Democratic senators are highlighting the dilemmas women are facing over reproductive rights, preemptively attacking Republicans over the matter ahead of President Joe Biden‘s third State of the Union address on Thursday night. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), along with Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Brian Schatz (D-HI), held a press conference Thursday afternoon with their State of […]
House Republicans ramped up pressure on the Department of Justice on Thursday to allow four witnesses to testify about the DOJ’s yearslong investigation into Hunter Biden, arguing that the department is prohibiting employees involved in the case from complying with congressional subpoenas. The House Judiciary Committee indicated in a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner […]
The Minneapolis City Council passed an ordinance Thursday that guarantees a minimum pay floor for rideshare drivers in the city working for companies such as Uber and Lyft, despite threats from the companies that they will leave the city. The ordinance would guarantee drivers earn $1.40 per mile, $0.51 per minute, and no less than $5 […]
President Joe Biden is met with the challenge of reassuring voters his economic agenda is effective and that he is capable of another four years in office during Thursday’s State of the Union address. While 57% of people would describe the economy as “very bad” or “fairly bad” headed into the president’s speech, 39% would […]
CNN host and former NBA star Charles Barkley is continuing to attack black supporters of former President Donald Trump, adding that anyone wearing Trump’s mug shot merchandise is “a freaking idiot.” Barkley stirred discussion online when he said over the weekend that he would punch any black person wearing Trump’s mug shot merchandise. He has […]
The support of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) played a major role in Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) victory in California’s Senate primary on Tuesday. While Schiff’s name had already been in the spotlight for spearheading impeachment efforts against former President Donald Trump following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and for raising $32 million in […]
President Joe Biden is facing calls to push the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act as his State of the Union address falls on the anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.” The late John Lewis was among those who marched on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, when state troopers met […]
The House passed on Thursday the Laken Riley Act, which would require immigration officials to detain immigrants charged with crimes following the death of a nursing student on the University of Georgia campus — the latest win for Republicans as they continue to rebuke the Biden administration’s border policies. House Republicans overwhelmingly voted in favor […]
Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) has locked down the votes needed to become the next GOP whip in the Senate, he told the Washington Examiner on Thursday. Barrasso, one of the three “Johns” thought to be possible successors to Mitch McConnell (R-KY), had been meeting with colleagues in the days after the minority leader announced his […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), spinning the nation’s condition the way Democrats wish President Joe Biden would, declared the state of the union as “extraordinary” but threatened by former President Donald Trump’s return in this year’s election rematch. “What I’m feeling is deep optimism but anxiety, so that twin of both inspiration-desperation,” Newsom said on the […]
