(The Center Square) – Family Dollar Stores, Inc. will pay $41.7 million to settle claims it shipped unsanitary products from a rodent-infested warehouse in West Memphis, Arkansas, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday. The settlement is the largest monetary criminal penalty in a food safety case, according to the DOJ. The company, a subsidiary […]
(The Center Square) — The use of a male pronoun interrupted the Virginia Senate’s proceedings on Monday. The state’s first senator to openly identify as transgender, Sen. Danica Roem, D-Prince William, addressed Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears, who presides over the chamber, with some questions. Sears seemingly offhandedly referred to Roem as “sir” in her second response to […]
(The Center Square) — Central Louisiana Technical Community College bungled its financial statements last fiscal year by more than $600,000, repeating similar problems from the year prior, according to an audit. Louisiana Legislative Auditor Mike Waguespack issued a financial audit for the Central Louisiana Technical Community College in Alexandria last week that examined finances for […]
Not since Herbert Hoover in 1940 has a former president run to reclaim the office. Not since Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 has a former president made it to the general election. Not since Grover Cleveland in 1892 has a former president actually come back to win the White House again, the only chief executive to […]
A judge in Georgia will weigh this week whether to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in the election fraud case against former President Donald Trump and 14 others accused of conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss. Trump and several of his co-defendants are hoping to convince a judge that the relationship between […]
Michigan voters have an outsize impact on who will win the White House and which party will carry the House and Senate in 2024. In this series, Great Stakes: The fight to be hailed as victors in Michigan, the Washington Examiner will look at the thorny politics and unique matters that will swing the critical battleground state. Part two, […]
President Joe Biden’s free pass to renomination may prove costly to Democrats. In hopes of avoiding Biden unraveling on the primary trail, the Democrats may see him fall apart after he has won the nomination. This will leave them with no easy way to remove Biden, no easy way to replace him if he leaves, […]
CHARLESTON, South Carolina — Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley rejected speculation that she would join a third-party presidential ticket with No Labels. But even if Haley reneged and teamed up with No Labels after her path to the White House became considerably difficult after losing South Carolina’s GOP primary on Saturday to […]
Michigan voters have an outsize impact on who will win the White House and which party will carry the House and Senate in 2024. In this series, Great Stakes: The fight to be hailed as victors in Michigan, the Washington Examiner will look at the thorny politics and unique matters that will swing the critical battleground state. Part three, […]
President Joe Biden rebuffed concerns about his age, telling voters “take a look at the other guy,” referring to former President Donald Trump, his likely opponent in November’s general election. During an appearance on NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” that aired early Tuesday morning, Biden addressed two key issues plaguing his reelection bid – […]
