Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) argued Wednesday that if former President Trump is responsible for encouraging violence during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, then so are Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for other violent incidents. Walker said in an interview with Julie Mason on her SiriusXM show...
Two batches of the birth control pill Tydemy have been recalled by its manufacturer, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Wednesday. Pills distributed between June 2022 and the end of May 2023 have potentially reduced effectiveness, making unexpected pregnancy more likely, the agency said in a statement. The manufacturer, Lupin Pharmaceuticals, announced a voluntary...
Former President Trump on Thursday took a dig at his former vice president after Mike Pence argued publicly that Trump was wrong to try and overturn the 2020 election results and was unfit to serve again in the White House because of it. Trump took aim at Pence in a pair of posts on Truth...
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic has requested that Mandy Cohen, the recently appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), answer questions on the federal government's plans for a COVID-19 vaccine campaign this fall. In a letter to Cohen, subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) indicated that his request for...
Congress must enact two important structural reforms to save the Supreme Court from itself.
The move by market agency Fitch Ratings to downgrade the United States's debt rating has startled lawmakers and policymakers alike, who said Wednesday that they were perplexed by the move amid strong recent economic indicators. In addition, news Wednesday that U.S. political instability reflected in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was a...
Taxpayers may finally get relief from paper-based processes that have long frustrated filers and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) alike. The IRS is aiming to allow taxpayers to digitally submit all agency correspondence by 2024 — the next tax filing season — and achieve paperless processing capabilities by the 2025 filing season, the Treasury Department...
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday predicted he would meet the donor requirement to qualify for the first GOP presidential primary debate within the next 10 days. Pence, asked on Fox News about his push to get on the debate stage, said his campaign is "closing hard" on the 40,000 donor requirement candidates must...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) blasted the judge overseeing former President Trump’s case involving his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election for being “relentlessly hostile” to the former president. Cruz said on his podcast, “The Verdict with Ted Cruz,” that U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has a “reputation for being far left, even by D.C....
A new report from two human rights nonprofits claims that U.S. border patrol agents frequently treat migrants poorly and that Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the county’s largest law enforcement agency, has systemic problems. “(CBP) has a persistent problem of human rights abuse without accountability,” reads the report compiled by the Washington Office on Latin...
President Joe Biden is reportedly considering going where no past U.S. president dared go: signing a mutual security pact with Saudi Arabia in return for Riyadh normalizing relations with Israel. White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Biden’s top Middle East advisor Brett McGurk, and senior advisor Amos Hochstein are purportedly in Saudi Arabia to discuss a potential deal....
The Secret Service warned of potential “short-term traffic implications” in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, as former President Trump is scheduled to make his first court appearance after being indicted on federal charges over his efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election. “While the Secret Service does not comment on specific protective means...
A lawsuit filed Wednesday asks the Wisconsin Supreme Court to toss out the state’s Republican-drawn legislative maps as unconstitutional, coming one day after the high court officially flipped to a liberal majority for the first time in 15 years. The lawsuit, filed by a coalition of law firms and voting rights advocacy groups, requests all 132 state...
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday following an indictment of Donald Trump reiterated that he had no right to overturn the 2020 election results, saying a group of "crackpot lawyers" had told the former president otherwise. Speaking publicly for the first time since Trump was indicted for his efforts to remain in power after...
In today’s America, attitudes and political identity are increasingly interwoven.
D.C. Metro Police say there is no active shooter at the Senate office buildings and no injuries. "A call came in for an active shooter. It appears to be a bad call. No injuries and no shooter were located. MPD is assisting US Capitol Police," a spokesperson for D.C. Metro police said in an email. U.S. Capitol Police...
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) on Wednesday argued there should be a “much, much higher bar” for indicting former President Trump. Waltz, who endorsed the now three-times indicted Trump in April, said he thought the matter of Trump being both a 2024 candidate and former president should dissuade prosecutors from pressing charges against him. He added...
Former President Trump had dinner Tuesday with top executives at Fox News who asked him to consider attending the first Republican primary debate later this month, according to a new report. The dinner, which The New York Times reported took place at Trump's Bedminster, N.J., Golf Club, was with Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and...
Nationwide, COVID-related hospitalizations are up 12% in the last week. But in some U.S. counties, the situation is dramatically worse.
Workers in the United States believe they will need to save around $1.8 million for retirement, as inflation continues to fuel anxieties over savings, according to a survey from Charles Schwab. This estimate is up from last year’s $1.7 million, with 37 percent of respondents stating they think it’s very likely they will reach this number,...
U.S. officials are proposing the implementation of a multinational police force in Haiti in an effort to fight off gang-controlled areas in the country. During a press conference on Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the U.S. welcomes Kenya’s decision to lead the multinational police force in Haiti, noting that Kenya...
More than 50 years ago, the U.S. welcomed the People’s Republic of China (PRC) into the global economy. The hope was that granting the PRC more access to our markets would bring more U.S. access to theirs, so we agreed to the PRC’s entry into the World Trade Organization, and eventually grants it permanent normal...
A former Washington, D.C., police officer who was injured during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by supporters of former President Trump compared this week's indictment of Trump to the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces in 2011. "I felt proud to be am American, much of the way I did...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Wednesday further dug in his heels in defense of his state’s curriculum on U.S. history and slavery, sharply rebuking what he described as “bad faith” criticism. “Well, first of all, those are criticisms in bad faith, Harris, because, as you suggest, there's hundreds of pages of painstaking detail,” DeSantis...
New York must quicken its pace to achieve its 2030 renewable energy goals, according to a report released Tuesday by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. In 2019, the state passed legislation setting a goal of 70 percent renewable energy by 2030 and 100 percent renewables by 2040. In the report, DiNapoli’s office said that to meet the 2030...
