Former President Jimmy Carter, 98, has begun receiving hospice care following a series of “short” hospital stays, according to a statement from The Carter Center. The center said in a post on its website on Saturday that Carter, who is the oldest living president, decided to spend his remaining time at his home with his...
Republicans are warning against counting Nikki Haley out in the 2024 presidential race after a better-than-expected campaign rollout this week that offered an early lens into how she plans to take on former President Donald Trump. In her Wednesday campaign kickoff and a subsequent swing through New Hampshire, Haley made the central theme of her...
Spiritual author and progressive activist Marianne Williamson said on Saturday that she will make an “important announcement” on March 4. Williamson, who previously ran an insurgent presidential campaign in 2020, hinted at a potential challenge to President Biden in Saturday’s announcement, noting that she has been exploring the possibility of running for the Democratic nomination...
A Ghanaian soccer player who played in the Premier League for Chelsea and Newcastle was found dead in the rubble of a 12-story building that was taken down by the massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria earlier this month. Christian Atsu’s body was found on Saturday as workers rummaged through the ruins of the...
States have options — lots of them — to solve crime and build safer and stronger communities.
Nine children, ranging in age from 5 to 17 years old, were shot at a gas station Friday night in Columbus, Georgia. All the victims are being treated for non-life threatening injuries, according to police. “The rash of gun violence involving our youth is impacting communities across the country. While Columbus is not immune to...
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is increasingly in the eye of the GOP storm in the aftermath of a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, that spilled toxic chemicals. The disaster, which came just a month after a series of embarrassing air travel issues that snarled plans for millions of Americans, is prompting renewed scrutiny of...
Are USPS, Amazon, UPS and FedEx delivering Presidents Day?
Former President Donald Trump announced early Saturday morning that he will not call Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) “Meatball Ron” following reports that he used the insulting nickname privately. “I will never call Ron DeSanctimonious 'Meatball' Ron, as the Fake News is insisting I will,” he said on conservative social media site Truth Social. “Meatball...
Moore v. Harper poses substantial peril for the higher court’s legitimacy.
The Labor Department has found that more than 100 children worked in hazardous jobs for a major sanitation company, which has agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine in penalties. The department said in a release on Friday that its Wage and Hour Division found that Packers Sanitation Services (PSSI) employed at least 102 children...
It appears the administration was partially funding an "index" to warn advertisers to avoid sites popular with conservatives, libertarians and independents.
U.S. officials have denounced North Korea after its government fired a long-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Saturday. “This launch is a flagrant violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions,” National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said, adding, “This launch needlessly raises tensions and risks destabilizing the security situation in the region. It...
Doubling the amount of apparel produced in this hemisphere is a realistic goal that can and should be achieved.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fined former NBA star Paul Pierce $1.4 million for unlawfully making misleading statements in promoting a cryptocurrency exchange. The SEC said in a release on Friday that Pierce agreed to settle charges against him and pay $1.409 million in penalties, remedies and interest. The release states that Pierce promoted...
Former President Trump plans to visit the town of East Palestine, Ohio, where a train derailment led to the release of toxic chemicals, next week. Trump posted on Truth Social in response to a report that he was planning to make the trip that the residents of East Palestine are “Great people who need help,...
The Supreme Court faces the challenge of trying to manage the unmanageable.
Biden’s apparent aim was to inform the public and justify his decisions regarding the presence of these vehicles in our skies. He failed.
A GOP political operative was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Friday for his involvement in transferring illegal campaign contributions from a Russian national to former President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. A Justice Department release states that Jesse Benton planned with another political adviser to send political contributions from the Russian national, who wanted...
Michigan’s new Democratic trifecta has made it a priority to repeal the right-to-work law that the legislature passed in 2012. Proponents of repealing the law claim that right-to-work laws are “unfair” because they require unions to represent non-members in contract negotiations and grievance cases. This argument, however, is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of labor...
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley this week became the second major Republican candidate for president in 2024, joining former President Trump in a field that is sure to grow. Other potential candidates, including former Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, are hinting that they could also declare soon. Enormous...
In his State of the Union address this month, President Biden hailed a new Intel semiconductor project in Ohio that will create 10,000 jobs. “Jobs paying $130,000 a year,” he said, “and many don’t require a college degree.” Can any American hope to earn $130,000 without a college degree? Education pays, as the federal Bureau...
Health insurance sign-ups through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) jumped by nearly 2 million during the most recent enrollment period, which ended in mid-January, totaling 16.3 million people. The gains suggest the program known as Obamacare is going strong, despite repeated efforts by Republicans to kill it. It also suggests subsidies provided to the program...
Two weeks after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon and one week after President Biden directed the military to shoot down three more unidentified objects, America is still gripped by questions over what the objects were and why they were flying at a height that posed a risk to air traffic. President Biden...
The United States has called off the search for two unidentified flying objects that were respectively shot down over Alaska and Lake Huron last week, The New York Times reported Friday. A U.S. official told The Times that conditions made locating the two objects too difficult despite trying to find them for days. The U.S....
