The House rejected a measure to halt foreign aid to Ukraine after a majority of Republicans joined Democrats in shooting down the amendment that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) sought to attach to one of the chamber’s must-pass spending bills. Lawmakers voted 70-342 on the amendment, short of the majority threshold needed to attach the […]
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts did not announce that Friday would be the last day of opinions, so the court’s several remaining opinions will continue into next week. Originally, Wednesday was set to be the last day opinions would be released, but the site has now been updated to include Thursday and Friday as […]
(The Center Square) – Mislabeling fake meat will carry a fine of up to $10,000 in Iowa starting July 1. New regulations under Senate File 2391, which the governor signed into law in May, restrict misbranding food products as egg or meat. Violations will carry a fine of $500 to $10,000. The regulations also allow […]
Energy regulators voted Thursday to approve construction of a massive liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Louisiana, paving the way for a larger fight between environmental advocates and fossil fuel groups as the project makes its way to the Energy Department for a final decision. Members of the three-person Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) […]
(The Center Square) – It’s been nearly a month since asylum seekers set up camp on property next to SR-167 in Kent, urging city leaders to let them move into a vacant hotel on Central Avenue. “We are here one month now,” said Oscar, who on Tuesday told The Center Square he came from Africa. […]
(The Center Square) – Three political parties respectively supporting longshot presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West and Randall Terry were denied access to North Carolina’s November ballot Wednesday by the state Board of Elections. The board said it would reconsider in July. We The People, for Kennedy; Justice for All Party, for West; […]
(The Center Square) – An executive order reestablishing a maternal health data task force has been issued by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Executive Order 32, announced Wednesday afternoon, aims to improve prenatal care and is “centered around enhancing the quality of care mothers and infants receive” in the commonwealth. The order reestablishes the Task Force […]
(The Center Square) — New Jersey’s ‘sore loser’ law blocks independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from appearing on the November ballot, according to a new lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed in state Superior Court on Tuesday, argues that Kennedy is ineligible to run as an independent because doing so would violate a state law […]
Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden took shots at each other on the eve of the debate with viral videos. Trump’s social media post, a sketch from Fox News host Jimmy Failla that was originally released in March, advertised a prescription titled “Bidenica.” The video referenced Biden’s various verbal slip-ups in his speeches […]
Two giant pandas are on their way from China to the San Diego Zoo, the first pair of pandas to enter the United States in 21 years, according to the zoo’s press release. U.S. officials and leaders of the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance joined Chinese dignitaries and conservation leaders in China’s Sichuan province to […]
