(The Center Square) – Government attorneys are wrapping up their case with a focus on AT&T and former state Rep. Eddie Acevedo, D-Chicago, at the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and codefendant Michael McClain. Judge John Robert Blakey ruled Wednesday that Acevedo would be required to testify next Monday, despite questions […]
(The Center Square) – Sports wagering swelled North Carolina’s coffers by more than $14 million in November, second-best month of the first-year revenue generator. Estimated tax proceeds were $14,057,587, a 60.5% increase from October. The gross wagering revenue – amounts received by interactive sports wagering operators from sports wagers as authorized under state law, less […]
(The Center Square) – A federal judge ruled Wednesday that former state Rep. Eddie Acevedo, D-Chicago, is required to testify at the public corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and codefendant Michael McClain. Judge John Robert Blakey denied defense attorneys’ motion to quash Acevedo’s subpoena Wednesday morning. Blakey said the court considered […]
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) introduced a bill to move at least 30% of the Small Business Administration’s headquarters workforce nationwide. In a statement to the Washington Examiner, Ernst argued that moving employees closer to the businesses they serve would improve their work ethic. “If mom-and-pop shops had the work ethic of SBA bureaucrats, they would […]
President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he would commute roughly 1,500 sentences of people who served their sentence on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to more than three dozen pardons. Biden said the commutations, which was the most ever offered in a single day, to the sentences went to people who had […]
President-elect Donald Trump was named Time’s 2024 Person of the Year on Thursday. This follows a tradition since 2000 in which the candidate who wins the U.S. presidential election every fourth year becomes Time’s Person of the Year, with former President George W. Bush winning it twice in 2000 and 2004 and former President Barack Obama doing so […]
President Joe Biden’s past efforts to pardon specific groups of people en masse have fallen short of expectations, a reality the White House is declining to address in the waning hours of his presidency. Biden in 2022 and 2023 issued presidential proclamations designed to pardon “thousands” who were convicted in federal courts of simple marijuana […]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) announced Tuesday that she would be appointing a lawyer heading multiple liberal 501(c)(4) dark money groups to sit as a district court judge. Following Whitmer’s announcement, Reid Felsing is set to take the bench at the 56A District Court in Eaton County, Michigan, effective Jan. 6, 2025, a position he will […]
EXCLUSIVE — Sen.-elect Jim Justice envisions the United States leaning on its energy production to slowly pull away from its nearly $2 trillion annual deficit, a revenue source that the West Virginia governor said has shown proven results in his home state. The incoming Republican senator in an interview with the Washington Examiner cautioned his […]
President Joe Biden emerged from his long winter’s nap to give a speech defending his economic legacy, and the next day it was reported that inflation was up for the second month in a row. The two phenomena are not directly related, but Biden’s Bidenomics swan song and the persistence of inflation together serve as […]
