House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) pledged to address funding for Ukraine in a “timely manner” after meeting with congressional leaders and President Joe Biden at the White House on Tuesday. Johnson has shown reluctance to act on the president’s request for more than $60 billion in aid. After the Senate passed a defense bill approving […]
A Republican Texas Supreme Court justice going for reelection was caught calling his colleagues “brainwashed” in a leaked audio recording. Justice John Devine pitched himself to a group of voters in September as the antidote to the other members, who boast “Big Law” backgrounds. This background has led to them being out of touch, he […]
In a state where coal has driven the economy for decades, there was a landslide vote by the Kentucky Senate on Monday to begin attracting nuclear energy projects to the Bluegrass State. Republican state Sen. Danny Carroll, who sponsored SB 198, said Kentucky should incorporate a variety of energy sources, such as natural gas and […]
New York City’s beloved owl Flaco flew into a building and died from the impact on Friday. Zoologists are pursuing answers as to whether toxins or disease played a role in the Eurasian eagle-owl’s death. Flaco’s first claim to fame came last year when he was freed from captivity at the Central Park Zoo. During […]
A broad coalition of Republican groups called on congressional leaders on Tuesday to junk banking legislation that would expand the reach and powers of federal regulators who view terms such as “Trump” and “MAGA” and customers of outdoors stores such as Cabela’s as extremist. Led by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the coalition said the proposed […]
Since President Joe Biden took office, a bulk of his one-on-one interviews have been with talk show hosts instead of journalists, raising questions about his administration’s transparency with the press. Biden has held fewer news conferences and given fewer interviews to large news organizations than his predecessors. However, the strategy might be one of trying […]
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign sued Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows last week, claiming that barring him from gathering petition signatures at Maine polling sites is unconstitutional. The lawsuit, which alleges Bellows is in violation of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, was filed by Kennedy on Feb. 21 to the U.S. […]
House Republicans subpoenaed the Department of Justice on Tuesday for the transcript of an interview special counsel Robert Hur conducted with President Joe Biden last fall as part of his investigation into the president’s handling of classified documents. The subpoena, issued by the House Oversight and Judiciary committees and reviewed by the Washington Examiner, directed […]
Congressional leaders left their meeting with President Joe Biden cautiously optimistic that a government shutdown would be avoided, with the Democrats saying they felt hopeful about funding for Ukraine. Biden opened the meeting by saying there was work to do and mentioned the need for Ukraine and Israel funding specifically. Republicans, by contrast, are still […]
Low-income residents in Boulder, Colorado, will be able to apply for a food tax rebate from the city in three days. The program, which has been running in the city since 1967, works to “lessen the financial burden on lower income community members for city sales tax paid on food items,” according to the city […]
