 24, 2024

ABORTION | NATIONAL NEWS | national politics | Voter Stories
If they were going to ban abortion, who knew what else they were going to start banning? 
President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Scranton, Pa. Biden has begun three straight days of campaigning in Pennsylvania in his childhood hometown of Scranton. The Democratic president is using the working class city of roughly 75,000 as the backdrop for his pitch for higher taxes on the wealthy. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden’s plan to make corporations and billionaires pay more in taxes

by Isabel Soisson

| June 20, 2024

2024 ELECTIONS | NATIONAL NEWS | national politics
The president plans to raise taxes on billionaires and giant corporations to help fund more affordable housing and child care, while keeping taxes the same for those earning under $400,000 per year.
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Durham leaders celebrate Juneteenth, highlight stakes of 2024 election for Black residents

by Dylan Rhoney

| June 20, 2024

2024 ELECTIONS | BLACK OWNED BUSINESS | DURHAM | NATIONAL NEWS | national politics | VOTING IN NORTH CAROLINA
“Juneteenth is about celebrating freedom. And the one thing that we know is, the price of freedom is not free. There was a lot of hard work, a lot of blood, sweat, tears, and even lives that were given up in order to get African-Americans their freedom,” he said.
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at 180 Church, Saturday, June 15, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Trump promises billionaires tax cuts if they donate to his campaign

by Isabel Soisson

| June 18, 2024

2024 ELECTIONS | NATIONAL NEWS | national politics
The former president has cozied up to fellow billionaires in recent months as he’s become increasingly anxious to avoid prison, and therefore needs cash to fund his legal and campaign fees. In exchange, he’s promising to once again pass tax cuts for corporations and the super rich.
FILE - Students in the new Army prep course stand at attention after physical training exercises at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C., Aug. 27, 2022. The Army fell about 15,000 soldiers — or 25% — short of its recruitment goal this year, officials confirmed Friday, Sept. 30, despite a frantic effort to make up the widely expected gap in a year when all the military services struggled in a tight jobs market to find young people willing and fit to enlist. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford, File)

Trump allies are open to the idea of mandatory military service for teens

by Sophie Boudreau

| June 17, 2024

2024 ELECTIONS | Lead Story | MILITARY | NATIONAL NEWS | national politics
Young Americans haven’t faced the possibility of a draft since 1973. If some in former president Donald Trump’s circle have a say, mandatory service could be back on the table.