Two transgender students have sued the state of Virginia, alleging the state’s public school guidance violates a state Education Department law. Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) issued the guidance last year, which requires that transgender students use the bathroom that corresponds with their sex assigned at birth and allows for teachers to not use preferred pronouns […]
Residents of Ann Arbor, Michigan, who applied to receive monthly payments of $528 under a program for low-income small business owners and entrepreneurs will see their second check today. Payments started going out last month to hundred applicants that were selected to participate in a two-year guaranteed income pilot program called Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor, led by the […]
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre rebuffed an offer by EMILY’s List to serve as its president, opting instead to stick with Biden. Two people familiar with the offer told NBC News that the board of Emily’s List, a group that funds politicians in favor of abortion rights, approached Jean-Pierre for the position, offering an […]
Georgia residents who receive assistance from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will see their final direct payments for the month of February in eight days. SNAP is sent out starting on Feb. 5, and it will end on Feb. 23 in the Peach State. SNAP payments will be issued to recipients’ accounts on days depending on the last […]
Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) dropped his bid for Montana Senate on Thursday, less than a week after announcing a run, according to a source working on the campaign. The conservative congressman had been testing the waters and had been publicly teasing a campaign for months. He announced his Senate run Friday, entering a primary to […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) harshly criticized the United States government’s failure to compensate victims of COVID-19 vaccine injuries, describing it as “bulls***.” The Georgia lawmaker made the statement during a congressional hearing on Thursday, during which Dr. Peter Marks, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research within the Food and Drug Administration, […]
Fran Itkoff, an elderly disabled woman in California, was dismissed from her volunteer work at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society because she asked about the use of pronouns in an email signature. “I was confused. I didn’t know what it was and what it meant,” she said. When Itkoff was allegedly asked by an unnamed […]
An FBI informant has been charged with two counts of making false statements to federal authorities about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s business with a Ukrainian energy company. A grand jury in the Central District of California indicted Alexander Smirnov, 43, as part of special counsel David Weiss’s investigation, with Weiss separately […]
Former President Donald Trump‘s proposed changes to install three allies into leadership roles at the Republican National Committee has led to some consternation that the organization will become a front to pay off Trump’s extensive legal fees. The former president endorsed North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Michael Whatley to replace Ronna McDaniel as chair of the […]
Former President Donald Trump made his final pitch Thursday to the Supreme Court in his bid to pause a trial over the 2020 election subversion charges brought against him by special counsel Jack Smith. “There are overwhelming reasons why the case should not go to trial ‘in three months or less,’” Trump told the Supreme […]
