Former President Donald Trump‘s takeover of the Republican National Committee was finalized Thursday when Michael Whatley, the former chairman of the North Carolina GOP, replaced former Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. Whatley is joined by Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as co-chairperson. She replaces former RNC co-leader Drew McKissick as committee members are holding their spring meeting in Houston, Texas. The […]
A United Airlines flight was interrupted Thursday when a tire came off the airplane during takeoff. The plane was headed to Osaka, Japan, from San Francisco International Airport, but upon losing one of its 12 tires, it changed course to land safely at Los Angeles International Airport. There, 249 passengers and crew members disembarked to […]
President Joe Biden isn’t making an imminent decision on former President Donald Trump‘s demands to debate him ahead of the general election, Democratic strategists close to his campaign say. Neither Biden nor Trump has yet cleared the delegate threshold to secure their party’s nomination, but the dueling, post-Super Tuesday campaign suspensions of Rep. Dean Phillips […]
Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) is putting the blame on Republicans for the millions of dollars in high-tech fentanyl scanners that have remained unused at the southern border, asking Congress to approve the funds needed to install them. The drug scanning equipment has sat unused because Customs and Border Protection doesn’t have the $300 million needed […]
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis isn’t just facing a threat of disqualification from former President Donald Trump‘s criminal racketeering case. She’s now also facing multiple challenges to her reelection in the fall. Christian Wise Smith, a Democrat who has served as Atlanta city solicitor and as a Fulton County prosecutor, filed paperwork Friday at the […]
In two days, California will wrap up the distribution of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments to low-income households for the month of March. Payments are sent out on the first of the month and will continue until the 10th of the month. The dates when benefits are sent out to qualified low-income residents and families […]
The Alaska Department of Revenue is slated to send payments from the Permanent Fund Dividend to another batch of residents who have yet to receive their checks from the program in 13 days. The Alaskans who will get their PFD check on March 21 include those with the “Eligible-Not Paid” status as of Wednesday who also have yet to get […]
Monthly payments of $528 will be allocated in seven days to 100 low-income entrepreneurs in Ann Arbor, Michigan, who are participants in the Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor program. Conducted by the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions team, this two-year pilot initiative began distributing payments in January to individuals who had been selected beforehand. Kristin Seefeldt, the associate director […]
A Saudi Arabian farm has stopped pumping Arizona groundwater after previously having unlimited access to the state’s dwindling groundwater supply. An inspection from Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) and the Arizona State Land Department found that the company, Fondomonte Arizona, had stopped pumping water in Butler Valley, near the Colorado River. Hobbs took responsibility for the […]
President Joe Biden welcomed a better-than-expected February jobs report one day after his last State of the Union address before November’s general election. Biden used his State of the Union address to describe the economy, under his leadership, as “the greatest comeback story never told.” That was a tacit acknowledgment that although economic indicators have been improving, consumer sentiment, at […]
