The Senate Homeland Security Committee is holding a hearing on the Department of Homeland Security‘s fiscal 2025 budget request, with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifying. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. EDT on Capitol Hill. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Mayorkas’s appearance before the Senate committee comes […]
The third day of the New York hush money trial against former President Donald Trump began on Thursday with the dismissal of a juror who raised personal concerns about her ability to be fair and impartial. The woman, who was listed as the second juror out of a group of seven chosen on Tuesday, said she […]
In the middle of former President Donald Trump‘s storm of legal troubles, the man most able to benefit from it has been noticeably silent — a purposeful move. President Joe Biden, while making an occasional side quip, has largely refrained from commenting on Trump’s 34 felony counts for fraudulent business records. According to Politico, this […]
President Joe Biden has worked to woo young voters with his student loan forgiveness plan, but he is still lagging with the demographic in polls against former President Donald Trump. In two polls released on Thursday, Biden has smaller leads over Trump with young voters than four years ago — in a group he needs […]
House Republican leaders could move to protect Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) position from a rebellion in a rules vote. Johnson’s position is facing its greatest threat yet as more hard-line Republicans move to unseat him for pushing to pass foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. House Republican leadership is exploring the addition of language […]
(The Center Square) – The Arizona State Legislature did not repeal an abortion law created in 1864 banning nearly all abortions on Wednesday for the second week in a row. However, the Senate did begin the process on a new bill Wednesday. On the House side, a motion to get House Bill 2677 to go […]
(The Center Square) – An attorney who worked on a recent U.S. Supreme Court case striking down a local government’s use of “substantial” impact fees in California says similar fees in Pitkin County, Colorado, also are unconstitutional. The court’s ruling in Sheetz v. County of El Dorado centered on a resident who wished to build a prefabricated […]
(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden wants to triple tariff rates on Chinese steel and aluminum if investigators confirm allegations of the country’s unfair trade practices. “The backbone of America has a steel spine,” he said Wednesday during a visit to the United Steelworkers union headquarters in Pittsburgh. “It really does.” Biden wants the […]
(The Center Square) – Advocates on both sides of the debate around gun control are using this week to champion their issues at the Illinois Statehouse. On Tuesday, hundreds of gun control advocates from Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action and others, including some from Minnesota, discussed their priorities during a rally at the […]
(The Center Square) – While 28 candidates for governor have filed with the Public Disclosure Commission, only one is currently facing independent expenditures in opposition. Public records surfacing on past actions of Republican candidate Misipati Semi Bird have roused the ire of former supporter Mike McKee, who has set up a website at Bird-Docs.com to explain his change […]
