(The Center Square) – Monday was the deadline for candidates that didn’t run in Illinois’ March primary to file for ballot access. It was also the first hearing in a case challenging the prohibition of such candidates from being slated. The law Gov. J.B. Pritzker hastily enacted last month after the legislature gutted and replaced a completely separate bill with the […]
(The Center Square) – Congress’ probe into rising antisemitism on college campuses includes letters to the leaders of 10 prominent universities, with signatures led by a North Carolina congresswoman and leaders of five other key committees. Citing confirmed legislative and oversight jurisdiction from the U.S. Supreme Court, six committees in the U.S. House of Representatives […]
President Joe Biden did not tiptoe around former President Donald Trump’s felony conviction at a Monday fundraiser, his first since a New York jury handed down the verdict in Trump’s hush money case. “Folks, the campaign entered unchartered territory last week,” Biden told donors in Greenwich, Connecticut, four days after Trump was convicted on 34 […]
(The Center Square) – A bill that passed the Illinois General Assembly will allow traffic violators to get three unpaid traffic tickets per year before they have their license suspended. After backlash earlier this year, state Rep. Justin Slaughter didn’t move forward with a controversial traffic stop bill that would have prohibited officers from pulling over individuals caught […]
(The Center Square) – Fourteen school districts in North Carolina will replace 59 school buses through $19.2 million in rebate funding by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Clean School Bus Program Awards is sending 25 clean school buses to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, 10 to Ascend Leadership Academy, and nine to Columbus County Schools. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg […]
Attorney General Merrick Garland is testifying at 10 a.m. before the House Judiciary Committee as Republicans question his refusal to provide access to audio recordings of President Joe Biden’s interview with former special counsel Robert Hur. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER In February, the committee subpoenaed Garland for the interview tapes […]
(The Center Square) – North Carolina’s NFL owner, estimated to be the 94th-richest person on the planet at a net worth better than $20 billion, has proposed the city of Charlotte help pay for upgrades to the stadium he owns. Taxpayers would foot $650 million, a fixed investment according to the Carolina Panthers’ release on […]
(The Center Square) – Former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden by 12% in North Carolina among choices expected to be available Nov. 5. The latest poll produced results far different from any other in North Carolina to date. Trump is favored by 44% of 600 likely voters in the poll conducted May 29-June […]
While President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are different from each other in many ways, there are several similarities in how they have approached the office. Despite their diverging platforms and plans about how to make the country successful, there are threads that have run through Trump’s first term into Biden’s. Here are […]
President Joe Biden bristled when asked if he could meet the challenges of a second term during a rare print interview that attracted attention for his notably weaker defense of Israel’s war in Gaza. Biden, the oldest man to serve as president, has faced scrutiny over his age. He would be 86 at the end […]