(The Center Square) — New Jersey lawmakers are considering a proposal that would make the state the latest to require children signing up for social media websites and apps to get their parents’ consent. The proposal would require parental consent before users 18 and younger could sign up for sites like Facebook, TikTok and Instagram. It would […]
(The Center Square) – Kansas City’s professional football and baseball teams say they would stay in Jackson County if voters approve an extension of a sales tax for a new stadium and improvements. After weeks of debate and meetings, the Jackson County legislature voted 8-1 to put a 40-year sales tax extension on the April […]
The first Supplemental Security Income payment of 2024, worth up to $943 for individual filers, will go out to recipients in a little over three weeks. The payment will be released in 23 days, on Thursday, Feb. 1, and marks the first payment of the new year. No payment was issued in January. Recipients were […]
Hunter Biden will face a slew of charges this week that could land him in jail and again distract from the public face his father is crafting on the campaign trail. While President Joe Biden has been careful not to comment on the litany of charges facing former President Donald Trump, he likes to make […]
EXCLUSIVE — The State Department is facing heightened scrutiny from the House GOP for providing congressional investigators with “incomplete” grant records, including on the agency bankrolling organizations that silence conservative voices online. Republicans on the House Small Business Committee are re-upping a request to the State Department-housed Global Engagement Center for information on awards the […]
Less than a week out from the Iowa caucuses, former President Donald Trump’s rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination are starting to find their voices in criticizing him. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) told supportive Iowa talk show host Steve Deace that Trump has lost a step or two compared to when he won the […]
The initial wave of January Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for top earners who retire at 70, will go out to the first group of retirees in one day. Retired seniors born between the 1st and 10th of a month will receive their first payment of 2024 on Wednesday, Jan. 10. Those born […]
A federal appeals court will weigh arguments Tuesday about Donald Trump‘s claims that his presidency and his 2021 impeachment acquittal should immunize him from prosecution over an alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear oral arguments about Trump’s claim that […]
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman added fuel to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology fire this week, targeting the prestigious school in a plagiarism investigation amid calls for its president to resign. Pressure on MIT President Sally Kornbluth has been growing since she testified before Congress last month and drew ire from conservatives who found her responses to pro-Hamas protests on her […]
A long history of glitches and problems will haunt the Iowa caucuses when they open on Jan. 15, for the state has made a mess of them in several recent election cycles. For at least three straight presidential races — 2012, 2016, and 2020 — there was confusion over who had won the first-in-the-nation caucuses. […]
