The opening of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, the first religious charter school in Oklahoma and in the country, has garnered backlash from the existing charter school movement, prompting the state’s supreme court to hear arguments on the legality and legitimacy of the school’s existence. Under Oklahoma law, charter schools are considered to […]
House members are looking to out-troll one another through amendments to bills funding aid to Ukraine and Israel. Overall, 171 amendments have been introduced to add to the bills, with most of them serious. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) began the unserious additions on Wednesday, introducing an amendment that would require anyone who voted in favor […]
Denver City Council members voted unanimously on Wednesday to advance Democratic Mayor Mike Johnston’s proposed $41 million budget cuts to fund the city’s response to its undocumented immigrant crisis. Johnston’s plan includes cuts to multiple city departments, including police and fire, as well as his own. The mayor’s office will be absorbing the largest percentage […]
The House’s $95 billion relief package to Ukraine and Israel includes a measure that would ban TikTok if its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, does not divest — an unusual move orchestrated by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House leadership. The popular app has garnered scrutiny from lawmakers over fears the company is sharing user data […]
A federal appeals court ruled in favor of trashing the “county line” for the New Jersey Democratic primaries in June. The ruling from a panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit on Wednesday upheld a district court’s preliminary injunction, blocking the controversial format that lists candidates endorsed by the […]
Republicans took off the gloves in their first face-to-face meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas since Senate Democrats dismissed the articles of impeachment against the Biden administration official a day earlier. Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee pressed Mayorkas on Thursday, hounding him over his handling of the southern border […]
Republican National Committee co-Chairwoman Lara Trump suggested the criminal trial against former President Donald Trump “is not working” as his fundraising continues to rise. Lara Trump appeared Wednesday on Fox News’s Hannity to discuss the latest fundraising numbers on her father-in-law’s campaign. Her report comes after the campaign already raised $1.5 million after the trial’s first […]
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre danced around questions on Thursday about President Joe Biden apparently “embellishing” the story of his uncle’s death and going so far as suggesting that he was eaten by cannibals after being shot down in World War II. Biden is on the final day of a three-day campaign tour of […]
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) quipped on Thursday that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) would make a better House speaker than Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), but he is not calling for a motion to vacate Johnson. When asked by reporters whether he thinks someone could do better than Johnson as speaker, Gaetz said, “I don’t know,” followed […]
A second juror who was previously sworn into the New York hush money trial against former President Donald Trump was dismissed on Thursday after prosecutors raised objections, dropping the total number in the jury down to five. The seated Juror #4, an older Puerto Rican man who previously said he was intrigued by Trump, was […]
