First lady Jill Biden touted the Biden administration’s work to help the LGBT community during a keynote address at the Human Rights Campaign‘s fundraising dinner in Los Angeles. She spent part of the speech making a historical comparison between “book bans” and Nazi Germany during World War II. “History teaches us that democracies don’t disappear […]
The Conservative Political Action Coalition gave Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) a “conservative rating” of 68%, about on par with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and ahead of Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who received a score of 54%. McConnell’s score this year is 12% higher than last year when CPAC gave him a rating of […]
The New York City Council filed an appeal to the state’s highest court Monday, asking them to reinstate a law the council passed that granted noncitizens the right to vote in city elections. In 2021, the council passed a law that would have allowed 800,000 noncitizens with green cards or work authorizations the right to […]
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) spoke out against the New York appeals court decision on Monday that saw former President Donald Trump‘s civil fraud judgement reduced to $175 million. The decision granted the former president a 10-day delay for him to pay his bond, which had previously been worth $464 million. In reacting to this new […]
China has threatened to take more “resolute” steps to constrain the Philippines’s access to a military outpost in the South China Sea despite the U.S. ally’s “strong protest” of a maritime maneuver that damaged a Philippine vessel. “China’s continued interference with the Philippines’ routine and lawful activities in its own exclusive economic zone is unacceptable,” […]
Department of Homeland Security personnel raided the residences of rap mogul Sean Combs amid a plethora of allegations of sex trafficking and other offenses. Raids were carried out in properties belonging to Combs, known professionally as Diddy, in Miami and Los Angeles. The raids were carried out on a warrant from New York, according to […]
President Joe Biden’s centers of support in Pennsylvania experienced significant amounts of emigration, jeopardizing his chances of winning the state in the 2024 election. Biden won Pennsylvania by just 80,555 votes in 2020. Philadelphia County and Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s second-largest city, were two of his biggest areas of support that helped him […]
California now has the highest unemployment rate in the country, reaching 5.3%, according to data from the Employment Development Department. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, California lost 2.7 million jobs due to stay-at-home orders. Since then, California has rebounded by adding 3 million jobs to its market, averaging roughly 66,000 jobs per month. […]
The former chair of the Federal Election Commission filed a complaint against Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA), claiming he solicited and collected millions of dollars illegally to roll back parts of California‘s Proposition 47. “I’ve never seen anything quite this excessive, honestly,” Ann Ravel told the Los Angeles Times. Ravel, who served as chairwoman of the FEC from […]
Officials at an Arizona church in the border town of San Luis say they have been barred by the city from feeding immigrants and others in need, a practice at the church for nearly 25 years. Gethsemani Baptist Church, located a five-minute drive from the Arizona-Mexico border, made it its mission to serve food to […]
