Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday slammed Hamas’s latest ceasefire proposal as an insincere offer and choreographed public relations move meant to stall Israel’s planned ground offensive in Rafah. “Hamas’s proposal yesterday was meant to torpedo the entry of our forces into Rafah,” he said in a video statement. “That did not happen.” The purpose of the […]
Florida Judge Aileen Cannon has indefinitely suspended former President Donald Trump’s classified documents trial. The move had been widely anticipated for some time and marks perhaps the greatest legal victory in Trump’s struggle against his four major indictments. The trial was previously scheduled to take place on May 20. Cannon gave her reasoning as respecting […]
The House failed to override President Joe Biden‘s veto of legislation, allowing for the new joint-employer rule for the National Labor Relations Board to go into effect. House members voted 214-191 to override the veto that would have blocked the Biden administration from significantly loosening the standards used for determining joint-employer status. However, because the measure needs […]
A New York Supreme Court judge has blocked the Equal Rights Amendment, which centers on abortion and would’ve disallowed discrimination based on “gender identity” and “pregnancy outcomes,” from appearing on the state’s November ballot. The judge questioned the legality of the proposed ballot measure on the fact that lawmakers approved the language in the amendment […]
The White House said it had not heard a high-profile Democrat’s comments regarding black children in the Bronx, but offered a mild rebuke nonetheless. “Obviously, we don’t think that is the right way to speak about young people in any way, in any form,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday when asked about the brewing […]
MSNBC’s Jen Psaki shared a theory about why Republicans critical of former President Donald Trump have started supporting the former president, being that they would be next in power behind Trump. Republicans such as former Attorney General William Barr and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have endorsed the former president ahead of the 2024 […]
Tennessee lawmakers have sent a bill to Gov. Bill Lee’s (R-TN) desk introducing “blended sentencing,” which is when the worst juvenile offenders can be handed adult punishments after they age out of the juvenile system. The juvenile justice system under current law loses jurisdiction over juvenile offenders once they turn 19. “If they’re 17 or […]
The Biden administration’s top drug enforcement official dodged questions from Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill about the federal government’s forthcoming plans to dramatically reclassify marijuana from the most dangerous type of narcotic. Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Anne Milgram relatedly refused to field questions from four House Appropriations Committee lawmakers who pushed for answers to […]
Over the weekend, Donald Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had a phone call in which the former president advised her to back off from her threat to force a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), according to a report. Publicly, Trump has praised Johnson’s leadership and has said he is opposed to […]
The Boy Scouts of America will change its name to Scouting America, the first name change the organization has had since in its 114-year history. The organization said the move is meant to make the Boy Scouts more “inclusive” and follows a bankruptcy settlement for $2.4 billion. “Though our name will be new, our mission remains […]
