A group of Democrats are demanding answers from Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the Biden administration’s “highly unusual” decision to approve two arms sales to Israel without congressional authorization. The 19 lawmakers, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), penned a letter to Blinken on Friday requesting additional information on […]
An iconic San Francisco toy store that served as the inspiration behind the Toy Story franchise announced it would be closing in February due to high crime. The Luhn family opened Jeffrey’s Toys in 1938, and the business grew to have seven locations, according to a report. Now, the last location at 45 Kearny Street […]
As artificial intelligence sweeps the workforce, prompting lawmakers to both regulate the new technology and adopt it for their own use, one House Republican is looking at the possibilities of implementing AI into Congress’s daily functions. Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI), the chairman of the House Committee on Administration, told Fox News that the new technology […]
Surfing retailer Rip Curl has wiped posts on its social media pages that featured a transgender woman after receiving criticism from followers. Rip Curl, a company known for selling swimming clothes and surf gear, had uploaded photos featuring Sasha Lowerson, a transgender surfer, on its social media sites on Thursday. However, the photos have since […]
Washington drivers will receive a $100 fine if they drive, park, stand, or stop illegally in bus lanes starting Monday. The new fine is the second phase in the District Department of Transportation’s and Washington Metro’s Clear Lanes program, which hopes to decrease travel times for Metrobuses by ensuring that bus lanes remain clear. The […]
EXCLUSIVE — A new congressional proposal would prohibit federal dollars from being directed to a Hamas-linked United Nations agency dishing out Palestinian aid. The State Department revealed Friday it paused funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency and is reviewing allegations that 12 of the office’s employees may have participated in the Hamas-led Oct. […]
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA — President Joe Biden‘s recent campaigning in South Carolina saw him meet repeatedly with black churchgoers in the Columbia area, foreshadowing a clear effort by the president’s team to leverage religion in contrasting Biden with former President Donald Trump. Biden, who is a Catholic, attends Mass weekly and routinely discusses how his faith […]
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a ruling on Monday instructing a lower court to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of a decades-old state law barring the use of Medicaid dollars for abortion costs. The 3-2 decision overturns the lower court’s ruling to dismiss the complicated case and upends a 1985 precedent in which the […]
A judge grilled a Department of Justice prosecutor on Monday over why the government charged Charles Littlejohn with just one count of unauthorized disclosure of taxes after Littlejohn admitted to leaking the private information of more than a thousand taxpayers to the media in 2020. “The fact that he is facing one felony count, I […]
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, once a 15-year-old gold medal phenom, was announced on Monday to be disqualified from the 2022 Beijing Olympics figure skating competition after having been found guilty of an anti-doping violation by Switzerland’s Court of Arbitration for Sport. Valieva will be banned from Olympic competitions for four years, backdating to Dec. […]
