A key Senate committee is planning to vote again on Julie Su’s nomination to become the next secretary of labor, according to a new nomination notice posted on Tuesday, although it’s unclear if the acting labor secretary has received any additional support that would enable her to win on the Senate floor. The White House […]
The annual Conservative Political Action Conference will be held outside Washington, D.C., and will see various domestic and international right-leaning politicians and speakers. The conference begins on Wednesday and concludes on Saturday, with speakers taking the stage at the Gaylord National in Oxon Hill, Maryland, beginning on Thursday. Here are some of the speakers addressing […]
A pro-Ukraine group launched a six-figure ad buy in key districts in a bid to urge Republican members of Congress to push forward the supplemental legislation, which includes military aid for Ukraine, for a vote on the House floor. The minute-long spot from Republicans for Ukraine, “No Weakness in the Face of Aggression,” features lifelong […]
Several Democratic states and cities have given more than $500 million of COVID-19 relief funds to illegal immigrants. Most of the $517 million went to cash payments for immigrants in states including Washington, Illinois, and New Jersey and were drawn from the $1.9 trillion federal COVID-19 relief package, the American Rescue Plan, according to Fox […]
Ed Clark, executive in charge of the Boeing 737 Max production program, was removed on Wednesday, the company said in an email to employees. Stan Deal, CEO of Boeing’s commercial plane unit, wrote in a company memo that Clark would be leaving the company after nearly 18 years, according to a copy obtained by CBS […]
President Joe Biden will speak in Culver City, California, on Wednesday afternoon at 3:45 p.m. EST, continuing his three-day fundraising tour for his reelection campaign. This is Biden’s third trip to California in a little over two months. The president will also make his way to fundraise in San Francisco and Los Altos Hills. Ahead […]
A private U.S. lunar lander reached the moon’s orbit on Wednesday, one day before it will attempt an even greater feat — touching the surface. A lunar touchdown would put the U.S. back on the moon for the first time since 1972, the year NASA terminated the Apollo program. If all goes as planned, the […]
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will send its final payments for February to low-income residents in Maryland on Friday. In the Old Line State, food stamps are distributed in the SNAP payments from Feb. 4 to Feb. 23, with a recipient’s specific date depending on the first three letters of a household’s last name. Those with last names beginning […]
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will send out its final direct payments for the month of February to Georgia families over the next two days. Food stamps are sent out from Feb. 5-23 in the Peach State. SNAP payments will be issued to beneficiaries depending on the last two digits of their client ID numbers. Beneficiary IDs ending in […]
Republicans in the Wisconsin State Assembly approved a proposed amendment to the state’s constitution on Tuesday that would limit Gov. Tony Evers’s (D-WI) veto powers by prohibiting him from raising taxes or fees on his own. The proposal, Assembly Joint Resolution 112, would restrict Evers and future Wisconsin governors from “exercising his or her partial […]
