(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump has nominated Pete Serrano – mayor of Pasco, Wash. – to be the next U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington. The appointment will require confirmation from the U.S. Senate, but begins Monday, for a 120-day period, ahead of official confirmation. “I had different folks reach out to suggest that […]
(The Center Square) – In the first six months of the Trump administration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Houston arrested 356 illegal foreign nationals who are confirmed gang members. Combined, they illegally entered the U.S. 1,434 times and were convicted of 1,685 criminal offenses, ICE said. “Despite attempts by some to undermine the courageous […]
Gov. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) said she wouldn’t pursue any redistricting efforts in New Hampshire amid a wider national battle over the practice. Speaking with reporters, Ayotte downplayed the fight over redistricting, saying she wouldn’t be pursuing the effort because it isn’t on New Hampshire’s priority list. “As I have said before, the timing is off […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected any peace deal that would involve Ukraine ceding territory, setting up a major barrier for President Donald Trump’s peace summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Hopes of a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine are high in Washington, D.C., with Trump announcing on Friday that he […]
Democratic Delegate Chao Wu was born in Hubei, China, and has been a member of the Maryland House of Delegates since January 2023, where he serves on the Ways and Means Committee. Prior to attaining elected office, he served as president of the University of Maryland’s chapter of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, and […]
A constitutional fight over spending complicates GOP unity on Capitol Hill as President Donald Trump holds back billions in funding appropriated by Congress. The Government Accountability Office, a congressional watchdog, has repeatedly ruled that canceled or delayed funding for biomedical research, K-12 education, and more is illegal and runs afoul of the Impoundment Control Act, […]
Indiana is the newest state to step up to help the Trump administration in its massive undertaking of carrying out the nation’s “largest-ever” deportation operation. The state emerged in early August with formal plans to have state troopers go after illegal immigrants, as well as shifting part of a state correctional facility to be used […]
A Texas judge blocked former Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke from supporting Democratic Texas lawmakers who fled the state to deprive Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) of his needed quorum to pass a redistricting plan. On Friday afternoon, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued O’Rourke and his political group, Powered by People, alleging they engaged in […]
The man suspected of killing four people at a Montana bar was arrested after a weeklong manhunt. Michael Paul Brown, 45, opened fire at an Anaconda bar last Friday, killing a bartender and three customers, identified by officials as Nancy Lauretta Kelley, 64; Daniel Edwin Baillie, 59; David Allen Leach, 70; and Tony Wayne Palm, […]
California Democrats are moving full steam ahead on their efforts to counter Texas’s mid-decade redistricting plan despite Lone Star State Republicans escalating their crackdown on absent state Democrats who fled the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), along with congressional and state leaders from California, held a press conference […]
