District of Columbia Council Chairman Phil Mendelson indicated that a deal to build a new Washington Commanders stadium appears inevitable, a shift in rhetoric from when he indicated it wouldn’t go through late last month. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Commanders announced a deal last month to build a new stadium in the city, presenting the proposal […]
A spike in arrests in San Francisco has forced the public defender’s office to announce it won’t take on any new cases one to two days a week to give attorneys time they need to focus on existing caseloads. “Right now we’re in a position where we just can’t take any more cases,” Public Defender […]
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) revealed Friday that his committee is investigating former President Joe Biden’s use of an autopen to issue controversial last-minute pardons. “So our newest investigation at Oversight Committee is we’re investigating the autopen, and I think we’ve identified the staffer” who operated it, Comer said during a speech at […]
Pope Leo XIV quietly reaffirmed orthodox Catholic teachings on family, abortion, and social justice in his first audience with world diplomats at the Vatican. The pontiff addressed ambassadors from around the world at Clementine Hall on Friday, seeming to quash any hopes from the reformist wing of the Catholic Church that he might reexamine key […]
Five Republicans joined Democrats in voting against advancing the reconciliation bill out of the House Budget Committee on Friday. Reps. Ralph Norman (R-SC), Chip Roy (R-TX), Josh Brecheen (R-OK), Andrew Clyde (R-GA), and Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) were the members who sank the bill in a 21-16 vote. From the beginning of negotiations, Norman and Roy […]
A statue of first lady Melania Trump in her native country, Slovenia, was stolen, prompting a police investigation. The life-sized bronze statue was sawed off at the heels and carried away by unknown perpetrators, Novo Mesto Police Department spokeswoman Alenka Drenik Rangus confirmed to the Slovenian outlet Dnevnik. This isn’t the first unfortunate fate of […]
Tiffany Trump revealed the birth of her first child, a boy, on Thursday, prompting celebratory messages across social media. Trump, the fourth of President Donald Trump’s five children, revealed that she and her husband, Michael Boulos, named their newborn son Alexander Trump Boulos. Alexander is the 11th grandchild of the president, with Tiffany Trump being […]
(The Center Square) – California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for closing another prison as part of his newly revised budget proposal. If that happened, it would be the fifth state prison that was closed during the Newsom administration. The Criminal and Judicial Branch portion of the Democratic governor’s budget, presented on Wednesday and subject to […]
(The Center Square) – Prolec-GE Waukesha, Inc., which makes power transformers, plans a $140 million expansion in Goldsboro, and has been approved for a $4,696,000 state grant for the project which is projected to create 330 new jobs. The Wisconsin-based company plans to to add a second plant in Goldsboro with the new jobs paying […]
The Department of Homeland Security has denied a report that Secretary Kristi Noem is collaborating with a reality TV show producer on a show featuring immigrants. The Daily Mail reported that Noem, whom Democrats have criticized for her publicized participation in raids and other DHS activities, supported the television show and wanted to proceed with […]
