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12 hours ago · FACTBOX-Where abortion could be on the ballot in the 2024 U.S. elections Abortions are now restricted under a 15-week ban passed in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court decision. FLORIDA The state Supreme Court on April 1 approved a ballot measure, backed by reproductive rights groups, asking voters whether to amend the state constitution to ...
2 hours ago · The elections coincided with the midterm elections of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. Democrats won open Republican-held governorships in Arkansas , Colorado , Massachusetts , New York , and Ohio ; and they defeated Republican incumbent Bob Ehrlich in Maryland while retaining all of their seats ...
1 day ago · The Republican Party in the United States includes several factions, or wings.During the 19th century, Republican factions included the Half-Breeds, who supported civil service reform; the Radical Republicans, who advocated the immediate and total abolition of slavery, and later advocated civil rights for freed slaves during the Reconstruction era; and the Stalwarts, who supported machine ...
1 day ago · In the 2022 midterm elections, the Republican Party won control of the House 222–213, taking the majority for the first time since the 115th Congress, while the Democratic Party gained one seat in the Senate, where they already had effective control, and giving them a 51–49 seat majority (with a caucus of 48 Democrats and three independents).
- 100 senators, 435 representatives, 6 non-voting delegates
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2 hours ago · A new machine-learning technique can train and control a reconfigurable soft robot that can dynamically change its shape to complete a task. The researchers also built a simulator that can evaluate control algorithms for shape-shifting soft robots. More details
1 day ago · James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter was the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, and a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967.
1 day ago · Hugo Lafayette Black (February 27, 1886 – September 25, 1971) was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as a U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1927 to 1937 and as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1937 to 1971.
