Families of the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting victims reached a settlement with Uvalde, Texas, nearly three years after the mass shooting. Nineteen students and two teachers were killed by an 18-year-old gunman. The Uvalde City Council voted unanimously to approve the settlement, the terms of which are undisclosed. “Nothing can ever make up the […]
Leaders of a small Virginia town voted Tuesday night to keep funding its police department, a week after the town council tried to dismantle it without public input or warning. Town residents have had problems with the council before, but they were caught off guard when it voted 4-2 earlier this month to defund the police […]
A Texas village is voting to formally launch Starbase, a town devoted to Elon Musk’s company SpaceX. The vote will almost certainly be in favor, with 90% of the 279 eligible voters having flocked to the area in the past year, according to records obtained by the New York Times through a public information act […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a case over California’s authority to impose stricter vehicle emissions rules to help phase out gas-powered vehicles. The case centers on whether fuel producers, including Diamond Alternative Energy, can sue the Environmental Protection Agency over a waiver it granted California, allowing the state to impose more […]
House Republican leadership is aiming for a May vote on President Donald Trump‘s signature piece of legislation. This vote will be a crucial test of whether the GOP can garner enough support from fiscal hawks who tie the tax cuts to substantial spending offsets. Leaders are planning to put the bill on the floor the […]
Fox News host Martha MacCallum snapped at American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten during a segment on school choice. Weingarten, who has long opposed school choice in order to protect her union workers’ jobs, tried to make a case that Florida, a proponent of school choice, has low National Assessment of Educational Progress scores […]
During President Joe Biden’s four years in office, his administration approved roughly $600 million in grants with descriptions containing the words “men who have sex with men,” according to a Washington Examiner review of federal grant records. These grants largely funded research and direct public interventions intended to address the spread of diseases associated with […]
President Donald Trump is planning to install two 100-foot flag poles on the White House grounds. The president announced the plans for the flag poles, which he said he would pay for out of his own pocket, after he emerged from the White House residence just before 11 a.m. Wednesday with a coterie of aides […]
In an increasingly crowded Democratic primary field for the open Michigan Senate seat, Republicans may already have an attack plan for Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI). Stevens’s candidacy has been scrutinized by Republicans for her tendency to lash out during public events. In 2020, Stevens gave a speech on the House floor regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
Border Czar Tom Homan said Wednesday that Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) should work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement if the senator wants greater safety for his state. Van Hollen, who has been fighting against the deportation of alleged MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, released a statement regarding the murder of a Maryland mother at […]
