(The Center Square) — It is not every day that people on opposite sides of the political spectrum join forces, but that is exactly what Lisa Everett and Brent Peak have done in Arizona. Everett, the GOP chair for Arizona Legislative District 29, is working with Peak, a Democrat, to keep restaurant owner Kelly Yu from […]
(The Center Square) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has proposed a controversial new law to get drug addicts off the city’s streets by expanding the state’s involuntary commitment laws. The Compassionate Interventions Act, if approved by the state Legislature, would give doctors and medical professionals authority to hold someone at a hospital if they […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have started their meeting at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, their first face-to-face encounter of Trump’s second administration and the first between a U.S. president and Putin since he embarked on his 3 1/2-year war against Ukraine. Putin was greeted by a show […]
Two U.S. B-2 stealth bombers flew into Alaska‘s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson hours before a high-stakes summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The pair of stealth bombers represents roughly 10% of the Air Force’s entire fleet, and are the same kind that Trump used to strike Iran’s nuclear sites in June. They […]
A federal appeals court panel lifted a lower court’s order Friday that blocked the Trump administration‘s efforts to fire most employees from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit voted 2-1 to vacate a preliminary injunction by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman […]
The Texas House of Representatives was forced to adjourn for the second time Friday after failing to meet the minimum attendance threshold upon gaveling in for the second special session called by Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) to vote on mid-decade redistricting. Abbott ordered the second special session almost immediately after the first session, called to vote on enacting […]
Washington Examiner’s Joe Concha said former President Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s Democratic nominee for mayor, are “more alike” than people think at first glance, after reports that the two had a phone conversation in June. Obama called Mamdani to congratulate him on his primary win and offer “advice about governing and […]
The Supreme Court declined an emergency request on Thursday to halt enforcement of a Mississippi law requiring age-verification for social media websites, allowing the statute to be enforced as litigation continues in a lower court. The unsigned unanimous order issued by the high court included a concurrence from Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who argued NetChoice, the […]
White House “border czar” Tom Homan clarified Friday that local law enforcement officers in the District of Columbia are not expected to perform Immigration and Customs Enforcement duties during the Trump administration’s temporary federalization of the Metropolitan Police Department. As the Trump administration faces a lawsuit from the district for taking over the MPD, Homan […]
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was spotted wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with the Russian letters for the USSR as he arrived in Alaska for the U.S.-Russia summit. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to meet on Friday to discuss a peace deal in Ukraine, among other topics. Lavrov’s USSR sweatshirt appears […]
