(The Center Square) – Illinois has one of the highest gasoline taxes in the country, so now some Illinois lawmakers want to prevent the tax from increasing for two years. The gas tax in Illinois is just over 45 cents per gallon and will increase to 47 cents in July. “People that are having to drive […]
(The Center Square) – A two-decade-long dispute over the lower Snake River dams is back in the headlines this month with a package of bills from U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., aimed at killing a December backroom deal between the Biden administration and a handful of stakeholders seeking to breach the four dams that provide […]
EXCLUSIVE — Democrat Will Rollins holds a narrow lead over 30-year incumbent Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), according to internal polling commissioned by the Rollins campaign and first shared with the Washington Examiner. Rollins, a former counterterrorism prosecutor, leads Calvert by 1 point among voters in California’s 41st Congressional District, the survey found, as national Democrats […]
Election Day is less than six months away, and voters have a familiar choice of Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Unless it’s The Godfather Part II, sequels rarely live up to the hype. Although it may look like a 2020 repeat, the stars are competing in a different game and under different rules. This series, Judgment Day: […]
Tragedy struck in Mexico on Wednesday night as strong winds toppled a stage during a political rally in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, a state in the northeast part of the country. The rally was for Mexican presidential candidate Jorge Álvarez Máynez. Nine people, including a child, were killed, and at least 80 others […]
Democratic Senate candidates in critical swing states are running well ahead of President Joe Biden and lead their Republican rivals, but Pennsylvania Senate Republican candidate Dave McCormick believes he’s got a plan to ensure the commonwealth turns red for both himself and former President Donald Trump. “Bob Casey has been the status quo; he’s voted […]
Drug trafficking continues to be a significant problem along the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reportedly found over 400 pounds of cocaine hidden in a tractor-trailer’s fuel tanks on Friday. The discovery was made during an inspection at the Otay Mesa Commercial Facility as a commercial tractor-trailer was seeking entry into the U.S. […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) urged Democrats to use their power in order to investigate Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito over his flying of a Revolutionary War flag. The “An Appeal to Heaven” flag, one of the foremost flags used by Patriot forces during the Revolutionary War, was spotted flying above Alito’s house, drawing outrage from […]
Mike Schmidt, the district attorney for Multnomah County in Oregon who was criticized for being too “soft on crime,” lost his primary race to one of his own deputy prosecutors. Schmidt was defeated by Nathan Vasquez, who garnered about 54% of the vote as of Wednesday evening. Schmidt’s defeat could serve as a bellwether for […]
The Federal Bureau of Prisons will go on trial over guards’ sexual abuse of female inmates at a since-closed California prison. FCI Dublin was one of six all-female prisons with the BOP and became infamous for widespread allegations of sexual abuse and coverups by staff against inmates. On Wednesday, in the first hearing since the […]
