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Stimulus update: Application period for direct payments from Alaska fund closes in three days

The application period for eligible residents in Alaska to apply for a direct payment from the 2024 Permanent Fund Dividend program will close in three days. The state program allows eligible residents in the state to receive a check annually based on Alaska’s mineral revenues. Applications for the payment may be filled out either online or via paper form through March […]

Will and Jada Pinkett Smith close charity as donations dwindle following Oscars slap: Report

Will Smith and Jada Smith are still trying to recover from the “slap heard ’round the world” at the 2022 Oscars. It’s not just their reputations that took a hit; now the couple’s charity will reportedly shut down. According to the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation’s latest tax filing, it only received $365,870 in […]

Madness continues: Michigan lawmaker confuses NCAA players arriving for tournament with illegal immigrants

Players and other team personnel from Purdue, Tennessee, Creighton, and Gonzaga arrived Wednesday in Detroit to continue their March Madness run, which caused confusion for one state official. Republican state Rep. Matt Maddock believed the players arriving in Michigan and leaving Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on buses escorted by police were illegal immigrants. The […]

Walgreens books hefty charge as the drugstore chain adjusts the value of struggling clinics

Walgreens lost nearly $6 billion in its second quarter mainly due to a drop in value for the VillageMD clinic business it controls. Excluding that charge, the drugstore chain reported results Thursday that topped Wall Street expectations. Walgreens spent more than $5 billion a few years ago to acquire a majority stake in VillageMD and […]

Spoiler alert: Republicans flood airwaves with message RFK Jr. won’t hurt Trump

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has the potential to play spoiler in the presidential election in November, and supporters of former President Donald Trump are insisting the third-party candidate will hurt President Joe Biden‘s chances. After Kennedy announced his running mate, attorney Nicole Shanahan, the former president and his supporters claimed that the […]

Sacramento City Council votes to become transgender ‘sanctuary city’

The Sacramento, California, City Council voted unanimously this week to become a “sanctuary city” for transgender people, protecting so-called transition tourism. Sacramento’s resolution would block all city resources from being used to help enforce laws from other states that restrict medical gender transitions for children and adults. The measure would impose “corrective action” on city […]

Cargo ship had engine maintenance in port before it collided with Baltimore bridge, officials say

The cargo ship that lost power and crashed into a bridge in Baltimore underwent “routine engine maintenance” in port beforehand, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday, as divers recovered the bodies of two of six workers who plunged into the water when it collapsed. The others were presumed dead, and officials said search efforts had […]

Biden speaks to New York City mayor after shooting death of police officer

President Joe Biden has offered his condolences to New York City Mayor Eric Adams after police officer Jonathan Diller was shot to death during a traffic stop in Queens, according to the White House. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed a call between Biden and Adams on Thursday, during which the president conveyed that Adams, New […]

House GOP to deliver Mayorkas impeachment articles to Senate on April 10

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that the House will deliver articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the upper chamber on April 10, roughly two months after he was impeached. In a letter sent Thursday afternoon, 12 House Republicans, including the managers who will deliver the […]

New US record: Fifty-one million immigrants, nearly 20% of workforce

Jacked higher by President Joe Biden’s open-borders agenda, there are now more legal and illegal immigrants in America than at any other time in history. At 51.1 million, the number isn’t just the highest ever, but so is the share at 15.5%, according to Census Bureau numbers reviewed by the Center for Immigration Studies, which […]
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