Eight people were killed and 45 others were injured in a crash involving a bus carrying farm workers on a Florida state highway Tuesday morning. Around 6:35 a.m., the 2010 International Bus and a 2001 Ford Ranger pickup truck sideswiped each other, causing the bus to be pushed off the roadway, crash through a fence, […]
The Lugar Center and the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy released new bipartisan index rankings — an attempt to explain lawmakers’ willingness to cross party lines — for 2023. Overall, bipartisanship remained at historic lows, though it marginally improved from the previous Congress. In the House, bipartisanship varied the most widely. “Squad” Reps. […]
San Francisco is getting hammered for spending millions of dollars on a program that gives free booze to homeless alcoholics, but researchers are insisting the multimillion-dollar strategy has merit. Keanan Joyner, a professor and researcher in the Clinical Research on Externalizing and Addiction Mechanisms Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, called San Francisco’s Managed Alcohol […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) dismissed talk of his wife seeking his office in 2026 despite a poll showing her leading Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who’s been floated as a candidate, in a hypothetical poll. Casey DeSantis was a fixture on the campaign trail alongside her husband during his unsuccessful presidential bid, which ended in January, […]
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump could be leaving Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander votes on the table before November’s election, according to Asian American advocacy groups. With the country’s Asian American population and voter participation rate increasing exponentially, the groups are encouraging both campaigns to reach out to the community […]
The Israel Defense Forces struck a Hamas command room in a school run by a United Nations agency with fighter jets — killing more than 15 “terror operatives,” including 10 Hamas members and some involved in the Oct. 7 invasion of Israel. The attack took place in central Gaza’s Nuseirat, about 15 miles away from Rafah, […]
Red Lobster is shuttering over 50 restaurants, some of which are based in major cities in the United States. These closures were revealed by TAGeX Brands, which is auctioning off the locations and providing the winners of each bid with the location and all of the contents inside the building. The bidding for these locations […]
Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy applied an “airtight” test Monday to prove the existence of the politicized prosecution facing former President Donald Trump in his hush money trial. “All we’ve seen is one more layer of the onion of how the whole thing is a charade,” Ramaswamy told entrepreneur Patrick Bet-David on an episode of […]
Former President Donald Trump lost his bid on Tuesday to challenge the gag order restricting him from speaking publicly about witnesses, jurors, or court staff in his New York criminal hush money trial. Trump, the presumptive Republican to face off against President Joe Biden in November, has repeatedly critiqued the gag order as a violation […]
Virginia lawmakers averted a shutdown in the commonwealth by agreeing to, and passing into law, a budget for the state after gridlock earlier in the year. Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) signed a budget into law on Monday that compromised with Democratic leadership in the state House and Senate. Youngkin was able to prevent any increases […]
