A new male contraceptive is showing promising results in the early stages of human clinical trials, meaning it could launch a new era of reproductive technologies. “I think we as a society, especially younger men, millennials, are realizing that we need to change the overbearing reliance on women as a whole as the main users […]
Millions of beneficiaries receive March’s Supplemental Security Income payment, worth up to $943 for individual filers, in 16 days. The payment, which goes out on Friday, March 1, will mark the second paycheck for 2024 because no payments went out in January due to a scheduling quirk in the Social Security Administration’s calendar. The maximum […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) defended President Joe Biden as “one of the most successful presidents in modern American history” amid concerns over the president’s mental acuity. Ocasio-Cortez touted Biden’s successes in his first term as president, including securing the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and the American Rescue Plan. “I know who I’m going […]
Montana’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will begin sending its March payments, worth up to $1,751, in 18 days. SNAP payments in Montana are distributed over five days each month, beginning on the 2nd. March’s payments will be sent from March 2 to March 6. The dates recipients receive their payments depend on their SNAP case number, account number, Social Security number, or […]
The Missouri Freedom Caucus urged lawmakers to finish taking on a bill that would modify the process for approving constitutional amendments before attending the Super Bowl victory parade for the Kansas City Chiefs on Wednesday. “Unless the MO Senate perfects SJR74 today to protect the MO Constitution from being bought off my liberal billionaires, no […]
A New York snowstorm could benefit Democrats as votes are counted to determine the successor to former Republican Rep. George Santos and the balance of power in the U.S. House. Last night’s storm, which lingered into Tuesday, covering roads and parking lots of the 3rd Congressional District’s polling locations with up to 10 inches of […]
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis submitted falsehoods in a court filing in which she admitted to a “personal relationship” with prosecutor Nathan Wade, according to new arguments from one of former President Donald Trump‘s co-defendants in the Georgia 2020 election subversion case. Mike Roman, a 2020 campaign operative to Trump who first surfaced the existence of the […]
House Democrats are pressing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to schedule a vote on the defense spending bill providing aid to Israel and Ukraine, suggesting the party would find a workaround solution to bring the legislation to the floor even without the speaker’s blessing. Flanked by Democratic military veterans on Tuesday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries […]
The three-person Iowa House Public Safety Committee advanced a bill on Monday that would protect Iowa school teachers and staff who carry guns from legal action under qualified immunity. The legislation was introduced just weeks after the Perry High School shooting, in which Dylan Butler, a 17-year-old Perry student, fatally shot Ahmir Jolliff, an 11-year-old […]
The U.S. Marshals Service found that serious threats to federal judges and prosecutors spiked considerably in recent years, increasing over 50% from last year. The federal agency recorded 457 serious threats against federal judges that prompted an investigation in 2023. That is a 52.3% increase from 2022, when the agency investigated 300 threats. In 2021, […]
