A private U.S. lunar lander reached the moon’s orbit on Wednesday, one day before it will attempt an even greater feat — touching the surface. A lunar touchdown would put the U.S. back on the moon for the first time since 1972, the year NASA terminated the Apollo program. If all goes as planned, the […]
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will send its final payments for February to low-income residents in Maryland on Friday. In the Old Line State, food stamps are distributed in the SNAP payments from Feb. 4 to Feb. 23, with a recipient’s specific date depending on the first three letters of a household’s last name. Those with last names beginning […]
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will send out its final direct payments for the month of February to Georgia families over the next two days. Food stamps are sent out from Feb. 5-23 in the Peach State. SNAP payments will be issued to beneficiaries depending on the last two digits of their client ID numbers. Beneficiary IDs ending in […]
Republicans in the Wisconsin State Assembly approved a proposed amendment to the state’s constitution on Tuesday that would limit Gov. Tony Evers’s (D-WI) veto powers by prohibiting him from raising taxes or fees on his own. The proposal, Assembly Joint Resolution 112, would restrict Evers and future Wisconsin governors from “exercising his or her partial […]
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Wednesday that his administration is cutting 10% in funding geared toward asylum-seekers to join the additional 20% in spending cuts already announced in New York City’s preliminary budget. The announcement of the slash in immigrant funding came after Adams said in an interview with ABC 7 that […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) claimed Wednesday that former President Donald Trump sees himself as a “Putin-esque” figure, and that a growing number of Republicans are becoming sympathetic to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Jeffries made his comment on Trump during an appearance on ABC’s The View, in which co-host Joy Behar claimed that Trump […]
James Biden told Congress in a closed-door interview on Wednesday that he never used his brother President Joe Biden to further his own business pursuits, but the younger Biden also made remarks about his China-related ventures that conflict with testimony from others. James Biden’s remarks came as part of his opening statement, obtained by the […]
A biological male who identifies as a woman set a program record for the Ramapo College of New Jersey women’s swimming team over the weekend. Meghan Cortez-Fields set the program mark while competing in the 200-meter individual medley at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships, according to a report. The swimmer overcame the school record […]
The war in Gaza is revealing cracks within the Democratic Party‘s progressive wing and reigniting a long-standing debate as members disagree on the best path forward. Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) reportedly left the House Congressional Progressive Caucus, making him the second Democrat to do so over the past few months in response to the war. […]
Rudy Giuliani appealed a verdict on Tuesday ordering him to pay $148 million to two Georgia election workers for defaming them after the 2020 election, hours after a court said he could use preapproved donors to pay his expenses. In December, an eight-person jury awarded Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, the massive […]
