JERUSALEM (AP) — A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus has begun, the Health Ministry said Saturday, as Palestinians in the Hamas-governed enclave and the occupied West Bank reeled from Israel’s military offensives. A small number of children in Gaza received doses a day before the large-scale vaccine […]
Vice president Kamala Harris blasted former President Donald Trump on X for an incident that occurred between a member of his team and Arlington National Cemetery staff, lamenting that Trump “disrespected sacred ground, all for the sake of a political stunt.” Trump staffers got into an altercation with a cemetery employee who was trying to […]
Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) has not yet made an endorsement in New Jersey‘s U.S. Senate race. Despite being given multiple opportunities to name Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ), who beat his wife, Tammy Murphy, in the state’s Democratic primaries, for Senate, Murphy has declined to endorse him outright. Murphy also declined to appoint Kim to former […]
Vice President Kamala Harris is pressuring former President Donald Trump to rebuff his advisers’ suggestion that microphones should be muted between candidate statements in their Sept. 10 presidential debate. In Trump’s CNN debate against President Joe Biden, the opposing candidate’s microphone was muted while the other candidate spoke in an attempt to prevent the interruptions […]
(The Center Square) — Thirty-three members of violent gangs were arrested as part of a multi-agency operation targeting transnational and organized crime in the border town of Uvalde, Texas, and surrounding area in Uvalde County. “Gang violence has no place here in Texas, we will bring the full force of justice down on these famous […]
Former President Donald Trump suggested he would vote for Florida’s Amendment 3 in a post on Truth Social, indicating that he supports the legalization of marijuana in the state. Trump’s position is in opposition to most of the state’s GOP, including Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). Amendment […]
(The Center Square) – An Illinois state legislator says Senate President Don Harmon’s Democratic National Convention comments about unions are an admission of “quid pro quo.” Harmon delivered remarks at the DNC in Chicago for the Illinois delegation’s breakfast. “Democrats don’t win without organized labor and organized labor puts everything at risk when Democrats don’t […]
This week’s White House Report Card finds President Joe Biden expected to end his extended vacation to hit the campaign trail next week for Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris left her hideout midweek for her first national TV interview in weeks and offered little policy plans but did not damage herself in answering largely softball […]
Seven people are dead, and at least 37 others are injured after a passenger bus crashed overnight in Mississippi on Saturday. Troopers said that at about 12:40 a.m., the Mississippi Highway Patrol was called to a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 20 in Warren County, per WJTV. A 2018 Volvo commercial passenger bus was traveling westbound […]
Former President Donald Trump plans to ask a court in Washington, D.C., to dismiss his election interference case on several grounds, and he argued in a late Friday night court filing that he would need months to do this. Trump’s attorneys proposed a newly revised schedule for the case that stretches into mid-2025 and includes […]