Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) said he would draw a congressional map that is even more favorable to Republicans if Texas Democrats don’t return soon. Abbott’s new map would boost Republicans to eight additional House seats, up from the five proposed initially, if the Democrats who left to deny the Texas legislature a quorum don’t return, […]
President Donald Trump has called for a ‘new’ and ‘highly accurate’ census, but he will likely have to wait for a new nationwide survey to be lawfully conducted. The Census occurs every 10 years to reapportion congressional districts and count the U.S. population, with the most recent tally occurring in 2020. Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday that […]
Socialist candidates are surging in a series of 2025 races as the fight for local office becomes a bellwether for the direction of the Democratic Party. Progressive Democrats have outperformed expectations in the early 2025 election cycle, leading or winning party support for mayoral and other city races. The contests, in Democratic strongholds from Minneapolis […]
The national average price for regular gas slightly decreased on Friday to $3.156 per gallon. This is a decrease from Thursday’s national average price of one cent per gallon, according to AAA. There has also been a drop in cost compared to gas prices earlier this week, when gas was $3.163 per gallon. For the […]
The Trump administration’s efforts to convince illegal immigrants in the United States to voluntarily leave the country appear to be working, but a lack of information on the extent of the self-deportations from the government has made it difficult to know the extent of the operation. “Tens of thousands” of illegal immigrants residing in the […]
EXCLUSIVE — Scott Kupor wants to streamline the workforce at his agency, but that doesn’t mean he’s handing out large numbers of pink slips. Kupor, who was sworn in as director of the Office of Personnel Management on July 14, aims to reduce his workforce from nearly 3,000 to 2,000, mostly through voluntary efforts. “We can’t […]
A decade into the Trump era, Democrats are, to nearly everyone’s great amusement, still searching for their own version of the cultural icon-turned-two-term president. Well, not all Democrats. Some believe they have at long last found her. The Atlantic headlined its recent profile of Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) “A Democrat for the Trump Era.” It […]
As the threat and reality of U.S.-imposed tariffs around the world continue, the increasingly influential group of countries known as the BRICS bloc is also flexing its muscle. What started as the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa has now become an 11-nation trading and political bloc, with Indonesia becoming the […]
In a surprise move, CBS is sunsetting The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Colbert’s show debuted following the retirement of David Letterman, who hosted Late Night on the network from 1993 to 2015. Much has been made of the cancellation, and naturally, CBS is taking a lot of arrows from those claiming the move is […]
On Aug. 1, Hamas released a video of Evyatar David, an Israeli kidnapped from the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, and held in the dungeons of Gaza since that day. David was emaciated, practically a skeleton, and moved in slow motion. Near the end of the video, his captors show images of what […]
