Sen. Jacky Rosen’s (D-NV) campaign announced a record-breaking ad buy, one day after political experts deemed the Nevada Senate race to be more competitive than previously ranked. Rosen’s campaign told Axios it plans to spend $14 million on ads that will run from late July through Election Day. According to the campaign, it will be […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) suggested the Biden administration is allowing the border crisis to continue in the hopes that the immigrants become “future Democrat voters.” Cruz appeared on Fox News’s Hannity on Wednesday to comment on President Joe Biden’s campaign efforts in Texas. A Democratic candidate hasn’t won the state since 1976, when Jimmy Carter […]
Epidemiologists are renaming the disease Alaskapox out of fear that the name of the illness may hamper tourism and stigmatize the state. Alaskapox, now called Borealpox, gained media spotlight in January following the abrupt death of an elderly man in the remote Kenai Peninsula after he was hospitalized with the disease last November. Joseph McLaughlin, […]
Washington, D.C. voters will get the opportunity in November to choose whether or not they want to implement a ranked choice voting initiative. The ballot measure, also known as Initiative 83, was proposed by an organization called Make All Votes Count and spearheaded by Lisa D.T. Rice, an advisory neighborhood commissioner from Ward 7. The […]
One-fifth of adults believe that violence may be necessary to get the United States “back on track,” a poll found. The NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, conducted March 25-28, found a significant number of Americans were open to violence to achieve political goals, though the large majority, 79%, rejected it. Of the 20% who agreed, 6% did […]
Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), one of President Joe Biden‘s strongest Democratic allies in the Senate, offered his clearest indication yet that he would support conditions on U.S. military aid to Israel in the aftermath of an airstrike that killed humanitarian aid workers. For months, Coons has said he would support conditions on the aid if […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) compared House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), claiming that there is not “any daylight” between the two politicians. The Georgia congresswoman’s comparison comes as she has ramped up her criticism against the House speaker, filing a motion to vacate last month. In a phone interview conducted Wednesday, […]
After sending incorrect financial aid information to colleges and universities, the Department of Education has approved schools to process the faulty information so long as students‘ awards packages aren’t lower than they would have been with the correct information. The errors may inflate the size of a student’s aid package, and thus create a false […]
Montana’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will conclude sending its April payments, worth up to $1,751, on Saturday. Beginning on the second, SNAP payments in Montana are distributed over five days every month. Recipients get their payments on days according to their SNAP case number, account number, Social Security number, or last name. April’s payments are being distributed from Tuesday to Saturday. To qualify for […]
The number of new applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly increased by 9,000 to 212,000 last week, the highest level since January. The reading marks the highest number of jobless claims in months and shows the labor market might be taking on a bit of water as the Federal Reserve keeps interest rates high and teases another upward rate revision. […]
