Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford confirmed he plans to challenge Gov. Joe Lombardo (R-NV) in the state’s 2026 gubernatorial race. This week’s announcement made him the first Nevada Democrat to publicly state his intentions and the highest-profile member of his party to consider a bid to oust Lombardo. “I do intend to seek higher office, […]
Congressional leaders are racing to finalize a government spending proposal as they near the end of negotiations just days before federal funding is set to lapse on Dec. 20. Negotiators in the House and Senate have been working for weeks to come to an agreement on a stopgap funding bill that would punt spending deadlines […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has transported out of Syria an American who disappeared seven months ago into former President Bashar Assad’s prison system and was among the thousands released this week by rebels, a U.S. official said Friday. Travis Timmerman was flown out of Syria on a U.S. military helicopter, according to a U.S. official who spoke on […]
The race to be the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee is fracturing the Democratic caucus ideologically and generationally as progressive and establishment members are split between Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). The New Democrat Coalition, a center-left group of House Democrats, endorsed Connolly on Friday. Shortly after that, the […]
Even though San Francisco voters handed Democratic Mayor London Breed a huge defeat in November, she insists she’s going out a champion. “No matter what the results said, I’m still a winner,” Breed said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times this week. “The fact that I have come out of the most problematic circumstances […]
The Department of Homeland Security hired 13 employees from a prestigious, private law firm to defend Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as he faced impeachment proceedings in the House and Senate earlier this year, according to information obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. The DHS spent $1,625,815.26 in federal taxpayer money on more than a […]
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to become secretary of defense, is smoothing over previous statements in which he suggested he was against women in combat and gays in the military. The softer rhetoric comes as the former Fox News host and Army National Guard veteran has been meeting with female Republican senators who have […]
A New York Democrat is mocking Trump administration pick Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with a bill renamed after him that will expand vaccine reporting requirements. Kennedy, the Department of Health and Human Services nominee, is known as a vaccine skeptic, having lobbied against vaccine policies and for greater testing, and was heavily criticized throughout his […]
(The Center Square) – Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen is seeking election administration reforms similar to what exists in Florida in the upcoming legislative session in hopes of delivering faster results. Senate Bill 1011 would end the drop off of mail-in ballots at 7 p.m. on the Friday prior to Election Day, which would be a […]
(The Center Square) – Another Houston girl has been killed allegedly by a Venezuelan illegally in the country. On Dec. 1, a 7-year-old second-grader, Ivory Smith, was killed in a car accident in northeast Harris County by a drunk driver. Her mother was seriously injured. The alleged driver, Joel Enrique Gonzalez Chacin, a 41-year-old Venezuelan national […]
