House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) declined to move forward with a rule change that would make it more difficult for him to be ousted by his fellow Republicans, turning down requests from some lawmakers to increase the threshold and avoid another contentious speaker’s race. Reports surfaced early Thursday that Johnson was considering a change to […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed legislation that allows “patriotic organizations” such as the Boy Scouts of America to recruit in Florida schools and also denounced Satanism. This law also opens the door for the Girl Scouts, Big Brothers, Big Sisters of America, Boys and Girls Club of America, Future Farmers of America, Little League Baseball, […]
Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) has signed a law that will bring college athletes closer to becoming de facto employees of the universities where they attend. The Virginia legislation will grant colleges the chance to pay athletes directly through name, image, and likeness deals, undercutting the NCAA’s rule on colleges paying athletes directly via NIL guidelines. […]
Hard-line House Republicans are coming out in strong opposition to House Speaker Mike Johnson‘s (R-LA) four-pronged foreign aid package, particularly over a stipulation in the Ukraine aid bill that the loan can be canceled by the president in a few years — a move that some are calling a “joke.” Johnson’s long-awaited four-bill foreign aid […]
A U.S. airman stationed in Niger has accused senior U.S. officials of intentionally suppressing information regarding the frayed relationship between Washington and the military junta that overthrew Niger’s democratically elected government last year. The airman outlined his concerns with U.S. Ambassador to Niger Kathleen FitzGibbon and senior defense attache Col. Nora Nelson-Richter in a private […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign announced it met the requirements to appear on Michigan‘s ballot for the 2024 election on Thursday. Kennedy and his vice presidential mate Nicole Shanahan were nominated for the swing state’s ballot by the Natural Law Party in Michigan. “He’s the most qualified candidate in the modern-day history of America,” Natural […]
A Chicago councilman is involved with a group planning to disrupt the Democratic National Committee meeting in August, reminiscent of the infamous protests that rocked the city in 1968. Over 450 far-left activists attended the “March on DNC 2024” meeting, at which 75 different organizations planned how to disrupt the DNC convention scheduled for August, […]
Rep. Jake LaTurner (R-KS), one of the youngest House Republicans, is not running for reelection in 2024, joining the mass exodus of GOP members leaving Congress after a tumultuous year on Capitol Hill. LaTurner, 36, announced his retirement from the House on Thursday. The Kansas congressman is the 22nd House Republican to decide against running […]
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas took to social media on Tuesday to share that he is more than willing to take in asylum-seekers and refugees from overcrowded cities such as New York City and Denver and let them work in his city. “All are welcome in Kansas City,” Lucas wrote on X, formerly known as […]
Isra Hirsi, Rep. Ilhan Omar‘s (D-MN) daughter, said she was one of the students suspended from Barnard College for participation in anti-Israel protests. Hirsi, 21, posted on X that she was one of three students who were suspended for “standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide” from the private women’s college affiliated with Columbia […]
