Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz is facing heat over his portrayal of his military service, with several dozen Republican veterans in Congress denouncing the Minnesota governor and demanding he “come clean.” In a letter sent to Walz on Wednesday, a group of 50 GOP lawmakers in Congress condemned him for his “egregious misrepresentations” of […]
Vice President Kamala Harris has seen consistent momentum since she entered the presidential race after President Joe Biden dropped out last month, with the race for the White House being turned on its head. Former President Donald Trump had built a substantial advantage over Biden after a June debate fueled concerns about Biden’s age and […]
More than half of the veterans in the House and Senate slammed Democratic running mate Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) on Wednesday for lying about his military career in what critics call a classic case of “stolen valor.” In a three-page memo put out by the Trump-Vance campaign, 50 veterans demanded an apology and explanation from […]
(The Center Square) – More than two dozen Nevada National Guard members are now certified for wildland firefighting. Twenty-eight soldiers completed the certification this month, something officials called a “crucial step for enhancing the region’s firefighting capabilities.” Units participating in the certification process included 609th Engineer Company, Alpha Company, Bravo Company, and 150th Maintenance Company, […]
(The Center Square) – A new semiconductor plant for repair, cleaning, and coating is going to be coming to Mesa. KoMiCo’s facility is anticipated to create 200 jobs when it opens in 2026, and the announcement comes as there are larger efforts to get a wide variety of aspects of the semiconductor supply chain in […]
(The Center Square) — A federal oversight report found much to critique about the Department of Interior’s approach to cleaning up abandoned mine sites. After eight years and $1 billion to get it moving, barely 30% of the clean-up funds for the Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization program, or AMLER, have been spent, and the […]
(The Center Square) – Tennessee now has nine counties that are considered distressed, up one from a year ago and now including Haywood County, the home of Ford’s Blue Oval City project. A distressed county is one among the 10% most economically distressed in the nation, as determined by the Appalachian Regional Commission. This year, […]
(The Center Square) – An Oregon-based drug trafficking cell leader with ties to a large Mexico-based drug trafficking organization received a federal prison sentence this week after an investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Horacio Luna-Perez, 42, of Hillsboro, Oregon, got a 97-month federal prison sentence and five years’ supervised release, according to the […]
Obamas steal the show A raucous crowd energized by the arrival of the two most popular Democrats in the country kept its applause short so former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama weren’t ushered onto the stage late. Less than 24 hours after President Joe Biden bowed out of the spotlight to hand […]
A second series of misleading claims from Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) is again leading to difficult questions for the Kamala Harris campaign. Walz has been dogged by questions about his exaggerated military record, in which he repeatedly claimed or implied that he was deployed to war zones when he was not. Now, his wife, Gwen […]
