As Republican support firms up behind President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to pardon protesters charged and convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol affair, resentment is growing that liberal Black Lives Matter rioters got off easier for their 2020 violence. A new survey shared with Secrets said that 51% of Republicans feel that the Black Lives […]
House Republicans are planning to move forward with a last-minute deal to advance three separate single-subject bills to extend government funding and provide disaster relief, with lawmakers rushing to finalize a spending package hours before the shutdown deadline. Lawmakers are poised to vote on a bill to fund the government until mid-March in addition to […]
(The Center Square) – A report by a nonpartisan nonprofit says Florida’s citrus industry’s production has dropped 90% in the last 20 years and offers solutions back to primacy. The report by Florida Taxwatch says the industry is under assault by citrus diseases and hurricanes. Florida was hit by three hurricanes this year alone, with two […]
(The Center Square) – Jurors are off until next year at the bribery and racketeering trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and codefendant Michael McClain. The court is in recess until Dec. 30, when Judge John Robert Blakey scheduled a charge conference for attorneys and parties. Blakey instructed the jury to return on […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk waded into international politics, endorsing the right-wing Alternative fur Deutschland party ahead of Germany‘s February 2025 elections. AfD is broadly considered a right-wing or far-right party. It is mainly characterized by its anti-immigration stance, which has won laudits among Germans disillusioned with the country’s immigration system. It has surged in the […]
(The Center Square) – The United Auto Workers withdrew a petition to the National Labor Relations Board to unionize Vanderbilt University’s graduate students. The union decision comes after a federal court said a request from the UAW and the Labor Relations Board for personal student information presented a conflict with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy […]
(The Center Square) – Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs wants the Department of Education to reconsider a new policy that fast-tracks low-dollar spending of Empowerment Scholarship Account funding, but the state’s top public school official asks why she signed it into law. The Arizona Department of Education announced earlier in December that it would shift to “risk-based auditing” in […]
(The Center Square) – In October it was revealed that the state operating budget faced a potential $5 billion shortfall for the 2025-2027 biennium. While that figure has changed slightly, the shortfall amount for the four-year outlook has altered drastically in recent weeks, though the number depends on who you ask and when you ask them. Initially, the state […]
The House is holding another vote on a CR proposal Friday in hopes of avoiding a partial government shutdown, scheduled to begin at midnight. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER The chamber failed to pass a Trump-backed proposal on Thursday that trimmed down the previous proposal, which didn’t even make it to […]
A House panel tasked with investigating whether government agencies have violated civil liberties published a lengthy final report on Friday summarizing two years’ worth of work and findings. The bulk of the 17,019-page report was made up of transcripts of the 99 closed-door interviews and depositions the panel has conducted, including some that have never […]
