Federal juries in Washington, D.C., have a pretty consistent record of convictions in cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, and a defense lawyer who has worked in over 50 of them thinks she knows why. “This is a Democratic town. People here are Democrats,” Kira Anne West said. After two years of […]
A coalition of abortion rights advocates launched an effort to put a measure on the ballot in the 2024 elections on Thursday asking voters to enshrine abortion rights into the Missouri Constitution. The organization Missourians for Constitutional Freedom has until May to collect over 170,000 signatures from registered voters for the amendment language to be […]
Former President Donald Trump is being warned by allies about potentially choosing former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley as his running mate in 2024. Close Trump allies warned that selecting Haley as his vice president would result in an “intra-party coup,” Politico reported, with Republican senators moving to use every tool at their disposal to […]
Montana’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will begin its February payments, worth up to $1,751, in 15 days. Montana‘s SNAP payments are distributed over five days each month, starting on the second. February’s payments will be disbursed from Feb. 2 to Feb. 6. The dates recipients get their payments depend on their SNAP case number, account number, Social Security number, or […]
EXCLUSIVE — Kari Lake received the endorsement of Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), a sign of Republicans in Washington, D.C., starting to coalesce around her as she vies for a Senate seat in Arizona. Marshall is the fourth senator to endorse Lake, the former TV news anchor who rose to political prominence last cycle in her […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) days in his prestigious position, like those of his predecessor, could come to a premature end as a new year hasn’t relieved old problems for the top Republican. After an initial honeymoon period following his election as House speaker amid the chaos of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s removal, many House […]
The White House released a memo on Thursday criticizing the House Republicans’ effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “Instead of working across the aisle to find bipartisan solutions to strengthen border security and fix an immigration system that has been broken for decades, House Republicans are choosing to play extreme, far-right politics by […]
(The Center Square) – Renters in Denver are paying less and have more apartments to choose from, according to data from the Apartment Association of Metro Denver. Vacancy levels increased throughout the Denver metro area during the fourth quarter of 2023, up 0.4% to 5.8%. Average rents declined 1% during the quarter, averaging $1,870 a […]
The number of housing starts ticked up in December despite pressure from high mortgage rates, a bit of good news for the economy. Housing starts, the change in the number of new residential buildings that began construction, rose 1.9% from November to this past month, according to a Thursday report from the Census Bureau. They are now at a seasonally adjusted annual rate […]
(The Center Square) – Preschools in Illinois are expanding in some areas due to the $250 million taxpayer-funded Smart Start Program. Gov. J.B. Pritzker said the Smart Start Program looks to make early childhood daycare and preschool more accessible for families throughout the state. The program is run by the Illinois State Board of Education, which […]
