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States and business groups chart another Supreme Court challenge to EPA emissions rule

West Virginia and 24 other states are asking the Supreme Court to stall a Biden administration rule forcing fossil fuel plants to cut carbon emissions, spotlighting the Environmental Protection Agency once again. There are now eight emergency applications challenging the EPA’s rule that would force coal- and gas-fired power plants to limit carbon emissions beginning […]

Ex-Harris boyfriend denies Trump’s claims about VP and ’emergency’ helicopter landing

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown pushed back on comments former President Donald Trump made about an alleged helicopter ride the two shared and his relationship with Vice President Kamala Harris. During a Mar-a-Lago press conference on Thursday that lasted over an hour, Trump covered a host of topics. Among them was an anecdote about […]

Harris campaign changes Walz’s military biography after backlash

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign quietly updated Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) online biography after Republicans slammed its representation of her running mate’s military record.  After Harris picked Walz to be her No. 2 on Tuesday, her campaign website called the Minnesota Democrat “the son of an Army veteran and a retired Command Sergeant Major in […]

Francine Pascal, 1932-2024

When the Harry Potter series was becoming popular in the early 2000s, an impassioned debate arose among parents and teachers as to whether it was good that so many children were spending so much time reading such fantastical stories. Some thought that becoming hooked at a young age on this kind of easily digestible fare […]

Utah GOP primary results up in the air as state Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge

The Utah Supreme Court will hear congressional candidate Colby Jenkins’s election case as the Republican bids to win his primary race against Rep. Celeste Maloy (R-UT).  After a too-close-to-call primary election on June 25, a recount revealed Maloy held a slim lead of 176 votes. Jenkins is concerned over at roughly 1,171 mail-in ballots that […]

Ceasefire mediators urge Israel and Hamas to resume negotiations next week

The leaders of the United States, Qatar, and Egypt, the three countries that have acted as mediators for ongoing negotiations between Israel and Hamas, have urged both sides to return to the negotiating table. President Joe Biden, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi, and Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani released a joint […]

Trump and Jack Smith seek three-week delay of 2020 election case

Former President Donald Trump‘s attorneys and special counsel Jack Smith requested a three-week delay to proceedings in the federal 2020 election subversion case, citing a need to further evaluate the Supreme Court’s recent presidential immunity ruling. “The Government continues to assess the new precedent set forth last month in the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump […]

Trump-aligned group bashes Harris over the border in ad blitz across battleground states

EXCLUSIVE — An outside political group that supports former President Donald Trump is releasing a new ad across multiple battleground states admonishing Vice President Kamala Harris over her work leading the Biden administration’s response to the southern border crisis. Preserve America, a pro-Trump super PAC, is releasing a new TV and digital spot in the battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, […]

Trump starting ‘to agree a lot more’ on legalizing marijuana

Former President Donald Trump expressed an openness to decriminalizing marijuana during a press conference Thursday, marking a shift in his stance on the matter. When asked by a reporter about whether he supports legalizing cannabis, Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, observed that many states have already made non-medicinal marijuana legal. “As we legalize it, I […]

Pelosi has ‘never been that impressed’ with Biden’s political operation

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) had a less-than-complimentary assessment of President Joe Biden’s political acumen as the Democratic Party moves on from his struggling reelection bid.  Pelosi was widely rumored to have encouraged Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race. Although the California Democrat has demurred over whether she directly talked to […]
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