Behind the Oval Office, the next busiest office in the White House has been the White House Medical Unit. In the latest tranche of Secret Service emails about the first family’s German shepherd, there are multiple reports of Commander’s unprovoked lunging at agents and security officials. In one just revealed by the legal watchdog group […]
Lawyers in Fulton County, Georgia, will deliver their final arguments on Friday over whether District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified from the election interference case she brought against former President Donald Trump. Judge Scott McAfee will oversee the hearing, which will take place at 1 p.m. and be livestreamed, following a string of contentious […]
Hunter Biden’s hourslong testimony to lawmakers this week came after House Republicans sifted through thousands of documents and dozens of witness interviews, some of which cast doubt on the truthfulness of the first son’s deposition. A 229-page transcript of the deposition revealed Hunter Biden’s defiance in the face of questions about the involvement of his […]
House Democrats are paying close attention to how House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) approaches several annual spending bills that need to be passed before the end of next week. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) suggested he believes several Democrats would protect the Republican speaker if he allows a vote for a foreign aid bill […]
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is eying another shot to become Senate Republican leader after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) steps down from his position this fall as the longest-serving leader. Scott unsuccessfully mounted a protest challenge to McConnell two years ago, but the rare vacancy atop the upper chamber offers a fresh opportunity for the […]
(The Center Square) — Pennsylvania will receive hundreds of millions of dollars to plug defunct oil and gas wells that may pose health and environmental threats. And now, the state’s existing program is getting more scrutiny for how it prioritizes projects and uses that money. The money, more than $300 million from the Infrastructure Investment […]
(The Center Square) – West Virginia inflation-adjusted education funding per student grew from $12,351 in 2002 to $14,163 per student in 2020, according to a new report from Reason Foundation. Over that same period, employee benefits grew by 16.9% from $2,900 per student to $3,390 per student, the report showed. In 2020, West Virginia had $282.4 […]
(The Center Square) – An educational nonprofit is highly critical of a report on Illinois tax credit scholarship recipients’ test scores. In the report conducted for the Illinois State Board of Education by WestEd, Empower Illinois said researchers compared low-income Invest in Kids scholarship recipients to all Illinois public school students, rendering the results meaningless because they lack […]
(The Center Square) – The Washington State Legislature has passed a bill creating a “bias incident hotline” within the State Attorney General’s Office allowing residents to report incidents they consider to be “hateful.” The bill will be sent to Gov. Jay Inslee’s desk for signature after it cleared the House on Wednesday in a 56-39 vote. “Frankly, I […]
(The Center Square) – The King County Regional Homelessness Authority’s recent setbacks have coincided with Seattle announcing it will soon pull back some annual funding from the authority, but some cities are still locked in on fund efforts to combat homelessness through the organization. Seattle informed the King County Regional Homelessness Authority that it was pulling $11.7 […]
