The White House skirted questions Tuesday regarding Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) decision to withhold an endorsement of President Joe Biden‘s 2024 reelection campaign. Manchin, one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress, announced in 2023 that he would not seek reelection in 2024, fueling speculation that he himself might mount a third-party bid for the […]
EXCLUSIVE — A conservative group is hitting out against Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) over his support for a proposed menthol cigarette ban despite concerns such a move would negatively affect the economy and have a disproportionate impact on communities of color. The Liberty Policy Foundation launched the six-figure ad campaign on Monday, specifically targeting black […]
Former President Donald Trump has a large lead over former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in her home state of South Carolina and more so among military families, even after a controversy when Trump mocked Haley’s husband, according to a new poll. According to a new Suffolk University/USA Today poll released on Tuesday, Trump leads Haley […]
EXCLUSIVE — Denver Public Schools is the subject of a federal civil rights complaint over its alleged requirement that faculty and staff take a “black excellence” pledge, according to the filing. Education advocacy organization Parents Defending Education filed the complaint against the school district on Tuesday, telling the Department of Education‘s Office for Civil Rights […]
The California Senate primary is two weeks away, but candidates vying for the seat have put little attention courting a sizable voting bloc: Hispanics and Latinos. Hispanics comprise roughly 40% of the Golden State’s population, but candidates such as Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Katie Porter (D-CA) have spent little advertising their campaign in Spanish. […]
The Iranian-backed Houthis shot down a United States drone over the Red Sea on Monday. Department of Defense deputy spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters on Tuesday that initial indications are that the Yemen-based Houthis used a surface-to-air missile to hit the MQ-9 Reaper drone, an unmanned drone typically used for intelligence collection. She said she […]
Montana’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will begin sending its March payments, worth up to $1,751, in 11 days. SNAP payments in Montana are distributed over five days every month. The payments start going out on March 2 and run through March 6. Recipients get their payments on days according to their SNAP case number, account number, Social Security number, or last name. […]
The Supreme Court refused to hear two appeal cases that sought to overturn sanctions imposed on lawyers who were allied with former President Donald Trump in 2020. The sanctions, which were partially upheld by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, were the result of a lawsuit in Michigan that alleged the results of the […]
State Department officials privately took aim at a roughly $1 million grant to support investigations into alleged human rights abuses in Israel after the agency defended it, emails show. The State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor announced in February 2022 it would award cash to nonprofit organizations to “strengthen accountability and human […]
The White House is calling for additional national security funding, warning that “when dictators aren’t stopped, they keep going.” Efforts to secure additional funding for the war in Ukraine received a boost after Russian dissident Alexei Navalny died in jail last week. President Joe Biden immediately ascribed blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin and promised […]
