President Donald Trump downplayed his involvement in an effort to push a new congressional map for Indiana after the bill failed. Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had been pressuring Indiana’s state legislature for months to redraw the state’s congressional districts to strip Democrats of two seats. These efforts ultimately were for nought after […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order limiting states’ regulation of artificial intelligence after months of wrangling. Republican senators led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tried to include a provision in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that would prevent states from regulating AI, but the effort failed after last-minute hesitation from Sen. Marsha Blackburn […]
Lawyers for Tyler Robinson, the accused killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, took issue with the angles a news camera was showing of him as the suspected gunman made his first in-person court appearance Thursday in a Utah court. Robinson wore civilian clothes in the courtroom, after Judge Tony Graf had previously allowed him to […]
Newly unsealed documents accuse the judge presiding over the Wisconsin fake electors case against President Donald Trump’s former associates of not drafting a key ruling himself, and instead outsourcing it to the writing skills of a retired colleague. The court filings, unsealed Tuesday, allege that Frank D. Remington, a recently retired Dane County Circuit Court […]
A full jury was selected Thursday in federal court for the trial of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan, who is set to face jurors next week for allegedly obstructing the arrest of an illegal immigrant before her court. Dugan pleaded not guilty to two charges of obstruction earlier this year, after the Justice Department […]
The Interior Department is asking national parks to remove any retail items from gift shops that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. The department sent a memo to National Park Service directors and superintendents ordering a review of retail products in park stores. The memo said retail items are considered “public-facing content” and are therefore subject […]
One week after the Justice Department made its long-sought arrest in the nearly five-year-old Jan. 6 pipe bomb investigation, the case is already facing delays as prosecutors continue to withhold details about the suspect’s alleged motive and whether the bombs were tied to the Capitol riot itself. Lawyers for the DOJ and 30-year-old defendant Brian […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has found himself to be an outlier among his Democratic colleagues once again, this time as part of his direct appeal for Israeli President Isaac Herzog to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Fetterman told the Washington Examiner on Thursday that his pardon request, made in a recent letter to Herzog that […]
(The Center Square) – Georgia’s first unemployment numbers show the state’s unemployment rate is steady at 3.4% but the number of jobs is declining. September statistics show a net decrease of 3,200 jobs compared to the previous month, according to the Georgia Department of Labor. Most losses were in administrative and support services (4,200), retail trade […]
(The Center Square) – California is spending $278.4 million this year on its “Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants” program that provides state-funded payments largely to qualified elderly and disabled non-citizens who were rejected from the federal Supplemental Security Income program due to their immigration status, state records show. At the same time, the state estimates it faces […]
