The Daily Populous

The measure passed 51-50 on a party line vote with Vice President Kamala Harris casting her first-ever tie-breaking vote to tip the balance in the early hours of Friday morning.

The approval allows Democrats to push ahead with the budget reconciliation process, enabling the party to pass the relief package without Republican support.

Democrats will need near-universal support from House Democrats and a unanimous vote of the 50-Democratic members of the Senate to pass the bill without Republican support. »

Erdoğan said on Wednesday that his government would not allow the Boğaziçi protests to spiral out of control, accusing the protesters of being “terrorists” and “LGBT youth” working against Turkey’s “national and spiritual values”.

Behrem Evlice, a fourth-year political science student, said: “We are so angry right now, and it’s not just Boğaziçi students, it’s students and young people all over Turkey.

Young people don’t care about which politician is providing services, necessarily … They just want the service to exist.”. »

A young program that puts troubled nonviolent people in the hands of health care workers instead of police officers has proven successful in its first six months, according to a progress report.

In its first six months, the Support Team Assisted Response program, or STAR, has responded to 748 incidents.

The clerk had called the police — the woman was technically trespassing — but when the police arrived, they called Sailon. »

Former Parler CEO John Matze said he was terminated Jan. 29 by the board, which he said is “controlled by Rebekah Mercer,” the GOP donor who is among Parler’s investors.

“I got dead silence as a response, and I took that dead silence as disagreement,” he told the Times.

Parler sued Amazon for breach of contract, but a federal judge denied the company’s request for a preliminary injunction to force AWS to reinstate service. »