(The Center Square) – Washington state held its first quarterly carbon auction of the year on March 6, selling all 7.4 million allowances at a final settlement price of $25.76 to bring in nearly $192 million, according to a preliminary summary report released Wednesday by the Department of Ecology. That’s on top of the slightly more than $2 […]
(The Center Square) – A U.S. Supreme Court case regarding free speech at higher education institutions has left the ongoing debate about bias on college campuses undecided. The issue began when a legal challenge was filed in Speech First, Inc. v. Sands over Virginia Tech’s “bias-response team policies,” which monitored, tracked and investigated students’ speech […]
Republicans‘ uphill climb of impeaching President Joe Biden got a little steeper following Rep. Ken Buck‘s (R-CO) early retirement announcement, with his departure presenting the House GOP with significant math problems. Buck will leave Congress on March 22, handing Republicans just a two-seat majority over Democrats, likely posing a problem for the divided GOP conference. A lawmaker told Axios in […]
Former President Donald Trump remains in legal peril to a degree without precedent for a major-party nominee, but the cases against him are falling apart politically. What happens to Trump in court is the most important thing. But barring a conviction and sentence before Election Day, the 2024 presidential race will be tried in the […]
Crime in Washington, D.C., is a crisis. Six months ago, the Washington Examiner looked at some of the issues plaguing the nation’s capital. In the months since, things feel worse than ever, but that might be starting to change. In this series, we are looking at how the nation’s capital wound up with its record […]
April’s monthly Supplemental Security Income payment, worth up to $943 for individual filers, will go out to millions of beneficiaries in less than three weeks. The next installment will go out in 18 days, on Monday, April 1, to people who struggle with a serious debilitating disability that results in a limited income, according to […]
The second of March’s three Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the biggest earners who retire at 70, will go out to its group of retirees in just under a week. Retirees born on or between the 11th and 20th of a month will get their payments on Wednesday, according to the Social […]
Rep. Ken Buck’s (R-CO) early retirement will spark a special congressional election in Colorado for the first time in over 40 years, placing declared GOP primary candidates at a crossroads as they determine whether or not to run and finish the rest of the Freedom Caucus member’s term. Shortly after Buck announced his early retirement, […]
EXCLUSIVE — Newly released details about a controversial mass surveillance program shed light on the pitfalls of government data acquisition programs as Congress debates reauthorizing a crucial statute. The Drug Enforcement Administration collected massive amounts of telephone records for 20 years before the program was shuttered amid the Edward Snowden revelations in 2013. A heavily […]
The resurgence of earmarks has divided Republicans as Congress grapples with a looming partial government shutdown and the choice for new Senate leadership in the fall. As a second chunk of spending bills are expected to be revealed in the coming days to fund the departments of Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, State, and […]
