The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has launched an investigation into the shooting of an 11-year-old boy who called 911 to report a domestic disturbance last weekend. Aderrien Murry was shot in the chest by a police officer who responded to the incident early Saturday morning in Indianola, Miss., his mother Nakala Murry said at a...
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday notified lawmakers the nation will run out of money to pay its bills by June 5 if they do not raise the debt ceiling. “Based on the most recent available data, we now estimate that Treasury will have insufficient resources to satisfy the government’s obligations if Congress has not...
A federal appeals court blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from turning down Arkansas’s proposed plan for “good neighbor” air pollution rules. In a single-page ruling Thursday, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the EPA’s rejection of Arkansas’ plan, which is required under the Clean Air Act to ensure states’ ozone emissions do not pollute...
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) will launch its "Summer of Action" in South Carolina on Saturday as part of a Black voter education and mobilization effort ahead of the 2024 elections. Beginning Saturday, the “Democracy for the People” event will kick off in Charleston, South Carolina and take place in at least 10 cities around...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will welcome the men’s NCAA basketball champion University of Connecticut Huskies to the White House on Friday afternoon. The Huskies beat San Diego State 76-59 in April to secure its fifth national title. The White House visit follows a dramatic show of spirit for...
Under three years of President Joe Biden, our country has suffered. Our southern border is a wreck, crime is skyrocketing, the cost of living is rising, and our adversaries across the world are empowered and emboldened by weak leadership from the Oval Office. We need a conservative warrior who will do whatever it takes to...
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said on Thursday that he does not know whether inner city teachers “can read and write.” In a Thursday appearance on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast, “Triggered,” Tuberville took aim at the public school system in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. He said that he does not know how teachers in...
The White House has announced the first national plan to end gender-based violence, following up on years of federal legislation to address the issue and provide safety to those affected. The report defines gender-based violence (GBV) as “any harmful threat or act directed at an individual or group based on actual or perceived sex, gender,...
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Friday welcomed the Louisiana State University (LSU) women's basketball team to the White House to celebrate their recent national championship. The ceremony was briefly interrupted after Sa’Myah Smith, a forward on the team, appeared to pass out while standing on risers on stage in the East Room....
Protecting our nation’s health and well-being should not be a partisan issue, and we call on our leaders to continue that bipartisan tradition.
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We need to be cautious when building offshore energy developments.
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden will welcome the NCAA champion Louisiana State University women’s basketball team to the White House Friday afternoon. The visit comes after the controversy surrounding the first lady initially suggesting that Iowa, which lost the championship game to LSU, would also be invited for a White House visit. After receiving criticism...
Billionaire Rob Hale surprised University of Massachusetts Boston graduates with gifts of $1,000 each at the school’s undergraduate commencement ceremony Thursday. Hale, who was the school’s co-keynote speaker, and his wife announced that they will be giving each of the 2,000 undergraduates in attendance $1,000. Each graduate received two envelopes, one with $500 for...
A key Republican lawmaker negotiating a debt limit increase denounced recent leaks of details of an emerging deal, suggesting that they are not helpful in locking down an agreement. “Everyone wants a detail of this, everyone wants a tweet, I want an agreement that changes the trajectory of the country,” Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) told...
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The Department of Justice is looking into whether Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was given expensive gifts, headlined by a Mercedes-Benz, a luxury Washington apartment, jewelry and money, according to reports. The main question for DOJ investigators centers around whether the gifts were from the owner or associates of IS EG Halal, based in Edgewater, N.J. The company...
Justice Thomas has diminished the legitimacy of the court by signaling that his vote could be for sale, whether for money or through political capital for him and his family.
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee has launched an investigation into the delayed relocation of U.S. Space Command (Spacecom) from Colorado to Alabama. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) on Thursday sent a letter to Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and Spacecom Commander Gen. James Dickinson expressing concern about apparent "changes" to the planned relocation...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is ramping up his attacks on Donald Trump now that he is officially challenging the former president for the 2024 nomination, accusing him in a new interview of abandoning right-wing principles. “It seems like he's running to the left, and I have always been somebody that's just been moored in...
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said he sees “no serious threat” to Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif) Speakership amid the ongoing bipartisan debt ceiling deal. As House Republicans and the White House scramble to come up with a debt ceiling deal, Gaetz predicted on a Twitter Spaces livestream that a bipartisan deal would pass with “about 80-100 Democrat...
A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers just proposed legislation that would address a pressing public health crisis: antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Passing the bill, known as the PASTEUR Act, could help avert millions of AMR-associated deaths in the coming decades. Humans regularly deal with bacterial and fungal threats, from strep throat and urinary tract infections to...
The U.S. is 1 of only 17 countries in the world that uses state-imposed forced labor, a form of “modern slavery,” according to a new report from an international human rights group. Walk Free’s Global Slavery Index 2023 placed the U.S. among the small group of nations — which also includes China, North Korea and...
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday morning is slated to deliver the commencement address at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. Austin will be making the speech in front of the 2023 graduating class of the Naval Academy. The event is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ET. Watch the live video above.
A politician who is truly pro-family would not legislate what should be a private family matter and use inflammatory rhetoric that serves only to divide.
