The House Rules Committee advanced legislation that would expand federal deductions for state and local taxes paid, a measure negotiated by New York Republicans in return for their support on a broader tax legislative bill. The Rules Committee on Thursday reported out a rule to allow for consideration of SALT legislation on the floor. The bill was […]
Former President Donald Trump‘s felony indictments led to his two biggest fundraising windfalls, new data show. The former president raised the most amount of money on Aug. 24, 2023, the same day Trump turned himself in to Georgia authorities and a mug shot of Trump was released to the public, an unprecedented moment in American […]
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is the latest Democratic member to be targeted with a censure resolution as she faces accusations of “treasonous statements” over the weekend related to Somalia. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced the resolution on the House floor on Thursday to reprimand Omar over remarks she made at an event in Minnesota, […]
New York City police officers are required to log basic information for all public interactions after the city council overrode Mayor Eric Adams’s veto of the controversial bill, putting the Democrat in an unlikely agreement with the chairman of the state Republican Party. On Tuesday, the New York City Council voted 42-9 to overturn Adams’s […]
A U.S. federal district court judge ruled Wednesday that California cannot enforce a law requiring people to undergo background checks to purchase ammunition, holding that the law has “no historical pedigree” and violates the Second Amendment. “A sweeping background check requirement imposed every time a citizen needs to buy ammunition is an outlier that our […]
Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA) appeared to hint on Wednesday that death row executions could be making a return to the Pelican State. Executions have been missing as a part of Louisiana justice since 2010, but Landry committed himself during a press conference to maintaining “contractual obligations” between his state and the families of victims following […]
Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) renewed her response to criticisms surrounding a federal investigation into her campaign spending on private security. Bush appeared on MSNBC’s The ReidOut Wednesday to respond to the controversy surrounding the money that went to Cortney Merritts, her husband since February 2023. Host Joy Reid included a clip of Rep. Troy Nehls […]
A federal judge will decide on Thursday if Georgia’s highly disputed Dominion voting machines are in violation of voters’ constitutional rights and are vulnerable to hacking, ahead of the swing state’s March 12 presidential primary. The heavily debated case has been in court for six years as state officials hashed out whether the machines were […]
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin admitted he was wrong to hide his cancer diagnosis and subsequent hospitalization, though he maintained he never directed his staff to hide his trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The secretary was diagnosed with prostate cancer in early December, had surgery to treat it on Dec. 22, 2023, […]
A federal judge in Florida denied a pair of lawsuits seeking an injunction on a memo by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) aiming to shut down pro-Palestinian student groups at state-run universities in Florida. Judge Mark Warner of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida denied motions for injunctions against a memo calling […]
