The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will begin sending February payments to Colorado‘s low-income households in two days. Food stamps will be sent out on Thursday through Feb. 10 in the Centennial State. The average payment per household member per month in Colorado is $181. Approximately 540,300 people, or 9% of Colorado’s population, receive SNAP benefits. A household of one can […]
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) finished in 5th place out of 10 candidates in a straw poll following Thursday night’s Republican congressional primary debate for the state’s 4th District. Boebert received 12 of 117 votes cast after the 90-minute debate, placing behind Logan County Commissioner Jerry Sonnenberg, who received 22 votes; former Colorado House Minority Leader […]
Surfer Bethany Hamilton will join Riley Gaines, a former athlete and advocate to protect women’s sports, at a Missouri library on Friday, where the two will promote Gaines’s new children’s book. The book Gaines and Hamilton will promote, Happy No Snakes Day, teaches “the importance of standing up for the truth.” Hamilton, who survived a […]
A House Republican tasked with pursuing previously unseen portions of witness testimony related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot accepted an offer from the White House to view the unredacted transcripts. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), the chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee, said he would view the transcripts after months of requests, making […]
The state of Michigan will send out checks to eligible residents worth an average of $550 as part of an expansion to the working families tax credit in two weeks. The Michigan Department of Treasury says that roughly 700,000 households will get a payment from the expanded credit when the distribution begins on Feb. 13. The state says the payments […]
President Joe Biden is taking his fundraising efforts for his 2024 reelection bid to the heart of former President Donald Trump’s campaign, making stops in South Florida despite Democratic reservations about succeeding in the GOP stronghold. Top fundraisers are hosting the Democratic president in Miami and Palm Beach, in the same territory as Trump’s Mar-a-Lago […]
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), who is running against President Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination, filed a petition with the Wisconsin Supreme Court for his name to be added to the state’s ballot ahead of the April 2 primary. The Biden challenger claims he was unlawfully excluded from the battleground state’s ballot by the […]
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Monday she’s feeling “tired” after “working harder than I ever had” due to the Supreme Court‘s landmark cases and a growing number of emergency petitions this term. “And to be almost 70 years old, this isn’t what I expected,” Sotomayor said Monday during an appearance at the University of California, Berkeley, […]
The hosts of The View think the Republican Party ought to be “a little bit afraid” of musician Taylor Swift and the influence that she has on younger people. The talk show hosts discussed how various Republican personalities have talked about Swift and reports that the Biden administration is seeking her endorsement in the 2024 […]
The Illinois Board of Elections unanimously decided to allow former President Donald Trump to remain on the ballot in the state, arguing it did not have the authority to determine his eligibility under the Constitution. The petitioners had argued Trump was ineligible to run for president, alleging he committed an insurrection with the Capitol riot […]
