Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is working from home on Thursday after a fall earlier in the week, according to his office. “After tripping on Tuesday, Leader McConnell is experiencing leg stiffness and will work from home today,” a McConnell spokesman told the Washington Examiner. The Kentucky senator, 82, sprained his wrist after tripping […]
The Republican-led North Carolina House of Representatives overrode Gov. Roy Cooper‘s (D-NC) veto of legislation designed to take away powers from several elected offices Democrats won last month. The legislation includes a transfer of $227 million in funds from the state’s savings to a fund for Hurricane Helene relief to help the western part of […]
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested there is a 50% chance Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend President-elect Donald Trump‘s inauguration. “I think there’s a 50/50 chance that Xi Jinping is going to show up, which you have to admit, in terms of sending a signal to the planet, would be pretty unbelievable,” Gingrich said, […]
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to rein in Big Tech, a longtime enemy, in his second term in office, while simultaneously building relationships with the biggest moguls in the business. Big Tech has been a consistent sour point for Trump, particularly due to the alleged censorship of conservative figures beginning around the 2016 election. His […]
White House press secretary nominee Karoline Leavitt confirmed that Chinese President Xi Jinping is invited to the inauguration but has yet to RSVP. President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn in for his second term next month and will make history as the first president not serving consecutive terms. Should Xi decide to attend, it would […]
Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark defended her recent claim that some of her success stems from “privilege,” arguing she was trying to be “authentic” with her answer. Clark’s comments on experiencing privilege in the WNBA, made in an interview with Time, received some pushback on social media, with journalist Megyn Kelly accusing Clark of “apologizing […]
The National Rifle Association has finally turned a corner and begun to reinvest in its core programs now that a New York judge has ended a four-year effort to kill the Second Amendment group. “It’s over,” Executive Vice President Doug Hamlin told Secrets. “We want it behind us so that we can do the business […]
The House passed a bipartisan bill on Thursday that would add 66 federal judgeships in multiple states, though President Joe Biden has vowed to veto the legislation. The bill, the JUDGES Act, would add additional positions over the next decade in high-volume places such as California and Texas. Democrats were split on the bill, with […]
(The Center Square) – Rep. Michelle Caldier, R-Gig Harbor, has announced that she is running for State Senate in the 26th Legislative District, and on Wednesday she learned who her opponent will be. The Nov. 2025 contest will be a special election to fill the remaining term of the seat vacated by Sen. Emily Randall’s […]
(The Center Square) – State assistance of another $227 million to western North Carolina in the recovery from Hurricane Helene is going forward, the veto override of a Senate bill completed Wednesday by the state House of Representatives. Passed 63-46 in the chamber on Nov. 19, the House was 72-46 in favor of the override […]
