Normally, News Views does not feature a Live Blog on Fridays but, since we missed posting it on Thursday, welcome to the Friday Edition. Please feel free to post ‘headlines’ you would like to share that we may have missed. And…Happy October.
President Biden/Biden Administration:
Biden signs government funding bill hours before midnight deadline to avert shutdown
The House voted Thursday afternoon after the Senate also approved the measure.
Court sides with Biden administration, preserves Covid limits on asylum-seekers for now
Hearings on Title 42, a health law being used to turn away migrants at the border, are scheduled for January.
Congress:
Democrats’ spending bill includes plan to get free health care to uninsured Americans
Full List of 15 Republican Senators Who Voted to Avoid a Government Shutdown
- Roy Blunt — Missouri
- Richard Burr — North Carolina
- Shelley Moore Capito — West Virginia
- Bill Cassidy — Louisiana
- Susan Collins — Maine
- John Cornyn — Texas
- Lindsey Graham — South Carolina
- John Kennedy — Louisiana
- Mitch McConnell — Kentucky
- Lisa Murkowski — Alaska
- Mitt Romney — Utah
- Mike Rounds — South Dakota
- Richard Shelby — Alabama
- Thom Tillis — North Carolina
- Todd Young — Indiana
SCOTUS:
Alito defends letting Texas abortion law take effect, says Supreme Court critics want to intimidate justices
Economy:
Fed Predicts Inflation Rates Will Decline After Seeing Biggest Increase in 30 Years
COVID-19 Updates/COVIDIOTS:
Woman who survived Spanish flu, world war dies at 105 after contracting Covid
“I think my mother would have been around quite a bit longer if she hadn’t contracted Covid,” Primetta Giacopini’s 61-year-old daughter said. “She was a fighter. She had a hard life.”
How to Trigger a ‘Fullish’ MAGAt: SCIENCE!
Should’ve Got the Vaccine:
Vaccination rates for New York health-care workers rise after mandate
Lawsuit seeks to halt Biden’s vaccination mandates for federal workforce
Majority of Pregnant People Refuse to Get Vaccinated, Despite CDC Guidance
The American Taliban/White ISIS/Wing Nuts/MAGAts/GUNZ!:
House Jan. 6 committee issues subpoenas for pro-Trump rally organizers
Infowars host Alex Jones is responsible for damages triggered by his false claims on the Sandy Hook shooting, judge rules
The Former Guy:
Liars attract other liars:
State News:
Ohio! Bigly Concepts: Lordstown to Sell Ohio Plant to Foxconn in $280 Million Deal
Gunmaker Smith & Wesson to move to Tennessee as Massachusetts considers assault weapons ban
Officials say legislative proposals in the company’s current state would prohibit them from manufacturing certain weapons.
California governor signs off on series of police reform bills
One of the laws allows the state to decertify officers, which its author said will end the “wash, rinse and repeat cycle of police misconduct.”
