Officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Texas announced Friday they had discovered and captured nearly $500,000 worth of cocaine hidden in a haul of cotton candy. The incident took place Thursday after at least one CBP officer in the Laredo area spotted an incoming tractor-trailer that was marked for transporting the common carnival […]
Federal prosecutors are calling on the judge overseeing Steve Bannon’s contempt case to order the former Trump adviser to start his four-month prison sentence as soon as possible. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected the basis for Bannon’s appeal on all grounds, prompting prosecutors to call on Judge Carl […]
Derrick Evans, who served a three-month prison sentence for participating in the Jan. 6 insurrection on the Capitol, is challenging Rep. Carol Miller (R-WV) for the Republican nomination in Tuesday’s West Virginia primary. Evans served in the West Virginia statehouse for a little over a year, from Dec. 1, 2020, to Jan. 9, 2021, when […]
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted the “scam” hush money trial against him as his ex-attorney and former fixer Michael Cohen took the stand for more questioning from prosecutors. Moments before entering the courtroom, Trump was flanked by Republican allies as he read aloud quotes from several conservative legal analysts and argued the hush […]
Former President Donald Trump is bringing a posse of key GOP players to his Manhattan hush money trial on Tuesday as Michael Cohen is set to testify for a second day. Trump has made his hush money trial a new destination for Republicans to gather to show their support for the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. […]
House Democrats launched an investigation into a recent dinner former President Donald Trump attended with oil executives at Mar-a-Lago in which he asked for $1 billion in donations. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee asked nine oil executives to provide information about their companies’ participation in the meeting. Democrats alleged Trump’s request may have violated […]
(The Center Square) – Though North Carolina Congressman Dan Bishop may be exiting the Beltway, he’s certainly not afraid to leave marks on the way out. The candidate for attorney general in his home state was on social media Monday to criticize the Biden administration for a federal power play on states. Six business days […]
(The Center Square) – At a Monday morning press conference regarding the results of the state’s Climate Commitment Act, Gov. Jay Inslee sought to make a thinly veiled case for why voters should reject an initiative on the November ballot that would repeal the revenue-generating program. Though the CCA’s stated goal is to reduce carbon emission levels by 95% by 2050, […]
(The Center Square) – Legislation in the Illinois General Assembly would make it more difficult to qualify for a rebate on an electric vehicle purchase. In January 2023, rebates of up to $4,000 for EVs and $1,500 for electric motorcycles became available in Illinois. In the first round, Illinois’ EV rebate program cost taxpayers $19 million. That […]
(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker says the message being sent by a memo directing state agencies to anticipate $800 million less to spend than what he proposed is that he will not sign an unbalanced budget. In February, Pritzker proposed spending $52.7 billion. Last week, his administration sent agency directors a memo saying the $1 […]
