Two high-ranking House Republicans announced on Friday that they will be stepping down from their positions as committee chairs, setting off a leadership scramble to fill the powerful vacancies. Just hours after the passage of the final fiscal 2024 spending bill, Appropriations Committee Chairwoman and retiring Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) wrote a letter to House […]
A new memo analyzing 11 recent polls identified two groups of voters that may tilt the 2024 election in favor of either former President Donald Trump or President Joe Biden. The Blueprint memo released Thursday took an in-depth look at Biden “defectors” who voted for him in 2020 but plan to vote for Trump this […]
April’s monthly Supplemental Security Income payment, worth up to $943 for individual filers, will go out to millions of beneficiaries in just over a week. The next installment will go out on April 1 to people who struggle with serious debilitating disabilities that result in a limited income, according to the Social Security Administration. The […]
Despite being known for its gaming industry and casinos, Nevada is one of five states without a statewide lottery. That’s by design. A statewide lottery is banned in Nevada’s 159-year-old constitution. The constitution was written when lotteries were seen as corrupt and coincided with a series of national reforms, most famously abolition, that swept the […]
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) “unleashed the demons” with his motion to vacate then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy last October, creating a “disaster” for the House Republican Conference ever since. Gingrich joined Fox News host Laura Ingraham on The Ingraham Angle on Friday to discuss the recent retirement announcement of […]
RAFAH CROSSING, Egypt (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres stood near a long line of waiting trucks Saturday and declared it was time to “truly flood Gaza with lifesaving aid,” calling the starvation inside the enclave a “moral outrage.” He urged an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. Guterres spoke on the Egyptian side of […]
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump coasted to victory Saturday in their respective parties’ primary elections in Louisiana. The Associated Press called both races within six minutes of the polls closing at 9 p.m. EDT. Both Biden and Trump had garnered at least 87% of votes with 30% counted. The results did not […]
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said Saturday that her case against former President Donald Trump has not been delayed despite the distraction caused by her romantic relationship with the special prosecutor she hired to work on the case. Willis made a public appearance at an Easter egg hunt in College Park, Georgia, where she […]
Attorney Michael Cohen raised his own concerns about a lack of transparency in former President Donald Trump’s hush money case in New York. Cohen entered the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently in pretrial hearings for the case. He appeared Saturday on The Weekend to share his takeaways from the […]
Fast food chain Chick-fil-A will no longer offer antibiotic-free chicken, according to an update posted to its website Thursday. Every Chick-fil-A restaurant has served antibiotic-free chicken meat since 2019 but will switch over at an unspecified date this spring. Still, the franchise will follow the practice of No Antibiotics Important To Human Medicine. The absence […]
