President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. military to build a temporary pier in the Mediterranean Sea to provide another way to get humanitarian aid into Gaza, despite concerns expressed by some U.S. Agency for International Development staffers, according to a report from the group’s inspector general. Biden announced his decision to order the construction of […]
People are depressed about the economy going into Labor Day and the final election push, believing that inflation under the Biden-Harris administration has erased their dreams. In a couple of new surveys, respondents said that the dream of buying a house has been snuffed out by rising prices and that most of their daily hard […]
As Vice President Kamala Harris’s and former President Donald Trump’s campaigns move forward as the mainstream candidates, some third-party candidates still made a splash this election cycle. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his campaign last week and endorsed Trump, saying he would take his name off the ballot in swing states to […]
(The Center Square) – The University of California Berkeley is expanding its antisemitism education in the 2024-25 school year as well as banning encampments and prohibiting masking to conceal one’s identity. Former Chancellor Carol Christ announced “new campus programs to provide antisemitism education to larger numbers of students, staff, and faculty,” in a letter to […]
(The Center Square) – Illinois retailers, consumers and taxpayers are all paying a price for organized retail crime. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul told The Center Square that organized retail crime involves much more than just smash-and-grab incidents. “It’s rail theft. It’s theft from warehouses, theft from big box stores, the Home Depots, the Walmarts […]
(The Center Square) – A stalled congressional effort to update the nation’s five-year Farm Bill hinges on a disagreement over how to calculate food stamp benefits for 42.1 million Americans. In a letter sent to U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Tuesday, the Democratic Women’s Caucus urged him to rework the current proposal so […]
(The Center Square) — A proposal for election transparency has one state legislator going against the Department of State. At the center of the split: changes made to Pennsylvania’s elections stemming from the passage of Act 77 of 2019. Rep. Brad Roae, R-Meadville, introduced House Bill 2542 to require the Department to again update precinct […]
(The Center Square) – The California Senate passed a contentious bill to allow for undocumented immigrants to use the state’s zero-down, zero-interest home “loans” program despite national backlash following coverage of the bill’s looming passage. With 23 votes for and 11 votes against — including all nine Republicans and Democratic State Sens. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, […]
More than five weeks after launching her White House bid, Vice President Kamala Harris will sit down for an interview with a major network as the campaign heads into the home stretch. Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), will sit down with CNN’s Dana Bash on Thursday in Georgia after weeks of […]
Iran looms President Joe Biden came into the White House with a foreign policy chip on his shoulder. He wanted to prove his decades in the Senate had equipped him to know more about the world than his former boss, President Barack Obama, ever gave him credit for. While he tried to separate himself from […]
