(The Center Square) – Strengthening competition for specialty crops and improved access to safe drinking water in rural communities are among the North Carolina benefits reaped by the Farm Bill moving on from the Committee on Agriculture in the U.S. House of Representatives. Other key impacts are the investments in the farm safety net, incentives […]
(The Center Square) – The Chicago Bears will have to wait on public assistance for a new stadium project. The Illinois legislature, which ended spring session early Wednesday, won’t act on anything regarding a new Bears stadium until this fall at the earliest, if at all. The Bears unveiled the project in April with a $4.7 […]
(The Center Square) – California legislators in both chambers passed a pair of plastic shopping bag ban bills after an earlier ban on thin plastic bags increased overall plastic bag waste due to use of thicker, “reusable” plastic bags. California’s single-use plastic shopping bag ban went into effect in 2016, but plastic bag waste increased 47% to 231,072 […]
Democrats are banking on President Joe Biden delivering a strong debate performance next month following an expectations-defying State of the Union that eased concerns about him leading the 2024 ticket. Republicans have seized on the 81-year-old Biden’s gaffes and forgetfulness to make the case he is mentally unfit for a second term. Those concerns were […]
Hunter Biden will stand trial next week on gun-related charges just as the GOP’s effort to untangle his web of foreign moneymaking fizzles out. While the political will to impeach President Joe Biden over any involvement in his family’s influence peddling has all but disappeared, the belief that the Justice Department gave Hunter Biden favorable […]
Montana voters will nominate their Republican and Democratic Senate candidates next week in a hotly contested race that is quickly escalating and could determine control of the upper chamber. Sen. Jon Tester’s (D-MT) strategy to secure a fourth consecutive term this November hinges on distancing himself from President Joe Biden, as the incumbent hopes to […]
EXCLUSIVE — The University of California, Los Angeles medical school solicited first-year medical students for a paid position writing curriculums for courses in their “Structural Racism and Health Equity” mandatory classes. In documents obtained through a public records request from the medical advocacy group Do No Harm, the medical school was recruiting “tutors” to “create […]
U.S. District Court Judge Larry Hicks was killed Wednesday afternoon after being struck by a car outside a federal courthouse in Reno, Nevada. Police officers responded to the call about a pedestrian being hit by a car around 2:15 p.m. Upon arriving at the scene of the crash, officers immediately took Hicks to a local […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) suggested that the Department of Justice should force Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas to recuse themselves from the Jan. 6-related cases they will soon consider. Alito and Thomas have both been facing intense pressure to recuse themselves from a case deciding whether or not Trump is immune from […]
The Chosen creator Dallas Jenkins announced that the popular biblical crowdfunded show about the life of Jesus Christ will release Season Four starting this weekend. “I’m happy to tell you that Episode One of Season Four will launch this Sunday at 7 o’clock Eastern time,” Jenkins announced in a YouTube video for fans on Wednesday. […]
