The White House insists President Joe Biden‘s “got this” after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) encouraged his Republican conference of lawmakers not to heckle the commander in chief during his State of the Union address. The White House and the Biden campaign have used clips of the president responding to, for example, Rep. Marjorie Taylor […]
A hearing before members of the Georgia Senate on Wednesday brought new details over the effort to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from Donald Trump’s election subversion case, including information about her meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris. Attorney Ashleigh Merchant, who first raised allegations about Willis’s relationship with a special prosecutor on […]
Mexican beer brand Corona is shaking things up with a new marketing campaign, recruiting the help of Chilean actor Pedro Pascal in an effort to reach Latino consumers. The beer brand’s previous campaign, “La Vida Mas Fina,” starred rapper Snoop Dogg. Going forward with Pascal, however, the company said it is seeking “a shift in […]
The House passed the first half of its annual appropriations bills on Wednesday, marking the first step toward avoiding a government shutdown that is scheduled to start over the weekend. Lawmakers passed the spending bill with a 339-85 vote, overcoming the two-thirds threshold needed to advance the lower chamber. The spending legislation passed after overwhelming […]
The saying that everything is bigger in Texas may now apply to a bitter intraparty brawl following Tuesday night’s primary election. Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton separately sought revenge on incumbent Republicans they viewed as disloyal, at times working against one another in an attempt to gain control over the state’s Republican […]
Former Florida Republican Party Chairman Christian Ziegler, who was removed from office amid a sex scandal, will not face any charges related to an alleged sex tape, the state attorney’s office said in a memo on Wednesday. The state attorney’s office said there was not enough evidence to support a criminal charge of video voyeurism […]
South Carolina lawmakers are inching closer to passing a bill that would allow anyone who legally owns a gun to carry it, even without a permit to do so. The South Carolina House voted 86-33, mostly along party lines, to advance the bill. The Senate and House had previously passed permitless carry bills, but each […]
The White House gave a brief congratulations Wednesday to entrepreneur Jason Palmer for handing President Joe Biden his sole primary loss on Super Tuesday and potentially his only primary loss of the 2024 election cycle. Palmer took home victory in the territory of American Samoa Tuesday night, though the contest featured fewer than 100 total […]
Former President Donald Trump is on the fast track to the GOP nomination after former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, his sole primary challenger, suspended her campaign one day after Super Tuesday. Yet warning signs from the post-Tuesday bump could still hinder Trump in his rematch general election fight against President Joe Biden. Most concerning is the former president’s […]
A Panera Bread franchise owner in California who is a major donor to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said he plans to increase staff wages after backlash over an apparent exemption from the state’s new minimum wage. Last year, Newsom signed a law that would require the minimum wage for California-based fast-food workers at chains with […]
