Every Alaska household collecting benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will receive their February payments in eight days. Alaska sends payments to every SNAP-participating household, regardless of case number or last name, on the 1st of each month. North Dakota, Rhode Island, and Vermont also send out all payments on Feb. 1. In the Last Frontier State, households are split into three […]
New information about the House Ethics Committee’s investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was revealed on Wednesday after the committee reportedly reached out to a woman the congressman allegedly had sexual relations with when she was a minor. The GOP-led committee contacted a woman who allegedly had sex with Gaetz when she was 17 years […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov predicted that Ukraine would resist Donald Trump’s insistence on ending the war with Russia in the event that the former president returns to the White House. “Time will tell,” Lavrov told reporters at the United Nations. “I doubt that the Ukrainians will be prepared to agree to any kind of settlement.” […]
The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday against an Alabama inmate’s eleventh-hour request to halt his execution by nitrogen hypoxia, the first time the method would be used, calling it cruel and unusual punishment. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted of stabbing a woman to death in 1988 in a murder-for-hire scheme, will be executed Thursday […]
COSTA MESA, California (AP) — Jim Harbaugh will be the head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers, leaving Michigan after capping his ninth season as coach of college football’s winningest program with the school’s first national championship since 1997, two people familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. The people spoke to the Associated Press […]
As Democratic lawmakers and allies continue to blast No Labels for its third-party ballot initiative, groups are now turning to campaign finance complaints to uncover the organization’s donors. No Labels has been stockpiling cash from donors, which the group does not disclose, for months, working tirelessly to gain access to ballots in all 50 states […]
A Texas citizen journalist who said she was wrongfully arrested for gaining nonpublic information from police had her lawsuit rejected by an appeals court Tuesday, prompting vows by her attorneys to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal, known online as La Gordiloca, was previously let off the hook after […]
A Chicago neighborhood located near a makeshift shelter for immigrants is pushing back against the influx of asylum-seekers being housed in the building, arguing the shelter is taking away vital resources and programming from the community. Edgewater residents put together a report for Chicago officials highlighting the impact of turning the Broadway Armory into a […]
Former first lady Hillary Clinton reacted to the news of actress Margot Robbie and Barbie director Greta Gerwig getting snubbed by the Oscars for their box-office hit film. “Greta and Margot, while it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you. You’re so much […]
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) launched another attack against President Joe Biden, saying his electric vehicle tax credit plan “spits in the face of rural America.” In a blistering statement, Manchin accused the Biden administration of “ignoring the law in pursuit of its radical climate agenda.” “The Administration just will not stop ignoring the law in pursuit of […]
