The California Senate primary is two weeks away, but candidates vying for the seat have put little attention courting a sizable voting bloc: Hispanics and Latinos. Hispanics comprise roughly 40% of the Golden State’s population, but candidates such as Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Katie Porter (D-CA) have spent little advertising their campaign in Spanish. […]
The Iranian-backed Houthis shot down a United States drone over the Red Sea on Monday. Department of Defense deputy spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters on Tuesday that initial indications are that the Yemen-based Houthis used a surface-to-air missile to hit the MQ-9 Reaper drone, an unmanned drone typically used for intelligence collection. She said she […]
Montana’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will begin sending its March payments, worth up to $1,751, in 11 days. SNAP payments in Montana are distributed over five days every month. The payments start going out on March 2 and run through March 6. Recipients get their payments on days according to their SNAP case number, account number, Social Security number, or last name. […]
The Supreme Court refused to hear two appeal cases that sought to overturn sanctions imposed on lawyers who were allied with former President Donald Trump in 2020. The sanctions, which were partially upheld by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, were the result of a lawsuit in Michigan that alleged the results of the […]
State Department officials privately took aim at a roughly $1 million grant to support investigations into alleged human rights abuses in Israel after the agency defended it, emails show. The State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor announced in February 2022 it would award cash to nonprofit organizations to “strengthen accountability and human […]
The White House is calling for additional national security funding, warning that “when dictators aren’t stopped, they keep going.” Efforts to secure additional funding for the war in Ukraine received a boost after Russian dissident Alexei Navalny died in jail last week. President Joe Biden immediately ascribed blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin and promised […]
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan impressed in the polls last week when he announced his bid for the Senate, but the Republican could quickly become an unpopular candidate among state voters who are looking to enshrine abortion rights in Maryland’s constitution this November. Hogan, who finished his tenure as governor last year, has presented himself […]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is calling for federal regulators to stop Capital One from buying its competitor Discover, calling the deal “dangerous.” The all-stock deal was announced on Monday. The massive buyout would cost $35 billion and result in the largest U.S. credit card company by loan volume. While shares of Discover surged in response […]
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign released a memo Tuesday declaring Saturday’s Republican primary in South Carolina as “the end” of former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign. Trump senior advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles authored the new memo, titled “The End Is Near For Nikki Haley,” in which they state that South Carolina’s nominating […]
Georgia families who receive assistance from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will see their final direct payments for the month of February over the next three days. Food stamps are sent out from Feb. 5-23 in the Peach State. SNAP payments will be issued to beneficiaries’ accounts on days depending on the last two digits of their client ID […]
