Republican Matt Van Epps is one step closer to the halls of Congress after winning the GOP nomination to replace former Tennessee GOP Rep. Mark Green in the House on Tuesday. The Associated Press called the race for Van Epps at 8:40 p.m., 40 minutes after polls closed. Van Epps defeated nine other candidates in […]
The Super Bowl halftime conversation turned political after the NFL announced Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl LX halftime performer last week. Reports surfaced with speculation that Taylor Swift had been in talks with the league before ultimately passing on the offer. The NFL named Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny as the headliner of Super […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) insisted the Epstein files had nothing to do with the delayed swearing-in of Arizona Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva. Grijalva won her special election on Sept. 23 to succeed her father, former Rep. Raul Grijalva, who died in March. Democrats have speculated that Johnson has delayed swearing in Adelita Grijalva because […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) accused House Democrats of living in a “dream world” after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) ruled out a one-year extension of expiring Obamacare subsidies. “Laying out demands like that, that are unrealistic and unserious, doesn’t help anybody. It doesn’t help their cause,” Thune told the Washington Examiner on […]
Activist Greta Thunberg responded sharply to President Donald Trump’s latest comments mocking her emotional stability, suggesting the president might be the one in need of anger management. “I hear Donald Trump has once again expressed his flattering opinions on my character, and I appreciate his concern for my mental health,” Thunberg said in an Instagram […]
The National Park Service carried out a small operation during the government shutdown at McPherson Square in Washington, D.C., to remove a homeless individual’s belongings. The Department of the Interior confirmed to the Washington Examiner that the NPS and U.S. Park Police acted to remove belongings from McPherson Square on Tuesday. The park, which is […]
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) led a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday to introduce legislation honoring victims and hostages of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, seizing on the two-year mark to rally support for a ceasefire deal that could finally end the war and bring the remaining captives home. The attack, which killed roughly […]
(The Center Square) – After Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family escaped a firebombing at his Harrisburg residence earlier this year, the first-term Democrat’s calls for civility amid multiplying acts of political violence have drawn national attention. And on Tuesday, he extended the message of moral clarity to the fallout of disturbing text messages sent […]
(The Center Square) – The Texas Comptroller’s Office, which manages Texas’ new Education Savings Account program, has begun rolling out the program under Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock. Earlier this year, the Texas Legislature created the state’s first ESA program, which Hancock says has been formally named the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) program. The program, […]
(The Center Square) – Women from the South Side of Chicago say President Donald Trump was sending a love note when he mentioned Black women in the city wearing MAGA hats. The President said Monday that Black women with Make America Great Again hats in Chicago want the National Guard to come in and just want […]
