Major U.S. airlines are suspending their flights to and from Israel as tensions continue to rise in the wider region. Delta Airlines said it would be suspending its flights from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Tel Aviv through at least Aug. 2. United Airlines canceled its flights from its hub in Newark, […]
President Joe Biden is celebrating the safe return of three U.S. citizens and one American green card holder who have been wrongly detained in Russia, in some cases for years, including Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, and Vladimir Kara-Murza. “The deal that secured their freedom was a feat of diplomacy,” Biden wrote Thursday in a […]
Former President Donald Trump lost a bid on Thursday to appeal his gag order in the New York criminal hush money case after saying it gives an unfair advantage to his 2024 presidential election opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Lawyers for Trump asked a New York appeals court on July 30 to expedite his effort […]
EXCLUSIVE — Congressional Republicans want to roll back or block efforts by mostly blue states to implement excise sales taxes on firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories that would subsidize gun violence prevention programs and medical trauma centers. Sen. James Risch (R-ID), ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, will introduce a bill Thursday to halt […]
Former President Donald Trump is under pressure for his latest line of attack on Vice President Kamala Harris, questioning her racial identity. Trump spoke at the National Association of Black Journalists’ annual conference Wednesday in Chicago, where he got into a tense exchange with several black journalists. At one part of the exchange, Trump implicitly accused […]
Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control group founded by former presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg, is planning to spend $45 million in several swing-state contests. The group endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president last week. “With MAGA Republicans pushing an extreme ‘guns everywhere’ agenda, this election is a life-or-death moment — so Everytown is […]
Border politics Vice President Kamala Harris and her team rushed to scrub her record on the largest, most public job she was given in the Biden-Harris administration. As soon as President Joe Biden acknowledged the political reality that he couldn’t beat former President Donald Trump and anointed Harris his successor, the first thing that had […]
(The Center Square) – Although the Secretary of State’s unofficial results for the AZ primary elections have yet to be published, with approximately 97% of the reporting done, northern Arizona can have a pretty good idea of which lawmakers will be competing in November’s general election. State Sen. Wendy Rogers narrowly leads David Cook in […]
(The Center Square) – In a Fifth U.S. Circuit Appellate Court ruling handing Texas a major win in a border security lawsuit, two judges engaged in debate over whether the federal court has jurisdiction when Gov. Greg Abbott invoked the “Invasion Clause” of the U.S. Constitution as part of Texas’ defense to secure its border. […]
(The Center Square) — The tax increase on cell phones to support Pennsylvania’s 911 system is on track to hit its expected revenues. The tax, passed in 2023 to raise the monthly surcharge from $1.65 to $1.95, brought in more than $97 million in the second quarter of 2024, a $5 million haul above initial […]
