(The Center Square) – Summer work has begun for students throughout the commonwealth who are participating in the Department of Labor and Industry’s MY Work program. The program is an initiative of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation offered to high school students with disabilities. Labor and Industry Secretary Nancy Walker joined students in Lycoming County […]
While the Federal Reserve has yet to announce its interest rate decision, President Donald Trump lambasted Chairman Jerome Powell once again. “We have a stupid person, frankly, at the Fed, who probably won’t cut [interest rates] today,” Trump said at the White House. “Europe had 10 cuts, and we had none. And I guess he’s a political […]
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) began Wednesday’s Senate hearing on former President Joe Biden’s mental fitness with a striking rebuttal, displaying a video montage of President Donald Trump making his own series of gaffes. The clip, played during Durbin’s opening remarks, included Trump’s pandemic-era comments about injecting disinfectant, comments about windmills driving whales “crazy,” and occasions […]
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus lead singer Ronnie Winter has warned Christians who support President Donald Trump not to come to his shows, saying that “woke propaganda” will be present. The rock band is best known for the 2006 hit “Face Down.” Winter’s “PSA” was issued on his Instagram account, claiming that “being woke” means people are […]
Five Democratic cities are suing the Department of Homeland Security for failing to reimburse them for purchases made to support counterterrorism measures and curbing nuclear attacks. Chicago, Boston, Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle have filed suit after 11 requests for reimbursements for expenditures, previously approved by the department, have been ignored since February. The plaintiffs […]
Texas lawmakers quietly stopped funding the state construction of a border wall between the United States and Mexico just four years after Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) signed off on the project. In the final hours of this year’s legislative session, the Republican-controlled state legislature stripped the project of its funding, leaving its future unclear. The […]
Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested on Tuesday by ICE agents at an immigration courthouse in Lower Manhattan. He was attempting to escort a migrant, whom agents were trying to arrest. Lander was charged with assaulting a federal officer. This is one of several high-profile instances when federal authorities have arrested a Democratic politician — following Senator Alex Padilla’s […]
Former President Barack Obama criticized President Donald Trump on Tuesday night, comparing him to an autocrat. Speaking at The Bushnell Performing Arts Center in Hartford, Connecticut, at a discussion with anti-Trump writer and historian Heather Cox Richardson, the former president warned that liberal democracy in the United States was eroding, implying it was due to […]
Virginia Democratic state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi won a six-way primary on Wednesday to become the party’s nominee for lieutenant governor, the end to a two-day contest in which Hashmi narrowly defeated her top competitor by less than 1%. The Associated Press called the race for Hashmi at 11:01 a.m., well after the polls closed on […]
Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) highlighted the impending elections across Virginia, urging voters to support “our Commonsense Team” this November. Virginia’s primary election day on Tuesday saw the Democratic Party select its candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney general. Following the Republican Party’s surprise victory in the 2021 elections, Youngkin said that “the teams are now […]
