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Israel warns Iran of retaliatory strike if provoked

Israel warned on Wednesday that it would retaliate against Iran if the Islamic Republic were to strike Israel, the Associated Press reported. The comments came from the country’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz as tensions between the two countries continue to escalate.  “If Iran attacks from its territory, Israel will respond and attack in Iran,” Israel […]

Swing state scorecard: Ranking Biden’s toughest 2024 battlegrounds

The 2024 general election race between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will be decided between six or seven battleground states. Both campaigns are fighting to turn out voters in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. Biden won all of those battleground states except for North Carolina during the 2020 election against […]

Liberals face Manchin roadblock to replacing Sotomayor on Supreme Court

Senate Democrats have rebuffed the Left’s attempts to give Justice Sonia Sotomayor the Ruth Bader Ginsburg treatment. Members of the Judiciary Committee, tasked with approving her eventual replacement, have broadly dismissed a pressure campaign to send her into retirement and appoint a younger justice. But it is Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), progressives’ arch nemesis in […]

Three’s a crowd: Biden tries to avoid Hillary’s 2016 mistakes with assertive third-party strategy

A presidential election rematch in 2024 between Joe Biden and Donald Trump has helped pave the way for renewed interest in third-party candidates. The most dominant interloper is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is currently polling at a healthy 11.7% and is being taken seriously, particularly by the DNC. This cycle has also seen No […]

Social Security update: First round of April’s payments worth $4,873 goes out Wednesday

The first of April’s three Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the highest income earners who retire at 70, went out to the first group of retirees on Wednesday. The payment went out on April 10 to beneficiaries who were born on or before the 10th of the month, according to the Social […]

Social Security update: May’s direct payment worth $943 goes out in 21 days

There first of two May Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $943 for individual filers, goes out to millions of beneficiaries in exactly three weeks. The first installment will go out on Wednesday, May 1, to people with a serious debilitating disability that results in a limited income, according to the Social Security Administration.  […]

Biden embarks on big diplomacy week as Japanese PM arrives in DC

Leaders from Japan and the Philippines will be meeting with President Joe Biden this week, but it’s another country that will be on everyone’s mind. The president is hosting a state visit with Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his wife, complete with a state dinner and various diplomatic events. Yet the more serious discussions […]

Democratic congresswoman tells students that moon is ‘made up mostly of gases’

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) made several gaffes and blunders while speaking to students at a Texas high school ahead of Monday’s solar eclipse. During an educational program at Booker T. Washington High School in Houston on Monday in which she was a guest speaker, Jackson Lee claimed that the moon was “made up mostly […]

Will Biden’s boomer polling bump translate to senior votes in November?

As President Joe Biden‘s popularity has dipped among young voters, he’s outpacing past Democratic presidential candidates with the opposite demographic, senior citizens, who routinely vote to the right of the general electorate. A string of polls show the president leading former President Donald Trump among the over 65 crowd, and though carrying seniors alone won’t […]

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs condemns Republicans by tracing state’s abortion law to Dobbs decision

Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) blamed Republicans for the state’s abortion ban, tracing it back to 2022’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision. On Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court upheld an 1864 law banning abortions in nearly all cases, only making exceptions when the mother faces immediate life-threatening conditions. Despite denouncements from many of the […]
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