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Attacks on ICE agents are getting personal, with a Newburyport shop owner and her husband the latest victims of blowback from “radical haters” blaming federal employees for the crisis at the southern border.
The rattled shop owner said she found a sign hanging over a bridge next to her business Saturday morning that called her and her husband out for being “a danger to our community.” He works for the Department of Homeland Security, and she’s an immigrant from Ireland.
MARBLEHEAD — “Holocaust = Fake News,” blared the headline of a flyer found attached to the welcome sign at Temple Emanu-El on Monday morning.
A second anti-Semitic flyer was later found out back, leaving the community disturbed and saddened.
“It wasn’t just a random bit of graffiti. ... Somebody really made the effort to come down and send us a message,” said Rabbi David Meyer, who called police and notified the Anti-Defamation League.
ACTION for National Service Act would incrementally expand the number of full-time federal service positions
Rep. Seth Moulton has filed an ambitious piece of legislation that would revamp and overhaul national service in the United States.
Under Moulton’s plan, the proposed law — ACTION for National Service Act — would incrementally expand the number of full-time federal service positions under AmeriCorps, the nation’s signature civilian service program, to 1 million over the next decade.
Veterans groups are hailing a move by the House of Representatives that would require President Donald Trump to get Congress' permission before attacking Iran.
In a 251-170 vote, the House passed an amendment to the Fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act that would stop Trump from using federal funding for military operations against Iran without a declaration from war or a new authorization for military force from Congress.
The House began floor debate Wednesday on the massive defense policy bill, including the 3.1% military pay raise, as several Democrats pressed for an amendment that would block the use of military force against Iran unless Congress approved.
The House Iran amendment co-sponsored by Reps. Ro Khanna, D-California, and Matt Gaetz, R-Florida, is similar to another measure that failed in the Senate last month. The vote in the Senate was 50-40, but the amendment fell short of the 60 votes needed under Senate rules.
The U.S. confronted Iran on the world stage Wednesday and threatened even more crushing economic sanctions if Tehran doesn’t halt its uranium enrichment program, but the Trump administration also found itself on the defensive at home and abroad over how it has handled the escalating crisis.
A small group of lawmakers is arguing that President Donald Trump does not have the power to launch a new war against Iran without first getting permission from Congress.
Chief among them is Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), who was one of six lawmakers who voiced their support on Wednesday for a proposed amendment to the fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act that would prevent any federal money from funding a war with Iran unless Congress declared war or Trump secured a new authorization for the use of military force.
In this submitted opinion editorial, Reps. Seth Moulton and Lori Trahan make an argument for addressing “combined sewer overflow” and “a new generation of infrastructure that better serves the region.”
Imagine you live in a community where everything that goes down your toilet, and everything in the gutters on the street outside, flowed into the bodies of water that supply your drinking water.
You’d probably want your government to do something about that, and you’d definitely want to know about it.
Originally Published in Wicked Local — Salem.
Written by Rep. Moulton and Rep. Lori Trahan.
Imagine you live in a community where everything that goes down your toilet, and everything in the gutters on the street outside, flowed into the bodies of water that supply your drinking water.
You’d probably want your government to do something about that, and you’d definitely want to know about it.
The planned Lights for Liberty in Salem is just one vigil of hundreds that aim to unify thousands on Friday, July 12 under the “Lights for Liberty: A vigil to end Human Concentration Camps” banner to protest the inhumane conditions that refugees face across the globe.
A North Shore activist has planned a vigil for Friday night from 7 to 10 p.m. to demand an end to the inhumane conditions faced by immigrants in federal detention camps and facilities across the United States.