Politics
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Puerto Ricans May Have the Chance to Cast a Symbolic Vote for US President in 2024
The island has sent delegates to presidential conventions in the US since the beginning of the 20th century and has participated in presidential primaries since 1976, but does not vote for president.
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Polls: Ron DeSantis Losing to Trump by 20 Points in Florida, Struggling With Female Voters
DeSantis trails former president Donald Trump among Florida GOP voters 50-30% according to one poll, while others show him being overwhelmingly unpopular with female voters.
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Florida Taxpayers Are Footing the Bill for DeSantis’ Legal Woes
As Floridians struggle with rising rent and property insurance costs, DeSantis spends millions in taxpayer dollars to defend his culture war policies from lawsuits—and he is doing it with the help of Republican lawmakers.
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Ron DeSantis Is the Only Florida Governor to Keep Records Hidden, Experts Say
Government accountability watchdogs are pointing to the governor’s growing penchant for secrecy and his concerted efforts to keep information out of the public eye.
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DeSantis’ Anti-LGBTQ Video Backfires, Alienates Conservative Supporters
Some are calling DeSantis’ push to appeal to extreme conservatives as he runs for the White House in 2024 “desperate” and “the last nail in the coffin.”
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Upcoming US Citizenship Test Changes Raise Concerns for Those with Low English Skills
The U.S. citizenship test is being updated, and some immigrants and advocates worry the changes will hurt test-takers with lower levels of English proficiency.
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Florida’s New Law Forces Hospitals to Ask About Immigration Status, but You Don’t Have to Answer
Starting, Saturday July 1, most Florida hospitals will begin collecting data on patients’ immigration status. However, the law does not require individuals to complete the immigration section of their patient form in order to receive care.
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Biden Administration Announces $3.1 Billion in Funding to Tackle Homelessness, With Focus on Veterans
In May, President Biden announced that it’s his administration’s goal to reduce homelessness in the United States by 25% by 2025 and to rehouse 38,000 veterans in 2023.
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Supreme Court Takes Student Debt Relief Away From 43 Million Americans
Nationwide, more than 45 million people owe $1.6 trillion in federal loans for college, according to government data, and as many as 43 million of them stood to benefit from the cancellation program.
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US Supreme Court Bans Consideration of Race in College Admissions
The Court’s decision reverses decades of precedent. In 1978, the Court ruled that affirmative action was lawful, which it later upheld in 2003 and 2016.
