(The Center Square) – The Virginia Senate has changed course on funding Metro after the legislators agreed to include additional money for the struggling transit agency in the budget. Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, announced the decision after the transit agency promised to make reforms. “After securing commitments for the long term reform […]
(The Center Square) — Rhode Island lawmakers are once again mulling a plan to change the name of Victory Day, which commemorates the end of World War II, but the proposal is facing pushback from those who say it would denigrate the sacrifices of the state’s veterans. A proposal filed by state Rep. Jennifer Stewart, a Pawtucket […]
Voters across 16 states and one U.S. territory will cast their ballots on Super Tuesday, the largest primary date of the 2024 cycle. At stake are 854 delegates on the GOP side and 1,420 delegates on the Democratic side. President Joe Biden is expected to cruise to victory as he faces no serious threat from any Democratic […]
Super Tuesday is upon us, and the golden prize up for grabs is California. Former President Donald Trump will look to burnish his credentials with a dominant delegate victory, while President Joe Biden will also aim for a dominant show. But there are plenty of intriguing down-ballot races, not least the jungle primary for former […]
Democrats have a response to a fresh batch of national polls showing President Joe Biden trailing in his reelection bid to former President Donald Trump: denial. That’s not a universal sentiment within the party. Many Democrats are alarmed by these numbers, even eight months out from the election. Biden’s age, the direction of the campaign, […]
Super Tuesday is upon us, and the golden prize up for grabs is California. Former President Donald Trump will look to burnish his credentials with a dominant delegate victory, while President Joe Biden will also aim for a dominant show. But there are plenty of intriguing down-ballot races, not least the jungle primary for former […]
As President Joe Biden prepares to address lawmakers during his annual State of the Union address this week, the president is facing increasing pressure to make policy changes at the southern border. The calls largely come in response to the death of Laken Riley, a nursing student who was killed last month on the University […]
Voters in 16 states will head to the polls on Super Tuesday to cast their ballot for their choice for presidential, congressional, and state leaders as the 2024 election revs up. Eyes will be on Colorado and Maine, two states that launched efforts to kick former President Donald Trump off the Republican primary ballot either […]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who died last year, secured nearly $1.1 billion in earmarks, known as community project funding, which direct federal dollars to specific “pet projects” in members’ home states and districts. The California senator, who was a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, died in September of last year, but before her death, she […]
A civilian Air Force employee was charged with sharing classified secrets with a woman he met on a foreign dating site. David Franklin Slater, 63, a retired lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Army, was arrested in Nebraska on Saturday on a three-count federal indictment. He was caught sending messages from around August 2021 to April […]
