A host of new state laws came into effect across the country Monday, reflecting a national rift on key issues and how to address them that doesn't seem to be shifting course anytime soon. Many of the measures are sure to attract criticism and even mockery from their opponents. For instance, California now mandates large...
Vice President Harris on Monday lauded the late Texas Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson, the first registered nurse elected to the House of Representatives, who died Sunday at age 88. "Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson was a visionary, a pioneer, and a fighter," Harris wrote in a statement. Harris — the first woman, first Black person and first...
Marland Jeffries, father of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), died Sunday, according to the younger Jeffries's office. Marland Jeffries, 85, was a former substance abuse counselor who raised two sons with his wife of 56 years, Laneda, in Brooklyn in the 1970s and 1980s. The younger Jeffries grew up in an area known both...