(The Center Square) – School districts in Detroit, Lansing and Pontiac will each receive $5.9 million in federal funding to buy 15 clean-powered school buses apiece. The funding flows from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Clean School Bus Program grants. Funding through third-party multistate grantees First Student Inc. and Highland CSB 1 will help buy […]
(The Center Square) – Few understand the complexity and scope of sex trafficking in Pennsylvania, experts say, making it harder to combat the issue at the legislative level. The seminal issue arose during the Senate Majority Policy Committee’s recent public hearing in Pittsburgh in keeping with Human Trafficking Awareness Month. While experts and law enforcement […]
Eight years after losing the Iowa caucuses, former President Donald Trump won the Hawkeye State by a record margin of nearly 30 percentage points, winning an outright majority of the state and blowing the polls out of the water. The former president did so despite spending more time in Manhattan courtrooms than in Iowa and […]
The first Republican nominating contest of the 2024 presidential cycle came and went Monday night, with the race being called before anyone even showed up to former President Donald Trump’s watch party. While first place isn’t usually the only finish that campaigns and media watch for, the small field and huge margin of victory for […]
Lawmakers on Tuesday announced a bipartisan agreement to reinstate major expired tax provisions, including an expansion of the child tax credit and a renewal of business investment deductions. Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) worked together in crafting the agreement, which Smith said would amount to […]
An ethics complaint against Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson related to her financial disclosures is under review by the Committee on Financial Disclosures in the Judicial Conference. The complaint alleged that Jackson “willfully failed to disclose” her husband’s malpractice consulting income in disclosures for more than a decade. It was filed last month by […]
DES MOINES, Iowa – Donald Trump Jr. raised concerns about consultants and donors working for opponents challenging his father for the GOP nomination, dragging out the primary instead of consolidating support and focusing efforts to beat President Joe Biden. “They are going to try to drag out that game, the consultants that are making a […]
The Iowa caucuses have wrapped up for the night, with former President Donald Trump defeating his candidates by wide margins and potentially turning the wider contest into a procession. Several news outlets called the race in favor of Trump shortly after the caucuses began, marking a significant win for the former president in the first-in-the-nation […]
Jury selection will begin Tuesday in the penalty phase of a defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump. Jurors in Manhattan will be asked to decide how much money Trump, the Republican front-runner in the 2024 presidential race, will have to pay former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll for defaming her after she accused him of […]
The second round of January Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for top earners who retire at 70, will go out to the next group of retirees on Wednesday. Retired seniors born between the 11th and 20th of a month should receive their first payment of 2024 on Wednesday, Jan. 17. Those born on […]
