Former Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake says she confronted the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" at an airport in Florida this week. "I happened to be at the airport in Palm Beach and I happened to see Joe Scarborough ... and I told him I just wanted to introduce myself because you guys spend...
Twitter has removed the “government-funded” labels from outlets like National Public Radio and PBS after the outlets and others protested that their accounts were flagged and many decided to leave the platform. The decision marks a 180-degree turn for CEO Elon Musk, who originally plastered NPR with a “state-affiliated media” label previously only reserved for...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) got a warm reception at the Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary summit just outside Washington, D.C., on Friday, softening a difficult weak that featured a wave of Florida lawmakers endorsing former President Trump for 2024. Facing a friendly conservative audience of around 1,070 that greeted him with a standing ovation, DeSantis,...
Nearly half of all Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in MA plans.
President Biden on Friday swiped at Republican calls to end clean energy tax cuts as part of a debt limit increase as he signed an executive order creating a new White House Office of Environmental Justice. The order, which Biden signed in a Rose Garden ceremony Friday, will create the office within the White House...
Washington has become the 23rd state to end the death penalty after Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, signed Senate Bill 5087 into law on Thursday. The bill also bans forced chemical castration as a punishment for a crime. The measure was passed in the state Legislature earlier this month. “I initiated a moratorium against the...
Justice delayed, they say, is justice denied. Justice delayed happens when judicial posts remain unfilled. And it is happening now with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) at her home recovering from illness. Her absence deprives the Senate Judiciary Committee, normally with 11 Democratic members and 10 Republican members, of the one-vote margin that makes its majority. The...
President Biden on Friday is set to tout the launch of a new Office of Environmental Justice in the White House, aimed at helping address longstanding public health threats from pollution. The White House has described the new office as a coordinator among various agencies, advocating for measures that protect local resources, including research as...
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) joined a chorus of conservatives criticizing New Mexico prosecutors after they announced Thursday that charges against actor Alec Baldwin would be dropped related to an on-set shooting for the movie "Rust." “Liberal privilege is real,” Boebert said on Twitter Friday. Baldwin frequently played former President Trump on Saturday Night Live and...
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is giving a daily briefing Friday afternoon, after reports that President Biden plans to announce his 2024 candidacy next week. President Biden recently received one of his lowest approval ratings in a Reuters/Ipsos poll, at just 39 percent. AP-NORC figures released Friday show only 26 percent of Americans think...
The NFL suspended five players Friday for violations of the league's gambling policy, including four Detroit Lions and one Washington Commanders athlete. Washington Commanders defensive end Shaka Toney and Detroit Lions players Jameson Williams, Quintez Cephus, C.J. Moore and Stanley Berryhill are suspended. Cephus and Moore were suspended indefinitely — at least for an entire...
A Michigan man was sentenced to 10 months in prison over attempts to intimidate Black Lives Matter protesters. Kenneth Pilon, 62, called nine Starbucks stores and told employees to threaten and racially demean employees supporting Black Lives Matter. He also threatened to kill Black people, according to court records. He called the stores in the...
Current presidential candidate and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) went after Newsweek Friday after the outlet published an article focused on the dress she wore at her daughter's wedding. The story, headlined "Nikki Haley's White Dress at Daughter's Wedding Sparks Fierce Debate," centered around social media chatter that pointed out that traditionally only the bride wears...
Twitter CEO Elon Musk says he gave free Twitter verification to NBA star LeBron James, actor William Shatner and writer Stephen King on Thursday, as the social media company removed thousands of remaining legacy verification check marks. Musk tweeted on Thursday that he is “paying for a few personally,” later noting that those accounts included “Just Shatner, LeBron and...
Earth Day is a chance to celebrate the world’s natural splendors or an opportunity to mourn its impending decline.
A top Republican lawyer told donors at a Republican National Committee (RNC) retreat last weekend that conservatives should work to limit voting on college campuses. Cleta Mitchell, a GOP lawyer who assisted former President Trump in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, called on Saturday for Republicans to “combat” efforts to turnout college voters...
If the last three years have taught us anything, it’s that flexibility is key in all aspects of life. When workplace arrangements started to shift in 2020, many employees found that flexibility in the work environment improved their quality of life. For many, this looked like working from home, working hybrid, or at the very...
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayoraks says the Biden administration is getting ready to announce a new border security plan to handle an expected surge of migrants when pandemic-era immigration restrictions lift May 11. “I think next week we’ll have more to say about our preparation and some of the things we are going to be...
Telsa, the electric car manufacturer, has increased its prices for its top-end model vehicles in the U.S. this week shortly after the company’s price cuts it made earlier this year. The price increase is for the Model S and X premium electric vehicles, according to Reuters. Telsa’s website showed that the Model S and...
The Department of Defense (DOD) continues to grapple with its unwieldy acquisition system, even as China exploits new technologies to enable it to defeat American forces in an armed confrontation in the Pacific. Seeking to ensure that the United States can maintain its technological lead, the DOD has asked Congress to permit the military service...
Former NFL quarterback and activist Colin Kaepernick will pay for an independent autopsy for a Georgia man who died in custody last year, his attorney has announced. Lashawn Thompson died in the Fulton County Jail, near Atlanta, last September in questionable conditions. A medical examiner’s report found that Thompson had an “extremely severe” infestation of...
Former President Trump has flipped the field against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a possible 2024 GOP primary matchup, surging to a 13-point lead according to a new Wall Street Journal poll. Trump trailed DeSantis by 14 points as recently as December, but Trump’s solid lead now points to signs that DeSantis’s not-yet-announced campaign may...
The man believed to have shot at his neighbors in North Carolina, including a 6-year-old girl, earlier this week is in custody in Florida, police announced on Thursday night. Robert Louis Singletary is accused of shooting and injuring his neighbors after a basketball rolled into his yard on Tuesday. According to neighbors, Singletary and a...
Over 80 percent of Democrats said they would likely vote for President Biden in 2024 despite a minority saying the want him to run for reelection, according to an AP-NORC poll released Friday, improvements on earlier figures. The poll found that just 26 percent of Americans overall and 47 percent of Democrats want Biden to...
Florida is looking to expand its Parental Rights in Education law passed last year in a way that could lead to a flood of challenged books being removed from classrooms. The state has already faced allegations of censorship for stringent restrictions in the existing law, known to its critics as "Don’t Say Gay," on talk...
