(The Center Square) — A pair of Georgia Republicans have proposed legislation to ban ranked-choice voting in the state. In a news release, Lt. Governor Burt Jones and state Sen. Randy Robertson, R-Cataula, who announced Senate Bill 355 on Tuesday, called out “those on the Left” as among the proponents who want ranked-choice voting. Such […]
Promoters of a secretive Silicon Valley-backed ballot initiative to build a new city on farmland between Sacramento and San Francisco are releasing more details of their plan as they submit paperwork Wednesday to qualify for the November election. California Forever, the company that stealthily snapped up more than $800 million of Solano County land in recent years, […]
With politicos quickly turning their attention to New Hampshire and South Carolina, analysis shows that Iowa pollsters were accurate in predicting the first-in-the-nation caucus — with one caveat. The final RealClearPolitics polling average had former President Donald Trump running away with 53% of the vote, followed by former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley with 19% […]
DES MOINES, Iowa — After former President Donald Trump‘s landslide win Monday in Iowa, his allies say the race is over and the remaining candidates must drop out now to consolidate Republican support. Trump won 51% percent of the vote in the opening nominating contest, a massive win over Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) with 21% […]
EXCLUSIVE — In the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision blocking race-based admissions at colleges and universities, medical school faculty at multiple institutions tried to find ways to circumvent the ruling, records show. Documents obtained through a public records request made by medical advocacy group Do No Harm and obtained by the Washington Examiner show […]
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), discounted by his critics, defied his naysayers and late polls in Iowa with a second-place finish behind former President Donald Trump but ahead of one-time U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. But although DeSantis thanked his supporters for helping him punch his ticket out of Iowa, his political […]
The first Supplemental Security Income payment of the new year, worth up to $943 for individual filers, will go out to recipients in just over two weeks. The payment will be released in 15 days, on Feb. 1, and they mark the first checks of 2024 because no payment was issued in January. Recipients were […]
The second round of January Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for top earners who retire at 70, went out to the second group of retirees on Wednesday. Retired seniors born between the 11th and 20th of a month should have received their first payment of 2024 on Jan. 17, and those born on […]
Labor unions strongly oppose President Joe Biden‘s potential closure of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement intake facility in California, foreshadowing a looming problem for the president heading toward the 2024 election. The Adelanto ICE Processing Center, which is operated by the private GEO Group under a Department of Homeland Security contract that expires in […]
Attorneys representing Northeastern fishermen will make their case at the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the 40-year-old precedent most commonly cited to support federal agency regulatory power should be cast into an oceanic abyss. A group of fishermen from New Jersey will see the justices consider their lawsuit against a Commerce Department regulation through the […]
