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Salon published a piece suggesting that the controversial term "Latinx" is out-of-touch, due to the fact it is rarely used by the people it was coined to help identify.

Numerous transportation projects across the U.S. will be getting a slice of $2.2 billion of new federal funding.

Sen. Joe Manchin sealed the deal reviving President Joe Biden’s big economic, health care and climate bill.

What you need to know about UFOs What you need to know about UFOs (NCD)Lawmakers are trying to find out if the truth is out there. >> Read more trending newsThe House of Representatives has approved an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that will establish a reporting system in which members of the military and other government employees can report UFO sightings, Fox News reported. The system would be secure and would “prevent unauthorized public reporting or compromise of properly classified military and intelligence systems, programs, and related activities,” The Hill reported. During the proceedings, top-ranking military members said there had been about 400 reports of UFO encounters, according to The Hill. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., asked if wreckage from a UFO had been examined by officials.

Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego says a former aide's testimony shows how Trump put US Capitol Police officers in the path of an armed mob.

Climate Latino Activism Masavi Perea, organizing director for Chispa Arizona, walks along the pathway of the community garden May 18, 2022, in Phoenix. After experiencing global warming's firsthand effects, U.S. Latinos are leading the way in activism around climate change, often drawing on traditions from their ancestral homelands. Now 17, she is a co-founder of Earth Uprising, a climate change education group. Climate policy scholar Michael Méndez, author of the book “Climate Change from the Streets,“ said grassroots organizing is equally important. "For Latinos, climate change is about how to protect our families, our children.”Copyright 2022 The Associated Press.

Climate Latino Activism Masavi Perea, organizing director for Chispa Arizona, walks along the pathway of the community garden May 18, 2022, in Phoenix. After experiencing global warming's firsthand effects, U.S. Latinos are leading the way in activism around climate change, often drawing on traditions from their ancestral homelands. Now 17, she is a co-founder of Earth Uprising, a climate change education group. Climate policy scholar Michael Méndez, author of the book “Climate Change from the Streets,“ said grassroots organizing is equally important. "For Latinos, climate change is about how to protect our families, our children.”Copyright 2022 The Associated Press.

Latinos are leading the way in U.S. activism around climate change from grassroots organizing to global advocacy, often drawing on traditions from their ancestral homelands and the experience of effects on their communities.

"I will personally volunteer to help him fundraise because I think we can keep that seat if he runs," the veteran Democratic strategist told Vox.

Wealthy Democratic donors are planning to finance a primary effort against Sen. Kyrsten Sinema as she votes against key pieces of their party's agenda.

Leaders of the Arizona Democratic Party have voted to censure Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is suggesting he’d support primary challengers against Democratic colleagues Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.

Books-Congressman-Reporter FILE - Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., speaks during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on July 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Four, as correctly reported by Knickmeyer, were lost when an explosive device erupted under their Amtrac. The way the story made it seem, though, was that an entire platoon of Marines had been killed," Gallego and DeFelice wrote. A spokesperson for Gallego wrote in a statement Friday that while the congressman considers “this matter resolved,” he was not offering an apology. The Washington Post did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The publisher of a memoir by Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona is correcting a passage about a deadly Iraq War battle that falsely alleged a journalist had reported Gallego’s entire platoon was lost.

In a speech delivered Wednesday, the attorney general said the Justice Department "will follow the facts wherever they lead. The actions we have taken thus far will not be our last."

Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego said the Ohio Republican was a traitor to the U.S. Constitution.

Members of the House Armed Services Committee visited Ukraine on a three-day codel over the weekend.

Not many Latinos in America use the term. Even fewer elected officials do.

Rep. Ruben Gallego urged the US to skip the paperwork and evacuate Afghans who assist Americans over the last 20 years.

Swalwell believed the building was secure and precautions were just being taken. But the House Chaplain's unsolicited prayer left him "shaken."

In response, Greene accused Gallego of seeking attention, called him a "coward," and questioned his masculinity.

(AP Photo/Cheyanne Mumphrey)PHOENIX – The Phoenix Police Department is investigating after a virtual funeral for civil rights icon and city leader Calvin Coolidge Goode was interrupted Tuesday by hackers yelling racist slurs. “I condemn the racists who disrupted Vice Mayor Goode’s funeral services. “Former councilman Calvin Goode was a civil rights leader who served with honor and distinction. “The hate act that occurred during the celebration of life for Vice Mayor Goode today was atrocious and unforgivable,” Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski said in a statement. We saw it today at the funeral of Calvin Goode.

One of Calvin C. Goode's sons, Vernon "Zina" Goode, poses with members of his family at the open casket viewing of former Phoenix Vice Mayor and city councilman Calvin C. Goode on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021, in Phoenix, Ariz. Goode died on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Cheyanne Mumphrey)PHOENIX – Phoenix city officials, residents and prominent members of the Black community will honor late civil rights icon, city leader and longtime Arizona resident Calvin Coolidge Goode in the coming weeks. In 1977, Stewart said Goode welcomed him to Phoenix and spoke at his installation as pastor of First Institutional. But Stewart said “the most prestigious” memory he had was receiving the Calvin C. Goode Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. Goode was a soft-spoken man, but lion-hearted — an unshakeable force for progress, equality and civil rights," Democratic state Rep. Reginald Bolding said in a statement.

The outcome delighted Democrats and was sure to bring a reckoning for Republicans who have enjoyed decades of dominance in Arizona politics. In turning toward friendly territory for Democrats, Arizona is following a path blazed by its neighbors Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada. It’s also the Democrats’ brightest light among the Sun Belt states they tried to flip from the GOP this year. A decade of work organizing Latinos to vote helped Arizona Democrats outperform other states where Democrats came up short, Gallego said. President Bill Clinton won Arizona in his 1996 reelection bid.

I registered,” said Novoa, a 70-year-old Latina and retired legal secretary who now lives in Peoria, Arizona. She immediately voted in local elections and is eager to cast a ballot for Democrat Joe Biden for president. Newcomers lsuch as Novoa are helping turn Arizona increasingly toward Biden, transforming a state known just a decade ago as a the epicenter of the Republican anti-illegal immigration push into the nation’s newest political battleground. Biden will look to run up the score there and on the Navajo Nation in northeastern Arizona. Now those voters habituated to voting for Republicans are looking around, and some are finding they’re open to Democrats like Biden, she said.