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Faster postal service linked to better voter turnout
A more efficient U.S. Postal Service can increase voter turnout in all states regardless of their mail voting laws, according to a Washington State University study.
WSU researcher Michael Ritter analyzed election data from 2012 through 2020, when the pandemic encour... | US Federal Elections |
Nearly one year into the pandemic — after COVID-19's school closures, lay-offs and childcare crisis pushed American parents over the edge financially and emotionally — Congress expanded the Child Tax Credit (CTC) as part of the 2021 American Rescue Plan. The credit brought some relief to an otherwise dark moment for bo... | US Federal Policies |
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NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A vehicle exploded at a checkpoint on the American side of a U.S.-Canada bridge in Niagara Falls Wednesday, prompting the closing of four border crossings in the area, ... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
A number of MAGA and Republican figures have reacted to the GOP's series of defeats across the country on election night, most notably in Ohio where voters approved a motion to enshrine abortion protections in the state's constitution.
On Tuesday, voters in Ohio approved Issue 1 ballot which asked yes or no on whether ... | US Federal Elections |
Once again, a judge has ruled that Gov. Ron DeSantis and GOP legislators violated the Florida Constitution.
This time, a judicial appointee of Rick Scott ruled what everyone already knew — that they illegally gerrymandered congressional districts to get a Black Democrat out of office and put a White Republican in
In ot... | US Local Elections |
The corporate gig Katie Porter erased from her whiteboard
Porter, a leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in California, had a stint with a mortgage servicer shortly after working on the issue for the state.
California Rep. Katie Porter has won acclaim in Washington as an unrelenting antagonist of big banks. But... | US Political Corruption |
Donald Trump is a very honest liar.
When Trump says he is going to hurt you he means it. This is one of the primary reasons his political cultists are so loyal to him.
On this, journalist Masha Gessen warns and advises: "Rule #1: Believe the autocrat. He means what he says. Whenever you find yourself thinking, or hear ... | US Political Corruption |
Series: Friends of the Court
Clarence Thomas’ Beneficial Friendship With a GOP Megadonor
In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia. The boy, Mark Martin, was far from home. For the previou... | SCOTUS |
Cindy Powers was driven into bankruptcy by 19 life-saving abdominal operations. Medical debt started stacking up for Lindsey Vance after she crashed her skateboard and had to get nine stitches in her chin. And for Misty Castaneda, open heart surgery for a disease she'd had since birth saddled her with $200,000 in bills... | US Federal Policies |
It's an incredible feeling to finally become free of student debt, to feel the financial weight lifted off your shoulders after years of worrying about making payments.
I've gotten to see this joy over the past year by helping people apply for debt cancellation through the government's Public Service Loan Forgiveness t... | US Federal Policies |
Gaetz: Johnson victory proves MAGA power over Republican party
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) held up newly-elected Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as a shining example of the strength of the “MAGA movement,” after every GOP member of Congress voted for him to be Speaker on Wednesday, ending three weeks of chaos in the House.
“... | US Congress |
For all of Donald Trump’s rhetorical innovations, personality quirks, and alleged criminal malfeasance, what has made him truly unique as a political figure is how much he has merged fan culture with American politics. It’s not unusual for Americans to idolize presidents—Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama are still activel... | US Campaigns & Elections |
“It’s no longer breaking news when I tell the American people that there is something wrong with Joe Biden. Everyone can see that now. It’s not in question anymore. It’s what are the Democrats going to do about it?” Jackson told Hannity. “The natural course of any of these illnesses, I don’t know if it’s Alzheimer's, d... | US Federal Policies |
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Karen Vergata was 34 years old when she went missing. There have been no charges made related to her death.
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Karen Vergata was 34 years old when she went missing. There have been no charges made related to her de... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled his proposal on Saturday to avoidby extending government funding for some agencies and programs until Jan. 19, and continuing funding for others until Feb. 2.
The approach is unusual for a stopgap spending bill. Usually, lawmakers extend funding until a certain date for all programs.... | US Federal Policies |
Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who told police she was kidnapped after she went missing for two days, was arrested on Friday and charged with two misdemeanors for making false statements to police, Hoover Police Department Chief Nicholas Derzis announced during a press conference on Friday.
"The story open wounds fo... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Four current and former L.A. Sheriff’s Department employees died of suicide in a 24-hour span
Warning: This story includes discussion of suicide.
The suicide deaths of four current and former Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department employees over a 24-hour span have prompted a plea from Sheriff Robert Luna urging deputies to ... | US Police Misconduct |
Former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark and 3 GOP electors indicted with Trump lose bids to move Georgia charges to federal court
At least five of Trump's co-defendants have asked to move their trials from state to federal court, but a federal judge has refused all of the requests.
- U.S. District Judge Steve Jones ruled Cla... | US Political Corruption |
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Maine Gov. Janet Mills said at a Thursday press conference that 18 people w... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
No, Biden can’t let ‘Dreamers’ join ObamaCare
There’s just one little, teensy weensy problem with President Biden’s announcement that he will let “Dreamers” join the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) or Medicaid — it’s illegal. I know what you’re thinking: When has an action being illegal ever stopped Biden? And you’re r... | US Federal Policies |
A southeastern Oklahoma sheriff's office says the recording in which the sheriff and others are reportedly heard discussing killing two journalists was illegal and predicted felony charges will be filed.
A statement on the sheriff's office Facebook page, the first public statement since the comments by Sheriff Kevin Cl... | US Police Misconduct |
Liz Cheney had hoped to author the last chapter of Donald Trump’s political career during her time as vice chair of the January 6 committee. But, as the former president runs to reclaim the White House on an extreme, antidemocratic platform, the former Wyoming representative is now concerned that the 2021 insurrection ... | US Political Corruption |
Donald Trump's legal problems just got very real.
We now have trial dates being set, jockeying among various co-defendants and even Trump's former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, taking the stand to essentially say he was only following orders. It now appears certain that one way or the other, Trump will be facing a jury... | US Political Corruption |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government is heading toward a shutdown that will disrupt ma... | US Federal Policies |
Michigan-based McLaren Health Care has confirmed that the sensitive personal and health information of 2.2 million patients was compromised during a cyberattack earlier this year. A ransomware gang later took credit for the cyberattack.
In a new data breach notice filed with Maine’s attorney general, McLaren said hacke... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
- House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told CNBC in an interview he does not think the U.S. will default on its debt as tense negotiations over the debt ceiling continue.
- "I think at the end of the day we do not have a debt default," McCarthy told CNBC's "Squawk Box" Wednesday morning.
- Leaders are running out of time to ra... | US Federal Policies |
- The Joint Economic Committee released a report on the consequences of failing to raise the debt ceiling.
- It said Americans could lose $20,000 in retirement savings, and private student-debt loads could surge.
- Republicans have floated a range of spending cuts to raise the debt ceiling that Democrats have rejected.... | US Federal Policies |
U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer is calling it a career.
The 75-year-old Portland congressman — for more than a quarter century a Capitol Hill ambassador of sorts for his hometown — announced Monday he will not seek reelection next year.
“I have concluded that my personal time and energy will be better spent not involved in c... | US Congress |
House Democrats Highlight How Republican Funding Bill Fails to Honor Our Commitment to Veterans
WASHINGTON — During today’s House Appropriations Subcommittee markup of the 2024 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, House Democrats highlighted how Republicans cannot claim to fully fund veterans’... | US Federal Policies |
Trump Has Never Been More Vulnerable
The former president thinks he’s invincible. But after yesterday’s indictment in Georgia, getting through what’s coming next would take superpowers he doesn’t have.
When Donald J. Trump surrenders to Fulton County authorities sometime before August 25, on RICO, perjury, forgery, and... | US Political Corruption |
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Trump rips Barr after remark about ‘limited’ verbal skills
Former President Trump lashed out Sunday at his former attorney general, Bill Barr, who had criticized Trump’s verbal skills in a public forum Friday.
In a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump suggested Barr was trying to “get even” with him f... | US Political Corruption |
Congress Averts US Government Shutdown Hours Before Deadline
The Senate overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation Saturday to avoid a disruptive US government shutdown, sending the bill to President Joe Biden for his expected signature just hours before a midnight deadline.
(Bloomberg) -- The US narrowly averted a d... | US Congress |
A U.S. landlord was charged with murder and hate crimes Sunday after allegedly stabbing a Muslim woman and 6-year-old boy dozens of times in an attack that police linked to the war between Israel and Hamas.
The child, who was stabbed 26 times, died at a hospital, but the 32-year-old woman, believed to be his mother, is... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Have you ever wondered what goes on in the mind of a cybercriminal? How do they plan and execute their attacks on unsuspecting victims? What are the tools and techniques they use to break into computers and networks and steal data?
Knowing these answers could help get you off a hacker’s target list. Cybercrime is a ser... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
izusek | E+ | Getty ImagesThe clock is ticking for the U.S. to avoid a default on its debt, and some are sounding the alarm about potential disruptions to Social Security and Medicare.On Thursday, Jan. 19, the U.S. outstanding debt is set to hit its statutory limit, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wrote in a recent let... | US Federal Policies |
The families of the six Walmart workers gunned down by a store manager last year received a check for $2,500 from a non-profit group on Wednesday — the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting in Chesapeake, Va.
Andre Bing opened fire in the break room of the Walmart as the workers gathered for a pre-shift meeting on ... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Rep. Jason Smith calls Gaetz’s push to oust McCarthy a ‘waste of time’
Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) push to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is a “waste of time,” that will slow walk passing individual spending bills, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) said Sunday.
When asked on Fox News Bu... | US Congress |
Say what you will about Donald Trump, he has not lost his capacity to surprise. Trump’s declaration of allegiance to New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez caught me unawares. I used to think Trump and the Republican Party he leads were blindly partisan. Now I discover they’re blindly bipartisan when it comes to support for p... | US Political Corruption |
Despite overwhelming bipartisan support for policies that help parents and caregivers balance work and family life, the 117th Congress ended with yet another stalemate on paid family leave. This continued gridlock is, in part, a result of too many advocates continuing to push for federal policies that simply cannot gai... | US Federal Policies |
When will we restart federal student loan payments?
On Feb. 28, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over the Biden administration’s executive order canceling $10,000 to $20,000 of student debt for most borrowers. The court’s conservative majority sounded skeptical. Anticipating a decision to block the order, some de... | US Federal Policies |
Dems see a big upside to Johnson’s conservative funding push
The new speaker has leaned into the right flank’s spending crusade, giving House Democrats plenty of election messaging on cuts to education, Amtrak, LGBTQ policies and abortion rights.
House Democrats were already attacking swing-district Republicans over co... | US Federal Policies |
Two-and-a-half years before his radical move to topple the US house speaker, Matt Gaetz was making front-page headlines for different reasons.
The New York Times revealed the Department of Justice was investigating if the Florida Republican had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with hi... | US Congress |
Tomorrow, the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law will hold a hearing on “Social Media and the Teen Mental Health Crisis.” The hearing will reportedly feature testimony from Arturo Bejar, a new whistleblower who has come forward to shine light on Meta’s failure to respond to inter... | US Federal Policies |
- Rep. Patrick McHenry became speaker pro tempore after Rep. Kevin McCarthy was ousted on Tuesday.
- One of his first acts was to tell Rep. Nancy Pelosi to vacate her hideaway office.
- Pelosi said in a statement that the one-day eviction notice was a "sharp departure from tradition."
The new Republican interim House s... | US Congress |
Acting before Supreme Court ruling, House votes to block Biden's student loan forgiveness plan
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 218-203 to pass a bill that would repeal President Joe Biden’s plan for mass student debt relief.
The vast majority of Republicans voted in favor of the resolution and the ... | US Federal Policies |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday that there are “no good options” f... | US Federal Policies |
Colorado's Secretary of State Jena Griswold criticized a judge's ruling that stated Donald Trump could remain on the state's 2024 primary ballot, despite saying he "engaged in an insurrection," by calling it a "get-out-of-jail-free card" on Saturday.
The legal challenges that have sought to remove Trump, the frontrunne... | US Federal Elections |
A federal judge ruled that the jury hearing E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit will only need to decide how much money Donald Trump will have to pay her, after the judge found the former president was liable for making defamatory statements.
The finding is a significant blow to Trump, who is facing numerous criminal ... | US Federal Policies |
President Biden's claim during his State of the Union address on Tuesday night that he reduced the deficit by a record $1.7 trillion was misleading and lacked context, according to several fact-checkers.
"In the last two years, my administration has cut the deficit by more than $1.7 trillion — the largest deficit reduc... | US Federal Policies |
WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - With just a week before Washington runs out of money to keep the federal government fully operating, warring factions within the Republican Party in the U.S. Congress on Sunday showed no signs of coming together to pass a stopgap funding bill.
Congress so far has failed to finish any of ... | US Congress |
Donald Trump has been complaining recently about the pictures used of him on Fox News.
"They purposely show the absolutely worst pictures of me, especially the big 'orange' one with my chin pulled way back," he wrote on his Truth Social platform.
The former president obviously prefers the mugshot taken in Atlanta's Ful... | US Federal Elections |
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! With 2022 midterms and control of the House and Senate decided (well, mostly!) campaign 2024 begins – with Republican hopefuls. Former President Donald Trump has already launched his campaign. Well-funded Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was just sworn in for a second term. Former V... | US Federal Elections |
Hunter Biden on Tuesday offered to testify publicly before the U.S. Congress in response to a subpoena from Republicans investigating nearly every aspect of his business dealings as they pursue an impeachment inquiry into his father, President Joe Biden.
The Democratic president's son slammed the inquiry as a "fishing ... | US Political Corruption |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans plan to hold their first hearing next week in their im... | US Political Corruption |
The House Republican Party is sliding even deeper into disarray as it feuds over its next speaker, apparently oblivious to the picture of US government dysfunction it is sending at a moment of worsening global crises.
GOP lawmakers did select Steve Scalise as their nominee for the job that is second in the line of pres... | US Congress |
I often rely on my crystal ball when Congress approaches a potential government shutdown or a debt ceiling crisis.
But I didn’t consult mine lately.
You don’t need a crystal ball to see that it’s likely the government shuts down this weekend.
DEMOCRATIC SEN. BOB MENENDEZ STEPS DOWN 'TEMPORARILY' AS CHAIRMAN OF SENATE F... | US Congress |
Five children missing from Washington state were found and rescued as authorities took their parents into custody in Mexico, U.S. officials said on Friday. The parents, identified as Edgar Salvador Casian-Garcia, 34, and his girlfriend, Araceli Medina, 38, became the first fugitive couple to appear on the U.S. Marshals... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Drones, hidden cameras, thermal vision scopes—these are just a few examples of the high-tech equipment recommended by the animal liberation group Direct Action Everywhere, according to a manual released by the organization this week. The document, which was reviewed by WIRED, is a rare glimpse into how the organization... | US Political Corruption |
MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. -- The wife of Rex Heuermann, charged in the deaths of three women whose remains were found along a Long Island beach roadway, filed for divorce Wednesday, her attorney said.
Asa Ellerup filed the complaint in Suffolk County Supreme Court. Her attorney, Robert Macedonio, declined any additional co... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
WASHINGTON — While Donald Trump wants to take his case for returning to the White House to some 200 million American voters, he may first need to win over five — a majority on the U.S. Supreme Court.
As the 2024 presidential primaries near, the former president, already under four criminal indictments, is likely to fac... | SCOTUS |
GOP lawmakers in Congress will hold a press conference on Wednesday afternoon to urge the House and Senate to pass appropriations bills and a national security aid package that secure "fiscal sanity" and tougher border security measures, such as higher asylum standards.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., will lead the press conf... | US Congress |
The Senate is operating with a heavy workload this week as it races to confirm the nominee for Israeli ambassador, organize a larger defense spending bill, and begin passing appropriations bills ahead of the deadline to avert a government shutdown.
The Senate has made Israel a top priority this week after Hamas’s Oct. ... | US Congress |
The US Senate has voted to formally impose a dress code, unanimously rejecting a plan to allow lawmakers to wear casual clothing in the chamber.
Last week Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ended enforcement of an informal and unwritten code requiring senators wear business attire on the floor.
The change, widely seen as a ... | US Congress |
House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Friday plans to release more than 40,000 hours of security footage taken during the January 6 attack on the Capitol, pleasing former president Donald Trump and far-right members of the Republican Party and infuriating some Democrats, who charge that the footage poses a security r... | US Congress |
Politics|Trump’s Former Accounting Firm Begins Turning Over Documents to Congresshttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/17/us/politics/mazars-accounting-trump-documents.htmlMazars USA delivered an initial set of documents related to the former president’s finances to the House Oversight Committee as part of a settlement.Credi... | US Political Corruption |
Pause on student loan payments about to end for millions
The Biden administration has given its clearest indication yet that the years-long pause of student loan repayments will come to an end in the coming months.
Optimism that the White House would keep offering borrowers relief from making their payments was crushed... | US Federal Policies |
A new vote is being held in the US House of Representatives among indications of a government shutdown beginning at midnight on Saturday.
Faced with a rebellion by fellow hard-line Republicans, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is trying to secure agreement on a temporary 45-day respite.
It's not clear if he measure - strip... | US Congress |
A federal judge has dismissed ex-President Donald Trump's bid to throw out charges of election interference on the basis of "presidential immunity".
Mr Trump's lawyers had argued his attempts to reject the 2020 results fell within his duties as president.
But Judge Tanya Chutkan found no legal basis for concluding pres... | US Political Corruption |
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ATLANTA (AP) — An effort to access voting system software in several states an... | US Federal Elections |
BUCKINGHAM, Va. — Seven months after election conspiracy theories consumed the community here and drove the entire election staff to quit, Buckingham County struggled to report its results in Tuesday's elections.
Local results were posted just before 10 a.m. Wednesday, making Buckingham the last county in the state to ... | US Local Elections |
Police dispute sex abuse claims in case of man missing for 8 years
The Houston Police Department said the investigation is still open, but no charges have been filed in the case of a man missing since he was a teen.LEARN MORE
An 18-year-old South Carolina native is dead following a date with someone they met online.
A ... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
January 13, 2023 03:00 AM As part of a flurry of first-week activity, prominent Rep. James Comer (R-KY) and four co-sponsors are pressuring the Biden administration over federal employees continuing to work remotely. Along with four GOP colleagues, Comer introduced the Stopping Home Office Work's Unproductive Problems,... | US Federal Policies |
US Markets Loading... H M S Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., listens to the opening testimony during a House Rules Committee meeting on "Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy (DRIVE) Act" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, November 2, 2015. Al Drago/CQ Roll Call The Biden administration announce... | US Federal Policies |
Democrat lawmakers in Nevada are embroiled in scandal after voting to pass a massive spending bill that gave large sums of money to their own private employers and organizations within which they work outside their legislative roles.
Assembly Bill 525 was passed by both houses of the Democrat-controlled Nevada legislat... | US Political Corruption |
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday refused to say whether the Biden administration would support cooperation with a congressional subpoena for a former official to testify as part of the investigation into the president's alleged mishandling of classified documents.
"I'm just not going to comment ... | US Political Corruption |
The family of a teenager who was found dead eight years ago on a road near the hunting estate of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh says they're going to exhume his body for an independent autopsy.
Stephen Smith's death was initially ruled an unsolved hit-and-run, but his mother has rejected that suggestio... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
Biden admin close to making deal that will regulate TikTok 01:50 - Source: CNN New York CNN Business — Facebook and TikTok failed to block advertisements with “blatant” misinformation about when and how to vote in the US midterms, as well as about the integrity of the voting process, according to a new report from hu... | US Federal Elections |
PHOENIX — Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs announced Thursday that $2.3 million in American Rescue Plan (ARPA) funding, as well as three executive orders, will go towards making changes to elections.
The governor hopes the changes will improve the state's elections going into the 2024 election year and support free, fair, ... | US Federal Policies |
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan is joining an effort to curb deceptive uses of artificial intelligen... | US Federal Policies |
Wearing a Robert Kennedy Jr campaign T-shirt, Kevin O’Keeffe found there was standing room only as the candidate, introduced as “Bobby Kennedy”, walked on a sunbaked stage decked with hay bales to whoops and applause.
“He supports freedom of speech, and he’s questioned the efficacy of the vaccine, which is legitimate a... | US Federal Elections |
Good morning. Donald Trump makes a lot of wild claims and it’s not often the White House feels the need to address one. But the former president’s call for the US constitution to be “terminated”, over his lie that the 2020 election was stolen, prompted a stern dressing down from the Biden administration which said it s... | US Political Corruption |
House Republicans reacted to Rep. Jamaal Bowman's (D-NY) fire alarm-pulling incident on Saturday, with one even calling to expel the New York Democrat from Congress.
Bowman pulled a fire alarm on Saturday as Republicans began voting on the stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown. The "Squad" member claimed he thoug... | US Congress |
President Joe Biden delivered a Thursday speech to hail economic progress during his administration and to attack congressional Republicans for their proposals on the economy and the social safety net.
Some of Biden’s claims in the speech were false, misleading or lacking critical context, though others were correct. H... | US Federal Policies |
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is ramping up his pledge to confront former President Donald Trump on the Republican presidential campaign trail, though he doesn't want to share his plans just yet.
"Get ready. That’s all I’m going to tell you," Christie told Fox News Thursday after he filed to place his name on t... | US Campaigns & Elections |
If you happen to miss the camera above the entrance, the sign will inform you. “FACIAL RECOGNITION & CCTV IN OPERATION ON THIS SITE” it declares in black letters as the automatic door slides to one side.
When you enter, the camera scans the contours of your face, instantly cross-referencing it against a database of kno... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
WASHINGTON — A settlement that will allow thousands of student loan debts to be canceled will go into effect after the Supreme Court on Thursday declined to block it.
The Supreme Court in a brief order rejected a request made by colleges challenging the settlement.
The case is unrelated to President Joe Biden’s broader... | US Federal Policies |
Republican Jim Jordan has failed in his bid to get elected Speaker after the first roll call vote in the US House of Representatives.
The Donald Trump-backed right-wing Ohio lawmaker earned 200 votes in the lower chamber of Congress, with 20 Republicans refusing to vote for him.
His loss means that the House remains wi... | US Congress |
Donald Trump got gag orders in two cases this month alone. Obviously, it’s absurd that the former president and leading GOP presidential candidate has multiple criminal and civil cases, let alone that two judges have recently felt the need to restrain his menacing actions within those proceedings.
But because the limit... | US Political Corruption |
Political scientists have described public opinion as being a type of chorus. The song that the American people are now singing lacks harmony and rhythm.
This is to be expected given how the lyrics and the music are new and uncomfortable for many Americans. Over the last seven years, they have experienced truly "histor... | US Political Corruption |
A liberal group bankrolled by millions of dollars from George Soros notched a victory with the Biden administration's newly proposed Title IX rules, which include gender identity and would bar educational institutions from banning transgender athletes.
The Education Department rolled out its Title IX proposed rule on T... | US Federal Policies |
A Houston man who was believed to have been missing for more than eight years actually returned home within days after he was reported missing in 2015, police said Thursday.
A day after police detectives separately interviewed 25-year-old Rudy Farias IV and his mother, Janie Santana, and determined Farias had only brie... | US Police Misconduct |
- JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon told an audience of business leaders to "help" Nikki Haley's 2024 Republican campaign for president.
- "Get a choice on the Republican side that might be better than [Donald] Trump," he said at the Dimon said at a conference hosted by The New York Times' DealBook franchise.
- In the audience ... | US Federal Elections |
The Arizona Court of Appeals affirmed a prior ruling on Thursday that declared Governor Katie Hobbs as governor of Arizona, serving Kari Lake another loss in her election lawsuit.
Lake, the former Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate who ran against Hobbs in November's election, filed a lawsuit in December challenging t... | US Federal Elections |
WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday struggled to privately resolve divisions that have prevented them from installing Steve Scalise as speaker of the chamber, which has been leaderless for nine days.
Currently the No. 2 House Republican, Scalise narrowly secured h... | US Congress |
Suspect found dead after a teenager and 3 women killed in Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — A man believed to have fatally shot three women and a teenager in Memphis, Tennessee, has been found dead following an hours-long manhunt, police have confirmed.
Memphis Police say Mavis Christian Jr., 52, was found in a vehicle o... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
The New York judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial and his law clerk have received hundreds of harassing messages that court security has deemed “serious and credible” since the former president began publicly criticizing court staff.
Since October 3, when Trump posted on social media a baseless allegation ... | US Political Corruption |
WASHINGTON — Even as his party has backed away from the issue, Donald Trump is doubling down on his calls to replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare,” if he’s elected president again.
“I don’t want to terminate Obamacare, I want to REPLACE IT with MUCH BETTER HEALTHCARE. Obamacare Sucks!!!” Trump said... | US Federal Policies |
January 19, 2023 10:07 AM The United States hit its debt limit, beginning a countdown for the Treasury to miss paying a bill and raising fears of a default. The U.S. hit the debt limit, also known as the debt ceiling, on Thursday, the Treasury Department announced. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the Treasury... | US Federal Policies |
Maine State Police ordered residents in the state's second-largest city to shelter in place Wednesday night (local time) because of an active shooter situation in multiple locations.
Lewiston Police said in a Facebook post that they were dealing with an active shooter incident at Schemengees Bar and Grille and Sparetim... | US Crime, Violence, Terrorism & cybercrime |
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