The Justice Department filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit Wednesday against the owner of the massive cargo ship that rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore in March. DOJ attorneys said in a civil claim filed against Grace Ocean Private Limited in the U.S. District of Maryland that they were seeking more than $100 million […]
Musician Pharrell Williams dismissed celebrity endorsements of presidential candidates, stating he sometimes gets “annoyed” over them. The famous hip-hop artist and producer was asked about the 2024 presidential election in a recent interview, during which he said he does not “really do politics.” When asked if he would be open to either political party using […]
EXCLUSIVE — Republicans are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars to defend their control of the majority of state legislative chambers across the country, unveiling a “Left’s Most Wanted” ad campaign to target Democratic state lawmakers on their voting records in battleground states. The Republican State Legislative Committee, the largest organization of GOP state leaders […]
The mayor of Springfield, Ohio, which has been the target of baseless claims from former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) about Haitian immigrants, said a visit from the former president would not be in the city’s best interest. Rumors that Haitian immigrants were eating pets in the Ohio town were running rampant […]
The Montana Supreme Court denied an effort by the state’s Democratic Party to remove Green Party Senate candidate Robert Barb from the ballot in the critical Senate election in November. The marquee race between Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Republican Tim Sheehy could determine control of the upper chamber of Congress, but the ballot will […]
(The Center Square) – Whether commercially available semi-automatic rifles now banned in Illinois are common or too similar to military grade firearms was the focus of Day 2 of the bench trial of Illinois’ gun and magazine ban. On preliminary grounds, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the state last […]
(The Center Square) – At a recent campaign event in Houston, U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, a Dallas Democrat, said his energy policy doesn’t have to be “an either or’” approach and “promised to protect oil and gas jobs as part of an all-of-the-above approach.” Allred is challenging incumbent U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from […]
(The Center Square) – As Spokane pushes to grant a congregate homeless shelter $1.2 million despite the apparent lack of a competitive process, some on the city council are questioning whether that’s legal. Last month, Mayor Lisa Brown proposed using the money to prevent Hope House, a women’s congregate shelter, from closing. According to a news release, […]
SAVE the citizens Republicans have been saying for years that they aren’t trying to make it harder to vote. They have been tightening the lid on rules around elections that were loosened during COVID-19, and that meant 2020 not only saw the largest turnout in any presidential election ever but also that there was increased […]
(The Center Square) – Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s attorneys took his case before the Illinois Supreme Court Tuesday. Smollett was convicted of staging and falsely reporting a hate crime against him in 2019. Smollett, who is Black and gay, said the attackers, wearing red MAGA hats, shouted racist and homophobic slurs at him before putting […]
