Some conservatives are opposing the bipartisan child tax credit legislation by saying it doesn’t do enough to prevent illegal immigrants from receiving the benefit, presenting an obstacle to its passage in the House. While there is broad support for the bill, some cracks have started to form. Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), an influential member of […]
The White House repeatedly called the execution of an Alabama inmate by nitrogen gas “troubling” Friday afternoon. Kenneth Smith, a death row inmate convicted of a 1988 murder for hire, originally survived an attempt to execute him in 2022 by lethal injection. He became the first known inmate executed by nitrogen gas Thursday night. White […]
Thousands of children in Massachusetts remain out of school as unionized teachers enter their sixth day of strikes. The Newton Teachers Association is demanding higher pay, parental leave, and more school counselors during its strike while racking up court-imposed fines that have reached $375,000. It is illegal for teachers to strike in Massachusetts, and Gov. […]
The View hosts sounded off on prosecutor Fani Willis for compromising her RICO case against Donald Trump with allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a special prosecutor. Willis is accused of being in a romantic relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade. The two are in the middle of trying a case against Trump over alleged election interference. […]
The White House discounted a letter signed by Republican governors in support of Gov. Greg Abbott‘s (R-TX) directive at the southern border. President Joe Biden is locked in a battle with Abbott and House Republican lawmakers over what the administration has claimed are “political stunts” surrounding the immigration debate. On Thursday, 25 additional Republican governors […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) expressed he was “willing” to send the Florida State Guard to Texas amid an influx of illegal border crossings. DeSantis made his support for a bill in the Florida House clear during a press conference Friday. HB 1551 would remove the requirement that the Florida State Guard be deployed exclusively within […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is fundraising off of Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s (D-NY) pro-Israel primary challenger, who jumped in the race last month and is receiving support from a GOP megadonor. “When right-wing megadonors attack one of us, they’re trying to silence our whole movement,” an email from Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign states. “And in this moment, standing […]
Two smaller airlines, Spirit Airlines and JetBlue Airways, want to merge in order to better compete with the four large airlines. If Spirit and JetBlue merged, they would be the fifth-biggest airline, behind American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, and Southwest Airlines. The federal government is blocking the merger, and there are rumblings that […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) talked up President Joe Biden and praised the Democratic Party for “crushing” recent elections ahead of South Carolina’s first-in-the-nation Democratic primary. Speaking in The Palmetto State during a Thursday interview with MSNBC’s Alex Wagner, Newsom uplifted Democrats with the 2024 election season in full swing, “We just started. Tag, we’re it […]
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Friday it is alarming that fake, sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift spread across social media earlier this week and that Congress should pass a bill criminalizing the sharing of similar images. Explicit images of the pop star, believed to be generated by artificial intelligence, spread like […]
