Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday called for the Republican Speaker of the state House to resign, alleging he presided over the lawmakers "in a state of apparent debilitating intoxication." “After much consideration, it is with profound disappointment that I call on Speaker Dade Phelan to resign at the end of this legislative session,"...
Wanda Sykes is predicting that Donald Trump won’t win the 2024 presidential race, saying that "Old Man Biden will beat him again!" The comedian weighed in on Trump’s 2024 chances in an interview with Variety published Tuesday. Asked if Trump, who launched his White House bid last November, would secure the GOP nomination, Sykes replied, “I don’t...
The House voted on Tuesday to overturn a Biden truck pollution rule, teeing up an expected White House veto. The vote was 221-203. The Biden rule in question, which aims to cut pollution from heavy-duty trucks, would be expected to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides by 50 percent in the year 2045. These pollutants can worsen respiratory health...
Workers in France recently held massive demonstrations over a proposed and now instituted change to raise the retirement age from age 62 to 64. In the U.S. there are also new proposals to raise the retirement age as high as age 70 since, according to the most recent Social Security Trustees Report, the Trust Funds...
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest LGBTQ rights group, is warning against travel to Florida, citing the passage of several new state laws that target LGBTQ people. In an announcement on Tuesday, HRC said it had partnered with the Florida LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Florida to issue an updated travel advisory to the state. Equality...
Google searches related to personal sexual orientation and gender identity have skyrocketed since 2004, according to new research. The Cultural Currents Institute released an analysis that explored Google searches from 2004 to this month that included searches for questions such as "am I gay", "am I lesbian", "am I trans" and "how to come...
Twitter owner and tech mogul Elon Musk said he'd like to see "someone fairly normal" in the Oval Office after the 2024 election, but did not commit to saying who that should be. During an appearance at the Wall Street Journal's CEO Council Summit on Tuesday, Musk was asked about an announcement from Florida Gov....
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said during a hearing on drug pricing that she once declined to pay for birth control medicine when she saw how high the price was at the pharmacy. Boebert recalled thinking at the time that “it’s cheaper to have a kid." In a House Oversight and Accountability hearing on the role...
The Energy Department has decided not to award $200M to battery company Microvast Holdings amid Republican concerns about alleged China connections. The department last year selected Microvast to receive a grant under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. However, it said on Tuesday that the grant had not yet been finalized and that it would ultimately cancel...
The White House on Tuesday appeared to rule out the potential for President Biden to invoke the 14th Amendment as a workaround to avoid a default during current debt ceiling talks due to legal uncertainties. "It is not going to deal with the problem that we’re currently having at this moment, at this time. What...
An investigation by the Illinois Attorney General office revealed that 451 clergy members abused nearly 2,000 children in the Catholic Church across all the dioceses in the state, which is a staggering difference from what the Church reported in 2018. Attorney General Kwame Raoul released a nearly 700-page report on Catholic clergy child sex abuse...
GOP presidential candidate and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s campaign has labeled Ron DeSantis as like former President Trump “without the charm” ahead of the Florida governor’s expected jump into the 2024 champaign this week. “The glaring difference between the two is DeSantis’ inability to interact directly with voters. The last several months have...
The Treasury Department imposed sanctions Tuesday against cyber actors, including four entities and one person, for hiding illicit funds and engaging in malicious cyber activity that supports the North Korean regime. The agency said the North Korean government, known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), often employs cyber and IT workers to steal funds, including...
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) issued what he described as a “formal travel advisory for socialists visiting Florida,” on Tuesday, warning that the state was “openly hostile” to socialists and their enablers. “The state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by Socialists and others who work in the Biden Administration,”...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a prescription nasal spray this week that can reverse opioid overdoses. Opvee is an almefene hydrochloride nasal spray that is the first of its kind to be used to treat opioid overdoses in adults and children over the age of 12. The FDA said that if the product is...
Former President Trump defended his hesitancy to back a national abortion ban, arguing “exceptions are very important” to restrictions put in place. Trump said in an interview Tuesday with political commentator John Solomon on his podcast, “John Solomon Reports,” some people want no exceptions to abortion prohibitions, but he supports exceptions for instances of rape,...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) tried to calm fears of a possible debt default Tuesday, pleading with everyone to "relax" as talks continue between the White House and House GOP negotiators ahead of the likely June 1 deadline. “I think everybody needs to relax," McConnell told reporters in his home state, again reiterating that the nation will not...
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is giving a daily briefing to the press on Tuesday afternoon. The Tuesday briefing comes as President Biden seeks to reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling with congressional Republicans. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) emerged Monday evening from a roughly hourlong meeting with Biden at the White...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) placed a winning $100,000 bid Tuesday for a lip balm stick used by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who also promised a visit with the winner's donors and supporters. The auction was held at a GOP conference meeting at the Capitol Hill Club on Tuesday morning, which is not located on...
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced Tuesday the first department-wide policy requiring its law enforcement officers and agents to wear body cameras when interacting with the public in specified settings. The guidance issued instructs DHS agencies with law enforcement officers to develop their own agency-specific policies that meet or exceed the standards...
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The current trajectory of climate change could put some 2 billion people at risk from extreme temperatures by the turn of the century, according to research published Monday in the journal Nature Sustainability. International agreements have already set a goal of holding planetary warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, a target that would require major reductions...
The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence on Tuesday afternoon is holding a hearing on policies of China’s ruling party that pose dangers to the U.S. In a statement, Subcommittee Chairman August Pluger (R-Texas) called attention to police espionage within the U.S. and the fentanyl crisis as examples of threats to...
Could it be that insiders think Trump’s legal problems are about to snowball?
