(The Center Square) – Business leaders joined leaders of Colorado’s petroleum and natural gas industries in denouncing a wave of legislation creating higher environmental standards and phasing out drilling. “These concepts range from banning any development for any industry that requires an air permit in up to 50% of the state to tracking and limiting […]
(The Center Square) – New Mexico is a national leader in cases of sexually transmitted infections, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control. The CDC measured the instances of congenital syphilis, syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea across the country in 2022, and the STIs were more common in New Mexico than they were in most […]
(The Center Square) – California vehicle emissions standards may be coming to Illinois. An Illinois state legislator has introduced a measure that would limit the types of trucks the trucking industry could use. State Rep. Edgar Gonzalez, Jr., D-Chicago, has introduced House Bill 1634, seeking to have Illinois adopt the vehicle emissions standards of California. The bill […]
(The Center Square) – Tennessee received a preliminary injunction on Friday against the NCAA enforcing its name, image and likeness rules. The ruling blocks the NCAA from enforcing its interim NIL rules or any NIL restrictions until the full case is heard and a ruling rendered. U.S. District Judge Clifton L. Corker also restricted the […]
Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has announced she will be stepping down next week, after weeks of speculation that she would leave the top GOP post. McDaniel was elected RNC chairwoman in 2017 and was most recently reelected in 2023, after backing from former President Donald Trump. The RNC chairwoman announced on Monday that […]
COLUMBIA, South Carolina – Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) wants the GOP to follow in former President Donald Trump’s footsteps in calling out the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling on in vitro fertilization. The decision has created significant controversy in the political arena, but voters seem confused on the issue entirely. The court declared cryogenically frozen embryos […]
The latest coding designed to identify artificial intelligence-generated images is insufficient to combat the sharing of deceptive images of politicians and public figures in the 2024 elections, according to a new report. The report, released by the software company Mozilla on Monday, assessed the reliability of seven tools intended to identify AI through a series […]
Michigan voters have an outsized impact on who will win the White House, and which party will carry the House and Senate in 2024. In this series, Great Stakes: The fight to be hailed as victors in Michigan, the Washington Examiner will look at the thorny politics and unique issues that will swing the critical battleground state. Part One, […]
Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) pledged to refuse donations from corporate PACs, which the Senate candidate running to fill Michigan’s open seat has sought to outlaw. Her donors rely on them. In 2022, Slotkin co-sponsored a bill that would ban for-profit corporations from operating political funds she’s chided as being “corrupt” for exerting outsize influence on […]
Demoralized Border Patrol agents are warning the Democratic-controlled Senate against sabotaging the impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Five federal law enforcement agents who spoke with the Washington Examiner after the House’s Feb. 13 vote said they have been dragged through the mud since Mayorkas was confirmed by the Senate in February 2021. […]
