After a Super Tuesday loss to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) suggested Schiff’s campaign spent millions of dollars donated by billionaires fueling lies to get a Republican opponent on the general election ticket. “Our opponents threw everything — every trick, millions of dollars, every trick in the playbook — to knock us […]
Maryland’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will conclude the distribution of its March payments in 17 days. Roughly 13% of Maryland’s population, about 772,700 people, relies on food stamps. The amount received varies depending on income and the size of the household, but the average amount is $180. Distribution of food stamps in the state started Monday and will continue through […]
While the dust settles on most of the Super Tuesday primaries, some states have yet to declare definitive winners, setting candidates up for runoff elections. Here is a list of four key runoffs where candidates are vying to secure a win after failing to meet their state’s threshold requirement needed to come out on top. […]
The White House insists President Joe Biden‘s “got this” after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) encouraged his Republican conference of lawmakers not to heckle the commander in chief during his State of the Union address. The White House and the Biden campaign have used clips of the president responding to, for example, Rep. Marjorie Taylor […]
A hearing before members of the Georgia Senate on Wednesday brought new details over the effort to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from Donald Trump’s election subversion case, including information about her meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris. Attorney Ashleigh Merchant, who first raised allegations about Willis’s relationship with a special prosecutor on […]
Mexican beer brand Corona is shaking things up with a new marketing campaign, recruiting the help of Chilean actor Pedro Pascal in an effort to reach Latino consumers. The beer brand’s previous campaign, “La Vida Mas Fina,” starred rapper Snoop Dogg. Going forward with Pascal, however, the company said it is seeking “a shift in […]
The House passed the first half of its annual appropriations bills on Wednesday, marking the first step toward avoiding a government shutdown that is scheduled to start over the weekend. Lawmakers passed the spending bill with a 339-85 vote, overcoming the two-thirds threshold needed to advance the lower chamber. The spending legislation passed after overwhelming […]
The saying that everything is bigger in Texas may now apply to a bitter intraparty brawl following Tuesday night’s primary election. Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton separately sought revenge on incumbent Republicans they viewed as disloyal, at times working against one another in an attempt to gain control over the state’s Republican […]
Former Florida Republican Party Chairman Christian Ziegler, who was removed from office amid a sex scandal, will not face any charges related to an alleged sex tape, the state attorney’s office said in a memo on Wednesday. The state attorney’s office said there was not enough evidence to support a criminal charge of video voyeurism […]
South Carolina lawmakers are inching closer to passing a bill that would allow anyone who legally owns a gun to carry it, even without a permit to do so. The South Carolina House voted 86-33, mostly along party lines, to advance the bill. The Senate and House had previously passed permitless carry bills, but each […]
