The Federal Bureau of Prisons is closing a women’s prison in California infamous for rampant sexual abuse against inmates. Federal Correctional Institution Dublin is set to close due to a violent reputation that contributed to its nickname as the “rape club,” the embattled BOP announced. The Associated Press exposed the prison’s problems in an investigation […]
Popular tax filing service H&R Block is experiencing outages with its computer software as the tax filing deadline is just hours away. The federal income tax deadline for tax year 2023 is 11:59 p.m. on Monday. Users on social media reported error messages when attempting to file their returns to the Internal Revenue Service. Downdetector […]
The Supreme Court on Monday let an Idaho law blocking gender transition medicine for minors to broadly take effect, overturning the decisions of lower federal courts. The Republican-backed law will be in effect until the full court has had the opportunity to make a judgment in the case. Until then, the ruling will only apply […]
The Trump campaign is downplaying the importance of abortion in the battleground state of Arizona, claiming the issue is a top concern for mostly Democratic voters after the state Supreme Court upheld a 19th-century near-total ban on abortion. After conducting an internal poll from April 7-11 of 400 likely general election voters in the Grand […]
Eligible residents who have not gotten their payments from the Alaska‘s Department of Revenue as part of the Permanent Fund Dividend program will get their checks in three days. Those who have yet to receive their payments from the PFD program from 2023, or earlier, and had the “Eligible-Not Paid” status by last Wednesday, will get their check from the […]
Trump Media and Technology Group, the company that owns Truth Social, announced the issuance of 21.5 million new shares on Monday, causing the market to sell off many of its shares en masse as the stock dropped over 15%. Former President Donald Trump, the majority share owner of TMTG, lost about $470 million in net […]
Alex Garland’s political thriller Civil War debuted at $25.7 million at the domestic box office this weekend, marking a record for A24, the film’s distributor. Civil War’s debut is higher than what analysts anticipated, as previous predictions had the film opening between $19 million and $20 million. Beyond having A24’s best opening weekend, Civil War […]
Teachers and staff in Washington, D.C.’s public schools fear there may be 200 positions cut due to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s new budget proposal. While Bowser included in her city’s budget proposal a 12% increase to District of Columbia Public Schools’s funding formula, giving schools an additional $181 million, schools are still likely to fall short […]
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) raised less than half a million in the first quarter of 2024, her worst fundraising haul in nearly four years. The Colorado Republican is running in former Rep. Ken Buck‘s 4th Congressional District after switching seats late last year. ELECTION 2024: FOLLOW LATEST COVERAGE Yet, Boebert, who represents her state’s 3rd District, […]
For a state that wishes to be one of the nation’s agenda-setters and serve as a model for the country, California is woefully weak when it comes to protecting children from sex crimes. GOP state Sen. Shannon Grove has introduced a bill that would make it a felony to purchase or solicit a child for […]
