President Joe Biden’s great-great-grandfather was once pardoned by former President Abraham Lincoln after engaging in a bloody physical altercation, a newly discovered document reveals. Lincoln pardoned Biden’s ancestor, Moses J. Robinette, after he was charged with intoxication, causing a “dangerous quarrel,” disturbing military discipline and order, and making an “attempt to kill” another person, being […]
Maryland will send its last Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments for the month of January to low-income residents Friday. Food stamps will be distributed in the Old Line State until Friday. SNAP payments are issued to qualified residents from Jan. 4 to Jan. 23, with a recipient’s specific date depending on the first three letters of a household’s last […]
Jury selection began Tuesday in a South Carolina courtroom for the first federal hate crime trial based on gender identity. Daqua Lameek Ritter is facing life behind bars for the 2019 fatal shooting of Dime Doe, a black 24-year-old transgender woman. Prosecutors claim Ritter’s friends and girlfriend found out he was allegedly in a sexual relationship with […]
Chicago paused its early voting process in the March 19 presidential primary election on Friday to remove a Democratic judicial candidate from the ballot, with plans to reopen on Wednesday. Early voting began in downtown Chicago on Thursday, but an order from the Appellate Court of Illinois forced the city’s two early-voting ballot locations to […]
New York Comptroller Tom DiNapoli claimed Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) is attempting to deprive him of his office’s oversight authority in a recent report on the state’s executive budget. In his 38-page report released last week, DiNapoli critiqued Hochul’s 2024-25 budget proposal, saying that it contained “concerning proposals” regarding transparency, debt, and oversight limitations. Hochul […]
In the coming week, officials in Harris County, Texas, will alert applicants who have been chosen for its pilot basic income program for low-income individuals in parts of the county. Last week, officials in the county said the Uplift Harris program had roughly 83,000 applicants and confirmed that it will notify those selected for the payments by Feb. […]
Kyle Rittenhouse questioned why the public still does not know the names of the Kansas City, Missouri, shooters, noting that “the government was quick to reveal my name” after the shooting he was involved in. The Kansas City shooting that Rittenhouse referenced occurred Wednesday as the Kansas City Chiefs celebrated their Super Bowl victory, with […]
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) attracted a Republican challenger for her Wisconsin Senate seat on Tuesday after Eric Hovde launched a campaign website introducing himself to voters. Hovde, a real estate and bank CEO who first ran for Baldwin’s seat in 2012, announced he would mount a second run in a 30-second ad calling for “common […]
Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals will not be sold after nearly two years exploring options, team owner Mark Lerner said. Lerner announced in April 2022 that it would enter an exploratory process to sell the team, but on Monday he told the Washington Post that the family has opted not to sell the Nationals in […]
The Biden administration is slated to grant a request from Midwestern state leaders to allow the year-round sale of higher blends of ethanol in gasoline beginning in 2025, a decision likely to be met with mixed reactions from the states, which had pushed for the expansion but not the delayed start date. The action, reported […]
