Three months into her first year as governor of Virginia, Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) signed legislation to uniformly raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 by 2028. The move was a drastic departure from the policy of her predecessor, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA), who vetoed the $15 minimum wage proposal during his term and urged […]
There is an old Marxist adage that says “war is the midwife of revolutions.” Over 1,500 days into Russia’s ill-fated invasion of Ukraine, the former Soviet state has once again been transformed into a war economy. Ballooning military spending has eaten away at the government’s ability to render basic social services to its people, and […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will be at odds with his conference next week as he tries to pass a narrow Senate reconciliation bill to fund border enforcement, despite many Republicans wanting a wider bill to boost their 2026 standing. The Senate moved forward with a plan to provide up to $70 billion for Immigration and […]
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is eyeing another presidential run in 2028 — but first, he’s testing his political strength by going all-in to save Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) from a Trump-backed primary challenger. Paul has increasingly cast himself as a counterweight to Trump-style populism, arguing the GOP needs to rebuild a “free-market wing” made up […]
Gov. Tate Reeves (R-MS) announced on Friday he is calling Mississippi lawmakers to partake in a special legislative session on redistricting for the state’s judicial maps once the Supreme Court decides the outcome of a racial gerrymandering case. “I don’t typically make news on a Friday afternoon, but today I am going to make an […]
Kalshi said the U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who was indicted and arrested this week for betting on the January raid that led to Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro‘s capture was banned from the online prediction market platform. On Thursday, federal prosecutors accused Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38, of using classified government information to […]
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) introduced a resolution on Friday to ban sitting senators from trading on prediction markets, such as Kalshi or Polymarket. The freshman lawmaker’s measure is the latest instance of Congress seeking to regulate insider trading on the betting platforms. The newly filed legislation would amend Senate rules to prohibit members from entering […]
President Donald Trump celebrated his administration’s success in beautifying Washington, D.C., specifically the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool and the fountains at Lafayette Park. Last month, Trump said he tasked Interior Secretary Doug Burgum with “fixing the absolutely filthy” reflecting pool on the National Mall after the Biden administration failed to do so. Trump now says […]
California State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, a Republican lawmaker in the state legislature, secured more than the necessary number of signatures to get a voter ID initiative on the November ballot. California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a Democrat, issued a notice on Friday announcing the development. The document lists DeMaio, California Republican state Sen. Tony […]
Washington D.C. officials briefly displayed the wrong national flag ahead of King Charles III’s visit next week, after district public works crews mistakenly installed Australian flags instead of the Union Jack along a stretch of 17th Street NW near the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. A D.C. Department of Transportation official told the Washington Examiner that […]
