WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday urged the United Nations’ human rights office to release its assessment of China’s policies in Xinjiang before next month’s Beijing Winter Olympics, which the U.S. government is boycotting on a diplomatic level over what it says is ongoing genocide in the
Good mooorning, Early Birds. We’re going to spend the snowy three-day weekend digesting Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly’s engagement and an almost Rep. Ben Affleck (Mass.). What will you do? Play Wordle, perhaps? Let us know how you fare: earlytips@washpost.com. ?? SCOOP: “Leaders of the federal judiciary have had to backtrack after nearly three dozen law clerks and judges’s assistants affirmed
The International Olympic Committee would be stripped of its federal tax-exempt status under legislation that could be proposed as early as next week, four people with direct knowledge of the plan told USA TODAY Sports. The proposed legislation has bipartisan support and is in response to the IOC’s refusal to challenge
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) has been in office for over a decade, and since assuming his seat in 2009, so much has changed. Presidents have come and gone, renewable sources of energy have begun to boom, and the COVID-19 pandemic has totally transformed just about everything in our lives. One
Senior Democratic senators on Wednesday will unveil a fresh package of sanctions to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin if he invades Ukraine, an effort backed by the White House as the administration seeks to tamp down defections on a competing measure targeting Moscow set for a closely watched Senate vote
Senate Democrats are considering modest rules changes to advance voting rights legislation though are unlikely to abolish the super-majority threshold that has been the biggest obstacle to moving the election agenda. The impetus for the proposed changes has been Republican opposition to the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S.
MISSION — The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation announced the U.S. Department of Treasury on Jan. 3 certified Nixyaawii Community Financial Services as a Community Development Financial Institution. Nixyaawii is a tribally owned nonprofit that provides loans, homeownership assistance, business development services plus financial education to CTUIR members,
Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley (D, OR) blasted Tesla’s (TSLA) decision to open a showroom in China’s controversial Xinjiang region, adding to growing criticism of the Austin-based company’s actions. Speaking to Yahoo Finance Live, Merkley said Tesla’s action “gives cover to the Chinese government” and its campaign against Muslim Uyghur minorities.
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., spoke and issued statements Thursday to make the one-year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol and urge colleagues to act on voting-rights legislation. Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., delivered the following remarks on the floor
For more than 35 years, the Grand Ronde and the Siletz tribes of American Indians have been bound by legal agreements that strip them of the right to manage their own hunting and fishing seasons on tribal land. U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat, is sponsoring legislation that would
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