(The Center Square) – On Wednesday, Future 42 unveiled its legislative scorecard detailing how Washington state lawmakers voted on some of the most controversial bills of the 2025 legislative session. Future 42 is the communications arm for Project 42, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting civic engagement and advocating for affordability, lower taxes, and pro-business policies. The organization’s name […]
(The Center Square) – The Antisemitism Education Act is headed to Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs’ desk after its final passage by the Legislature. The Arizona House passed House Bill 2867 on a 38 to 20 vote Wednesday with bipartisan support. The legislation bars public schools and public colleges from promoting antisemitic conduct and creates disciplinary procedures for violations. The bill says […]
(The Center Square) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday signed a major education funding bill into law allocating a record $8.5 billion for public schools and $4 billion for teacher and staff pay raises. Even though record levels of public education funding have been allocated in the past and Texas education outcomes remain among […]
(The Center Square) – The California Senate passed a bill that will allow violent convicts with life sentences to be eligible for parole after serving 25 years, so long as the convict was younger than 26 when the crime was committed. Republicans decried the bill as a threat to public safety. They noted individuals convicted […]
Patrick Timmins will face off against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in the Democratic primary later this month, challenging the incumbent for his position as New York City’s top prosecutor. If the former Bronx prosecutor wins the Democratic vote on June 24, he will go on to face Republican candidate Maud Maron in the general […]
David Jolly, best known for spending one term in Congress as a Republican, became the first Democrat to announce a bid for Florida governor ahead of the 2026 elections. An avid critic of President Donald Trump, Jolly represented Florida’s 13th Congressional District as a Republican from 2014 to 2017 before becoming an independent and later registering […]
New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law. Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke received a seven-day ban and the leaders of her political party, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, were barred for 21 days. Three days had been the longest ban for […]
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on the phone Thursday morning, the first time the pair has had a conversation since Trump’s return to the White House, according to Chinese state media. The phone call, which China underscored in Xi’s readout was at Trump’s request, comes amid increasing tensions over Trump’s trade […]
President Donald Trump is meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House at 11:45 a.m. The meeting comes amid a July 9 deadline, in which the Trump administration has threatened to impose a 50% tariff on all imports from the European Union.
More than 50 congressional Democrats signed a union pledge to boycott a half dozen Washington, D.C., restaurants. The Democratic lawmakers signed Unite Here Local 25’s pledge to boycott restaurants, including Le Diplomate, Osteria Mozza, The Occidental, Rasika, Modena, and Bombay Club. Many are favorites of the Democrats’ power elite — Le Diplomate was one of […]
