Washington, Dec. 4- The US Senate’s approval of a bill protecting same-sex marriage was one of the major news items here for the week to date.
Tuesday’s vote (61-36) came at a time when fears are growing that the Supreme Court will revoke that right, as it did in a controversial ruling on abortion last June.
Twelve Republicans joined Democrats to endorse the initiative, which in itself represents an issue that has been deeply divisive nationally for decades.
The House of Representatives, which approved a similar proposal last July, must vote again on this modified project.
Also of interest in the news was French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the United States, a trip reportedly attempting to iron out trade tensions between the two countries.
The French ruler had expressed his uneasiness, and that of the European Union in general, at the economic measures taken by Biden to reduce inflation, to the detriment of the partners of the old continent.
Macron’s official visit was the first organized by the Democratic president since he took office in January 2021. This shows, as the press reflects, the value the United States places on France, a country it considers its oldest ally.
News Radar also covered the Democratic National Committee (DNC) meeting to review the party’s 2024 presidential primary process.
A vote by members of the CND Rules and Bylaws Committee approved an amended schedule that would begin February 3 in South Carolina, followed by New Hampshire and Nevada on February 6, Georgia on February 13, and Michigan on February 27.
This recommendation, which changes the traditional democratic order of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, must be ratified by the CND plenum at a session in early February.
The proposed new order rewards some of the states that fueled his political rise in 2020 by creating diverse, working-class, and in some cases more moderate, constituencies that were critical to Biden’s primary victory, the paper noted New York Times.
On the other hand, trade magazines highlighted this week that between 1990 and 2021 in the United States more than a million people died, both intentionally and accidentally, from a firearm.
The total number of citizens who lost their lives in the 30 years covered by the study, 1,110,421, is about the same number of people who died from Covid-19 in the last two years, the experts said. (Latin press)
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