President Joe Biden said Monday that he hoped that Israel and Hamas could agree to a new ceasefire deal by the end of the coming weekend. The United States, Egypt, and Qatar have continued to broker conversations between Israel and the terrorist group in recent weeks and months. Biden himself has come under increasing domestic […]
A group of California veterans calling themselves “Border Vets” are trying to do their part to fix the immigration crisis by filling gaps in the border with razor wire to prevent immigrants from illegally entering the United States. The group helps install metal stakes to fix razor wire in sealing the border in the Jacumba […]
A member of the Republican National Committee who circulated two draft resolutions opposing picking up former President Donald Trump’s legal bills said the organization’s job is to win elections. “We should spend our finite resources on political operations and actually winning elections, and paying any candidate’s legal fees — or frankly, any other outside fees […]
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) took to the Senate floor late Monday afternoon, calling on their colleagues to work together to pass funding bills for several key government agencies before a Friday deadline to prevent a government shutdown. Funding for the departments of Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, […]
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg asked a judge on Monday to impose a gag order in the hush-money case against Donald Trump in New York, citing the former president’s “long history” of public inflammatory remarks about those involved in Trump’s legal cases. Bragg asked Judge Juan Merchan to prohibit Trump from speaking about witnesses when […]
Protesters gathered in Manhattan on Monday ahead of President Joe Biden’s interview on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, accusing the president of enabling genocide against Palestinians. Jewish Voice For Peace NYC said on X that hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers and their allies occupied the main lobby at 30 Rockefeller Center and that 50 […]
The chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party has launched his bid to replace Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel after she steps down from the top position next month. Michael Whatley announced his candidacy to replace McDaniel in a message sent to RNC members on Monday, according to a copy of the email that […]
Senate candidate Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ) filed a federal lawsuit Monday in New Jersey over the state’s controversial “county line” system. Kim argued the current system favors certain candidates, in this case, New Jersey’s first lady and his Senate primary opponent Tammy Murphy. The lawsuit states the current system violates the First and 14th amendments […]
Residents of Ann Arbor, Michigan, who qualified for a program for 100 entrepreneurs or small-business owners will see their next monthly payment in 18 days for March. The two-year guaranteed income pilot program, called Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor, is led by the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions team. The payments started going out in January to selected applicants, and they will be sent out on […]
McDonald’s franchise owners in California are targeting Democrats who supported a bill to give fast food workers higher wages and set new working conditions. The McDonald’s California Operators PAC is a major contributor to the California Alliance of Family Owned Businesses PAC, which has been running negative ads against Democratic Assemblymen Chris Holden of Pasadena […]