(The Center Square) – Three North Carolinians are among the Republican, Democrat and independent members of Congress named Fiscal Heroes by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Republican Reps. Chuck Edwards, Virginia Foxx and Patrick McHenry were among the 60 honored from the 118th Congress. Thirty-four Republicans, 22 Democrats and two independents are still […]
(The Center Square) – A bill to lower property taxes was introduced with bipartisan sponsorship in the Colorado Senate and supported by a wide range of organizations with two days left in the 2024 session. If passed by the General Assembly and signed into law, Colorado homeowners wouldn’t see an increase in their property taxes for […]
(The Center Square) – With hundreds of millions of tax dollars spent, the King County Regional Homelessness Authority is facing calls for accountability from city officials who look to the semi-governmental organization to get the area’s chronic homelessness crisis under control. A senior KCRHA policy director says their efforts are working. KCRHA has served as […]
(The Center Square) – Big pay raises and more days off are on the table for teachers in Chicago Public Schools. The Chicago Teachers Union wants members to get a minimum raise of 9% annually and up to 45 days off during the school year. Mailee Smith, senior director of Labor Policy for the Illinois […]
(The Center Square) – Women in Pennsylvania may soon benefit from new protections that prioritize wage transparency and change the way maternity leave impacts earning potential. And, it would apply to hourly minimum wage workers too. The legislation approved along party lines in the House of Representatives on Monday would amend the Equal Pay Act to ban […]
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels is expected to testify at the New York criminal hush money trial against former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, according to her attorney. Trump has been charged with falsifying business records in 2016 to cover up hush money payments to Daniels, who contends she had a sexual encounter with Trump […]
Former President Donald Trump deleted a post that may have violated his gag order after he was threatened with jail time. Trump, who is under a gag order and cannot talk about the witnesses or the jury in his hush money criminal trial, posted on Truth Social about Tuesday’s witness. Tuesday’s witness is believed to […]
The race for control of the Senate is expected to be costly, and in several battles, those funds are coming directly from candidates’ pockets. As Democrats are on defense across the country in their bid to keep control of the upper chamber of Congress, in three pivotal races, the candidate’s spending will be put to […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky and other top military and political figures, Ukraine’s state security service said Tuesday. Two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine, which protects top officials, were detained on suspicion of enacting the plan drawn up by Russia’s Federal […]
As senators race to pass a major bill to authorize the Federal Aviation Administration for the next five years, dozens of amendments have piled in, threatening to derail the legislation and raising concerns about the potential of a compromise ahead of the May 10 deadline. It has taken months for top lawmakers in both chambers […]
