The House held Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress on Wednesday for his refusal to turn over the audio recording of President Joe Biden’s classified documents interview with special counsel Robert Hur. All Republicans but one voted for the resolution that holds Garland in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena. House […]
A national association representing thousands of college financial aid officers is asking Congress to extend the Biden administration’s deadline for reporting new financial transparency metrics. The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, which represents roughly 29,000 financial aid professionals at nearly 3,000 institutions of higher education, sent a letter this week to the House and Senate committees with […]
The dream of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas to defeat more biological female competition was dashed after the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected a challenge from Thomas that would have allowed the athlete to compete in elite competitions for women. Thomas, a biological man who identifies as female, requested the Switzerland-based court repudiate the current […]
President Joe Biden could be forced to walk a thin line to promote his gun control agenda while his son Hunter Biden‘s legal team considers appealing the first son’s conviction on gun-related charges all the way to the Supreme Court. Hours after a jury convicted the younger Biden on Tuesday of lying on a federal form to purchase […]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Democrats’ recent attempts to undermine the Supreme Court. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have come under concentrated attack from Democrats in recent years, with such scrutiny intensifying after the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022. In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, […]
“Squad” Democrats are going all in for Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) as he faces a competitive primary at the end of the month, with some donating thousands to attack his opponent as the race attracts millions in outside spending. Bowman is facing Westchester County Executive George Latimer in the June 25 primary, a contest that […]
A group of Republican House members stood alongside a non-profit organization Wednesday as it released the 32nd edition of the “Congressional Pig Book,” an annual, published compilation of “pork-barrel” projects in the federal budget, in an effort to shed light on what they view as wasteful pet projects. The non-profit group Citizens Against Government Waste […]
FBI agents raided the home of a Feeding Our Future defendant on Wednesday after the names of jurors in a fraud case connected to the organization were leaked. Mukhtar Shariff’s Minnesota home was raided as the FBI investigates the origin of the jurors’ identity leak after one juror was bribed to vote in favor of […]
Los Angeles has ended its mandate for city employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine over a year after the country’s national emergency on the disease ended in May 2023. The City Council voted 13-0 to end the vaccine mandate, which had applied to both preexisting and new employees. The city has also provided a way […]
The odds that former President Donald Trump will win back the White House have increased to a record high of 58%, according to political oddsmaker SportsHandle. Its latest election odds tracker of overseas betting on the race shows President Joe Biden trailing badly. His odds of winning reelection are just 39%. The site said that […]
