(The Center Square) – As the General Assembly resumes its long session next week ahead of the May 8 crossover date, still parked in a rules committee having passed one chamber is a proposal for North Carolina to join more than half the country with constitutional carry. Freedom to Carry NC, known also as Senate […]
Acting New Jersey Gov. Tahesha Way (D-NJ) has declared a state of emergency in Ocean County while a wildfire blazes through thousands of acres there. The Jones Road Wildfire began Tuesday morning and has spanned 12,000 acres so far, prompting 5,000 people to evacuate. The fire is 35% contained as of Wednesday afternoon. One commercial […]
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said Wednesday that he is “really glad” the Trump administration has turned up the heat on Harvard University and other schools, but urged the White House to be “strategic” in its pursuit to combat antisemitism. The Trump administration’s feud with Harvard has grown over the weeks, with the school suing […]
Exactly eight years after first daughter Ivanka Trump realized that Washington was a swamp of liberal criticism and hypocrisy, she appears to have completely cut ties to her past as the president’s all-around West Wing confidante. “Pura vida,” she said in a new social media post, referring to the Costa Rican vibe of wellbeing, positivity, […]
The Justice Department argued to a judge at a hearing on Wednesday that she should dismiss a lawsuit brought by Perkins Coie, a prominent Democratic-aligned law firm, over allegations that President Donald Trump unconstitutionally revoked its employees’ security clearances and attempted to curb its lucrative work with government contractors. Richard Lawson, a deputy associate attorney […]
President Donald Trump rebuked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over his comments that recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea, which occurred more than a decade ago, would violate the country’s constitution. While Trump said in a Wednesday Truth Social post that “nobody is asking Zelensky to recognize Crimea as Russian Territory,” he added, “The situation for Ukraine […]
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) said President Donald Trump made a “very gracious” call to him over the weekend about the arson attack on his family at the governor’s residence earlier this month. The Pennsylvania governor hosted an Easter egg hunt at the residence on Tuesday, marking the first public event since a man started a […]
Families of the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting victims reached a settlement with Uvalde, Texas, nearly three years after the mass shooting. Nineteen students and two teachers were killed by an 18-year-old gunman. The Uvalde City Council voted unanimously to approve the settlement, the terms of which are undisclosed. “Nothing can ever make up the […]
Leaders of a small Virginia town voted Tuesday night to keep funding its police department, a week after the town council tried to dismantle it without public input or warning. Town residents have had problems with the council before, but they were caught off guard when it voted 4-2 earlier this month to defund the police […]
A Texas village is voting to formally launch Starbase, a town devoted to Elon Musk’s company SpaceX. The vote will almost certainly be in favor, with 90% of the 279 eligible voters having flocked to the area in the past year, according to records obtained by the New York Times through a public information act […]
