Texas officials confirmed Thursday that they are no longer issuing permits for new automated license plate reader cameras along state highways. The Texas Department of Transportation, at Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R-TX) direction, said it is freezing the installation of all new ALPRs, more commonly known as Flock cameras, along state roads. Around 900 Flock cameras […]
Kansas Democratic Senate Candidate Adam Hamilton pulled ahead of his competitor, Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), in a new poll, an unusual jump in a state that heavily favored President Donald Trump in the past three presidential elections. A new poll from Emerson College found Hamilton with a 2-point advantage over Marshall, with Libertarian candidate David Graham splitting […]
The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has been taken to a “secure location,” his attorney announced Thursday, after other members of the jury in the high-profile case alleged the lone juror had doubts the mother of three was sane when killing her children. Michael Desronvil was the holdout juror in the Massachusetts […]
Warren Buffett stepped down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway on Friday, ending a six-decade run at the helm of the conglomerate he built from a struggling textile company into one of the world’s most valuable businesses. Buffett, 96, will become chairman emeritus and remain on Berkshire’s board of directors, the company announced. His son, Howard […]
Republicans insist they are playing offense before November’s midterm elections, but the party’s biggest spenders are increasingly investing into deep-red states that President Donald Trump has never lost. The Senate map is the best example of this, where recent expenditures in states such as Kansas and Iowa foretell a potentially tumultuous election for Republicans. Earlier […]
On a sunny Tuesday morning 25 years ago, Congress reconvened. Speaker Dennis Hastert called the House of Representatives to order, and the Illinois Republican recognized Rep. Earl Blumenauer. The bowtie-wearing Democrat from Oregon began delivering a speech criticizing the marketing of tobacco. He was the first of three members queued to give speeches. Only a […]
Attorney General Todd Blanche is stepping outside the traditional norms of the Justice Department to become a top political attack dog for Republicans in the homestretch before the midterm elections. Blanche, formerly President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, replaced Pam Bondi as acting attorney general in April of this past year after serving as her deputy […]
It’s “Australia Summer” on the streaming services — or perhaps I should say “Australia Antipodal Winter,” for those of us who still believe, in this divisive age, in a round Earth. Panned several weeks ago in this space, Netflix’s My Brilliant Career turned a daring Aussie novel into a calculated feminist trudge, the better to […]
If American sports media were to have a Mount Rushmore — if we were to select four figures whose voices and presences became inseparable from the games they covered — I don’t think there’d be much doubt that for the NFL, we’d choose John Madden; for the MLB, it would be Vin Scully; and for the NBA, […]
In President Donald Trump’s get-out-the-vote message to North Carolinians this week, he hammered Democratic Senate nominee Roy Cooper over his crime record during his two-term tenure as governor. It’s become a recurring theme for Republicans in the North Carolina Senate race, who are hoping to hold on to the battleground seat against one of the […]
