The Senate passed a bill on Tuesday to rename a wildlife refuge after Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old girl allegedly killed by two Venezuelan migrants last year. The measure, offered by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in a unanimous consent request from the Senate floor, would codify an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in March. […]
(The Center Square) – After hand-delivering over 100 letters to Washington, D.C., Pierce County Councilmember Dave Morell says emergency grants could save a historic mining town that the state left out to dry. Washington State Route 165 leads hundreds of thousands of tourists to Mount Rainier National Park every year. The highway stretches through Wilkeson to […]
(The Center Square) – More than $13 million in incentives from North Carolina are pledged to a biotech company making a $700 million investment, a move the Commerce Department says will grow the economy by more than $3 billion over the next dozen years. Genentech, American-headquartered in San Francisco and subsidiary of the Roche Group […]
(The Center Square) – Democrats in the North Carolina Legislature complained Tuesday that the Republican majority killed good bills without even considering them in the respective rules committees of the Senate and House of Representatives. Crossover day for a bill to clear one chamber or the other has now passed, shutting out Democrat-sponsored bills for […]
Vice President JD Vance championed the Trump administration‘s support for law enforcement during a breakfast event Wednesday morning celebrating National Police Week. The vice president, joined by second lady Usha Vance, held an intimate breakfast with roughly two dozen state and local law enforcement officers at their residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington. […]
French President Emmanuel Macron said Israel’s blocking of humanitarian aid to Gaza is “unacceptable” and “shameful” in comments that were quickly denounced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “It’s terrible. … There’s no water. There are no medicines. They can no longer evacuate the injured,” Macron said in an interview on the French television channel TF1. […]
Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT) fell asleep for a moment during an all-night meeting to pass the House Republicans’ tax legislation. The House Ways and Means Committee gathered from Tuesday afternoon into early Wednesday morning before voting 26-19 to approve a $3.8 trillion tax cut over the next 10 years. Just before 5 a.m., the committee […]
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), on Tuesday, celebrated the indictment against Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan and said he was “glad” that a judge who failed to follow the law was facing the consequences. Dugan was indicted following her arrest last month by the FBI. She was charged with obstructing a federal agency and “concealing an individual […]
The “iron law” of midterm congressional elections that the president’s party loses seats and control, if it has it, is about to be busted in 2026. A handful of new reports are suggesting that Republicans could retain control of the House and Senate, and even add seats in the election. What’s more, a GOP win […]
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (R-FL) claimed that the House Department of Government Efficiency Caucus hasn’t operated for months. Moskowitz was the first Democrat to opt into the caucus, cochaired by Reps. Aaron Bean (R-FL), Blake Moore (R-UT), and Pete Sessions (R-TX). However, the Florida Democrat now calls the caucus “a complete failure.” “The DOGE caucus is […]
