While some Republicans suggested the Iowa congressman’s views were new to them, Mr. King has a long and documented history of denigrating racial minorities.
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Extreme-right wing of Germany’s AfD placed under surveillance

Domestic intelligence agency to begin monitoring elements of anti-immigration party
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency is to begin monitoring elements of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), placing particular focus on Björn Höcke, a nationalist agitator considered one of the driving forces in a move to take the party towards the extreme right.
The BfV said it would also be keeping the party’s youth wing, Young Alternative (JA), under surveillance and would investigate whether the AfD as a whole should be put on its official watchlist, but said it still had insufficient evidence for doing so.
H.R. 531: To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide that the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may only be removed for cause, and for other purposes.
Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Anthony Brown [D-MD4]
This bill was referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration.
H.R. 538: To amend title 5, United States Code, to require a quarterly report on security clearances for individuals working in the White House or the Executive Office of the President, and for other purposes.
Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA33]
This bill was referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration.
H.Res. 40: Condemning and censuring Representative Steve King of Iowa.
Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH13]
This resolution was referred to the House Committee on Ethics which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration.
H.R. 430: TANF Extension Act of 2019
Passed House (Senate next):
Last Action: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
Explanation: This bill passed in the House on January 14, 2019 and goes to the Senate next for consideration.
H.Res. 41: Rejecting White nationalism and White supremacy.
Legislation Coming Up: This resolution has been added to the House’s schedule for the coming week, according to the House Majority Leader. More information can be found at http://bit.ly/2g091ss.
Last Action: This resolution is in the first stage of the legislative process. It was introduced into Congress on January 14, 2019. It will typically be considered by committee next before it is possibly sent on to the House or Senate as a whole.
Judge Blocks New Birth Control Exemptions Nationwide, Thank God

A federal judge in Philadelphia blocked new Trump administration rules, slated to take effect today, that would exempt some employers from providing health insurance that covers birth control.
Los Angeles Teachers Strike to Defend Public Schools from the Privatizers
January 14, 2019 / Barbara Madeloni
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Last spring a teacher uprising swept the red states. Today it reached the West Coast, as the 34,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles began a long-anticipated strike in the nation’s second-largest school district.
Teachers, parents, students, and community supporters hit the picket lines in their fight against the budget cuts and privatization being pushed by the school board and Superintendent Austin Beutner, a former investment banker.
Megadrought and Megadeath in 16th Century Mexico – Volume 8, Number 4—April 2002 – Emerging Infectious Diseases journal – CDC – 25 million deaths in Mexico 1519-1576
The native people of Mexico experienced an epidemic disease in the wake of European conquest (Figure 1), beginning with the smallpox epidemic of 1519 to 1520 when 5 million to 8 million people perished. The catastrophic epidemics that began in 1545 and 1576 subsequently killed an additional 7 million to 17 million people in the highlands of Mexico (1–3). Recent epidemiologic research suggests that the events in 1545 and 1576, associated with a high death rate and referred to as cocoliztli (Nahuatl for “pest”), may have been due to indigenous hemorrhagic fevers (4,5). Tree-ring evidence, allowing reconstructions of the levels precipitation, indicate that the worst drought to afflict North America in the past 500 years also occurred in the mid-16th century, when severe drought extended at times from Mexico to the boreal forest and from the Pacific to Atlantic coasts (6). These droughts appear to have interacted with ecologic and sociologic conditions, magnifying the human impact of infectious disease in 16th-century Mexico. The epidemic of cocoliztli from1545 to 1548 killed an estimated 5 million to 15 million people, or up to 80% of the native population of Mexico (Figure 1). In ab
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